Retronauts 169: Dragon Quest I & II
Added 2018-09-10 12:11:15 +0000 UTCThe next chapter of the show's steady march through the history of role-playing games has arrived. No creator interview this time, though; Yuji Horii's a little tough to get locked down for a podcast, as you might imagine. But we do our best here, by finding some experts.
For the first segment, Bob and I made the trek out to Nagoya, Japan to talk to retrogaming bar Critical*Hit proprietor Alex Fraioli about the original Dragon Quest. For the second segment, Nadia Oxford Skypes in (again) to talk about the sequel, as hinted at in our most recent mailbag episode. Both Alex and Nadia have been guests of the show from way back in olden times, so it was seemed fitting to have them on for such a baseline kind of topic.
Comments
I've played through DQ I and II on mobile and found those ports to be pretty decent. They play well one handed in short bursts while on the bus or waiting in line. The mobile port of DQ II was actually pretty fun and I liked the three party members. This podcast and DQ XI launching is making me pretty excited to play some DQ!
Abrahm Simons
2018-09-12 20:18:34 +0000 UTCI really enjoy when Alex is on any podcast including No More Whoppers. Very entertaining guy.
Christopher McDougall
2018-09-11 18:24:35 +0000 UTCI would also love to see a video of Bobโs parrot singing to Dragon Quest music!
Christopher McDougall
2018-09-11 18:23:28 +0000 UTCI grew up playing the Final Fantasy games primarily. That wound up working out in my favor though. I started discovering the Dragon Quest games with the re-releases on the DS, right around the time I was getting really hungry for classic-style JRPGs that companies like Square Enix didn't seem too interested in anymore. I love the series now and have been gradually working my way through it.
Stew Shearer
2018-09-11 14:20:11 +0000 UTCBefore Yuji Horii worked on games, he wrote and was an editor on a video games column for Shonen Jump where he apparently met Toriyama. There was an established relationship between the two men long before Dragon Quest happened.
Phazonmasher
2018-09-11 13:30:39 +0000 UTCLast week I re-listened to the DQ episode form a few years back because I had just played DQ1+2 on ios. Amazing timing, can't wait to listen to this.
DC
2018-09-11 04:10:07 +0000 UTCAlways great to hear Alex talk about ANY version of a game called "Dragon Quest."
Shaxbert
2018-09-10 14:03:23 +0000 UTCI truly treasure my Game Boy Color copy of these games. Looking forward to this!
takeshikitano3
2018-09-10 13:02:42 +0000 UTC
