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"The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive"
-- Joseph Campbell
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"What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope."
-- Nietzsche
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The Dragon Ball franchise has spawned multiple video games across various genres and platforms. Earlier games of the series included a system of card battling and were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System following the storyline of the series. Starting Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation most of the games were from the fighting genre including the series Super Butoden. The first Dragon Ball game to be released in the United States was Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout for the PlayStation on July 31, 1997. For the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable games the characters were redone in 3D cel-shaded graphics. These games included the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series and the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series. Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit was the first game of the series developed for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Dragon Ball Online is currently playable. It has been stated that Akira Toriyama has been working on character designs for this project for several years, and the game is available in Japan and South Korea.
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Seventeen anime films based on the Dragon Ball series have been released in Japan. The first three films were based on the original Dragon Ball anime series. The remaining films included thirteen Dragon Ball Z films and one tenth anniversary special (also based on the first anime series). However, the films are generally either alternate re-tellings of certain story arcs or extra side-stories that don't fit in with the same timeline as the series. Funimation Entertainment has licensed and released all of the films to home video in North America.
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"Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock" is a special manga made by Ooishi Naho released in the July 2011 issue of V-Jump. As the title indicates the story revolves around Bardock, Goku's father, who in this 3-part special is featured in a "what-if" scenario in which he didn't die at the hands of Frieza and gets to fight his enemy as a Super Saiyan. The fact that Bardock will appear as a Super Saiyan is based on the Dragon Ball Heroes card featuring him as one. This manga is a sequel to the TV special Bardock - The Father of Goku with some key details changed.
