RPG Haven

Many people here might not know about this series. The first game, which I'm referring to in this thread came out only in Japan. It was one of the earliest action roleplaying games! Later titles are turn based though. Interestingly enough this game was re-released later on the Gameboy and Sega Saturn. This is gameplay footage of the PC-88 version of the game. Man it's crazy to see how far we've come with games since 1984!

Oh man that is a classic looking game! I can see why it was Japan only, not sure if it would have been good here in the states.

Yeah I don't think RPGs really caught on here much until the 90's. But the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit helped the genre out. I'll have to make a thread about the 16-bit games since there were two released on the Mega Drive and I hope someday they can be translated into English. I know one of them is on the Turbgrafx-16 so it's in English lol.

Ravenfreak wrote: Fri May 30, 2025 8:09 pm Yeah I don't think RPGs really caught on here much until the 90's. But the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit helped the genre out. I'll have to make a thread about the 16-bit games since there were two released on the Mega Drive and I hope someday they can be translated into English. I know one of them is on the Turbgrafx-16 so it's in English lol.

8-bit does have its charm, but I don't think I could play one these days, be low end too old school for me. I can do 16-bit just fine.

I don't mind 8-bit but the graphics in the original Dragon slayer are much weaker looking and looks like it's on an Atari lol. I guess that would be considered 4-bit? :V Still it looks like it was ahead of it's time.

The graphics and gameplay are so different from what we're familiar with today. Though it looks like a very interesting game to play.

I just found out that The Legends of Heroes series started off as this series lol. I found it out when I looked up the game "The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky" on Wikipedia. I honestly forgot about that. I've listened to a bit of the soundtrack for one of the games that came out on the Mega Drive in Japan.

Ravenfreak wrote: Mon Aug 25, 2025 8:10 pm I just found out that The Legends of Heroes series started off as this series lol. I found it out when I looked up the game "The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky" on Wikipedia. I honestly forgot about that. I've listened to a bit of the soundtrack for one of the games that came out on the Mega Drive in Japan.

Huh, never knew that, I should check this out more as I love Trails series.

Ravenfreak wrote: Mon Aug 25, 2025 8:10 pm I just found out that The Legends of Heroes series started off as this series lol. I found it out when I looked up the game "The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky" on Wikipedia. I honestly forgot about that. I've listened to a bit of the soundtrack for one of the games that came out on the Mega Drive in Japan.

Dragon Slayer actually set the basis of so many role playing games we now have. Yes, it is crazy to see how Legend of Heroes series unfolded out of itself. The soundtracks themselves, even those of the very early games, are great and are well worth listening to.