Dragon Buster

Dragon Buster title screen. Dragon Buster gameplay screenshot.
Dragon Buster gameplay screenshot. Dragon Buster gameplay screenshot.

A role-playing game in which you travel through various scenery to rescue the princess from an evil dragon. Dragon Buster is the first game from Namco to include a life-bar system.

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. (arcade-history)