Dragon Quest Creator Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Dragon Quest series is often considered one of the very first console RPGs, and it popularized the genre in Japan. The original game has been cited by some as one of the most influential role-playing games of all-time, as all RPGs that followed after the original game's release utilized its mechanics in some way. The core gameplay of the series has remained unchanged since its inception, and it's a testament to the series' great design and classic mechanics.
The Game Developers Conference will be hosted in San Francisco next month, and the conference has made a number of announcements heading into its event. Most notably, it has listed Dragon Quest creator, Yuji Horii, as the recipient of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dragon Quest series has been around for decades, with the first game released in 1986.
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Yuji Horii has been the lead designer on the Dragon Quest series from the beginning, and he has also lent his hand in writing some of the games' stories. While not as well-known here in the West until the wildly successful Dragon Quest 11, the series is one of the biggest role-playing franchises in Japan alongside Final Fantasy and the Tales series. Horii also helped write the scenario for the classic RPG Chrono Trigger, often cited as one of the best RPGs in video game history. As of 2021, the Dragon Quest series has sold over 83 million units worldwide.
Apart from Dragon Quest, Yuji Horii also wrote one of the first visual novels in video game history, Portopia Serial Murder Case, in 1983. This visual novel was an inspiration for multiple future video creators including Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, and Nintendo's head of the
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