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* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The [http://dragon-quest.org/wiki/File:Dw1boxart.jpg American box art]{{Dead link}} depicts the same scene as the Japanese box- the blue-and-red hero, the Green Dragon, and a castle- but with realistically proportioned characters and a broader color palette.
* [[Artifact of Death]]: The Cursed/Death Necklace and the Cursed Belt. Oddly enough, if you don't equip them, shopkeepers pay good money for them. Considering how early you can acquire them, it's reasonable to repeatedly enter the (low-leveled) dungeon to acquire more belts to sell for lots of cash.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Hurtmore, which can take huge chunks of health out of anything that isn't immune to magic. Once you get it, grinding goes quite a bit faster.
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* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: If you are carrying the princess with you to Charlock Castle and talk to the Dragonlord, he actually thanks you for saving him the trouble of having her transported there.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Loto was renamed Erdrick, Lars was renamed Lorik, Dracolord was renamed as the Dragonlord, and Lora was renamed Gwaelin.
* [[Easter Egg]]:
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** You also can run into a character named Howard, who is named after Nester's partner in the comic.
** As mentioned under [[Guide Dang It|Guide Dang It!]], the name you give your hero can have an effect on your base stats and leveling rate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, "Loto" is one of the best names to pick.
** Returning to Hauksness after defeating the Dragonlord will let you meet the ghost of Garin (the bard whose tomb you explored earlier in the game to obtain his Silver Harp), who shares with you the tragic story of Hauksness' past as a busy, bustling town before it was destroyed.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: The Dragonlord.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]:
** The basic damage spell in the NES version is called HURT. It hurts enemies. The stronger version is called HURTMORE. It hurts enemies more. Similarly, there's HEAL and HEALMORE.
** You are on a quest to slay a dragon/a warrior who slays dragons.
* [[Fisher King]]: Defeat the Dragonlord, and not only do all of the other monsters disappear from the game, but the poisonous swamps will be replaced by fields of flowers.
* [[Flaming Sword]]: The second most powerful weapon you can wield. The best one is [[Infinity+1 Sword|Erdrick's sword]].
* [[Forced Level Grinding]]: If there wasn't any in this game, you'd likely be able to beat it in half an hour. For example, people have run thousands of simulations on emulators, and determined that the Dragonlord is completely impossible to defeat at level 17 or below in the NES version, since you absolutely ''must'' have Healmore to stand a chance against the Dragonlord's dragon form. However, with a tool-assisted run (manipulating luck beyond reasonable means), [http://tasvideos.org/1482M.html the game can be completed at level 7].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In the first town, you can meet up with an ardent female admirer who will "tag along". If you spend a night while she's with you, the dialog strongly suggests you and the admirer had a night of wild sex. This can also happen while you are escorting Princess Lora.
{{quote|'''Innkeeper''': Good morning. You were up late!}}
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** [[Standard Status Effects]]: Sleep, learned at level 7, and actually useful for once.
** [[Light'Em Up]]: Radiant, learned at level 9.
** [[Anti-Magic]]:
** [[Teleportation]]: Outside and Return, learned at levels 12 and 13, respectively. Outside simply teleports you out of whatever cave you're in, while Return takes you all the way back to the town where you start the game.
** There's also a spell called Repel which lowers the rate of [[Random Encounters]] learned at level 15.
* [[Market-Based Title]]: The original release and the Game Boy Color re-release were titled ''Dragon Warrior'' due to [[Dungeons & Dragons|TSR]] holding the trademark to ''Dragon Quest''. Since [[Square Enix]] has subsequently acquired the trademark from them, any future release would bear the ''
* [[Mascot Mook]]: Slimes (though several others, including wyverns/chimerae and drakees/drackys give them a run for their money).
* [[Metal Slime]]: The [[Trope Namer]], also the Goldman/Gold Golem.
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* [[Recurring Riff]]: Many of the game's tunes (most prominently, the main theme and the level up theme) are used in all the subsequent installments, with the main theme gaining a new intro in ''IV'' and another new intro in ''IX''. The game over theme has begun to make a comeback in more recent games as well after ''II'' and several installments after it used longer and more complex game over tracks.
* [[Scaled Up]]: See [[One-Winged Angel]] above.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]:
** Averted! The good news: Yuji Horii was (and more than likely still is) a fan of ''Wizardry'' and ''Ultima'', both of which had useful status spells. Mute/Stopspell and Sleep were two very handy spells taken from them. The bad news? Your enemies can also use them. Worst news:
** With frequent abuse of save states and a generous amount of patience, the Sleep spell can make any battle a guaranteed victory. No enemy is completely immune to the Sleep spell, so if you cast it enough times, it will eventually stick. Moreover, unlike in most RPGs, a successful physical attack will not awaken the target. Whether or not they awaken is randomly determined ''each turn''. So, you can [[Save Scumming]] your way to victory by saving state before selecting your command each turn, ensuring that you will (eventually) put the enemy to sleep and they will not ever wake up. Through this method, you can beat the game as soon as you get this spell.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: The Dragonlord makes this offer to you when you confront him. Most players just select no and get on with the battle, but if you accept, you get a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] (except in the SNES version where he wakes up in a town near the [[Big Bad]]'s castle, where the innkeeper says that he had a [[Bad Dreams|Bad Dream]]). This is quite jarring, considering the time it took to get to the castle and then go down to the lowest floor. The Dragonlord then says "[[I Can Rule Alone]]" though: the very next thing you see is red text.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Where's Loto's Shield (i.e. the Shield of Heroes)? The absence of his helmet was understandable, since it was just an iron mask, but the shield was a special magical talisman like the sword and armor.
* [[With This Herring]]: Let's put it this way: your first set of armor is called "clothes". Which you start the game without. This had led some amused players to believe you're having audiences with the king and fighting slimes in your bare butt until you get it.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Dropped in the [[Game Boy Color]] remake though.
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