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34 games, incl. Dragon Quest, for PS4 to be released

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Morita (L), an executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., explains in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2014, about the release of Square Enix Co.'s Dragon Quest Heroes, one of 34 new software games for the PlayStation4 scheduled to be launched by the end of 2015. The game will go on sale next spring as the first Dragon Quest game for the PS in about 10 years.

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

TOKYO, Japan - The Tsutaya movie and music rental shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district is packed Aug. 2, 2012, with people buying a new title in the popular "Dragon Quest" game series. Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. launched the same day "Dragon Quest 10 -- Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku (five awakened tribes) Online" for Nintendo Co.'s Wii home game console.

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

TOKYO, Japan - Yuji Horii (L), the creator of "Dragon Quest," hands a new software title in the popular game series to Kensuke Matayoshi, a 33-year-old part-time employee who became the first person to purchase the game at the Tsutaya movie and music rental shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district, on Aug. 2, 2012, its launch day, after waiting outside the shop from the previous day. Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. launched "Dragon Quest 10 -- Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku (five awakened tribes) Online" for Nintendo Co.'s Wii home game console.

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FamilyMart selling Dragon Quest steamed pork buns

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a ''nikuman'' steamed pork bun made to resemble the character ''Slime'' from the Dragon Quest role-playing game series. FamilyMart Co., the operator of the Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart, announced Sept. 5, 2011, that it plans to sell ''Slime Nikuman'' from late November, at 170 yen each, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the wildly popular series.

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Dragon Quest X to be released in 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata (R) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2011, to announce a plan to release the game Dragon Quest X in 2012. The upcoming version of the popular role playing game series will be made for Nintendo's home game console Wii and its successor model Wii U.

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Long-awaited 'Dragon Quest 9' video game hits shelves in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Customers crowd a store in Tokyo's Shibuya district July 11 to buy the latest version of Square Enix Co.'s popular ''Dragon Quest'' video game series which finally hit the shelves in Japan after its debut was postponed three times from the originally planned 2007 launch date.

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New version of 'Dragon Quest' to be marketed in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Game software developer SQUARE ENIX Co. will put on the market Sept. 19 a new version of its popular ''Dragon Quest'' home video game software that includes a plastic sword (foreground) and a small camera (background). If users move the 40-centimeter sword some 1.5 meters away from a TV screen, the camera captures the sword's movement and shows it on the screen.

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Long-awaited 'Dragon Quest 9' video game hits shelves in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Customers crowd a store in Tokyo's Shibuya district July 11 to buy the latest version of Square Enix Co.'s popular ''Dragon Quest'' video game series which finally hit the shelves in Japan after its debut was postponed three times from the originally planned 2007 launch date. (Kyodo)

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FamilyMart selling Dragon Quest steamed pork buns

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a ''nikuman'' steamed pork bun made to resemble the character ''Slime'' from the Dragon Quest role-playing game series. FamilyMart Co., the operator of the Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart, announced Sept. 5, 2011, that it plans to sell ''Slime Nikuman'' from late November, at 170 yen each, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the wildly popular series. (Kyodo)

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Dragon Quest X to be released in 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata (R) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2011, to announce a plan to release the game Dragon Quest X in 2012. The upcoming version of the popular role playing game series will be made for Nintendo's home game console Wii and its successor model Wii U. (Kyodo)

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34 games, incl. Dragon Quest, for PS4 to be released

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Morita (L), an executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., explains in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2014, about the release of Square Enix Co.'s Dragon Quest Heroes, one of 34 new software games for the PlayStation4 scheduled to be launched by the end of 2015. The game will go on sale next spring as the first Dragon Quest game for the PS in about 10 years. (Kyodo)

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

A girl holds up the 11th title in the popular "Dragon Quest" game series in Tokyo on July 29, 2017. Fans of the series dating back to 1986 lined up from early in the morning as Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. released a new title of the main series for the first time since 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

A man holds up the 11th title in the popular "Dragon Quest" game series in Tokyo on July 29, 2017. Fans of the series dating back to 1986 lined up from early in the morning as Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. released a new title of the main series for the first time since 2012. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New version of 'Dragon Quest' to be marketed in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Game software developer SQUARE ENIX Co. will put on the market Sept. 19 a new version of its popular ''Dragon Quest'' home video game software that includes a plastic sword (foreground) and a small camera (background). If users move the 40-centimeter sword some 1.5 meters away from a TV screen, the camera captures the sword's movement and shows it on the screen. (Kyodo)