From A to DBZ: A History of Dragon Ball Z Games

dragondyle · Post by **dragondyle** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:53 pm

Gamedaily.com has a little gallery of the history of Dragon Ball Z games (in America that is, with an odd throw-in of Jump Superstars). It even starts with Dragon Power (yes, Dragon Power).

Cartman Blues · Post by **Cartman Blues** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:48 pm

Jump Superstars was in America for a short time. In full Japanese. I saw it at Best Buy and I e-mailed VegettoEX about it. A long time ago. Like a few years.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:44 pm

Cartman Blues wrote:Jump Superstars was in America for a short time. In full Japanese. I saw it at Best Buy and I e-mailed VegettoEX about it. A long time ago. Like a few years.

I love you Best Buy, but I hate you for not keeping it longer.

Chibi Mystic Gohan · Post by **Chibi Mystic Gohan** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:13 pm

I bought Jump Super Stars from Best Buy. Wish they had imported Ultimate Stars, too...

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:01 am

Umm, who is Goku fighting in this screenshot of Dragon Ball Z: Sagas?

dragondyle · Post by **dragondyle** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:19 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:Umm, who is Goku fighting in this screenshot of Dragon Ball Z: Sagas?

*image snip*

Generic minion?? That screenshot's quality is horrible, BTW.

djkalteraphine · Post by **djkalteraphine** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:24 am

On DBZ: Sagas wrote:Atari learned its lesson quickly, putting its focus back on the fighting action that fans have come to know and love.

wot? You mean Atari went back to. . . not making games, right?

There were a lot of errors in it, but it was better than Donny Clay's thing he did a few weeks back.

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:41 am

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Omg, I never realized the graphics of Sagas sucked that badly.

LSSJ4 · Post by **LSSJ4** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:00 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:Umm, who is Goku fighting in this screenshot of Dragon Ball Z: Sagas?

It was like, the Yardrat leader or.......something....

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:23 am

It was that Yardratean original character Sagas has Goku spar with before going back to Earth, Soba.

Cartman Blues · Post by **Cartman Blues** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:14 pm

Sagas was deliciously retarded. Oddly enough it has a few similar things with Burst Limit:

-Play as Broly, but no other movie characters (Bardock was a TV special

)
-Up to Cell Saga
-On a Sony console and a Microsoft console.
-Short story mode

Burst Limit's WAYYYYYYYYYYY better though.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:33 am

Conan the SSJ wrote:It was that Yardratean original character Sagas has Goku spar with before going back to Earth, Soba.

Are there any other original characters in Sagas?

djkalteraphine · Post by **djkalteraphine** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:09 am

Hm, that's actually sort of interesting. I've always wanted an expanded Yadrat story (most exciting part of DBO for me!), shame I didn't get past Butta and Jees before I turned the game off and never played it again (I only rented it).

Man, it sucked.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:44 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:Are there any other original characters in Sagas?

Soba's the only original "main" character. Oddly enough, his power level is 15,000,000, which going by the misinterpreted PL guide Sagas used, is equal to SSJ Goku. There are also original beings that can be fought "beat 'em up" style, like the hulked-out mutant Saibamen, pre-Android robots of Gero's, and the shark-like beings on Yardrat.

djkalteraphine · Post by **djkalteraphine** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:00 am

Conan the SSJ wrote:
SSj_Rambo wrote:Are there any other original characters in Sagas?
Soba's the only original "main" character. Oddly enough, his power level is 15,000,000, which going by the misinterpreted PL guide Sagas used, is equal to SSJ Goku. There are also original beings that can be fought "beat 'em up" style, like the hulked-out mutant Saibamen, pre-Android robots of Gero's, and the shark-like beings on Yardrat.

Hah, it's a good thing Freeza didn't try to take over Yardrat.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:11 pm

I enjoyed Sagas. The hate the game gets is kinda unneeded.

Post by **VegettoEX** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:32 pm

gamedaily.com wrote:So why was the game converted instead of being released as a DBZ game? The anime show wasn't popular at the time

I think more appropriate would be "The series wouldn't even be shown in North America in any sort of fashion for another three years after this game's release, and then not with any sort of real distribution for another six years after that."

But hey, you can't win 'em all

.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:57 pm

VegettoEX wrote:
gamedaily.com wrote:So why was the game converted instead of being released as a DBZ game? The anime show wasn't popular at the time
I think more appropriate would be "The series wouldn't even be shown in North America in any sort of fashion for another three years after this game's release, and then not with any sort of real distribution for another six years after that."

But hey, you can't win 'em all .

Or if we're trying to keep it succinct, "the franchise wasn't a widespread hit in the States yet."