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Dragon Power
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Item Description
Years before most American kids had heard of Goku, he was already on the NES in disguise. Dragon Power, published by Bandai in 1988 and developed by Tose, is a heavily localized version of the Famicom game Dragon Ball: Shenron no Nazo, and spotting the disguised Dragon Ball cast is half the fun of playing it today.
The game follows the first two volumes of Akira Toriyama's manga. The young Goku, redrawn here to look even more like a monkey, teams up with a teenage girl named Nora (Bulma in the original) to hunt down seven Crystal Balls that are said to grant any wish. Along the way they cross paths with familiar faces under new names: Master Roshi appears as the Hermit, the shapeshifting pig Oolong becomes Pudgy, and the desert bandit Yamcha turns up as Lancer. The North American release strips out most direct references to Dragon Ball, while some European versions kept the original name and assets, which leaves this cartridge at an odd and fascinating crossroads in the franchise's Western history.
Play mixes overhead exploration, where Goku battles crowds of enemies, with side-scrolling boss fights drawn from the manga's early story. It is a rough-edged early take on the property, and this NES version trims some of the stages found in the Famicom original, but there is real charm in seeing Toriyama's world rendered in 8-bit sprites long before the franchise became a global phenomenon.
For Dragon Ball collectors, this is the series' first appearance on an American game console, nearly a decade before Dragon Ball Z reached Western television, and a great piece of history to set beside the later games. NES fans who love the library's stranger localizations will find it a perfect example of how anime licenses were quietly repackaged in the late 1980s.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Bandai
- Developer
- Tose
- Genre
- Beat 'em up, Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Dragon Power is an action-adventure game developed and published by Bandai for the Nintendo Entertainment System on March 3, 1988. It is a heavily localized version of the Japanese game Dragon Ball: Shenron no Nazo. Although some of the European releases retain the Dragon Ball assets (under the title Dragon Ball), the North American release removes most references to the franchise. The game follows the first two volumes of the Dragon Ball manga, as the young monkey-tailed boy Goku (along with his teenage friend, Bulma, known in the North American version as Nora), embark on a quest to find all seven Dragon Balls (Crystal Balls in the NA version), in which it is believed that collecting them grants the user any wish they desire. Along the way, they encounter various characters, including turtle hermit Master Roshi (Hermit in the NA version), shapeshifting anthropomorphic pig Oolong (Pudgy in the NA version) and desert bandit Yamcha (Lancer in the NA version). This port also has less stages than the original game.
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