Updated Januby Mark Sammut: It is written in the stars that every year must bring forth a new Dragon Ball game (or port). With so many projects associated with the series, what exactly are the best Dragon Ball games? While the West needed around another decade to truly catch Goku fever, nowadays, a year can barely pass without a Saiyan-themed fighting game or RPG hitting shelves.

Similar to most of Dragon Ball's earliest titles, the shoot'em up вЂ“ yes, shoot'em up вЂ“ never made it out of Japan. In 1986, Epoch published Dragon Ball: Dragon DaihikyЕЌ for the Super Cassette Vision, marking the iconic series' first foray into gaming. It even plays like a much more simplified version of Budokai Tenkaichi 3 which for some is welcome as. RELATED: Dragon Ball: The Villains Who Had The Best Introductions, Ranked In fact, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 is one of the more underrated fighters in the franchise. Admittedly, this is less about being spoiled for choice and more a case of there just being a ton of mediocre Dragon Ballgames that barely try to stick out from the crowd.

With there being well over 9000 video games based on Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ballmanga and subsequent anime, narrowing down the list to the best titles of all time is far from an easy feat.

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