Wow.. What a wave of nostalgia right there!! These all came out more or less when I was starting secondary school!
Not a bad line up but with the mini SNES already out there and the New 3DS Virtual Console too, they had to deliver a distinguished line-up. Super Mario World was the SNES flagship game so it was a given. Joe & Mac is a clear example of the good classic stuff we've been waiting for. F-Zero was long-called for a Super Puyo Puyo was a great surprise! Hopefully Nintendo will finally roll out some previous Japan-only games, since the catalogue is huge.
My personal hopes for more titles are:
Parodius
Mystical Ninja Goemon
Chrono Trigger
Donkey Kong Country
Killer Instinct
Earthbound/Mother 3
Anyway, hopefully they can then hurry up with the N64 titles and really start indulging the fans.
@kallie Nice attempt of an article and compilation but generalising NA as 'The West' in cases like this is downright insulting and ignorant for the rest of the hemisphere, especially Europeans who had manga long-before it made its way into mainstream culture in the US. As @jonaphin and @zizzidane42 and @cornbredx have pointed out, Dragonball and it's franchise have existed a long time before it arrived to US shores. France was the first country in the West to have Dragonball and has had regular Dragonball games on the SNES and PS which were PAL releases. Your misleading title didn't include the European releases which I remember were quite prominent during the whole 90s in Europe. Putting an americentric on such a topic was a bad mistake from the start because compared to what non-anglophobe media and merchandise goods exists on Dragonball make it hard to fathom. I was expecting a FULL list of ALL the DB and DBZ games, a "History", but then you cover yourself by "all the games in the West released in English" which let's face it, is purely an americentric stance. Gamespot HAS all the Game Boy, Saturn, NES, and Gamecube, PS234, games in its catalogue so why insult fans and newcomers alike by offering a paltry compilation of the last 17 years of barren anglophone releases when the rest is so much richer and interesting? I didn't expect you to go into all the Japan-only games but a few would've been nice. A nice gem for example is the GB game "Goku Gekitouden" (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/e/ee/DBZ_Game_2_26.GIF/revision/latest?cb=20100728194954) which would've been nice to mention.
As such, Dragon Ball games existed much more than you realised outside of Japan but reading your article doesn't give that the hint in the slighest. 'History' was too great a word, 'A Rundown of NA Released Dragon Ball Games' would've been a much better title and avoid the roastings.
For any fans who DO want a PROPER history of Dragon Ball video games: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Ball_video_games
Short and straight to the point, thanks very much! I've been a Sonic fan since Sonic 2 hits the mega drive back in the early 90s and after buying the original game in 3D for the 3DS, I was very curious about this one but I reckon I'll just wait a little bit longer for Sonic 2 to be released on the eshop. Cheers again!
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