Dragon Slayer (series)

Dragon Slayer
Genre(s)	Role-playing Action role-playing Action-adventure Metroidvania Open world Real-time strategy
Developer(s)	Nihon Falcom Hudson Soft (Faxanadu)
Publisher(s)	Nihon Falcom Square (MSX) Hudson Soft (Famicom) Nintendo (NES) Sierra On-Line (MS-DOS)
Creator(s)	Yoshio Kiya
Composer(s)	Falcom Sound Team JDK Yuzo Koshiro Toshiya Takahashi Mieko Ishikawa Jun Chikuma
Platform(s)	NEC PC-88, NEC PC-98, MSX, MSX2, FM-7, Sharp X1, Sharp X68000, Nintendo Entertainment System, TurboGrafx-16, MS-DOS, Super Cassette Vision, Game Boy, Mega Drive, Satellaview, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows, Dreamcast, Nokia N-Gage, Virtual Console
First release	Dragon Slayer 1984
Latest release	The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki II — Crimson Sin September 29, 2022
Spin-offs	Xanadu series The Legend of Heroes series

Dragon Slayer (ドラゴンスレイヤー, Doragon Sureiyā) is a series of role-playing video games by Nihon Falcom. The first Dragon Slayer game is an early action role-playing game, released in 1984 for the NEC PC-8801 and ported by Square for the MSX.^[1] Designed by Yoshio Kiya,^[2] the game gave rise to a series of sequels, most of them created by Falcom, with the exception of Faxanadu by Hudson Soft. The Dragon Slayer series is historically significant, both as a founder of the Japanese role-playing game industry,^[3] and as the progenitor of the action role-playing game genre.^[4][5]

The series encompasses several different genres, which include action role-playing, action-adventure, platform-adventure, open world, turn-based role-playing, and real-time strategy. Many of the early titles in this series were PC games released for the PC-88, PC-98, MSX, MSX2, and other early Japanese PC platforms, while some were later ported to video game consoles. The series also features video game music soundtracks composed by chiptune musician Yuzo Koshiro and the Falcom Sound Team JDK.