Franchise file / Akira Toriyama
Dragon Ball
Power levels, playable
Akira Toriyama's manga has been a video game since 1986. Most of the line is fighters, from 2D duels to arena brawls, with RPGs and card battlers filling the gaps.
- 1986
- First game
- 6
- Series
- Akira Toriyama
- Creator
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One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Cartridge duels. The Super Butouden games turned the anime into split-screen 2D fights on the Super Famicom, and the PlayStation followed with its own takes on the formula.
Start with Dragon Ball Z: Super ButoudenYour next late night
The essentials
Chapters
Series (6)
Dragon Ball Z: BudokaiDimps' Dragon Ball Z fighting series, which began with Budokai in 2002. It takes the anime's battles into 3D arenas and includes the handheld Shin Budokai games.
Behind the shoulder, sky highDragon Ball Z: Budokai TenkaichiSpike's 3D arena fighters, known as Sparking! in Japan, began in 2005. The camera sits behind your fighter and the battles roam whole maps, as they do in the anime.
Behind the shoulder, sky highDragon Ball Z: Budokai TenkaichiSpike's 3D arena fighters, known as Sparking! in Japan, began in 2005. The camera sits behind your fighter and the battles roam whole maps, as they do in the anime.
A legacy worth revisiting
Every fight, replayed.
Few licences have been fought over so often. Goku's story has run through Super Famicom duels, the Budokai and Tenkaichi lines, Arc System Works' FighterZ and the Xenoverse games, which drop your own character into the saga.
- 1993 to 1997
- Cartridge duels
- 2002 to 2007
- The Budokai boom
- 2015 to 2018
- Create and compete
Scenes that stay with you
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