Category:Dragon Buster

Dragon Buster is a series of three games which were released by Namco between 1984 and 1999; its first title is an adventure game, while its second and third ones are action role-playing games (however, the second title uses a Dig Dug II-style overhead view while the third one is three-dimensional).


 * Dragon Buster (Arcade, 1984): The inceptive title in the series ran on Namco's Pac-Land hardware (modified to support vertical scrolling) and was the first game from the company to feature a life bar; it focuses on a sword-wielding prince named Clovis who is on a mission to rescue his beloved Princess Celia, and although there are multiple instances of Celia in the game, Clovis's goal is to reach the true one at the end of the twelfth round.


 * Dragon Buster II: Yami no Fuuin (Famicom, 1989): The second title in this series was developed by TOSE for Namco five years after the first one, and released for the Nintendo Family Computer exclusively in Japan; it is set before the events of its predecessor and focuses on a bow-and-arrow-wielding dragon slayer named Carl, who is on a mission to enter the Dragon Castle and retrieve the sword which Prince Clovis used as his weapon.


 * Dragon Valor (Sony PlayStation, 1999): The third and final title in this series was released ten years after the second one for the Sony PlayStation; it begins with Prince Clovis returning to his hometown to find it burned down by a dragon, but as he watches while his sister dies with the rest of the town, he meets a man who is still alive (a "Dragon Valor" who devoted his life to dragon-slaying), and he gives Clovis his magic sword before dying.