Games

Dragon Ball Z: Kyôshū! Saiyan (ドラゴンボールZ 強襲!サイヤ人 Doragon Bōru Zetto Kyōshū! Saiyajin?, Dragon Ball Z: Fierce Attack! Saiyan) was the first Dragon Ball Z game to be released for the Famicom system. It was released by Bandai on October 27, 1990 in Japan. The game features Brocco, Pumpkin (two illusion Saiyans who fight Yamcha and Tien in the anime) and Onion (an original who transforms into a Giant Ape).

Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors is a mixture of a card game and a turn-based fighting game for the Game Boy Color. The game is played with original in-game cards for attacks, techniques and support items and initially has only two modes trade and story. Legendary Super Warriors’ story spans from the Saiyan saga to the end of the Buu Saga. Once beaten, a battle mode is unlocked, allowing players to square off with random enemies. Once the game is beaten, any character is usable in any battle, such as Frieza vs. Cell.

Dragon Ball Z Sagas is a game that tells how the story of Dragon Ball Z began. You play as six heroes from the show such as Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo. Your mission is to recreate the elements of the Saiyan-Cell Games Sagas. Along the way you must face evil enemies, as well as collecting Z-Coins so you can upgrade some new abilities and moves and Capsules that can give you more fighting power and energy. At the end of some areas their will be a boss that you must defeat such as Raditz, Nappa, Captain Ginyu, Frieza and Cell. Single player mode features three difficulty levels easy, normal and hard. The game also has a Co-op mode where you can play in Sagas or Pendulum mode. You can select any chapter from the single player mode. It is similar to Single player mode, but the difficulty level is higher.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden was the first fighting game based on the Dragon Ball Z franchise and the first to introduce the split-screen mode to the games, where the screen is split in two whenever one of the two combatants moves away too far to keep them both shown in a single screen. This title features the adventures of Goku from the battle against Piccolo in the martial arts tournament to the conclusion of the Cell Games. The initially available characters are Goku (without SSJ), Vegeta (without SSJ), C-20, C-16, Piccolo, Freezer, C-18 and Original Cell. But upon entering the right code you can expand the list with Future Trunks (SSJ), Gohan (SSJ), Perfect Cell, Goku (SSJ), and Vegeta (SSJ), all of them relegated to occasionally appear in the Story Mode either as rivals or as alternative selectable characters. In the story mode, players select which fighter to pit against each opponent as while advancing rounds leading up to the battle against Perfect Cell. Players can also go one-on-one against another player or a CPU opponent. There is also a martial arts tournament mode, to play against eight players or CPU opponents in a elimination tournament.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2 (ドラゴンボールZ 超武闘伝2 Doragon Bōru Zetto Sūpā Butōden Tsū?, Dragon Ball Z: Super Fighting Story 2), called Dragon Ball Z: la Légende Saien in France and Dragon Ball Z: La Leyenda de Saien in Spain, is the second installment in the Super Butōden series. The game was released in Japan on December 17, 1993 and in France and Spain in 1994. Super Butōden 2 features 10 playable characters (8 normal, 2 unlockable with a code) and its story mode covers the Cell Games, as well as several stories involving Bojack, Zangya, and Broly completely unrelated to the movies they hail from. For unknown reasons, these three characters were renamed Kujila, Aki, and Tara in the French version, respectively. Depending on if the player wins or loses a battle, the story will take a different turn in the Story Mode, which leads to a lot of possibilities to experience. This is the only Dragon Ball Z fighting game in which Goku is not readily playable. A code is required in the Japanese version to unlock him and Broly, the other hidden character. This is not necessary in the European versions, as both characters are already unlocked.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 3 (known as Dragon Ball Z: Ultime Menace in France) is the last installment to the Super Butoden series for the SNES, which in this occasion is based on the Majin Buu saga. Avaliable charachers are Goku, Goten, Kid Trunks, Majin Vegita, Junior Gohan, Kaiohshin, Majin Boo, Darbura and C-18, plus another one available as a secret character: Future Trunks. Split screen mode is maintained, but now you can now fly up or down while on the same screen as your opponent. You can also struggle with your rival pushing with your arms together to test your button smashing abilities, or execute new Meteor Combos. Scenarios will also be different (mainly based on Buu saga) and will include alternative versions of themselves with different times of the day as well. The game allows you to take part either in a 8 player martial arts tournament with an eliminatory system or to make single combats against the CPU or another player. This makes Super Butouden 3 the only game of the series without a Story Mode,. It can be explained by the fact that when the game was released the Buu saga was still on a very early stage in Japanese TV.

This is a direct sequel to the first "interactive fighter" for SNES, based on the popular manga/animé series Dragon Ball. The game picks up the story where it ended in the previous game, and continues through Piccolo, Saiyajin, and Freezer sagas of the manga. After the battle with the Demon King (Daimaou) Piccolo, the twenty-third World Martial Arts Tournament is about to begin. But to the amazement of the hero Son Goku and his friends, their archrival Piccolo appears during the tournament, so that it quickly turns into a genuine battle. You control Son Goku and his son Son Gohan, switching between them as the game progresses. The game is basically an interactive comic book in which you can influence the story by choosing to press a button when the game prompts you to make a choice. You'll also participate in battles. The battle system is similar to rock-paper-scissors game, where one kind of move always beats or always loses to another. You can dash into your enemies, attack physically, and perform special moves, pressing the buttons in real time (although the battles are divided into turns).

Dragon Ball Z Super Gokuden: Totsugeki-Hen is a Role-Playing game, developed by TOSE and published by Bandai, which was released in Japan in 1995. It chronicles the adventures of Goku and his adventures through the start of Dragon Ball all the way to the final battle with Piccolo Daimao.

Dragon Ball Z: Chou Saiya Densetsu is a Role-Playing game, developed by TOSE and published by Bandai, which was released in Japan in 1992.