Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is a role-playing video game and the fifth installment in the "Dragon Quest" video game series, second of the Zenithian Trilogy. Originally developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix Corporation, "Dragon Quest V" was the first title in the series to be released for the Nintendo Super Famicom (SFC aka SNES) video game console in Japan in September 1992. "Dragon Quest V" was the first game in the series to not be released outside Japan due to programming issues at the time.