Dragon Warrior III

I love Dragon Warrior 3. It reminds me so much of growing up and hanging out with my boys until the wee hours of the morning, then doing the paper route in the morning. We would switch off leveling up and kicking Baramos' ass.

I just realized that the copy we had was a "communial" copy. So no one really owned it, and we were all free to borrow it at any time. But I decided I needed that game. I bought it using buy it now on ebay for $26 shipped. Not bad considering it's my all time fav.

Just thought I'd share.

i got the gbc version for 12 at gamestop. is it any different/ i have yet to play it.

I got the GBC versions of all of them and have yet to beat any of them. I have been meaning to play them but have not been in an RPG mood lately

I have the GBC version too. It is not the same. It's very close, but it seems like they used some of the Dragon Warrior monsters elements in it. Plus the "old timey" language is gone. And there is something in the beginning that isn't in the NES game at all.

This is why I needed the NES cart.

If my Gamestop still has it I am going to go ahead and pick up number 4 for the NES.

I would pay $25 for that too...if I could find it minty...

i got the GBC one too. its not bad. but i do prefer the NES ver.

[quote name='ZForce317']I would pay $25 for that too...if I could find it minty...[/quote]

I will see if they have it and what they want for it. I will probably never get around to playing it.

The one nice thing about the Gameboy color version is the reduced encounter rate.

[quote name='CaseyRyback']If my Gamestop still has it I am going to go ahead and pick up number 4 for the NES.[/quote]
You say DW4 and did not buy it
I have been looking for this game since my step brother sold it.

[quote name='spoo'][quote name='CaseyRyback']If my Gamestop still has it I am going to go ahead and pick up number 4 for the NES.[/quote]
You say DW4 and did not buy it
I have been looking for this game since my step brother sold it.[/quote]

I got Mega Man X2 that same day and did not want to spend money on a game when I did not know its value.

Does anyone know how long these batteries last in NES games? How easy are they to replace?

I've replaced a few of those batteries. They're not so much hard to replace as they're hard to replace cleanly. Somehow they have a clip that is attached to the watch battery top and bottom. The attachment is strange. It's not like you can just pull back the clip and get the batter out. It is attached to the battery.

Whether it is just sautered on there really well or there is an actual fine metal strand that goes through the middle of the battery, I always end up bending back the metal clip, then using a very thin saw to cut the clip loose from the battery. Once you have it out, the top of the clip is mangled, but you can just squeeze if over a new battery, use some solid tape to hold it down, and close up the cart.

Like I said, hard to be done cleanly, but pretty easy to do. It only takes 15 minutes or so. Anybody out there know of a cleaner method?

I think you can buy the clips somewhere, and then just replace the battery and the clip together. EGM had a short article on battery replacement a few months back, and I think it suggested radio shack for clips and batteries.

DW3 was my first RPG, ad i need a copy of it and 4.

Good luck getting a copy of four, as I hear its wicked expensive nowadays (

As for me, my newly adopted seven-year-old pound puppy Secret dug mine out of a box where I had lost it over a decade ago --- along with a lot of my other NES games.

The tally of games found =

Dragon warrior 1, 3, and 4

Kid Icuras

A bard's tale

Metriod

Game Genie with manual

Final fantasy

Legend of Zelda

Dungeons & Dragons and dragons: heroes of the lance {which actually made EGM's countdown for the worst games of all time}

The kicker is a lot of the games were in full coverage clear colored plastic cases with their original receipts!

For example dragon warrior 3 was $66 -- a whole dollar above the cost of final fantasy at its $65

Strangely enough, until I found the receipts I would have sworn I only paid $50 apiece for each game. Strange how time can play tricks on your financial memory.

Now I know why I got stuck paying for my own stuff so often during the Genesis era onward -- the NES one had bankrupted my parents ;-)

Back on topic:

I'm currently playing 3 on my GameBoy player, and as I recall its an expansion pack type design on 1. Although I played it straight through exclusively years ago, today I can't bring myself to play more than an hour at a time without losing interest. In fact, if it wasn't for the bunny girl joke character I'm using, I might have gotten bored sooner. The main problem being that I remember absolutely everything even though I haven't played in over a decade. In fact, I even remembered all the details of pyramid maze that I'm currently in and ended up entering from the secret side entrance. {Which is where you exit from if you fall through a hole in the floor on the inside of the upper levels of the maze}

The series High Point was 4 for me, which remains one of my favorite games of all time

In fact, the merchant Guy even got his own series of games that spun off from No. 4, several of which were released in the U.S. { 2 on the GameBoy color and one on the PlayStation}

Considering how good the NES games were, it makes me wonder if final fantasy would still be on top if the other dragon warrior games had been released here

I still have an NES copy of I, II and IV....I also played through III, but it was borrowed from a friend. I loved all the DW games.

The GB version of III is decent (as are the other GB DW remakes), but give me the NES versions any day.