Hands down the most expansive and engaging RPG on the NES. Having grown up with the NES, seeing the growth from DQ1 and FF, the different chapters and characters was mind blowing. Each character had different strengths and changed up the normal routine of an RPG

Taloon owning a shop was pretty awesome!

Thanks for covering this!

My personal favorite one to play in the series ❤

My favourite video game of all time, right here. I am lucky enough to say I got to play the original cartridge (and still own it) in the US back in 1993. We received a used NES with a box of games from a family friend whose son had moved on from the console when he received a Sega Genesis. It helped me learn how to better read as a small child and also influenced what I’d be playing in the future. I spent so much time trying to find a game like this in the 1990s but lack of access to an SNES system and Dragon Quest largely not releasing in the West once 4 “failed” here meant that I wouldn’t find anything to scratch that itch again until I discovered Final Fantasy with VII.

This is a true gem of a game. I strongly recommend it to anyone who loves JRPGs and please do yourself a favour and play the NES version if you can. The DS version is fine but I grew up with the AI and it really is part of the experience for better or worse. Learn the tactics and it’s not as bad as people say.

Thanks for covering this game. It means so much to me. ❤

Can't believe it took me this long to discover the gem of a rpg vault of a channel ❤

I adore how long and in-depth your DQ videos are! Please keep them up, they are an absolute treat!

I love listening to these episodes while I am at work! 😅 Thank you Datalog.

This was my first "actual" Dragon Quest game. A friend had the first one, and we "co-played" it the only way you could back in the NES days, so I don't count that lol. But this? I've been waiting for this, such an overlooked classic that was beyond anything else we had here for console RPGs.

Fun fact: at 25:27, the notebook feature mentioned eventually made its way to Dragon Quest HD-2D, allowing players to save 30 instances of NPC text.

This game was absolutely mind blowing for the time it came out (1992 in America, being at bare minimum on par with the best of the 16 bit offerings of the time) and I remember being obsessed with the Nintendo Power coverage of it.  Wasn't able to get a copy around release, despite quite the effort for a ten year old, but did eventually give it a play through in the early 2000s.  The DS remake was a ton of fun as well even if I still think the backend of the game does flounder a bit after the initial chapter concept is mostly dropped.  Still think it deserves all the high praise for it's ambition and execution on a platform which had ever last drop of power pulled from it.

I just added DQ3 to my NES collection, now I just need 4 to have all the NES DQ games

Love this game! It was so neat to play the chapters, then recruiting all the characters (and brand new characters) in the last chapter playing as the Hero.

FINALLY! PEAK returns to Datalog 🔥🔥🔥

Fun Fact: Back when Dragon Warrior IV originally released was the first time I ever played a “job simulator” game.

Yeah, chapter 3 with Taloon was my absolute favorite part of the entire game.

It’s a shame it took almost 30 years for job simulator games became a standard genre.

I always imagine “what if” Squeenix made a full fledged job simulator game where a character like Taloon had to use their business skills to rebuild a destroyed world.

I first rented this game way back when and was really enjoying it but had to return it.  Got to rent it again  but my file had been deleted.   Got to the 5th chapter again and samething happened.  The store was eventually closing down so they were willing off games.  I managed to pick up the game and tried beating it again a few times but the file kept getting erased for whatever random reasos.  Did eventually manage to get through it all.  

For a long time this was my favorite dq game.  It's 2nd now to 5 but I still have beaten this game way more times and still love it.  It was the first dq game that I started playing RPGs properly(not running from every right) so I was able to make progress.   Thank you for this video.  Look forward to more.

DQ4 is my favorite, i remember playing it as a kid

This game is just so awesome, man. It kind of is angering when people say Dragon Quest isn't innovative or good in any capacities. The jump even from its own series from 1 to 4 on the SAME CONSOLE has been amazing.

I still prefer Dragon Quest 3 more for the traditional RPG elements like character creation, but DQ4 is a super close-second. My goodness.

Fire Emblem over here was scraping around with the divisive Fire Emblem Gaiden (FE2) at this time, lol.

I think this was the best one in the series. I still have my copy in box with manuals/maps. I think this game was like $80 when it came out, which is crazy when you think about it.

I love all you videos. Keep up.👊

FINALLY! I was waiting for this so much, I liked it before even seeing it

One of my favorite RPGs.
If you haven't played this game, you SHOULD play the NES original. I find it to be a way more concise and compact adventure compared to the later remakes. One example of the original being the definitive version, which is crazy for a game this old. It seriously feels so modern.