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Famicom Tsushin (Famitsu) no. 16, 6 February 1987: 1986 Best Hit Game Awards

ASCII editors. 1987. “Famicom Tsushin (Famitsu) no. 16, 6 February 1987: 1986 Best Hit Game Awards.” Famicom Tsushin, no. 16, pp. 4-7. ASCII.

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Famitsu 16
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The pinned copy is the item's OCR text (the scan PDF is 222 MB). The feature is the 1986 Best Hit Game Awards: p. 4 announces Dragon Quest as grand prize, with a four-line staff credit block and comments from Yuji Horii (scenario) and Koichi Nakamura (programming); p. 5 is the reader-voted annual Top 20; pp. 6-7 are the category awards. OCR is poor here; read the page images.

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Famicom Tsushin credited the scenario to Yuji Horii, the character design to Akira Toriyama, the music to Koichi Sugiyama, and the programming to Koichi Nakamura, with Enix as the company, and said the team took about a year to make it.p. 4, credit blockp. 4, grand-prize textMagazine
In February 1987 Horii called Dragon Quest an orthodox command-based RPG with no action, said he had worried whether it would catch on, and called it an introduction made easy to understand, with Dragon Quest II far more full-fledged.p. 4, comment of Yuji Horii (scenario)p. 4, comment of Yuji Horii (scenario)p. 4, comment of Yuji Horii (scenario)Magazine
Koichi Nakamura said the part he liked best was the multi-window display, a first on the Famicom as he put it.p. 4, comment of Koichi Nakamura (programming)Magazine
Famicom Tsushin's readers voted Dragon Quest the grand prize of its 1986 Best Hit Game Awards by a wide margin, first in their annual top 20 with 10,999 points against 5,964 for Gradius in second.p. 4, introductionp. 4, grand-prize textp. 5, annual best 20Magazine
Famicom Tsushin's issue of 6 February 1987 lists Enix's Dragon Quest II as released in Japan on 26 January 1987, a Famicom cartridge at 5,500 yen, and Famitsu's 2014 Chunsoft chronology puts its release in January 1987.p. 95, release calendar, software released in JanuaryMagazine