Super Dragon Ball Z
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| Developer(s) | Arika, Crafts & Meister |
| Publisher(s) |
Bandai (Japan) Atari (NA and AU) Namco Bandai Games (EU) |
| Distributor(s) | Atari Europe (EU) |
| Director(s) | Akira Nishitani |
| Series | Dragon Ball |
| Platform(s) | Arcade PlayStation 2 |
| Release date(s) |
Arcade PlayStation 2 |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single Player, Multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Namco System 246 |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 74.38% |
| Metacritic | 72/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 5/10 |
| Game Informer | 6/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| GameSpot | 7.3/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GameTrailers | 7.5/10 |
| GameZone | 7.7/10 |
| IGN | 7.4/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| PALGN | 6.5/10 |
Super Dragon Ball Z (超ドラゴンボールZ Chō Doragonbōru Zetto?) is a cel-shaded 3D fighting video game, based on the Japanese manga series Dragon Ball created by Akira Toriyama. It was originally released in Japanese (December 22, 2005) and European (2006) arcades running on System 246 hardware, and later for the PlayStation 2 (Japan: June 29, 2006; US, July 18, 2006; AU, July 28, 2006). The game was developed by Arika and Crafts & Meister, headed by Noritaka Funamizu (a former Capcom fighting game producer who worked on the Street Fighter series and Darkstalkers). The game features 18 playable characters, destructible environments, and a game engine geared towards fans of more traditional fighting games.
The game sold 95,082 units in the first week of its release in Japan (placing its rank at #2 in the software sales in Japan for that week, second only to Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros.). The game sold 370,000 global copies (As of June 4, 2016), selling more than other Dragon Ball Z games as Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World (Sold about 800,000) and Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (Selling only around 80,000).
The official name of the game continues to come under debate, despite it being written and literally spoken aloud within the game. When the game was initially announced, all that had been released was a title, and primarily on English-language websites. A logo for the game was later released, which spelled out the title in kanji as Chō Doragonbōru Zetto (超ドラゴンボールZ?, which translates as "Super Dragon Ball Z"). However, the furigana below the chō (超?, which translates as "super") reads out sūpā (スーパー?, which is the Japanese pronunciation of the English word super). Since furigana is intended to provide a pronunciation of the kanji, the name debate is simply over using the Japanese chō or the English sūpā despite each meaning the same thing.
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