Japanese hardware sales, February 6 – 12: Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout edition

Hearing about the greatest news ever yesterday got us waxing nostalgic on the history of Dragon Ball games. Sure, they’re a fairly common occurrence nowadays, what with the series being a household name for more than a decade and everything, but there was once a time in the mid 1990s where the western world was so ignorant of Goku and friends that his games didn’t even get released.

Well, except for one: Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout was released for the PlayStation in 1997, a year after the series had debuted on American syndicated network television and a year before it would become the dominant force on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programing block. Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout was so rare and so expensive that, at the time, it was cheaper to modify a PlayStation and import the Japanese version than to buy a second-hand North American copy. Unfortunately, as you can tell from the video above, it was one of the worst fighting games ever made.Continue reading Japanese hardware sales, February 6 – 12: Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout editionJapanese hardware sales, February 6 – 12: Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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