Dragon Buster, the Video Game by Namco

Type of the machine : 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

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 256

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

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 boardgame 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 (1987)
Sony PlayStation (1996, "Namco Museum Vol.2")
Sony PSP (2005, "Namco Museum Battle Collection")

Computers :

FM-77AV (1987)
NEC PC-9801 (1989)
Sharp X68000 (1993)
Sharp X1
MSX2

Game's rom.