This is heart breaking…. Knowing this poor old man never got his chance to play Dragon Quest VI. He is surely long gone by now, his dreams lost to a timeline that will never be. Being an RPG fan and Nintendo loyalist was HARD around the mid-90s. Most of us finally had to swallow our defeat and buy a PlayStation eventually, and we never got the 16-bit era of Dragon Warrior games. Luckily you can play great fan translations now, and with rom carts you can even play them on a real SNES.

But damn, it was bleak back then. RIP Edith Jeter. I’m gonna go play it for you.

>>11820838 (OP)
>old man
>edith
dragon quest fans confirmed trannies

She lived long enough to possibly play DQ8. RIP

>>11820838 (OP)
Enix really fucked up bringing their franchise to the West compared to Square. The localizations for DQ III and IV came after the SNES had already released in America. Then, we didn’t get VII until a year after the PS2 released here. So there was a 9 year gap with no mainline DQ in the America, and a 15 year gap without a game being released for the current console generation. It wasn’t until VIII in 2006 that PAL land got any DQ.

Alternatively, Final Fantasy was released in America in 1990, and IV followed a year and a half later. We didn’t get V, but there was still only a couple years wait between VI and then VII really ignited its popularity here. Comparatively, it seems like Enix just gave up on the Western market after the Famicom games failed to meet expectations overseas.

>>11820841
Man I don’t know why I thought that mfer was a dude wtf is wrong with me. Having a senior moment my own damn self.

>>11820838 (OP)
>Being an RPG fan and Nintendo loyalist was HARD around the mid-90s.

Where else were you going to turn to for these games back then? Playstation wasn’t out yet, or it was out but JRPG developers were still making games for the SNES. Genesis had some good RPGs, but I mean come on.

>>11820884
I guess the pain began to trickle in around 1996, and by 1998 you were truly hurting. I should have said late 90s; you’re right

>>11820861
>Enix really fucked up bringing their franchise to the West compared to Square.

To be fair, I feel like Nintendo, who published FF1 and DQ1 is partially responsible for both FF's success and DQ's failures.

>>11820838 (OP)
That looks like it's from Nintendo Power, in which case I doubt the veracity of some of these letters. I have a schizo theory that after Square and Enix decided to give up on Nintendo Publishing and both decided to implement a publishing office in the US, Nintendo tried to hamper them, not enough that they wouldn't sell anything, but enough that they wouldn't become bigger than them, and out of spite for not going through them for the publishing anymore. Thus some of those letters would be Nintendo rubbing it and patting their own back for a job well done in a "Looks what happens when you don't trust Nintendo!" kind of way.

>>11820841
>dragon quest fans confirmed trannies
Considering that one tripfag that I'll never mention by name again and how much they bought the westernized remake, this is true.

I do feel sad for those people who never got to see the wonder of video games. I feel even sadder for people who were able to see glimpses of them before dying, like this Edith lady. That's sad. But then you have old people who are still around TODAY and who fucking HATE video games. Those people should just eat shit. I know it's corny, but it's really tough to accept how different people can be

>>11820838 (OP)
25 years later, still filename

>>11824731
I’m in my 40s, and honestly, I don’t know anyone in real life who still enjoys video games. Even my younger relatives who used to be into them have grown out of it and now see them as childish.

>>11824772
>watermark
Fucking WOW.

>>11821103
>To be fair, I feel like Nintendo, who published FF1 and DQ1 is partially responsible for both FF's success and DQ's failures.
Go on and tell us how was it their fault. If anything they pushed harder for DQ.

>>11826959
This but with the internet in general. I was at lunch browsing the internet on my phone and some Alphart was joking with his friend about "unc" over there using the internet like a nerd.

>>11826903
>0.9
So it's incomplete? Why the hell hasn't someone finished it in the past 24 years?

>>11820861
If DQV came out during the height of the SNES it would have completely changed the series' fortunes in the US

>>11827664
My theory is that Nintendo probably tried to slow down the NES releases of FF and DQ out of spite for not going through them and/or because they wanted other people to stop focusing on the NES and to focus on the GB and the upcoming SNES instead.
My theory is based on the odd fate of NES FF2:
>Square already established publishing in the US and published at least 2 game boy games >only FF1 was just previously published by Nintendo
>January 11st 1991, Square presents NES FF2 to the press
>This coincides with the know localization prototype which says 1991 and which is 90% complete, only lacking a couple weeks of work to be finished

How the fuck does this NOT release?! That's the part I think probably has nothing to do with Square. Not to mention that Square also says they plan to release NES FF3. People tend to think Square abandonned all NES releases to focus on the SNES FF4 but I don't buy it, we're talking very early 1991 NES plans vs very late 1991 release for FF4, but I don't buy it, they had the chip to do both and showed they still had interest in the NES long term. The only explanation I have for FF2 not release is Nintendo delaying or preventing the certification process on purpose; and if they do that for FF they may do the same for DQ2/3/4 which would appear to be an even bigger threat to them when considering DQ was outperforming Nintendo on their own platform in Japan. I mean how the fuck did it take so long to release DW2 in the US? I know that unlike Square which as already established, Enix had to build their US publishing office in the meantime, but that still doesn't fully explain the delay.

cont

tl;dr the theory is Nintendo fucked both Square and Enix when it came to NES releases, delaying them as much as possible; but Square had the GB releases to fall back to and understood they had to play by Nintendo's rules and abandonned the NES releases in favour of the SNES and Nintendo would have been happy they'd play along and thus help. Meanwhile Enix played stubborn, also had no GB releases to help, and insisted on releasing every DQ chronologically, and the OP image is Nintendo rubbing it in "look what happens when you don't do what we say". I don't believe that 76 yo woman really existed.