{"id":504477,"date":"2026-05-27T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/504477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:52:11","slug":"on-dragon-quests-40th-anniversary-its-impossible-to-ignore-its-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/504477\/","title":{"rendered":"On Dragon Quest\u2019s 40th anniversary, \u2018it\u2019s impossible to ignore its influence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among Japan\u2019s many homegrown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2026\/02\/20\/digital\/game-pokemon-anniversary-nintendo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gaming franchises hitting milestones<\/a> this year, few can claim the degree of influence\u00a0of the Dragon Quest series.<\/p>\n<p>Released on May 27, 1986, for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the seminal first entry (titled Dragon Quest in Japan but Dragon Warrior in North America) birthed the Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) genre when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/11\/03\/japan\/society\/dragon-quest-creator-autumn-honors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated designer Yuji Horii<\/a> sought to simplify the then-convoluted gameplay of Western role-playing games (RPG).<\/p>\n<p>The series\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2025\/01\/25\/digital\/dragon-quest-3-remake-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">popularity in Japan<\/a> cannot be overstated. New entries are released on weekends to cut down on children skipping school and adults calling out sick from work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among Japan\u2019s many homegrown gaming franchises hitting milestones this year, few can claim the degree of influence\u00a0of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[219123,18,19,17,219124,17961,82,3880],"class_list":["post-504477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-dragon-quest","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jrpg","tag-rpg","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116644278775894158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}