Japanese Fans Vote On Top 30 NES Games

Thanks to 1UP for their report on a Japanese poll rating the top 30 Famicom (NES) games of all time, as conducted for an upcoming Tokyo museum exhibition. The report comments that this poll is "an interesting look at the titles that were big in the early days of Japanese gaming, as well as what's held up in retrospect", and the Dragon Quest series (Dragon Warrior in the U.S.) is particularly well-represented, since "...all four Famicom games in the series made the top 10, compared to only one Final Fantasy." Also pointed out: "It's also interesting to see what's ahead of Super Mario Brothers 3, the most popular NES game in the United States. In Japan, they'd rather play Ice Climber and Balloon Fight."

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Re:They do love there dragon quest

[Dr. Molf]

Dragon Warrior IV is probably the most complete game ever developed for the NES. The cart size claimed to be 8 megabytes, but discussion on emulation boards suggested that it was only 4 megs. That's still huge compared to most of the games. There is excellent gameplay, an expansive universe, multiple NPCs, several chapters of gameplay, an interesting storyline, and some beautiful graphics and music. It was the last big NES project that I know of and it still usually sells for $30-$40 online. I would definately rank it as probably the best well-crafted complete game. Enix made some good stuff. * sigh *