Dragon Warrior Strategy Guide (November-December 1989)

I believe I used this guide to beat the game back then when I got for free the cartridge with the NPM subscription. Good old days...

On 2/18/2023 at 2:21 AM, LillitosanEP said:

I believe I used this guide to beat the game back then when I got for free the cartridge with the NPM subscription. Good old days...

Same here! I was one of the cartridge contest kids. I waited very, VERY impatiently for my fresh new copy of Dragon Warrior to arrive. Had a calendar that I marked off with red "X"s each day and everything. When the day arrived I was pissed that the game didn't show up exactly when I decided it was supposed to. In fact it took an extra couple of weeks. But man oh man, when that manila envelope showed up in the mailbox after school one day...you probably couldn't have found a happier kid on that whole block.

It's weird to me that Dragon Warrior wasn't a huge hit in the US. It was an absolutely amazing game to me. I guess I probably felt that way because I was already familiar with RPGs, having fallen in love with Ultima the year before, but I still found it odd that the genre didn't really pick up until the first few major US Final Fantasy releases. Other people's loss I guess, I think that DW3 is still one of the greatest games ever made.