Unveiled by Nintendo in 1986, Dragon Quest was the company\'s most complicated and costly video game to date. Its resultant big sales prompted Nintendo to create three Dragon Quest sequels. A 32-episode cartoon series followed, produced by Japan\'s Nippon Animation Studios in 1989 and released in the U.S. by LBS Communications the following year, under the title Dragon Warrior. Introduced in \"Level One\" was 16-year-old Abel, who was compelled by circumstance to seek and destroy Baramos, a huge, horrible winged creature who bore the Voice of Doom. Baramos had threatened to expose mankind to the apocalyptic fury of the Great Dragon by means of a magical amulet called the Red Stone. It\'s likely that Abel would have steered clear of all this had not his closest childhood friend, 15-year-old girl Tiala, been the latest descendant of the family charged with guarding the Red Stone- making her subsequent kidnapping by Baramos all but inevitable. Various good and bad characters peopled the series, but outside of Baramos and his coward-bully servant Moor, most of the regulars were good.