Lost In Translation/Dragon Buster
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| Dragon Buster | |
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| Manufacturer | Namco |
| Released | 1984 |
| Control Method |
4-way Joystick 2 Button(s) |
| Main CPU | M6809 (@ 1.536 MHz) HD63701 (@ 1.536 MHz) |
| Sound CPU | Mono Namco CUS30 (@ 24.000 kHz) |
| Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 288 x 224 pixels 60.61 Hz 256 Palette colours |
| Screens | 1 |
| ROM Info | 14 ROMs 112,384 bytes (109.75 KiB) |
| MAME ID | drgnbstr |
About The Game
Dragon Buster is an arcade video role-playing game in which you travel through various scenery to rescue the princess from an evil dragon.
Trivia
Dragon buster is the first game from Namco to include a life-bar system.
Massimo Gaspari holds the official record for this game with 1,300,560 points on July 18, 1985.
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.
Series
- Dragon Buster (1985)
- Dragon Buster II - Yami no Fuuin (1989, Nintendo Famicom)
Staff
- Music By
- Yuriko Keino
Cabinet and Artwork
Dragon Buster flyer.
Back of the Dragon Buster flyer.
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Ports
- Consoles
- Nintendo Famicom (1987)
- Sony PlayStation (1996, "Namco Museum Vol.2")
- Sony PSP (2005, "Namco Museum Battle Collection")
- Computers
- FM-77AV (1987)
- NEC PC-9801 (1989)
- Sharp X68000 (1993)
- Sharp X1
- MSX2
Soundtrack Releases
| Album Name | Catalogue No. | Released | Publisher | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Return of Video Game Music | ALC-22004[1] | 1985-06-25 | Alfa | Cassette version. |
| The Best of Video Game Music | 32XA-66[2] | 1986-04-25 | Alfa | CD version. |
| The Return of Video Game Music | ALR-22004[3] | 1985-06-25 | Alfa | Vinyl version. |
| The Return of Video Game Music | SCDC-00122[4] | 2001-12-05 | Scitron Digital Content | CD version. |
| Game Sound Museum ~Namcot~ 07 Dragon Buster / Dragon Buster II | SDEX-0046[5] | 2004-12-23 | Scitron | CD version. |
