1UP, Nakamura interview

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Accessed: 2026-10-23
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Credit: Jeremy Parish, 1UP.com, cover story week of 6 August 2012; interviewee Koichi Nakamura.
Notes: Nakamura gives the division of work on the first Dragon Quest (Horii scenario and map, Toriyama graphics, Sugiyama music, Nakamura and Horii the game design and battle logic) and says he programmed about half of Dragon Quest II. He also describes the sequel's delay and the drop in distributor orders from about 700,000 to 400,000 before the Dragon Quest panic at release. English; the interview was conducted through an interpreter.

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Jeremy Parish's 1UP interview introduces Koichi Nakamura's company Chunsoft as having done the heavy lifting on the first five Dragon Quest games, and Nakamura said he programmed about half of Dragon Quest II, after programming all of the first game except the sound.	`introductionNakamura on his role in the series`	Interview
Nakamura told 1UP in 2012 that distributors' orders stood at about 700,000 before the game was delayed and fell to about 400,000 after, and that at release it set off a "Dragon Quest panic" in which stores sold out.	`Nakamura on the series' salesNakamura on the series' sales`	Interview
Jeremy Parish's 1UP interview introduces Koichi Nakamura's company Chunsoft as having done the heavy lifting on the first five Dragon Quest games, and Nakamura said he did about 10 percent of Dragon Quest III's programming. Satoru Iwata recalled that Nakamura was in the middle of developing Dragon Quest III when Iwata took over the first game's program to localize it.	`introductionNakamura on his role in the series`	Interview