Dragon Buster
Dragon Buster is a Platform / Role-playing (RPG) game released on December 31, 1985 for Arcade, Sharp X68000, Wii and 3 more. A 1984 arcade platformer with action RPG elements, Dragon Buster is notable as the first game to feature a double jump. It was also one of the first games to include a life meter (along with Flash Boy…
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A 1984 arcade platformer with action RPG elements, Dragon Buster is notable as the first game to feature a double jump. It was also one of the first games to include a life meter (along with Flash Boy and Punch-Out), known as vitality in this game. The game featured side-scrolling platform gameplay and a hub "world view" map similar to the later Super Mario Bros. series. It also featured hack & slash combat, like the later Tritorn and Legend of Zelda series.
Dragon Buster was developed and published by Namco. The game is a side-scrolling dungeon crawler, where the goal of the game is for the hero, Clovis, to rescue Princess Celia. Dragon Buster was later ported to a variety of home consoles, notably the Nintendo Entertainment System and the MSX.
It runs on Namco Pac-Land hardware, modified to support vertical scrolling
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- Developer
- Namco
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco Games, Namco, Namco Bandai Games, Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Game Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Action
Languages
- Text / Subtitles
- Japanese
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