Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes[lower-alpha 1] is a 1989 role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the sixth game in the Dragon Slayer series and the first in The Legend of Heroes franchise.
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Developer(s) | Nihon Falcom |
Publisher(s) | Nihon Falcom Hudson Soft (TCD)[1] |
Composer(s) | Mieko Ishikawa Masaaki Kawai |
Series | Dragon Slayer The Legend of Heroes |
Platform(s) | NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, FM Towns, MSX 2, TurboGrafx-CD, Super Famicom, Sharp X68000, Mega Drive, Satellaview, Windows, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Virtual Console |
Release | NEC PC-8801
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Genre(s) | Role-playing game |
Mode(s) | Single player |
It was originally released in 1989 for the NEC PC-8801. Within the next few years it would also be ported to the NEC PC-9801, MSX 2, PC Engine CD-ROM/TurboGrafx-CD, Sharp X68000, Sega Mega Drive, and Super Famicom. A Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes Barcode Battler card set was also released by Epoch Co. in 1992. The PC Engine version was released in the United States for the TurboGrafx-CD and was the only game in the series released in the US until The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion, the PlayStation Portable remake.
In 1995, a version of the game was broadcast exclusively for Japanese markets via the Super Famicom's Satellaview subunit under the name BS Dragon Slayer Eiyu Densetsu. In 1998, a remake of The Legend of Heroes was bundled with a remake of Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II and was released for both the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
The PC Engine version was rated 25.24 out of 30 by PC Engine Fan magazine.[6] Famitsu scored the PC Engine CD-ROM version 29 out of 40 in 1991.[1] They later scored the Super Famicom version 29 out of 40 in 1992,[4] and the Sega Mega Drive version 23 out of 40 in 1994.[5]
In its January 1993 issue, Electronic Games magazine's Electronic Gaming Awards nominated the TurboGrafx-CD version for the 1992 Multimedia Game of the Year award. They wrote it "demonstrates how far multimedia has come" since the same design team's Ys I & II and that this "mammoth quest is meticulously detailed and incorporates highly involved game play".[7]
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