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  • Lucky enough to have played this when it came out on the NES. All of my friends hated it and made fun of me for playing it. I love this game.

  • I'm fairly sure torches never expire, but their viewing range always sucks. The Radiant spell expires but gives you 3 blocks in every direction around you for viewing. Far more useful especially in the dragon lord's castle :P

  • @xenxander

    torches do expire and you have to keep another one in stock to keep a wider range or you can use more than one to make it bigger

    I perfer Radiant though :)

  • @Amisbro Everyone prefers radiant.. honestly I don't remember one ever expiring .. I suppose either it's been too long since I played or one just never did while I used it. *shrug* I stopped carrying them once I learned radiant and even before I rarely had one anyway.

    Oh have you ever had a full inventory when Gwendelin tries to give you her love token? you get a little extra dialog. I know what happens :P

  • I Love how you basically start off nude and later wind up with an armor that heals you as you walk, a kick ass healing spell and finally a cool sword and shield

  • lol in the middle of watching this, another tab I had up started playing a remixed pac man song, and I was like WTF?

  • this is why i like this one the most

    1; its called dragon warrior the series today is called dragon quest

    2; it keeps you waiting for a random enemy to pop up for you, you might battle a new enemy you havent saw.

    3; when you wonder around you see new towns where there is more new items which are more expensive

    4; its a long game so it will keep you playing for hours

    5; you keep leveling up and you see the new spell

    thats all i have to say about dragon warrior

  • Main reason i watch these- the theme song.

  • I clickedeth part two : )

  • Mooooooooooooooonooooooooooooo­ootoooooooooone

  • love the game but does anyone know where to get the endrick sword?

  • Dude, Jethro Tull rocks! Great game review, by the way. Just picked this one up at the local CGX, can't wait to play it. :)

  • Hey Aqualung, great review. I remember in one of you're Q & As you said you were planning on doing Dragon Warrior 2, or maybe I'm wrong about this. Is that something you're still planning on doing?

  • I love how accurate and complete your guides are while still being terribly long. No one else could make this great of a Dragon Warrior NES guide that runs less than 45 mins.

  • Woops, its to the right of the tree island, not south.

  • Let me be a bit more specific about that 2nd patch, walk like you're going to the fighters cave but head south instead, but don't go over the bridge, here is where you should be heading south of the little bush island in the center.

    The 1st one I found on the internet, but I never did see anyone ever mention that 2nd patch.

  • Okay, I officially looked everywhere for the 2 map glitches on the Internet and couldn't find them both.

    Right at the beginning go straight down, eventually you'll meet enemies that have no place there, Magicians and Scorpions...right at the beginning!

    The next one is just south of that patch of tree's where the Wyverns and Gold Gollums hang out. Just head south from that patch and walk back and forth, creatures from 2 cycles ahead will start going after you.

    Walk 1 step up to escape them!

  • i will NOT join slimes for tea, sir. i will NOT!

  • whats the game at 0:04 please?

  • @nodoubtmyfriend Marble Madness (NES version)

  • this game is HARD AS FUCK

    try killing the dragon lord.

  • @mrepicfailtastic I _never_ did kill that bastard, ever :(

  • @mrepicfailtastic I own a copy and I've beaten this game at least twice.

    I agree with you--this game is not easy to beat and nobody gets through it in a day or two.

  • bad Walkthrough suck

  • Actually, I'm pretty sure the shield has higher defence than the armour, and would therefore be a better first-purchase of defensive gear (I like to start by buying a shield, a stick and a dragon scale). Just a thought.

  • "Where the king bitches at you for dying." LOL

  • I always called my character on this game "Kurgan". Fucking Metal man.

  • I'm so happy i was able to find this at my local pawn shop a year or so ago. I love this game. I want to get the other 3 Dragon Warriors too.

  • this game is a lot like shining force.

  • @TheBeatlesJPGRfan  this is nothing like shining force, shining force plays like FB. dragon warrior play more like a turn based rpg.

  • Awwww Shit! I have got to get this game!

  • I love medival speak!

    "Medival speak is really easy to fake when: no fucking sense thou sentences shall make." - Something close to this was said by musical comedian Bo Burnham;

    look him up, he has really hilarious songs and comedy central specials!

  • HEY AQUALUNG!!!!!!

  • Cool walkthrough, Man. What part of the Country are you from?

  • This is the 1 game I would buy on the wiis virtual console. And it has never been released :(.

  • @SuperLightHorse

    yeah and the real pain is the actual carts have gotten expensive! Not like $100 expensive but finding them even with no box runs ya a good amount of change. I DO have a loose copy of the original game but sadly not the other three unless you count my DS version of Dragon Quest IV

  • This game used to depress the hell out of me. I was a kid and always died after the first slime, then had to restart and go through all the dialogue, the music also depressed the hell out of me. :(

  • @CooperSnow The music was depressing but this game reminds of being in 4th Grade, staying up until 3 AM with my friends trying to figure out how to beat it.

  • @tommylehman 4am in the 4th grade? Geez lol

  • Slime: Want some tea? You: Sure, i'd love some!

  • Love this game. It was one of my favorites back when I had my top loader NES. =( The good ole' days. Subbin'

  • aaaahh ich liebe dragon quest. wann kommt der 10te raus

  • speaking of missing attacks, last time i playd this, i fought a dracky, and i missed it 7 times in a row, and it killed me. : p

  • When i was just a lil tit, this game arrived, for free, in the mail. I always like to try and play it, but I never even came close to beating this shit. Not much on games like this anyways. I did enjoy the music, though.

  • guys i have a deal to buy this game in 1 dollar should i do it?

  • @sdvfuihsdiovsfiog Don't waste a precious dollar on crap like this.Can't you sense how nervous and bored Aqualung is all throughout the vid?Just in case you didn't,no,you shouldn't.

  • Dude. Your voice bores me. Try being a little more exciting.

  • Dragon quest is older than final fantasy ^_^

  • @cyberfennek Both series are awesome, I think.

    In fact they share the honor of being the superior game in America and Japan, respectively.

  • I loved that game,,, hard as fuck but this is where you learn them "metal" slimes earn you more experience,,, metal anything fucking rocks!!!

  • "he tells you something like a prayer or some shit" : Just made me laugh so hard.

    Nice review/walkthrough. made me want to play the game again.

  • it still goes strong today ?

  • the metel slimes run away and i don't get a chance

  • Love Dragon Quest, and Jethro Tull, altough i'm not into prog rs

  • "Some may want to save more than others depending on how conservative you are." - Its true, whacky liberals like me just can't get enough of saves.

  • Is this password or battery save?

  • @border205 battery save didnt you even listen

  • @dakarus cbf watching it, I found out when I played it, and the battery still works :)

  • have you ever seen a metel slime?

  • @furyp100 There is no such thing as a metal slime in the first dragon quest game

  • @furyp100 Yes, those things are hard to kill

  • @AqualungGameReviews

    if you think those are bastards try killing a Plat King in the DS remake of DQ IV! I THINK I killed all like...2 of them when I played that but the Metals in this ,and the series itself are a royal pain for sure. I think in the second game they had a weapon that was basically guaranteed to hit it but I forget its name at the moment.

  • @AqualungGameReviews i would like to know if you have any nes game to spare im starting a collection and i only have 9

  • @AqualungGameReviews

    funny thing about those guys...I never saw one when I beat the game the second time but I don't think they are nearly as rewarding in the first game as they are in later games.

    Oh and here's an interesting fact: Despite that the fact that this is the first game its actually second in the "Loto(Erdrick) Saga". Number III comes first and II is last.

  • Jethro Tull + NES = Grade A Win

  • worst game ever!!

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  • @SWO4LIFE

    Nah, actually I am just kidding, the game is worst because it have his time until now they're popular.

  • SLIME!!!

  • Which emulator works best with this game?

  • This game is EPIC!!  Thanks for making this vid! awesome!

  • 14 people made the mistake of joining the Slimes for tea.

  • Aqualung has awesome music.. :P

  • I fucking hated this game as a kid

    so much grinding for like 20 hours straight outside the town that's in the middle of a lake or some shit just to get the fucking fire sword which was at some other town

  • In the past 2 weeks, I've finished the first 3 dragon warrior games, which I haven't played since I was a kid, maybe 7 or so.

    Most people think DW2 was the worst, but I think it beats the crap out of this game. DW1 is just a grind-fest, it's just the same thing over and over for 15 hours. And you have to use the "stairs" command to climb stairs? That part grates on me too.

    DW3 is AWESOME though.

  • The spell of HURT !

  • funny thing about this game: Its actually SECOND in the series despite it being the first game!

    Confused? Well Dragon Quest III actually comes before this one in the timeline THEN this game then 2 and then 4!

    Not that big of a thing but something I thought I'd mention for you and your viewers

    later bud

  • I love this game! this and crystalis

  • "Thy MP is too low" I love how they used thy, thou, and dost. Classy!

  • Great nostalgia trip. Thanks!

  • Both me and my father beat this game. I somehow can beat the Dragonlord on level 21! What level is the LOWEST you beat this game on Ken?

  • @Amisbro

    I think the lowest level is 18.

  • @Rand200 This game is so not worth the time?! BLASPHEMY!

  • Nice review 14 people couldnt make it though the game lol!

  • I love your jersey shore, guido mafia style accent. good stuff!

  • @dankfizzy The word "guido" is derogatory now due to Jersey Shore....*sigh*....people and the times....

  • I still have nightmares about wasting hours just trying to level up and keeping my fingers crossed, hoping to get silver slimes and hoping they don't run away...

  • Sucks they nerfed the club in the latest patch.

  • Hey aqualung what emulators/programs do you use to record footage with

  • LOL "Thou art dead" I don't know why I find that funny XD

  • Wow I didn't know the Dragon Quest/Warrior series has been around so long =S

  • 5 YEARS AFTER IT CAME OUT IN JAPAN?!?!

  • Ive played this before but I never got to the level cap, do you know what the cap is?

  • @TarlZaralka level 30

  • Ultima IV?

  • 2:15 You start out knowing shit about magic. I dunno why but I find that so funny!

  • i love this fuckin game!

  • I thought the game was okay, but overall was really disappointed. It really lacked the fun of Zelda

  • @bwashinski comparing a turn based rpg to a platformer is like comparing an orange to mashed potatoes...sorry but you fail.

  • @Trover finnaly a good analogy for comparing 2 completely different games

  • @Trover agreed. On a side note the guy who does all the visuals and art for the game, Akira Toriyama also created Dragonball/Z. 

  • I remember renting this when I was a kid and lying to my parents that I lost it so I could play it and finish it

  • @platolol hella funny i did the same thing

  • awesome vid , awesome game. thx for posting it

  • this sounds like dragon ball z

  • i saw this game at a flea market for 5.00 dollers i figured it would be a crappy game but i now relized i past up a chance to play the frist  ever dragon quest game

    crap

  • @RetroGuy34

    I wouldn't worry about it, if you really want to get an original cart they are very common since they were given away for free with a Nintendo Power subscription for a time.

  • @excrono

    Now i know why this game showed up free in the mail...... I never made that connection as a kiddo.

  • first rpg i ever played, man as a kid this shit was hard it took me forever to beat this

  • did anyone know that edrick is spelled erdrick ?

  • I remember this guy was arguing with me on the name Erdrick. My Pally in WoW was named Erdrick and his was called Edrick. He whispers me saying my named is wrong. I was like whatever dude, yours is wrong. We kept going back and forth and I told him to go download the rom and play it. He said he has and that it is Edrick, lol. His friend even whispered me and told me my name was wrong. He was so sure that he was right. So I found a scan of the manual and showed him. After that he stopped

  • @Yerizzo

    It's weird you say that, I distinctly remember when I was a kid the name was "Edrick" but now that I have downloaded the ROM, etc, I see that I was either wrong or I had some other version of the game.

  • @MentosMan727 I think the only time they changed the name was when they changed it to "Loto". Because I remember playing it on the NES back then too and I always saw it as "Erdrick".

  • Come to think of it, why the hell would they remove religious references?

    Does this mean that I would offend a Christian if I so much as mentioned God or the Bible or something?

    Sometimes censorship is way too extreme and over-sensitive.

    I mean, I can understand that they censored the lyrics for Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time since they were like "Allah is the greatest" or something, but mere references? Jeez...

  • @Laurelindo Its usually the Muslims upset by any similarity to their religion. The mirror shield design and fire temple music in OoT had to be changed because it was similar to Muslim religion

  • @strongo25 And as we all know, anything about religion is a no-no in Nintendo's handbook.

  • @jameygamer its a no-no in my life

  • dwagon quwest

  • lol, that "dragonquest" that didn't allow enix to use that name, didn't fair so well...

  • man, i used to play this all the time! my friends hated it,but i thought it was interesting and adventurous.now that i have no NES, i love watching you run through these classic games.do you have splatterhouse?

  • not to be mean but talk, status, item, and spell dont have to be explained really.

  • Nice use of Jethro Tull.

  • Actually, did you know how your name is like in the beginning actually have an effect on what your signature stats will be?

  • whats that boxing game in this video?

  • @ohnoitswho45 -Mike Tyson's Punch Out , NES 1985

  • what boxing game is that in this video?

  • The soundtrack to ths game is forever engraved in my brain...

  • Great explanation, thanks!

  • Yo Aqualung! just wanted to tell ya thanks for making these videos! i've been subbed to you for a while and i love your videos, keep it up! I'm from Croatia btw =)

  • Awesome song and awesome reviews man.

  • Holy fuck. I don't know how I happened upon this, but this brings me waaaaaaaaay back. The music, the enemies... fuckin' nostalgic. I don't think I've even given this game a thought since 1988. Forgot all about it. Dynamite channel.

  • @MrToupin The guy who commented that have NO FUCKING GRAMMAR

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  • @AqualungGameReviews grammar....spelling...trolls..­.man I dont think this is what the government had in mind when they made the internet public.....Adults seem to be dumber than kids when they are online...good game

  • @MrToupin SAys the guy tha ttrolls on youtube...........and is it weird that i think your voice is cool?? XD

  • @MrToupin bitch boy 

  • Is the narrator of these videos on the autism disorder spectrum??

  • Hehe, you sound like someone from the mafia.. so the fact that you're playing Dragon Warrior comes off as kind of ironic.

  • I can't find it on the Wii store.

  • What song is at the beginning?

  • @TrekFan85 aqualung by jethro tull

  • "Because the game is so long, there's no real way to complete it all in one sitting." Myth busted!

  • ur videos is already great but u could put some more energy in there btw 10000/5!

  • I like Dragon Warrior....they Dumbed down Dragon quest ALOT

  • The blue slime is one of the most pathetic enemies in gaming history.

    I read this in a Gameinformer magazine.

  • hearing the music brings back memories when i got my first dragon quest/worrior game for the gameboy dragom worrior monsters

  • I had this game some 22 years ago

  • This was my first real rpg game, fell in love with upgrading armor and weapons.

  • exp caps out cuz its a maximum unsigned shot number 65535 16-bit number

  • Square=Final Fantasy

    Enix= Dragon Warrior

    Square-Enix= Deformed Babies

    Sometimes in-breeding is a bad thing.

  • The original "Dragon Quest" was released in Japan on May 26, 1986; the U.S. release for the Nintendo Entertainment System was August 1989.

  • How much would a game like this sell for it has never been opened?

  • 2$ .....,maybe

  • I like that song you used for your opening title...

    Jethro Tull kicks ass :)

  • oh the nostalgia

  • Dragon Warrior 4,7,8 were my favs

  • hahah I remember that game! was my favourite! getting emulator :D

  • In most rpg video games...

    THE PRINCESS IS ALWAYS KIDNAPPED!

  • @iceblue1220 orly?

  • @Zangamarth Final fantasy 1, Final fantasy 2, Dragon Warrior, Dragon's lair, may i continue?

  • @iceblue1220 Absolutely, but I was making fun of the fact that you decided to point out the *painfully* obvious fact. Also, Legend of Zelda anyone? It's named for her!

  • @iceblue1220 this is probably one of the first cause it was made in 1986

  • @iceblue1220 OMG MY COMMENT IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATED!

  • Your fucking hilarious dude, you should be a comedian!

  • I have game genie cheats for it "infinite mana" FTW! this game is classic RPG action, but I am too big of a coward to go into the base. (even though I am level 24)

  • @somesillynoob 24 is the level for Dragonlord defeating. Stopspell the healers/incapacitators (red enemies), put the big dumb stuff to sleep (gray enemies), run as much as you can if you're going to the bottom, and if you get down to 14 MP flee. You'll have a trouble-free visit to Charlock.

  • This is a really heavy game for such a early console.

  • the GBC one looks a LOT diferent...

  • Hello, I need help deciding if I should give the Dragon Quest a try but i have a hard time deciding where to start. which Dragon Quest games can you recommend (DQ 1-9)

  • @toaker My favorites were 3, 4, and 8, but I haven't played 6, 7, and 9. Out of those, I would recommend either 8 (PS2) or 4 (NES, remake DS). 8 is the most modern DQ game I've played and would be a way to ease yourself into the series. 4 is my favorite, but you do need to make allowances for playing a 20-year-old game. A lot of people prefer 5 to 4; not me.

    I heavily recommend playing DQ3 after DQ1, but DQ1 is tedious (he glossed over the grinding). I do not recommend DQ2.

  • @Telumel

    same with me DQ/DW 3 has gotta be the best and it the first story

  • if James the Nintendo Nerd did this, he would talk about having shit come out of his dick. Aqualung, you do a great job. Keep it up, despite your hiatus.

  • Instead of buying a club and clothes for my first set of equipment, I always found it better to get small shield, clothes, and bamboo pole giving me MUCH higher defense (which you REALLY REALLY need during your first few levels). The cost of those three items just happens to come to 120 gold which is what you start off with.

  • @djnforce9

    Thanks for the tip i did as you said =P

  • Juthro Tull!!

  • @FletcherHabit Juthro? LOL.

  • Fortune smiles upon thee youtube user, thou hast found a good dragon warrior walkthrough.

  • Dragon Warriora.

    Lol, good vid man.