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The following is a list of video games based on the
Dragon Ballis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 through 1995, and later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha...
manga by
Akira Toriyamais a widely known and acclaimed Japanese manga artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984. It is difficult to pin point the source of Toriyama's artwork inspiration. He admires Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and was impressed by Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which he...
. Since , many video games based on the property have been released in
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, with the majority of the games being produced by Bandai. Up until
Dragon Ball GT: Final BoutDragon Ball GT: Final Bout, known in Japan as , is a fighting game for the PlayStation game console. It was produced and released by Bandai in Japan, parts of Europe, and North America in 1997. The game would reissued in the UK in 2002 and in North America in 2004...
, none of the
Dragon Ball games were localized for the North American market, with the exception of
Dragon Power (a version of the first
Dragon Ball game for the Famicom that was graphically altered due to the lack of the license). However, a few of the fighting games were localized for the
FrenchFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
market. Since 2002,
InfogramesInfogrames Entertainment SA is an international French holding company headquartered in Villeurbanne, Lyon, France. It is the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an...
(now known as
AtariThe company that currently bears the Atari Inc. name was founded in 1993 under the name GT Interactive. In 1999, Infogrames Entertainment SA acquired a 62% controlling interest in GT Interactive, and proceeded to rename it Infogrames, Inc. After IESA's acquirement of Hasbro Interactive and its...
) obtained the license to produce and release
Dragon Ball games for the North American and international market.
However, with the expiration of the Atari deal in 2009, Bandai Namco Games will assume the North American distribution rights, officially starting in 2010 (but really starting with the 2009 U.S. releases of
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans on
Nintendo DSThe is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 in Canada, the United States, and Japan. The console features a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP, with two LCD screens inside—with the bottom one being a touchscreen...
,
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for
Xbox 360The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles....
and
PlayStation 3The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series...
and
Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo on
WiiThe is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of both...
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