Attention Earthlings and Saiyans alike! Power up your podcasting devices to over 9000 because it’s time for another electrifying episode of Play Comics! Today we’re diving headfirst into the pixelated world of Dragon Ball Z Legendary Super Warriors on the Game Boy Color. Prepare for a journey through time space and nostalgic handheld gaming that’ll make your hair stand on end (and possibly turn golden).

Joining us on this epic quest is none other than our legendary recurring guest Karrington Martin from K&K Indie Gaming Corner. He’s back faster than you can say “Instant Transmission” ready to unleash his wealth of knowledge like a perfectly timed Spirit Bomb.

So grab your senzu beans, polish your dragon balls, and get ready to explore a game that squeezed the entire DBZ saga into a tiny cartridge. It’s time to go beyond the manga pages and into the realm of pocket-sized martial arts mayhem. Let’s see if this game is truly legendary or if it’ll leave us wishing for the dragon to grant us a better adaptation!

Learn such things as:

• Is Dragon Ball the most important anime/manga franchise in the history of anime/manga that we got in North America?
• How many different versions of the same character do you need in a game?
• Did the smaller number of available things in the past help to give us a more centralized zeitgeist, and if so is that a better situation than the overwhelming number of choices that we have today?
• And so much more!

You can find Karrington at K&K Indie Gaming podcast website. You can also find him on Twitter @Desertfury90.

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A big thanks to the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective and Cast A Role for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is still waiting for his saiyan powers to kick in.

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