Torneko's Great Adventure

Torneko's Great Adventure
Cover art
Developer(s)Chunsoft
Publisher(s)Chunsoft
Director(s)Tadashi Fukuzawa
Producer(s)Koichi Nakamura
Designer(s)
  • Tadashi Fukuzawa
  • Kazuya Asano
  • Seiichiro Nagahata
Programmer(s)Takenori Yamamori
Artist(s)Akira Toriyama
Writer(s)Kazuya Asano
Composer(s)Koichi Sugiyama
Series
Platform(s)Super Famicom
Release
  • JP: September 19, 1993
Genre(s)Role-playing, roguelike
Mode(s)Single-player

Torneko's Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon[1] is a 1993 role-playing video game by Chunsoft. The first entry in the Mystery Dungeon series, the game features Torneko, a merchant from Dragon Quest IV, and his adventures around the Mystery Dungeon in search of items.

Torneko's Great Adventure is the first spin-off game in the Dragon Quest franchise. After failed attempts on creating a roguelike game in a home console, such as Sega's Fatal Labyrinth and Dragon Crystal,[2] the game was a success with over 800,000 copies sold,[3] which led to Chunsoft turning it into a franchise and released a sequel, Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer, in 1995.[4][5] The unreleased English version of the game was to be called Mystery Dungeon: Taloon's Great Adventure.[6]

  1. ^ トルネコの大冒険 不思議のダンジョン, Torneko no Daibōken Fushigi no Dungeon
  2. ^ Parish, Jeremy (January 17, 2019). "Roguelikes: How a Niche PC RPG Genre Went Mainstream". USGamer. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
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  5. ^ カワチ (December 1, 2020). 『不思議のダンジョン2 風来のシレン』発売25周年。『トルネコの大冒険』から進化したシステムや一新された和風の世界観が人気に【今日は何の日？】. Famitsu (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 16, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "Dragon Quest SNES Prototype Worth $50,000 "Lost for Good"". 3 August 2024.