Editing DragonQuest (section)

== Publication history ==
Through the 1970s, SPI was a board wargame publisher. With the sudden popularity of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in the mid-1970s, SPI decided to enter the role-playing game market with a product called ''Dragonslayer'', but changed the title to avoid a conflict with [[Walt Disney Pictures]]' 1981 [[Dragonslayer (1981 film)|movie of the same name]]. In 1981, SPI did published a board game called ''[[Dragonslayer (board game)|Dragonslayer]]'', that was a licensed tie-in with the movie.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

''DragonQuest'' the role-playing game, published in 1980, was a [[boxed set]] of three softcover books designed by [[Eric Goldberg (game designer)|Eric Goldberg]], David James Ritchie and [[Edward J. Woods]], with interior artwork by John Garcia, and cover art by Jim Sherman.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 1982, SPI published a second edition of ''DragonQuest'' in which the three books were consolidated into one book, which was published in conjunction with [[Bantam Books]], shortly before SPI was unexpectedly taken over by [[TSR (company)|TSR]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 1988, TSR published the ''AD&D'' adventure, ''[[The Shattered Statue]]'' that included a conversion adventure to ''DragonQuest''{{'}}s second edition rules.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

The following year, TSR published a third edition of ''DragonQuest'' with a revamped magic system, with game design by  Gerard Christopher King, interior artwork by Timothy Truman and cover art by Joe Chiodo.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 1986, Japanese companies Chunsoft and Enix released an unrelated videogame in Japan called ''[[Dragon Quest]]''. When it was released in North America in 1989, Chunsoft changed the name to ''Dragon Warrior'' to avoid trademark issues.<ref name="np238_84">{{Cite magazine|magazine=Nintendo Power| title=Nintendo Power | date=February 2008|issue=238|publisher=[[Future US]] |location=South San Francisco, CA |issn=1041-9551 |page=84}}</ref><ref name="spy">{{cite web | title=The GameSpy Hall of Fame: ''Dragon Warrior'' |publisher=[[GameSpy]] |url=http://www.gamespy.com/articles/492/492001p1.html |page=1|date=February 1, 2002|access-date=October 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616041901/http://www.gamespy.com/articles/492/492001p1.html|archive-date=June 16, 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref> The trademark would later expire in the early 2000s and Square Enix would register the trademark for use in the US<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78146654&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215125715/https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78146654&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |title=Dragon Quest |publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] |quote=Serial n. 78146654 |access-date=February 15, 2024 |url-status=live }}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78146668&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215125715/https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78146668&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |title=Dragon Quest |publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] |quote=Serial n. 78146668 |access-date=February 15, 2024 |url-status=live }}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78310830&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215125715/https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78310830&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |title=Dragon Quest |publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] |quote=Serial n. 78310830 |access-date=February 15, 2024 |url-status=live }}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87124349&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215125715/https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87124349&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |title=Dragon Quest |publisher=[[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] |quote=Serial n. 87124349 |access-date=February 15, 2024 |url-status=live }}.</ref>

Ownership of ''DragonQuest'' passed to [[Wizards of the Coast]] in 1997 following their takeover of TSR.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}