You and me both. I was a little late to the Dragon Warrior fandom, but I got there with plenty of time, I suppose. My first game was Dragon Warrior Monsters (somewhere in the early 00s) for the GBC. What was yours?
I was really late to the party, I only started playing the DQs some 10 years ago, with Dragon Quest 8 on the PS2. Actually, I hadn't heard much about the series before that, except for some fantranslated SNES games and a friend of mine that grew up in Canada claiming some "Dragon Warrior" for the NES was his favorite childhood memory. I guess it wasn't as popular in Argentina.
Well, from what I've heard from my parents, he had a seizure last night, perhaps an epileptic episode, fucking died, had a near death experience, my dad called the paramedics, they showed up, took him to the hospital, and he woke up covered in tubes, and started complaining.
https://gbatemp.net/questions/dragon-quest-xi-official-review-in-the-making.4099/
(but it would be too late for me, because I am buying it now!)
(sorry, I'm too much hyped for my own good)