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Dragon Quest
Compressed Western CRPG systems into a console-friendly menu loop, founding the JRPG mainstream.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Dragon Quest inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
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The Dragon Quest series in this dataset
1986
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