Plug It In & Play TV Games: Dragon Ball Z
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Plug It In & Play TV Games: Dragon Ball Z (informally known as Dragon Ball Z TV game or Dragon Ball Z 3-in-1) is a self-contained gaming system which hooks up to your television via audio-video cables and contains three games. It was developed in 2006 by Handheld Games and published by JAKKS Pacific of Malibu, California.
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[edit] The System
The joystick unit serves as both the controller and the game system itself. All one needs to do is hook the AV-cables to any TV and turn on the system to begin playing. The actual joystick is shaped like Shenron and is surrounded by each of the seven Dragon Balls, the One-Star Ball and Two-star Ball serving as the control buttons while a black button labelled "Game Key Menu" sits on the other side of the game serving as a pause and menu function key. The unit can be operated by either battery power or an AC adaptor and there appears to be a spot to plug in add-on game items, though none have been released.[citation needed]
[edit] Game modes
[edit] Kamehameha Assault
In Kamehameha Assault, the object of the game is to rebound a green sphere of ki energy behind your opponent in order to capture his Dragon Balls. Players can move around their half of the playing field and rebound the ki ball by letting it hit them or hitting it with their own ki-based attacks. Players can also attack each other directly to prevent them from defending their Dragon Balls. Ki-based attacks drain ki energy, but players can charge their ki by holding two buttons. The first player to collect all seven Dragon Balls wins the round and the first to win two rounds wins the game.
[edit] Buto-Retsuden
Buto-Retsuden mode plays a little like an over-simplified version of Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension. Five fighters enter the Cell Games tournament and only one can be the champion. If the player beats all the other characters, they become the winner.
[edit] Pinball
Pinball mode plays a lot like the classic TurboGrafx-16 video game, "Devil's Crush" in that it's pinball with an objective. The player must use the pinball to defeat the various enemies and bosses of the series of the Frieza Saga in order to collect the seven Dragon Balls.
[edit] Playable characters
- Note: You can only select your character in Kamehameha Assault or Buto-Retsuden modes.
[edit] Bosses
- Note: These are the bosses to appear in the pinball game. Some appear simultaneously while others are fought separately using the pinball as the shot device/element.
- Frieza
- Recoome and Guldo
- Jeice and Burter
- Captain Ginyu
- Vegeta
- Frieza soldiers (modeled after Appule's race, but a brown color)
[edit] Trivia
- The title music for this game is a rendition of the Ocean Group dub's Dragon Ball Z title theme (fondly called "Rock the Dragon" by fans). The tune used in Kamehameha Assault and Buto-Retsuden modes sounds a lot like "Side Bad" from Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension.
[edit] External links
- JAKKS TV Games -- Jakks Pacific's official website for their Plug It In & Play TV Games.
- Ultimate Console Database - Dragon Ball Z TV Games -- A review for this game by the Ultimate Console Database.
