Dragon Buster

Platform Games Animals/Dragons 

Type of the game: [Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game
Dragon Buster © 1984 Namco.

A role-playing game in which you travel through various scenery to rescue the princess from an evil dragon.

Game ID : DB

Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz), HD63701 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Namco 8-channel WSG

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 2

Even if title screen says 1984, Dragon Buster was released in February 1985 in Japan.

Dragon buster is the first game from Namco to include a life-bar system.

Massimo Gaspari holds the official record for this game with 1,300,560 points on July 18, 1985.

Namco released a board game based on this game (same name) in 1985 (in Japan only) : You roll the dice to move around the board and complete quests. The game includes a variety of event cards, charts for randomizing events and encounters,counters for monsters and items and such. The goal of this game is to kill the dragon and rescue the princess.

1. Dragon Buster (1985)
2. Dragon Buster II - Yami no Fuuin (1989, Nintendo Famicom)

Music by : Yuriko Keino

Consoles:

Nintendo Famicom (January 7, 1987)
Sony PlayStation [AU] (1996, "Namco Museum Vol.2)
Sony PlayStation (February 9, 1996; "Namco Museum Vol.2 (Limited Edition with Volume Control) [Model SLPS-00209]")
Sony PlayStation (February 9, 1996; "Namco Museum Vol.2 [Model SLPS-00210]")
Sony PlayStation (September 30, 1996; "Namcom Museum Vol.2 [Model SLUS-00216]")
Sony PlayStation (November 1996; "Namco Museum Vol.2 [Model SCES-00267]")
Sony PSP (August 23, 2005; "Namco Museum Battle Collection [Model ULUS-10035]")
Sony PSP (December 9, 2005; "Namco Museum Battle Collection [Model UCES-00116]")
Sony PSP (February 23, 2006; "Namco Museum Vol.2 [Model ULJS-00047]")
Sony PSP (November 8, 2007 "Namco Museum Vol.2")
Microsoft XBOX 360 (November 4, 2008; "Namco Museum Virtual Arcade [Model 21022]")
Nintendo Wii (November 18, 2008, "Virtual Console" - Famicom version)
Microsoft XBOX 360 (May 15, 2009, "Namco Museum Virtual Arcade")
Microsoft XBOX 360 [AU] (June 3, 2009, "Namco Museum Virtual Arcade")
Nintendo Wii (September 15, 2009, "Virtual Console Arcade")
Microsoft XBOX 360 (November 5, 2009; "Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade [Model 2RD-00001]")

Computers:

FM-77AV (1987)
NEC PC 8801 (1987)
NEC PC 9801 (Mar. 1989) Dragon Buster
Sharp X68000 (1993)
Sharp X1
MSX2

Others:

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Game's rom.