The Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series, known simply as Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ, Doragon Bōru Zetto) in Japan, is a series of 3-D fighting games based on the popular anime and manga series Dragon Ball and its sub-series Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT by Akira Toriyama. All games in the series were developed by Dimps and published by Atari, the only exception being Japan's variants whose publisher was instead Bandai.