1UP, Smart Bombs

Cite as: 1UP, Smart Bombs
Original: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3165915
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20151127003318id_/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3165915
Accessed: 2026-10-23
Licence: © 1UP.com / Ziff Davis; Wayback capture
Credit: Bob Mackey, 1UP.com.
Notes: Page 2 of a three-page feature on commercially unsuccessful games is the Dragon Warrior entry. It says few people bought the game and that most owners got it free with a Nintendo Power subscription, and calls Dragon Quest the foundation of later Japanese RPGs.

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Nintendo says the series came out in North America as Dragon Warrior at first because of a rights problem, and kept that name until Dragon Quest VIII.	`p. 2, Dragon Warrior`	Interview
Bob Mackey wrote for 1UP in 2007 that few people bought Dragon Warrior in North America, and that most owners got it free with a subscription to Nintendo Power.	`p. 2, Dragon Warrior`	Web
Mackey called Dragon Warrior America's first introduction to the Japanese console RPG, and Dragon Quest the foundation on which all later Japanese RPGs would build.	`p. 2, Dragon Warrior`	Web
Bob Mackey wrote for 1UP in 2007 that in 1989, after the release of "the blockbusting Dragon Quest III", Enix had not yet brought the series to the United States.	`p. 2, Dragon Warrior`	Web