5月27日が「ドラゴンクエストの日」として日本記念日協会に認定されました。

人気ゲーム「ドラゴンクエスト(ドラクエ)」の生みの親であるゲームデザイナー・堀井雄二さんは、淡路島(兵庫県洲本市)出身です。2018年2月に洲本名誉市民に選ばれています。授賞式の際に堀井さんは、「(子供時代に)野を駆け、山を駆けて育ったことがドラクエの元になった」「海も山も川もあるミニチュアのような場所で育ったことが、ドラクエを作る際に役に立った。たくさんの人に助けられ、ここまで来ることができた」と語っています。ぜひ、ドラクエのBGMを流しながら淡路島ドライブしてみてください。海も山も川もある淡路島には冒険が溢れています。

May 27 is the memorial day of popular game “Dragon Quest”. Mr. Yuji Hori who is game designer of Dragon Quest was born at Awajishima island of Seto Inland Sea, Japan. There is the monument of Dragon Quest at the island.

ドラゴンクエスト記念碑
兵庫県洲本市塩屋1-1 [Google Map]

Dragon Quest Monument
1-1 Shioya, Sumoto city, Awajishima island, Hyogo pref., Japan [Google Map]


淡路島 洲本(すもと)
SUMOTO ARTISAN SQUARE


淡路島にあるモニュメント


勇者の盾


スライム


勇者の剣


かっこいい!


せっかくなので淡路島の写真もあわせていくつか掲載しておきます。





Dragon Quest – Wikipedia

ragon Quest, formally published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of Japanese role-playing video games created by Yuji Horii and his studio Armor Project. The games are published by Square Enix (formerly Enix), with localized remakes and ports of later installments for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch being published by Nintendo outside of Japan. With its first game published in 1986, there are eleven main-series games, along with numerous spin-off games. In addition, there have been numerous manga, anime and novels published under the franchise, with nearly every game in the main series having a related adaptation.

The series has had a significant impact on the development of console role-playing games, and introduced a number of features to the genre. Installments of the series have appeared on various computers, consoles, handheld devices, and mobile phones. Early in the series, the Dragon Quest games were released under the title Dragon Warrior in North America to avoid trademark conflict with the unrelated tabletop role-playing game DragonQuest. Square Enix did not register the Dragon Quest trademark for use in the United States until 2002.

Yuji Horii – Wikipedia

Yuji Horii (also written as Yuuji Horii; born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer and scenario writer best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series of role-playing games, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, as well as the first visual novel adventure game Portopia Serial Murder Case.

堀井雄二 – Wikipedia

堀井 雄二(ほりい ゆうじ、1954年1月6日 – )は、兵庫県洲本市出身のゲームデザイナー、作家、アーマープロジェクト代表取締役。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。『ドラゴンクエストシリーズ』の生みの親、シナリオライターである。愛称は「ゆうてい(ゆう帝)」。