List of Dragon Ball video games
The Dragon Ball video games are based on the manga series of the same name created by Akira Toriyama. From 1990, these games were released under the Dragon Ball Z banner, after the second anime television series. The games are of various genres, most prominently fighting games, role-playing games, and platform games, all featuring a varying roster of characters as depicted in the original series. Toriyama himself personally designed some of the video game original characters, such as Android 21 for Dragon Ball FighterZ, Mira and Towa for Dragon Ball Online, and Bonyū for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.
Dragon Ball games have been primarily released in Japan since 1986, with the majority of them being produced by Bandai. Games from the 16-bit and 32-bit eras were localized and released in France, Spain, Portugal, and other European countries due to the strong following the series already had in those countries. Up until 1994, with the exception of Dragon Ball: Shenlong no Nazo, no games were localized for the North American market.
In November 2000, Infogrames, Inc., the North American division of French publisher Infogrames, signed a deal with Funimation Productions to secure the license to publish Dragon Ball games for the North American market. With the release of their first two titles in the franchise, 2002's Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, Infogrames more than doubled their sales. After their rebranding to Atari, the company paid $10 million to secure exclusive North American rights until January 2010. Dragon Ball was Atari's top-earning licensed property, earning $85 million in 2005 and accounting for over 49% of their annual revenue in 2008. In November 2007, Funimation claimed that Atari had breeched its publishing contract with them and attempted to terminate their contract, but this was settled a month later. In 2008, Atari announced that over 12.7 million video game units based on the series had been sold since May 2002. In July 2009, Namco Bandai Games announced that they had acquired the North American publishing rights to Dragon Ball and that they would begin publishing titles following the expiration of Atari's contract in January 2010. The first Dragon Ball titles to be published by them in North America were Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, and Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo.
By December 2014, over 40 million video games based on the franchise had been sold worldwide. The Dragon Ball Xenoverse series sold a further 14million units between 2015 and 2021, Dragon Ball FighterZ sold over 10million, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot over units, while Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero over 5 million copies, bringing software sales to over million units sold.
In addition, the mobile game Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle has exceeded downloads and grossed over.