The key seller is in the town of Rimuldar (the town immediately south of the eastern cave.) You have to go around the outer edge of the town map, outside of the water that surrounds the buildings. You just have to be careful not to go too far or you'll exit to the world map. In the northwestern corner you'll find a doorway into a building where the shopkeeper will sell you keys at 16 gold a pop.
You need to go southeast from Tantegel Castle, not southwest. You'll find what you're looking for there.
Dragon Quest II was tough near the end. It got hit with budget and time constraints late in development so a lot of stuff that was supposed to be in the end game, wasnt, leaving you under-leveled.
Dragon Quest III was where Dragon Quest really grew its beard. It's the best RPG on NES, hands down.
Ultima III: Exodus also had resurrect from ashes. Unless your character was super leveled up it was faster just to say bye-bye to him/her and roll a replacement.
The Angry Video Game Nerd did a funny video about ROB and the two games made for ROB.
Ah, the joys of save-scumming.
I beat the Game Boy Color version of Dragon Quest ! (released in a double-pack with DQII). I downloaded Dragon Quest 1-3 on Switch and am probably about halfway through DQI, and have just gotten to Africa on DQ3. DQ3's world map is based on the real world, and there's even a town in North America that's fighting for its independence from an evil empire, LOL.
Joust was awesome. I had the Atari 8-bit version of it at home. My sister would play it from time to time. Unfortunately, most of Midway/Williams's pre-Mortal Kombat arcade library has fallen into obscurity now because Warner Bros, which now owns Midway IPs doesn't seem interested in it. We haven't seen a compilation of their games released in almost ten years, when they released a collection for PS3 and 360. Arcade Archives did great at bringing Nintendo's library to Switch, but they only publish Japanese arcade games and not American games.
So I've contented myself with getting my Joust fix through Balloon Fight and Vs. Balloon Fight on Switch. Balloon Fight was Satoru Iwata's first game. He also handled the NES version of Joust, which was published by HAL.
Even though Sir-Tech went bust shortly after Wizardry 8 released, Japan is keeping the series alive. There was a Wizardry game released on PS3 and Steam a whole back.
I enjoyed it, flaws and all. It gets much easier once you clear the first boss. I was into Greek mythology at the time so I dug it even though it played fast and loose with Greek mythology (a more recent favorite, Valkyrie Profile, does the same thing with the Norse myths). The instruction manual showed a female enemy character with bare boobs, which somehow never created an outcry.
Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters on Game Boy is a genuinely great game. They did away with the cheap falling and improved on the original in every way except ehe lack of color. Surprisingly, despite being Japanese-made it was US-exclusive until it was released on the 3DS. It made me wish Nintendo had made a Super Kid Icarus or a Kid Icarus 64.
Not quite on par with Final Fantasy VI, but still a well-done game with a lot of style. Sadly, I've never finished it. However, my favorite RPGs on the Genesis were Lunar: Silver Star and Lunar: Eternal Blue on the Sega CD. Those were the best RPGs ever made for Sega consolse.
Sega's actually done pretty good as an RPG company. Valkyria Chronicles is still one of my favorite SRPGs of all time, Sakura Wars was a precursor for both VC and Skies of Arcadia, and of course Sega now owns the SMT/Persona franchise when they bought Atlus. I wish they'd get busy with SMT V on Switch.
I had a Gamecube and GB Player, but they got stolen. :( I'd really like to play Mother 3 on my TV.
I never played Wizardry on NES. Instead I played its rival series, Ultima, specificaly Ultima: Exodus which was a NES port of the third game.
