Square-Enix talks about how kids used to skip school to buy Dragon Quest games on their launch days

For a long time now, we've heard a story about people skipping school and work to play the latest Dragon Quest game on its launch day. Dragon Quest games are launched on Saturdays now, but was this move made to avoid people skipping their responsibilities? According to Dragon Quest producer Yuu Miyake, that's the case.

"In short, yes, that's true. When Dragon Quest III came out, tons and tons of kids skipped school to go buy the game. The police actually said, 'You guys need to do something about this. This is not okay.' [This was] back in the era of Enix, and so Dragon Quest started being sold only on Saturdays. Actually, it's the only [series] sold on Saturday."