| Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Nihon Falcom |
| Publishers | Nihon Falcom Hudson Soft (TCD)[5] |
| Composers | Mieko Ishikawa Masaaki Kawai |
| Series | Dragon Slayer The Legend of Heroes |
| Platforms | PC-98,FM Towns,MSX2,TurboGrafx-CD,Super Famicom,X68000,Mega Drive,Windows,PlayStation,Saturn |
| Release | December 10, 1989 |
| Genre | Role-playing |
| Mode | Single-player |
Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes[a] is a 1989role-playing video game developed byNihon Falcom. It is the sixth game in theDragon Slayer series and the first inThe Legend of Heroes franchise.
It was originally released in 1989 for theNEC PC-8801. Within the next few years, it would also beported to theNEC PC-9801,MSX2,PC Engine CD-ROM,X68000,Mega Drive, andSuper Famicom. ADragon Slayer: The Legend of HeroesBarcode Battler card set was also released byEpoch Co. in 1992. The PC Engine version was released in the United States for the TurboGrafx-CD, and was the only game in the series released in the US untilThe Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion, thePlayStation Portableremake.
In 1995, a version of the game was broadcast exclusively for Japanese markets via the Super Famicom'sSatellaview subunit under the nameBS Dragon Slayer Eiyu Densetsu. In 1998, a remake ofThe Legend of Heroes was bundled with a remake ofDragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II and was released for both thePlayStation andSega Saturn.
The PC Engine version was rated 25.24 out of 30 byPC Engine Fan magazine.[6]Famitsu scored the PC Engine CD-ROM version 29 out of 40 in 1991.[5] They later scored the Super Famicom version 29 out of 40 in 1992,[3] and the Mega Drive version 23 out of 40 in 1994.[4]
In its January 1993 issue,Electronic Games magazine's Electronic Gaming Awards nominated the TurboGrafx-CD version for the 1992Multimedia Game of the Year award. They wrote it "demonstrates how far multimedia has come" since the same design team'sYs I & II and that this "mammoth quest is meticulously detailed and incorporates highly involved game play".[7]