Q 01/05

Who created the Dragon Quest series and has written its scenarios since 1986?

A) Yuji Horii

B) Hironobu Sakaguchi

C) Shigeru Miyamoto

D) Koichi Nakamura

Answer · why

A) Yuji Horii

He discovered Wizardry at AppleFest '83 after winning an Enix programming contest.

Q 02/05

Which Dragon Ball creator designed the series' characters and monsters?

A) Yoshitaka Amano

B) Akira Toriyama

C) Eiichiro Oda

D) Tetsuya Nomura

Answer · why

B) Akira Toriyama

Horii knew him through the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Q 03/05

Who composed the music for most of the series until his death in 2021?

A) Nobuo Uematsu

B) Yoko Kanno

C) Koichi Sugiyama

D) Koji Kondo

Answer · why

C) Koichi Sugiyama

He was already famous for TV jingles and pop songs when Enix hired him.

Q 04/05

Under what name was the series published in North America until 2005?

A) Dragon Knight

B) Dragon Saga

C) Dragon Legend

D) Dragon Warrior

Answer · why

D) Dragon Warrior

A tabletop role-playing game already owned the Dragon Quest trademark in the US.

Q 05/05

Why was the series renamed for its early North American releases?

A) Nintendo disliked the word Quest

B) The word Dragon was already used by another game

C) To avoid a trademark clash with a tabletop RPG

D) Enix wanted a more heroic-sounding title

Answer · why

C) To avoid a trademark clash with a tabletop RPG

The pen-and-paper DragonQuest was published by SPI and later TSR until 1987.