Episode 133 – Dragon Quest I, II and III with Ryan and Cam

About this episode

The episode focuses on the first three Dragon Quest games, featuring discussions and music choices from guests Ryan and Cam.

Dragon Quest has had 11 mainline games, tons of spinoffs and ports galore. It’s a franchise known for ushering in the foundation of the Japanese Role Playing Game, or the JRPG. Originating on the Famicom in the mid 1980s, the game saw not one but FOUR games release on Nintendo’s first console. In this episode, we’ve decided to focus on the first three, known as the Erdrick Trilogy. With good friends and patrons of the show on board, Ryan and Cam, we were in good hands as Mike and Justin know very little. Now we’re blessed by two pros joining us to share their knowledge and music choices in this classic trilogy of games. Covering not just the NES originals but other ports as well, the XVGM Radio guys get down with the charming classical wonder of Koichi Sugiyama’s Dragon Quest (or Warrior if your nasty!) soundtracks. JRPG fans do NOT wanna miss this episode of XVGM Radio! We swear, it’ll be a GOOd time! We’d love to hear what you thought about this game series and the tracks we’ve picked! What was your favorite track? Shoot us an email at XVGMRadio@gmail.com or join in on the discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/XVGMradio Check out Ryan’s podcast, The RPG Years ! You can…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Justin

Guests: Ryan, Cam

Topics covered

• Dragon Quest
• JRPG
• video game music
• Erdrick Trilogy
• game discussion

Keywords

• Dragon Quest
• JRPG
• video game music
• Koichi Sugiyama
• Erdrick Trilogy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The RPG Years, Camicom, Bandcamp, Discord

Books & works: Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest I, Dragon Quest II, Dragon Quest III

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