Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast

Dragon Ball Video Games Part 2 (S3E25)

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Gaming. Dragon Ball. They go hand-in-hand. Did they always?

Jelli and Bekinney take a break from Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon (because we don't do enough of that, right?) by breaking down some early video games. We're talking about Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den, aka Dragon Ball: Goku's Story from the Famicom; Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure for the Gameboy Advance; Dragon Ball: Origins and Dragon Ball: Origins 2, for the Nintendo DS

In this episode:

  • Bekinney is checking the ship for abnormalities
  • Cleaning up some items about pre-console video games and talking briefly about Tiger Electronics handhelds
  • A reminder about TOSE Software, the programming company behind Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den
  • TOSE's credits, including Bases Loaded, Mappy-Land, Toxic Crusaders, Tetris 2, Yoshi's Cookie, Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Zero, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest, WWE and Metal Gear Solid
  • Dragon Ball 3 Goku Den story recaps and how it goes through the end of Dragon Ball
  • We discuss early Nintendo RTS (real time strategy) games
  • The port of Goku Den to the Wonderswan color, and a brief discussion about that system, including a reference to the Nintendo Virtual Boy and Gunpei Yokoi
  • Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure story elements and how the game goes from the beginning of the story through the Demon King Piccolo arc
  • How Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure's gameplay works and the mind behind its creation
  • A brief summary of the company Banpresto
  • Getting into Dragon Ball Origins and Yoshiki Okamoto, best known for creating Gyruss, 1942, and Street Fighter II. He also helped created Rockstar’s Red Dead franchise, and was a supervisor on Resident Evil 2 and Dino Crisis
  • Discussing the use of the stylus on the Nintendo DS
  • How Origins 2 functioned as a last-time-out for Stephanie Nadolny as Kid Goku and Tiffany Volmer as Bulma
  • SURPRISE! We mention the game Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Nintendo Wii
  • and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual 

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