I love advanced Adventure, it was a perfect encapsulation of Dragon Ball in 2D. Also surprisingly enough the fighting system in the one on one section was actually kind of robust and hard-hitting despite the fact that it was on Game Boy Advance limited controls.
I'm always preaching how this is the best dragon ball game period. Beautiful pixel art straight up fun gameplay and the fact you can unlock and play any character with their own moves. Peak
Ps: you can play the main campaign with the extra characters, it's just another option in the main menu and you select the character while in game after collecting them
What a great game.. good old days where you could put so much fun inside 16MB game.. nowdays some of games weighs as much as 100gb and i dont want even touch them
The games from the young Goku saga are my favorites. Not just the one on the GBA, but also Dragon Ball Origins 1 and 2 on the DS. It makes me sad not to see new games from the young Goku saga up until his teenage years. They prefer to flood the market with several games from the Z saga. Anyway, I hope that one day we’ll still get a new game about the early days of Goku’s life.
This was a great video, I absolutely love the DB content on this channel. Flandrew, please consider making videos for Attack of the Saiyans on DS or Legendary Super Warriors on GBC. As for this game, I played it for the first time over the summer. Things I loved: •It’s a game focused on the Original Dragon Ball! It really stands out in the sea of Dragon Ball Z games, being focused on OG Dragon Ball. I wish it adapted the whole story of OG DB, but it was still very good regardless. We really need a game that goes from Emperor Pilaf to Piccolo Jr. in the style of DBZ Kakarot. •The music! The boss battle track is one of the best I’ve heard in a GBA game, you really need to listen to it if you haven’t already •The beat ‘em up combat and levels! The combat feels responsive and it’s cool to have Goku’s moves, like the Kamehameha, improve as you go further through the story and obtain upgrades. Things I don’t like as much: •The platforming. It’s pretty responsive for the most part, but things like wall-jumps and tight jumps over endless pits can be really annoying. •The tournament-style battling. I feel like the game does a good job of explaining how it works, but it takes a while to understand. It feels great when you can get it right, but there’s a gauntlet of enemies you have to beat in the cave where Goku gets the Ultra Divine Water and it’s a slog. King Piccolo is also very hard to fight with these mechanics, but it makes sense since he’s the final boss. •Flying levels. The first against Oolong isn’t too bad, but the one where you have to fight Tambourine is also very difficult. You can’t move around quickly, so Tambourine’s attacks will almost always hit you unless you bait him properly or memorize his patterns (and have enough time to move) Other than those few negatives, I think this is a really good game and I would recommend it to any DB fan. We need a sequel or remake!
i never realised where the bear bandits and self destructing mech robots from dbz legacy of goku 2 came from. i haven't watched og DB in FOREVER and the game was so fun that i never even thought about the enemies coming from the older series 😂😂😂
I absolutely LOVED Advanced Adventure. Always wished there was another, or more games like it. OG Dragonball really needs more attention. It was so much fun.
Played this game on my phone in high school for days. LOVE IT. Didn't realize people used this games engine for the browser Dragon Ball Fierce Fighting games.
Thanks for reviewing Advanced Adventure. This was my Dragon Ball equivalent to Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury as a kid. DBZ fans really were spoiled on the GBA
Apparently there's some kind of medicine that lets people turn into animals and that's why there are humanoid animals in addition to regular ones. IDK if that was a retcon or was always a thing but that's the official explanation. IIRC there's a side quest in DBZ: Kakarot that has characters mentioning the drug and being upset that it was permanent, been a while since I played it so I could be mis-remembering.
Advanced Adventure was a game I always emulated. No stores in my town or the town over had it in since manga and anime "did not sell" well in this part of Norway. If the game came out just 4 years later, it would have sold very well in my parts. People had started to watch and read Dragon Ball then because of the internet and TFS.
The lad is BACK with a certified hood classic! I've loved Advance Adventure since it's debut, and for years, it felt like only my friend and I ever talked about it these days.
I got around to playing this game a while ago and I was very impressed by how fun it was. This is the only dragon ball related thing that I've actually fully enjoyed and it's been a blast to play through this fun little beat him up and it makes me really wish we have more dragon ball related content in future dragon ball z games. We've seen the original storylines from Z so many times that I really wouldn't have been mad if sparking 0 gave us some dragon ball content and even some dragon ball GT content but no. Speaking of GT this was definitely way better than dragon ball GT transformation which was the other beat him up that came out on the GBA and I wish I had advanced adventure over GT transformation.
This game have really 3 version north american have funimation voice the europe have multi language text and goku voice is in japanese and japanese version have the og theme song !!!
"Hey, that's the kid me on the front right there. You like me, my tv show and games right? So buy the kid me's game too!" -Adult Goku on the cover and advertisement
3:00 The paths on the map screen look near identical to the ones in another Dimps game, Sonic Rush. It's a really minor detail but it's a cool similarity between the two games.
Dimps also used Advanced Adventure's engine to make a One Piece game, which covers the east blue saga. It's as good as Advanced Adventure, despite using the 4Kids Translation (the game was released only on west)
Easily my favourite Dragonball videogame of that era. Yeah, the Tenkaichi games were fine arena fighters for their time, but Adavanced Adventure had a unique charm to it.
cant swap characters in the campain? that doesnt sound right, I specifically remember as a teen swapping on the fly after collecting the last collectable at king piccalos location.
You can. You just need to beat the game as Goku and Krillin, collect every dragonball in extra mode. You will run into character portraits in each of the levels that you can then collect allowing you to play as each respective character. and Yes Including the dog :)
Want to talk about amazing Dragon Ball adventures that got overlooked, I would recommend Dragon Ball: Attack of the Saiyans on the DS. Super fun RPG and it covers the end of Dragon Ball and the beginning of Z. If you're a fan of the human characters, they get way more screen time than they do in the same time-frame in the anime.
I never got to own these game...i played it thanks to emulation like more than 12 years ago , i had a blast playing it on the PSP back in the day, underrated dragon ball game
I tried it today. This game is so f*cking hard! Even on easy! I stopped at the "backtracking" level without knowing it would be backtracking, I was so frustrated. The Wii Revenge of King Piccolo was better I think, at least I got through. I don't know if I want to play this frustrating hard game anymore. Maybe I would rather play Legacy of Goku 1 instead. Maybe if I played it back then it would be easier for me now, but now.. I am in my 30s. A game has to be easy for me or I don't care xD
This game was one of my favorite childhood games and the strange thing is i remember playing it on my dad old pc because i never had a gba and i still wonder how did i play the game because i didnt know about emulators at that time maybe there was a web browser version of the game
2:08 I don't think Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure was one of them, but some GBA games actually had rumble if played on the Game Boy Player (like Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire).
I love this game I played on an emulator because I never had a Gameboy advance but oh boy I was glad I found it because I was looking for a game in the original dragon ball. It's a shame the game ended with King Piccolo but ok I found it pretty good and it was fun playing the story again as Krillin. Shame game companies focusing only on Z I wish CC2 made a Kakarot prequel on the original story
This is a perfect game, top 5 GBA's games. If this was realised back in 1994 (when the original Dragon Ball was having its first original run in Mexico) for the SNES I would've gone NUTS!!! The only thing missing from this game is Majunia's arch, but apart from that it's a 9.9
1:00 kind of make sense in a marketing way that Atari tried to attract people who liked Dragon Ball Z, in many European countries like France and Spain I think most people got introduced to Dragon Ball since the beginning, it's a shame that there's not many games based on the pre-Saiyajin chapters of the manga, I suppose it's because DBZ is much more popular and the fact that video games were simpler in the '80s, when the anime got into the Z era it was during the fighting game golden age so it made sense that there were more DBZ that were fighters
Heh-hey, Advanced Adventure! Now that's a favorite, alongside the likes of Budokai 3, Legacy of Goku 2 and 3, and Supersonic Warriors 1. Meantime, I wonder if people still remember certain web browser games that recycled some of the game's stages plus foes like the pirate pigs?
Dragon Ball advanced was a good game I love The dragon ball z legacy of Goku games and buus fury dragon ball advanced I loved and still love because it's a side scroller
Banpresto made this, not Dimps. Banpresto was a killer studio before Bandai Namco just absorbed them, though a lot of their output was Japan only - stuff like the Asuka 120% games, the Go Go Ackman games on Super Famicom, Panzer Bandit, Rapid Reload, etc. It's easy to see how with a pedigree like that, they knocked this - and a bunch more GBA games - out of the park; they were great at 2D. Had a lot of ex-Treasure staffers if I recall...
"Where Do Pterodactyls Get Their Bombs From?" is a kids book by an edgy '00s comedian who's softened since settling down, but is still worried about getting cancelled for their past shenanigans.
Really disappointed I never owned a GBA or DS back in the day. Handhelds just got so much more variety for Dragon Ball games and not just fighting games.
Omg the name of that company is dimps??? I always thought until now for years the name was pimps 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️. Also i always wished they made a dragon ball z game with this graphics and style
Though I had all three Legacy of Goku games back in the day, this GBA game slipped my notice unfortunately. I guess I was too much of a DBZ snob then to care about OG Dragon Ball as much too, heh. Looks like I missed out big time. At least I've played Revenge of King Piccolo, which is basically a console remake of Advanced Adventure.
Awesome game which I could play only on emulator (Nintendo wasn't really present in my country). Good to see that ebay-sellers keep the prices reasonable (sarcasm). At least 75€. Not cool...
Never played advance adventure, but i loved the origins games to bad the trilogy was never completed. Revenge of King Piccolo doesn't count cause the gameplay is to different and... it didn't even include the Piccolo Junior arc.😢
As a kid, I used to like The Legacy of Goku I & II and Buu's Fury. But the more I experienced other DBZ games, the more I found out that the trilogy on the GBA plays nothing like a DBZ game, but more like rip-offs of Secret of Mana.
This game was AMAZING. Peak use of the gameboy advance's display and controller layout. 11/10.
I love advanced Adventure, it was a perfect encapsulation of Dragon Ball in 2D. Also surprisingly enough the fighting system in the one on one section was actually kind of robust and hard-hitting despite the fact that it was on Game Boy Advance limited controls.
I'm always preaching how this is the best dragon ball game period. Beautiful pixel art straight up fun gameplay and the fact you can unlock and play any character with their own moves. Peak
Ps: you can play the main campaign with the extra characters, it's just another option in the main menu and you select the character while in game after collecting them
Absolute classic would bash the hell out of it if it were released on modern consoles
The handhelds back then actually had really fun DB games. The DS had a full on JRPG, that was so cool
What a great game.. good old days where you could put so much fun inside 16MB game.. nowdays some of games weighs as much as 100gb and i dont want even touch them
The games from the young Goku saga are my favorites. Not just the one on the GBA, but also Dragon Ball Origins 1 and 2 on the DS. It makes me sad not to see new games from the young Goku saga up until his teenage years. They prefer to flood the market with several games from the Z saga. Anyway, I hope that one day we’ll still get a new game about the early days of Goku’s life.
This was a great video, I absolutely love the DB content on this channel. Flandrew, please consider making videos for Attack of the Saiyans on DS or Legendary Super Warriors on GBC.
As for this game, I played it for the first time over the summer.
Things I loved:
•It’s a game focused on the Original Dragon Ball! It really stands out in the sea of Dragon Ball Z games, being focused on OG Dragon Ball. I wish it adapted the whole story of OG DB, but it was still very good regardless. We really need a game that goes from Emperor Pilaf to Piccolo Jr. in the style of DBZ Kakarot.
•The music! The boss battle track is one of the best I’ve heard in a GBA game, you really need to listen to it if you haven’t already
•The beat ‘em up combat and levels! The combat feels responsive and it’s cool to have Goku’s moves, like the Kamehameha, improve as you go further through the story and obtain upgrades.
Things I don’t like as much:
•The platforming. It’s pretty responsive for the most part, but things like wall-jumps and tight jumps over endless pits can be really annoying.
•The tournament-style battling. I feel like the game does a good job of explaining how it works, but it takes a while to understand. It feels great when you can get it right, but there’s a gauntlet of enemies you have to beat in the cave where Goku gets the Ultra Divine Water and it’s a slog. King Piccolo is also very hard to fight with these mechanics, but it makes sense since he’s the final boss.
•Flying levels. The first against Oolong isn’t too bad, but the one where you have to fight Tambourine is also very difficult. You can’t move around quickly, so Tambourine’s attacks will almost always hit you unless you bait him properly or memorize his patterns (and have enough time to move)
Other than those few negatives, I think this is a really good game and I would recommend it to any DB fan. We need a sequel or remake!
i never realised where the bear bandits and self destructing mech robots from dbz legacy of goku 2 came from. i haven't watched og DB in FOREVER and the game was so fun that i never even thought about the enemies coming from the older series 😂😂😂
I absolutely LOVED Advanced Adventure. Always wished there was another, or more games like it. OG Dragonball really needs more attention. It was so much fun.
Revenge of King Piccolo on the Wii was something like this.
@@adrenaliner91 it doesnt feel nearly as fun but i do see it as a spiritual successor
I really wish they would remaster it 😭
Played this game on my phone in high school for days. LOVE IT. Didn't realize people used this games engine for the browser Dragon Ball Fierce Fighting games.
Thanks for reviewing Advanced Adventure. This was my Dragon Ball equivalent to Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury as a kid. DBZ fans really were spoiled on the GBA
Apparently there's some kind of medicine that lets people turn into animals and that's why there are humanoid animals in addition to regular ones. IDK if that was a retcon or was always a thing but that's the official explanation.
IIRC there's a side quest in DBZ: Kakarot that has characters mentioning the drug and being upset that it was permanent, been a while since I played it so I could be mis-remembering.
the explanation was created in DBZ kakarot by toriyama himself.
Would have loved an Avatar the Last Airbender game in this style
This game is really an underrated gem, and I'm even surprised in the amount of content it has, despite being a gba game
Advanced Adventure was a game I always emulated. No stores in my town or the town over had it in since manga and anime "did not sell" well in this part of Norway.
If the game came out just 4 years later, it would have sold very well in my parts. People had started to watch and read Dragon Ball then because of the internet and TFS.
The only flaw I see in the game is that I didn't adapt Goku's fight against Majunior in the 23rd Martial Arts Tournament.
Great Video! Would love to see you talk about Super Dragon Ball Z (PS2) & Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo (Wii) in the future
That intro with spatial audio was nuts
The art of this game heavily contributed to me wanting to be an animator and work in 2d games
The lad is BACK with a certified hood classic! I've loved Advance Adventure since it's debut, and for years, it felt like only my friend and I ever talked about it these days.
This and dragon ball GT transformation were my childhood
I got around to playing this game a while ago and I was very impressed by how fun it was. This is the only dragon ball related thing that I've actually fully enjoyed and it's been a blast to play through this fun little beat him up and it makes me really wish we have more dragon ball related content in future dragon ball z games. We've seen the original storylines from Z so many times that I really wouldn't have been mad if sparking 0 gave us some dragon ball content and even some dragon ball GT content but no. Speaking of GT this was definitely way better than dragon ball GT transformation which was the other beat him up that came out on the GBA and I wish I had advanced adventure over GT transformation.
Here we see one of the best GBA games there is!
I played this last summer after finishing the anime. It's my first Dragon Ball game
It's the only one were you can play as Giran so yes it's the best one automatically
He didn't even mention him 😔
"There is nothing groundbreaking about these beat-em-up levels", said as Goku is breaking through rock blocks, was inspired.
I spent countless hours on this game! Thanks for making this video
This game have really 3 version north american have funimation voice the europe have multi language text and goku voice is in japanese and japanese version have the og theme song !!!
I played it on MyBoy in my teens, I liked the tournament missions the most
Is there any chances that you cover DBZ Attack of The Saiyans on DS? Its a cool DBZ rpg made by Monolith Software
This is exactly why I like keeping a Miyoo Mini around...
I played a flash game called dbz fierce fighting that used sprites from this game
"Hey, that's the kid me on the front right there. You like me, my tv show and games right? So buy the kid me's game too!"
-Adult Goku on the cover and advertisement
This was my favoritr GBA game alongside Pokemon Red; so many good memories
3:00 The paths on the map screen look near identical to the ones in another Dimps game, Sonic Rush. It's a really minor detail but it's a cool similarity between the two games.
If you love this classic check out Astro Boy: Omega Factor, that game is amazing! Awesome vid as always 🙏
Nam wasn't trying to feed his family, he was trying to win money for water, which his village got screwed out of
Looks good. I would have loved having that game on a car trip to summer vacation
Dimps also used Advanced Adventure's engine to make a One Piece game, which covers the east blue saga.
It's as good as Advanced Adventure, despite using the 4Kids Translation (the game was released only on west)
the WII had a sort of sequel called Dragon Ball Revenge of King Piccolo, its quite good also
Finally this game is getting some recognition! There’s also an amazing One Piece game on the GBA that no one ever talks about!
Easily my favourite Dragonball videogame of that era. Yeah, the Tenkaichi games were fine arena fighters for their time, but Adavanced Adventure had a unique charm to it.
cant swap characters in the campain? that doesnt sound right, I specifically remember as a teen swapping on the fly after collecting the last collectable at king piccalos location.
You can. You just need to beat the game as Goku and Krillin, collect every dragonball in extra mode. You will run into character portraits in each of the levels that you can then collect allowing you to play as each respective character. and Yes Including the dog :)
I find hilarious how the game's cover has an adult Goku in the corner just for marketing purposes.
pretty good! it needed some of that Astro Boy on GBA juice to really become a classic, but by OG Dragon Ball standards, it's TOP TIER.
Man if this was released earlier in the GBA's life span, we could've gotten similar sequels in the DBZ plot
This game is a great showcase of how much you can really get out of the gba so many licensed games never took advantage of the platform like DBAA did
This is indeed the best DB game. I actually went back through this again recently. Dope dope game still got the original cartridge.
Want to talk about amazing Dragon Ball adventures that got overlooked, I would recommend Dragon Ball: Attack of the Saiyans on the DS. Super fun RPG and it covers the end of Dragon Ball and the beginning of Z. If you're a fan of the human characters, they get way more screen time than they do in the same time-frame in the anime.
I never got to own these game...i played it thanks to emulation like more than 12 years ago , i had a blast playing it on the PSP back in the day, underrated dragon ball game
This game was fantastic. I only wish you could use all the extra characters in the 1v1 game mode.
I tried it today. This game is so f*cking hard! Even on easy! I stopped at the "backtracking" level without knowing it would be backtracking, I was so frustrated. The Wii Revenge of King Piccolo was better I think, at least I got through. I don't know if I want to play this frustrating hard game anymore. Maybe I would rather play Legacy of Goku 1 instead. Maybe if I played it back then it would be easier for me now, but now.. I am in my 30s. A game has to be easy for me or I don't care xD
The DS has some gems. Origins 1 and 2 and Attack of the Saiyans are absolute bangers
I tried Origins once, maybe twice. I think the controls were garbage because it probably relied on the stupid touchscreen.
YES.
Thanks for watching.
This game was one of my favorite childhood games and the strange thing is i remember playing it on my dad old pc because i never had a gba and i still wonder how did i play the game because i didnt know about emulators at that time maybe there was a web browser version of the game
Very good. The vs Mode was 🔥
2:08 I don't think Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure was one of them, but some GBA games actually had rumble if played on the Game Boy Player (like Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire).
Advance Adventure is incredible. One of the best gba games. I highly recommend it
I love this game I played on an emulator because I never had a Gameboy advance but oh boy I was glad I found it because I was looking for a game in the original dragon ball. It's a shame the game ended with King Piccolo but ok I found it pretty good and it was fun playing the story again as Krillin. Shame game companies focusing only on Z I wish CC2 made a Kakarot prequel on the original story
This is a perfect game, top 5 GBA's games. If this was realised back in 1994 (when the original Dragon Ball was having its first original run in Mexico) for the SNES I would've gone NUTS!!!
The only thing missing from this game is Majunia's arch, but apart from that it's a 9.9
I think Atari didn't ask Dimps to develop it, but rather Banpresto. They published the game in Japan half a year before the US release.
Hey Flandrew , will you the Transformers Video Games next ? (Beast Wars PS1 , Armada PS2 , Movie Games ,The Cybertron Games, and Devastation )
1:00 kind of make sense in a marketing way that Atari tried to attract people who liked Dragon Ball Z, in many European countries like France and Spain I think most people got introduced to Dragon Ball since the beginning, it's a shame that there's not many games based on the pre-Saiyajin chapters of the manga, I suppose it's because DBZ is much more popular and the fact that video games were simpler in the '80s, when the anime got into the Z era it was during the fighting game golden age so it made sense that there were more DBZ that were fighters
Would you consider a comparison between this and Revenge of king piccolo? I feel both of these games share a lot.
Up until now I had no idea this game even existed. 😰
You could do more than only the classics kame hame ha, you could defeat piccolo doing the aerial one
Heh-hey, Advanced Adventure! Now that's a favorite, alongside the likes of Budokai 3, Legacy of Goku 2 and 3, and Supersonic Warriors 1.
Meantime, I wonder if people still remember certain web browser games that recycled some of the game's stages plus foes like the pirate pigs?
Anytime I want a DB kick, I either play Advanced Adventure or Super Gokuden Totsugeki-Hen on the snes.
Im still amazed about how late Dragón ball reached the USA
How did I miss this game 😞
You can count on it, the game was and is awesome!
Also japanese version of game have tenkaichi music in tournament stages.
I loved this game.
Flanders you dod a gpod job and i hope this name sticks for you
Dragon Ball advanced was a good game I love The dragon ball z legacy of Goku games and buus fury dragon ball advanced I loved and still love because it's a side scroller
Wait you don’t fight Piccolo Jr ? I wonder why they didn’t add em
I sunk countless hours into this on the GBA emulators
Banpresto made this, not Dimps. Banpresto was a killer studio before Bandai Namco just absorbed them, though a lot of their output was Japan only - stuff like the Asuka 120% games, the Go Go Ackman games on Super Famicom, Panzer Bandit, Rapid Reload, etc. It's easy to see how with a pedigree like that, they knocked this - and a bunch more GBA games - out of the park; they were great at 2D. Had a lot of ex-Treasure staffers if I recall...
pretty sure the uk version kept the japanese vioces while usa changed it
"Where Do Pterodactyls Get Their Bombs From?" is a kids book by an edgy '00s comedian who's softened since settling down, but is still worried about getting cancelled for their past shenanigans.
Really disappointed I never owned a GBA or DS back in the day. Handhelds just got so much more variety for Dragon Ball games and not just fighting games.
Can you do a review of the Jak and Daxter trilogy?
There is a wii sequel with the same gameplay but in 3d. I forgot the name. But yeah this game is awesome.
that is not a sequel at all. it was the wii's response to the nintendo ds origin's games.
@xeienar ok cool thanks for clarifying. I remember gameplay was similar.
Before I even watch this, ITS SO SOOOO FUCKING GOOD
classic gba game i loved it.
Omg the name of that company is dimps??? I always thought until now for years the name was pimps 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️. Also i always wished they made a dragon ball z game with this graphics and style
Though I had all three Legacy of Goku games back in the day, this GBA game slipped my notice unfortunately. I guess I was too much of a DBZ snob then to care about OG Dragon Ball as much too, heh. Looks like I missed out big time. At least I've played Revenge of King Piccolo, which is basically a console remake of Advanced Adventure.
Love the game so much
No piccolo jr ?
Check out revenge of king Piccolo for the wii
Awesome game which I could play only on emulator (Nintendo wasn't really present in my country).
Good to see that ebay-sellers keep the prices reasonable (sarcasm). At least 75€. Not cool...
🔥
I love this game
Never played advance adventure, but i loved the origins games to bad the trilogy was never completed.
Revenge of King Piccolo doesn't count cause the gameplay is to different and... it didn't even include the Piccolo Junior arc.😢
I'm sorry if flandrew but I got to disagree with you. Legacy of Goku one and two were the best
As a kid, I used to like The Legacy of Goku I & II and Buu's Fury.
But the more I experienced other DBZ games,
the more I found out that the trilogy on the GBA plays nothing like a DBZ game, but more like rip-offs of Secret of Mana.
6:10 look! A Pokemon
I whish to see new game from orginal dragon ball. Something like kakkarot would be great!
I spent $104 on this game, it better be good LOL.
Amazing game ❤