Your first Dragon Ball video game

[Insertclevername]

I'm going to be the boring one and admit Budokai 1 was my first...or maybe Legacy of Goku II for GBA. It's hard to remember, really.

[MagicBox]

Final Bout for me. A friend of mine owned the Japanese version; we played it all the time in fifth grade. I remember trying to come up with a strategy to cut Great Ape Baby Vegeta's tail off, not realizing the game wouldn't actually let you do that. I went and got a copy of my own a little later. I think I bought the Japanese versions of Final Bout and Ultimate Battle 22 on the same day.

To copy/paste from a previous post of mine...

Some of my earliest and fondest Dragon Ball memories involve going down to a local video game & import store with my dad in 2001 and paying for overpriced Japanese copies of "Ultimate Battle 22" and "Final Bout" for the Playstation. Since we "only" had a Playstation 2, playing these games involved purchasing a used Playstation 1 AND a plug-in device that enabled it to play import games. Then I had to do a little trick with the discs upon start-up to actually get them to run. It was tedious. It was expensive. My 11-year-old self was very obviously ripped off.

It was AWESOME.

[radrappy]

I imported Legends for sega saturn when I was a teen. I was absolutely smitten with the game for a while; that might have something to do with why I like BoZ so much.

[RocktheDragon]

My first DB video game was and will always be GT Final Bout. I played the original Japanese version that my brother's friend brought over and even played it when I went on a vacation to Mexico (some resort had it in their video game room). So many great memories around that game...and I didn't even know I was playing a poor fighting game.

[Kakarot88]

Final Bout for me too. Dragon Ball just started airing here and I had really no grasp of who some of those characters in the game were, but I knew that it had to do with Son Goku because he was in it, even if he (his GT kid form) looked a little different than when he was really a kid. I didn't play anything else back then and was addicted, the questionable gameplay aside. Immediately fell in love with its score and still revisit it to play some rounds due to nostalgia.

Always tried to figure out the METEOR combinations.

Haha! Forgot about that! I almost dropped $80 on it, till my ma caught me on eBay and flipped her shit lol augh I remembered back in the day having to scrape and beg for ay kind of DBZ game. Battle Stadium DON was one that killed me not to own cuz it was like Smash Bros from what I could tell online, but this one was the one that got away till I got an emulator. I tried buying one at an EB games or something but again was stopped from dropping $80 on a single game lol

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

So many memories. But man, is this game frustrating. The battles aren't short, either.

[Wibbs]

My first DragonBall game was Final Bout, I had so much fun with it as a kid. It's still one of my favorite DragonBall games if only for the fact you can play as GT Trunks in it. In fact I liked it so much I own about four different versions of it.

Spoiler:

[dbgtFO]

Spoiler:

Goku and Gohan look like they were made by Ooishi or BK-81 from DBM.

My first DB video game was Dragon Ball Z Budokai 1. At the time I didn't know much about the Cell Arc, so it was nice to have all those cutscenes. Because of the lack of Buu Arc, I didn't know who this Great Saiyaman was supposed to be, until I went ahead and bought vol. 37(I didn't acquire the books in order).

[omegalucas]

Other than emulated versions of Super Butouden 3 or Hyper Dimension, I guess it was good (music-wise xD) Final Bout.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Budokai 2 for ps2 (really wish they had added it into the JD collection).
Next Game I bought after that was Ultimate Tenkaichi for the ps3. I'm not really want you'll call a gamer.

[TenshiGokuu]

Mine is the battle of z since i never owned or played a dragon ball game before

[DarkPrince_92]

The Legacy of Goku for GBA.

[Sin]

Mine was Final Bout, though like a lot of others I had no idea who most of the characters were. I remember my dad telling me that he'd got hold of it, it was a pirated copy (for shame) and I can't remember if I was happy or disappointed when playing it, I wasn't very good at it though.

[Avenged]

The localized Legend of Shenlong aka Dragon Power for the NES about 20 years ago. Then later went on to play the Butouden series and Final Bout.

And Final Bout isn't a terrible game, I still enjoy completing that to this day.

[Kamiccolo9]

The first Legacy of Goku for me. It's actually what got me watching the show again after the first time I stopped.

[Insertclevername]

The first Legacy of Goku for me. It's actually what got me watching the show again after the first time I stopped.

If I had played that game as a kid, it would have done the opposite!

[Kamiccolo9]

The first Legacy of Goku for me. It's actually what got me watching the show again after the first time I stopped.

If I had played that game as a kid, it would have done the opposite!

Well, I discovered the invincibility glitch early on, so the only hard parts were getting from Kami's Lookout to the Nappa and Vegeta fight (stupid bank robbers with stupid guns...) and getting through the temple on Namek. I don't think I actually legitimately beat the game until a few years ago

But...the music was good, the cutscenes were cool, and flying around was fun. That was enough to get me back into the series for a while.

[RandomGuy96]

Budokai 1. It's what got me into the whole series in the first place.

[randomking0x70]

It was either Budokai or Legacy of Goku. I still remember being really dissapointed with LoG.

[Dbzfan94]

Budokai 1 on the GameCube.
I remember I never knew how to do a super attack, so I did the whole game with just punching/kicking (and the occasional accident Kamehameha). I could never figure out what P-P-P-P-G meant as a little kid haha