If you were a fan of JRPGs, Dragon Warrior 2 landed right in the middle of a good batch of 8 and 16 bit games and we saw a mix of first person dungeon crawls, action rpgs and topdown turn based types. Those two years were amazing and very busy ones for the genre.

Phantasy Star Nov 1988 (MS)
DQ1 August 1989(NES)
Faxanadu. August 1989(NES)
Dungeon Explorer Nov 1989 (TG16)
Willow. Dec 1989(NES)
Phantasy Star 2 March 1990(Genesis)
Ys book 1&2. May 1990(TG16)
Final fantasy July 1990(NES)
Crystalis. July 1990(NES)
Destiny of an Emperor. July 1990(NES)
DQ2 Sept 1990(NES)
Shining in Darkness June 1991(Genesis)
Bards Tale mid 1991 (NES)
Final Fantasy IV Nov 1991(SNES)

I played virtually all of these on their western release dates except the first phatasy star as I never owned a master system. 1989-1991 I was just starting high school and hung out with a group of people I played D&D with in elementary school and we embraced console RPGs so went after anything and everything. Stuff like magic of shaherazad was a quick weekend rental but most of the above RPGs were a great experience. DQ2 had great longevity and was too long to beat on a normal rental, but we knew even then it felt old. Not hydlide old, but dated.