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Dragon Quest III

Custom party building, class changes and a day/night world made JRPGs a social phenomenon.

Released 1988 Developer Chunsoft Publisher Enix Platform NES Genre RPG Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Dragon Quest III inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Experience Points and Levels 1980Character Classes 1981Day/Night Cycle 1983Battery-Backed Save File 1986

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