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Jeremy Parish on Dragon Warrior and its lack of cultural impact in the US

Esteemed video game journalist Jeremy Parish made a video on Dragon Warrior, the US localisation of Dragon Quest for the NES. While Dragon Quest had a significant cultural impact in Japan, the same couldn’t be said for US fans despite Nintendo’s marketing push.

Dragon Warrior is how I knew the franchise when I started with Dragon Warrior Monsters in the early 2000s (this was before they got the right for Dragon Quest outside of Japan). I’m not sure if I was around at the time I’d have got it either but here we are.

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