The original Dragon Quest game for NES may have its biggest fan in the person who was able to collect a thousand copies of the game. The groundbreaking JRPG isn't much to look at nowadays, but clearly still has its adamant fans in the Dragon Quest community.Dragon Quest had its humble, but innovative beginnings in its original game, which at the time had the title Dragon Warrior. It is one of the earliest games in the JRPG genre and is credited with being the first game to do many of the tropes that became mainstays in other franchises as well as in itself all the way up to Dragon Quest 12. Having a reverence for the game is understandable for any gamer who loves the genre, but having a thousand copies of the game is a new level of dedication.The Twitter post showcasing the many copies of the game comes from a dedicated fan by the handle FerrisonNA who has dubbed their stash "The Unorthodox Dragon Warrior Collection." The picture shows off a truly jaw-dropping number of NES cartridges all for the exact same title. It's an odd monument to the beginning of one of the most beloved JRPG franchises of all time. There's a slime next to the pile of NES cartridges as well, referencing the classic enemy.
There's a website for the collection that documents the milestones in FerrisonNA getting from a few hundred copies to the thousand they currently have, and Ferrison even states their intention to bring the number of Dragon Warrior cartridges up to 2,500 now that the thousand has been achieved. There are other unorthodox collections as well for retro titles like the NES Super Mario Bros or Jurassic Park, but this appears to be the only mass collection of a Dragon Quest game at the moment.
Dragon Warrior almost wasn't a hit in the US, but a giveaway of the game to Nintendo Power magazine subscribers changed all that. The giveaway resulted in a major surge of attention to the game as tens of thousands of new players received copies. When so many gamers got the game for free back in the '80s, it may seem strange to think about paying for so many copies of the game now, but that's the nature of game collecting. With dedicated fans like this, 3D remakes of games like Dragon Quest 5 and Dragon Quest 1 would be exciting.