Japanese legendary RPG Dragon Quest(Dragon Warrior) attacks the smartphones

Dragon Quest(Eg name:Dragon Warrior) is  Japanese legendary NES video game. After the appearance of this, JRPG started in earnest. Japanese gamers were excited at this in those days and made a long line in a game shop to buy Dragon Quest. Until this year, Square Enix did not do smartphone development of the Dragon Quest series at all(Though there are a lot of smartphone games of the Final Fantasy series). However, they opened the closed gate suddenly. At first they released Dragon Quest portal apps, and released a smartphone version of first Dragon Quest in free of charge in commemoration of it.

Japanese gamers jumped at this and first Dragon Quest broke through 1 million downloading at the release first day. At first, Square Enix intended to let only the first 1 million download free. However, they extended a free downloading period until December 10 because a reaction was too big. Now, first Dragon Quest breaks through 3 million downloading.

Square Enix will release the smartphone version of other Dragon Quest series in future. They release Dragon QuestVIII for downloading price 2,800 yen on December 12 at once.