Something that I think makes Super Saiyan Densetsu worth checking out: you can actually fight Nappa and Vegeta in a way that changes which characters end up dying and needing to be resurrected. Piccolo is the only character who has to die for story's sake, but if you fight the Saiyans well you can actually go to Namek with Krillen, Chaotzu, Tien and Yamcha in the party (or some combination). I always thought that was really interesting.
If you play and beat frieza with no one dead besides krillin to make ssj goku. Vegeta shows up as a secret boss and turns ssj. There may have been more to it, but its been years since i played through it
he did say specific PAL regions in every game except the first one, to be true. All 4 fighting games were released at least in Spain as well. France, Spain and Italy were the three European countries were anime (specially Dragon Ball and Captain Tsubasa) was huge in the early 90's, but only France had a big enough market to consider translation so, we got all those games in French... I've learnt English playing Link to the Past, and some French playing DBZ2's story mode. Thanks, insensitive Nintendo Europe.
That is a shame, Larry Bundy Jr. The United Kingdom or any other European countries outside of France did not get any Dragon Ball Z game up until the release of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai in 2002 when it was translated into English and other languages for the first time.
I owned the french version of DBZ : Hyper Dimension and the Story mode has been removed. It is only available in the japanese version of the game. There are patches though, that make it available.
@@SnesForum No, only the 3rd(every version) and PAL version of Hyper Dimension dont have story mode. That is at least true for the french version... I used to have all of them.
@@dbkai75 Nice to know. I will check this out immadiately. Have a nice day and sorry for the wrong information. Btw. Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension is my favorite.
Great memories! For the record, in France in the 90s there was an incredible craze for all that related to Dragon Ball Z. When the Butouden 2 came out, everyone was getting stuck in the shops specialized in importing more than $100 at the time ... And finally, Bandai released it in PAL and the following episodes. Great memories!
Yes!!!! My mom couldn’t find DBZ 3 for the Super Nintendo in France so she ended up buying me the Japanese version. I couldn’t understand anything but still loved it. I still also have hundreds of those playing cards…good times. I’m in my late 30s now. Time flies!!! Be
The 4 fighting games were only released in France and Spain, though in Spain we got the french versions but with 2 manuals, one french and the other Spanish (full color and all). I was dying to get them when I was a young boy, but they were never released close to neither my birthday or christmas season (the two chances I had to get videogames). On top of that they were extremely low distributions. I was lucky enough to get an import DBZ superbutoden 3 ntsc/j with an adapter, and played the crap out of it. Fast forward to 2009 the retro bug bit me and bought all the Dragon Ball games on Snes, and lucky me I did, cause the prices have since then skyrocketed. Nice video as always!
If there's been any video of yours that made me nostalgic about SNES games then it's gotta be this one. Spent so much time playing all of those games (especially Hyper Dimension and that ported RPG game) almost 2 decades ago back when people still recommended zsnes and even the worst english 'translations' were amazing to see and play. HD certainly holds up as a fighting game even if it has less replay value compared to the SF games, Killer Instinct or anything from SNK and I guess that the last two games in your video are still kinda neat for those who need a visual novel/adventure game fix while not being bothered watching 200+ episodes in a row or something (or reading the manga but let's be honest, most DBZ fans just watch the anime anyway). From newer games I feel that Dragonball Advanced Adventure (GBA) and DBZ Extreme Butoden (3DS) are also must-plays for Dragonball (Z) fans, same with the Budokai games because playing with dragonball characters in 3D (THREE!DEE!) was mindblowingly awesome on the PS2.
I emulated DBZ Saiya Densetsu when I was mid 20's with no English patch and managed to get to Namek, and visit Guru before I couldn't work out where to go. I mention it, because having watched the anime allowed me to follow the story, to work out where to go which I think is amazing it was portrayed so accurately. Hyper Dimension and SB2 were equally great 👍
@Peter Dacey yeah same with me, thinking about it now I must have been early 20's at oldest, I'm 36 now and I remember I didn't have instant access to information either.
Chozah fearless also 36 and played in my early twenties I’m sensing a theme maybe it was because of toonami staying up late playing games watching anime
@@ManillaHeep Same here. No english version, trial and error, save states and a lot of pain. But i finished it. And still replay it fairly often. This is maybe only second to FF6 as my most replayed game of all time
Sb2 & hd? Those are my favorites for snes. I like sb3 fighting mode more because it's more fast and better. Sb2 had lag in battle especially in split screen mode. I liked sb2 for the story mode. It was really cool fighting underwater to. Hyperdimensions is my favorite. Plays like a Street fighter. Good combo system!
Glad to see someone not completely shit on Super Saiyan Tensetsu. I played it all the way through awhile back, and...it was interesting. But I'm glad you found some things to enjoy about it too, like I did.
It's a shame that the original Dragon Ball gets so over shadowed by DBZ. Alot of what I enjoyed about DBZ came from how it continued the original's character growth, and I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much without watching the original Dragon Ball first.
DB was a light, fun adventure show with ecchi moments and a lot of imaginative characters like monkey kids, pigs, Dracula's, dinosaurs, robots, etc. Dbz was an awful scream heavy "I'm the strongest!/no I scream the loudest and have blond hair and blue eyes so i must be the strongest!" filler filled only human looking aliens vs alien looking Aliens show.
@@ggbetz because as originally intended, the DBZ timeline was supposed to end with Frieza. But the show was such a success Toei didn't wanted that sweet cashflow to stop so they asked Toriyama for more and he got lazy so he just rehashed the same plot over and over. I was a huge fan of DB and DBZ but I never cared about Super for that same reason, I knew from the start it was going to be more of the same and I wasn't wrong. Which is a shame because DBZ had dozens of awesome characters wasted like Piccoro and Ten... Fuck, even Vegeta was turned into a mostly useless sidekick for most of the series.
@@ObsoleteVodka exactly dude. No journey to the west vibe. They ruined gohan, goten and trunks suck, vegita 2nd class prince of no one was made into more of a stuckup joke. Boo.
Agreed. Most American fans creating content never even watched the original until after watching DBZ. They'll make you believe that anything other than Z sucks. I like og DB more so than Z, and I enjoy GT just as much as Super, which I think is overrated af.
As someone who *is* a fan of the series, I'd argue that most of these games are lackluster at best, with the sole exception being _Hyper Dimension_ depending on your tastes. If you're looking for games that utilize the IP well and that you *don't* necessarily have to be a fan to enjoy (that aren't the _Budokai_ games or _FighterZ),_ then I'd personally recommend the following: #1) _Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure_ (GBA): A side-scrolling platformer/beat-em-up that occasionally plays like a fighting game. It chronicles the entire story of Kid Goku, has sprite work, solid gameplay, and there's even a 2P versus. This is seriously one of the best games on the GBA - maybe not top twenty, but I feel easily top fifty. #2) _Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors_ (GBC): One of those games that doesn't neatly fit into any genre, this is basically a tactical RPG card game. There are top down sections where you wander around on a map and can find secret cards to build your deck, but it's honestly pretty obtuse, and you'll probably need a guide to find everything. The highlight is the battle system, and being able to select any character that you've unlocked in New Game+. It's also one of the rare few games at the time to cover the entire arc from when Radtiz arrives, until the end of _Z._ A bit weird, but worthwhile, imo. #3 & 4) _Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku 2_ and _Buu's Fury_ (GBA): A top down action game. These are *massive* improvements over the first game. Not only is the art much better, there are also multiple characters selectable, and a slew of sidequests. The third game even has equippable items. #5) _Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans_ (DS): With as many _DBZ_ RPGs that utilize a card gimmick, it's nice to see one that has a more traditional combat system. The highlight of this is the sprite work and animation - which are absolutely incredible - but everything else is fairly rock solid as well. With a game that just covers the time from the 23rd --World Martial Arts Tournament-- Tenkaichi Budokai to the fight between Goku and Vegeta, you'd think that this game would be severely lacking in content… but boy, would you be wrong. It isn't 100% accurate to the series by a long shot, but it's still entertaining stuff, and there's a ton of callbacks to the original manga, which is nice. This game was also made by Monolith Soft, who later went on to make the _Xenoblade_ games. I've also heard good things about _Dragon Ball Z: Goku Gekitōden_ for the Game Boy, which is an RPG that has real time combat, and covers the entirety of the Namek arc. However, I've personally never played that one, and while it *does* have an English translation, it's translated from Chinese, and is just barely comprehensible. For anyone that hasn't heard of these, then I hope that my descriptions have managed to pique your interests, and that you enjoy playing them. Cheers.
The reason why _Hyper Dimension_ has an asterisks next to it is because, while competent, I don't feel that it's on the same level as other less well-known fighting games on the SNES, such as _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters_ and _Sailor Moon S._ I think that it's a fine game to be sure - definitely better than a lot of licensed dreck on the SNES - and definitely worth your time, but I can also see why some people would be put off by it.
never played Legendary Super Warriors, i agree with everything else but the legacy of goku games, the first game just left too bad of a taste in my mouth
I don't know about the first game and third game, but DBZ Super Butoden 2 most certainly does have desperation moves, called meteor smashes, that are pretty visually tasty. Just found this channel and love the content, me and my family enjoy the retro!
yeah, even the first one had it but only with Goku if I remember correctly. Starting the 3rd episode, the Meteor Smash were even more tasty and unique than the 2nd. (However, Kaio Shin and C18 didnt have one)
Hyper Dimension was a sick game. My younger bro and I used to play it a ton when they released an English patch. Great fighting game and the graphics still look nice to this day. Great video!
DBZ Super Butouden 2 is one of my favourite games in the franchise. Cool graphics and moves, a nice Story Mode with some original stories with the movie villains (I actually do prefer the story on this over the original movies xD) and a battle system that did a good job bringing the source material onto the SFC. Also, the Japanese cheat code to unlock Goku and Broly has this Broly voice saying "Kakarot...", and you can input this command multiple times during the intro sequence for pretty funny "Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka-Kakarot..." moments. Super Butouden 3, on the other hand, was such a disappointment... There were some cool additions, but lacking a story mode and being able to fly away from any attack just makes any improvement in the fighting mechanics pointless (just to clarify, in SB1 and 2, you needed to be in split screen mode to fly. In SB3, there is no such limitation, and you can pretty much use it anytime even when being hit). Even if it's clunky, I still love Super Butouden 1 because it was my first SNES game, and played it for months. Goku's Meteor Smash and Perfect Cell's Perfect Combination are sooo broken, though. I agree on Super Saiya Densetsu being grind heavy and having ridiculous encounter rates, but I love its battle theme. It's so catchy. And the battle system, while a bit luck reliant, has some cool ideas and I'd like to see a modern game with similar but improved mechanics. Hyper Dimension is visually stunning and I find it a pretty solid fighter (I'm no expert, mind you). Goku's desperation move is one of the coolest attacks I've seen on any Dragon Ball fighting games. The story mode is ok, with some interesting extra battles, but it's nothing special. The other DB games are more of a fan item than anything else, but are nicely done enough. Wow, I wrote so much text xD I get a little excited when talking about DB games in general.
I find it so interesting that Super Butouden 2 is the first and only Dragonball game where you never officially can play as Goku..needing a cheat code to play as him is so crazy.
Super Butoden was bad. But we must respect their creativity and sense of experimentation (i would also add a couple of great songs, but i dont know if im just being too nostalgic about it)... There were serious limitations at the time. HD totally blew them away in terms of fighting game qualities, though at the cost of the flashiness of the quick dashes, flying and throwing huge attacks. It took a couple more hardware generations to allow a good balance of 'flashiness' and 'FG consistency' (not judging based on the likes of SF).
I remember seeing the DBZ rpg in Nintendo Power back in the day and thought it looked cool, only to realize it was a Japan exclusive, which felt like a major tease.
Actually, the DBZ Hyper Dimension PAL versión doesn't have History mode. Only the Japanese Version has it. Thank you Bandai :/ (yeah, i have the 4 original PAL games for my SNES)
I remember in Densetsu, if you kill off Piccollo in the fight vs Frieza, Goku will go super Saiyan, shortly after you finish the game you will get a secret boss against Super Saiyan Vegeta
Hyper Dimension has a very interesting mechanic for a fighting game: the health bar and KI bar are combined to one. So you lose health when doing special moves and heal when you power up. And this is a good represantation of what KI is supposed to be.
Wew, I'm really early to this video it seems. I played the third fighting game at a friend's house. At the time, I didn't have much idea what Dragon Ball was (mom didn't let me watch it because it was "too violent" lol) but I still found it pretty cool to fight from really far apart or in the sky. If anything, it's worth trying on an emulator for the novelty of moving around rather than being restricted to a certain distance from your opponent.
This was a thing I needed. How about covering other big animes of the 90s that got loads of Japanese only SNES games. Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon and others.
3:04 "La Legende Sayian" was the title for the French market (because France was the second biggest manga market after Japan, got the DBZ anime dubbed in the 90s while US had to wait 2000s, was the biggest PAL market for DBZ games and had the game fully translated while other European countries didn't)
You know I will have a better day just cause drunk reminded me too I appreciate the heck out of you always saying that drunk Usually I gloss over it but you know some days it exactly what we need to hear
I'm so glad you took the effort to pronounce the names. Too many content creators out there just give up and go "LUL IMMA SILLY 'MERICAN". I really love your channel.
@MultiTarded You probably didn't realize it but he pronounced both the Japanese and French names of the games. Correctly, I might add for the French names.
If memory doesnt fail me DBZ Hyper Dimension was going to be released in America in 1996, if i have to guess it was cancelled because all the hype was focused on the N64 and Ban-Dai decided it wouldnt be profitable.
@@captain0080 Whoa, the mexican magazine!? Gotta check my back issues at home, since i have the Venezuelan edition, which has most of the mexican content on it...
I know I say this a lot, but thanks for the content man! I only knew about 2 or 3 Dragon Ball Z SF games. I was lucky enough to find one in the box, but sadly I don't have a Super Famicom
you can either use a game genie to play super famicom on the super Nintendo or there is a really quick hardware mod that will allow you to play super famicom on the super Nintendo as well to do the hardward mod the main things you need 3.8mm and 4.5mm security screw driver and a exacto knife. Hope this helps. Thank you for your time and have a great day. God Bless you Jeremy Scruggs
oh my god the hours spend playing those games with friends, excellent vid as always and accurate, the third game is still fun to play when you know the franchise with nice graphics and all...thx man, i'm back in 1994-5 and that's awesome! :p
Super Butouden 3 also got a South Korean release. It's one of the few games that was actually translated into Korean, as most Super Comboy games just used the US English ROMs.
I did play this on my SNES when I was a kid and love it. Don't remember how I get my hands on the cartrige, but it was in japanese an ad no idea what the text would say and I had to figure out my way on the menus (but not being a native english speaker I was used to it already as a kid). This video made me realize that it was not one game, but actually TWO the dragon ball z games I play as kid: Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2 and 3. This explains why years later I tried to replay the game but not having the entire roster leave a sour taste on my mouth (in my memories the game had Butouden 2 history mode with Butoden 3 roster). Clashing powers where the most awesome thing to do with my brothers and friends, as we all where big DBZ fans when it was new back in the mid 90's.
Those fighting game are VERY popular with retrogamers here in Uruguay. Mostly because Dragon Ball still is a huge thing here, like the rest of Latin America
I'm older, I remember when Hyper Dimension was advertised in the back of gaming mags as a brand new import title. I wanted it so bad, but it was expensive at the time.
I played Super Butouden 3 a lot. A friend had a device called Super Magicom, that would dump the roms to floppy disks so we had a ton of games available (we often rented games together so we would expand our library), and we would often gather some people to play Super Butouden 3 tourneys. I still like that game
DBZ Budoten 3 was released very heavy into the Buu arc. They didn't include a story mode cause back then they had 0 idea how the story was gonna go after Babidi finally released Buu.
Super Saiya Densetsu all the way. Btw, Super Butoden 1 made its way to American Switch systems for pre ordering FighterZ. It was still in Japanese though.
Thanks for the video! I used to be a big Dragon Ball fan - I grew up watching the original Dragon Ball on TV, as did all the kids in my area in Romania, then watched DBZ as it was aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami show. I used to play all these DBZ games on my PC with an emulator with my cousin a LOT (ZSNES). And I enjoyed Super Butouden 3, as I thought it had better graphics than 1 and 2 and I was mostly interested in the Versus mode anyway. There was a SEGA Genesis / Mega-Drive game too, which was pretty OK.
I used to play the butouden series in Honduras when I was like 10 they had arcades over there with like 100 games and in one of them they had those fighting DBZ I used to love them
I really enjoy these video, and thats the reason why (combined with my OCD) I must say it's not on your "Lists" playlist. And yes, I already made a few of these comments =) Cheers! P.S. Sorry, 14th
The reason that DBZ3 was lacking a story was because at the time of it's released the Buu saga was still ongoing and they didn't get to the Super Buu part. It was too soon for them to know how the story would play out for them to make a proper story mode unless they decided to leave it as a cliffhanger.
I actually LOVED that card-turn based rpg when I was younger. The random battles got pretty bad on Namek....but once you get really strong you just plow through them.
As far as I'm concerned, the tournament mode in Super Butoden 3 is the story mode. While it takes place during early Boo arc, it meant to focus on the 25th Budokai. Plus, the credits start to roll when you complete that mode. Also worth mentioning, the combat in the Super Gokuden games uses a rock, paper, scissors system which can be hard to predict.
Man, I played Super Saiya Densetsu on Snes9X in Japanese without understanding anything, and I managed to finish it. Shitty game, but boy do I love it.
SNESDRUNK, can you make a video about Battle Master? It's a Street Fighter clone (for snes, obviously). I don't know if it has some gimmick going for it, but I found it pretty enjoyable back in the day. Just a recommendation!
I feel like Totsugeki Hen and Kakusei Hen weren't gone into detail about :( In Totsugeki Hen, you can speed up Goku's chance to have a turn by holding down L and R and increasing his chi. If you press start at the menu screen, you can set up various moves for Goku. Each of the 4 buttons have a rock, paper, scissors system to them. One of them being an evade or do several other defensive options, which was something you could do whether or not Goku fully inched forward for his turn. While I realize the game has a bit too much going on as far as the story repeating it's self, the games were actually pretty fun if you got into them. Kakusei Hen was a bit more straightforward as there was no movement. It was mostly a rock, paper, scissors and a bit more simplified than the first imho. You could punch, kick, use Ki, defend or charge up ki (holding L+R) to use Goku's Kamehameha or Gohan's Masenko.
Let me low ball you. When I grew up in the 90s we were a Sega household. We had TWO Home Computers one of which belonged to my Eldest brother. He somehow (in the age before real internet) Got zsnes and torrent of all the super nintendo games. Some not even released in the states some in japanese. And I can tell you definitively I played every SNES game. Every single one is worth it. 16bit - 32bit Era is the fucking shit you are missing out if you don't play these gems.
If you think about it, DBZ didn't get it's first US dub until September of 1996. The Nintendo 64 launched launched that exact same month. It wouldn't have made financial sense for Nintendo of America to request a localization of any game in the series that no one was familiar with until the console they were on was already essentially sunset in favor of their next generation console. Just bad timing unfortunately.
I wouldnt recomend people to skip Botuden 3, thats the only one I had, and playing ti with friends was a blast (back then) theres also a code to unlock more characters, you also forgot to mention that theres even a counter systemfor when the enemy shoots a special technique at you , like reflecting-defending- and power clash just like in the game (these at least in the Botuden 3 idk about the others)
I completely agree ! For the counter system, its also on the 2 first episode, even though there is more way to block the energy wave as in the 3rd you can make them disapear so you dont lose any HP and doesnt take the risk to lose the button mashing fight if you reply with your Kamehameha(or any other super blast) Btw, since the time I became fan of jrpg(during ff6 release time) I always wished to have this kind of gameplay element on turn based jrpg in order to counter enemy magic/skills... I liked to have parry or defensive tricks in Mario Rpg games, but something more like in DBZ 3 with the ability to strike back if you do it in the right timing etc. would be great !
@@dbkai75 that would be a great idea! Yes i forgot about the dissapearing, actually maybe you know this but if you tried a power clash and lost it, if you were quick enough you could do it again before it hit you, and if that one failed you could then do the vanishing, or defecting or the clash again! but you had to have your Ki maxed out
@@ElBribri Yes I know. ;) I just had on mind the worst case scenario but as you said, you can still either guard, deviate or make it disapear depending your ki amount and the skill you use.(unless you are ki is depleted and your character is tired)
Botuden 3 also is the only one with a handicap system. You can input a code right before the fight and it will briefly show an aura that will boost your offense and defense.
I remember when my older brother's friend Manuel introduced to anime. It started with Dragonball (of course) VHS tapes and random Sci Fi Saturday morning showings. I, being a huge fan of Street Fighter, saw he had a region adapter and saw a DBZ fighter for all of thirty seconds. ⌚ I pondered and glistened through EGMs imagining what it could play like.... Would have loved it, but thanks to this video, know that my rag~tag self would have returned to Spinning Pile Drivers lickety split. 🌪️
I've never been a DBZ fan, but the third Super Butouden game is very nostalgic to me. I bought this CD with a lot of roms from a classmate back in high school and my cousin would try to come visit me from another town just to play that game at my place since he was (and still is) a huge fan. I liked playing as the two kids because they sounded funny. IIRC, the rom I had was in French. He also loved Go Go Ackman 3 because the main character looked like Trunks. Later we found out it was based from another manga of Akira Toriyama. Which reminds me, I have to ask him if he knows about the Dragon Quest series one of these days.
I don't mind Dragon Ball games as RPGs, but I don't like them as fighting games because in the Dragon Ball fighting games, all gamers want to do is fly around and spam energy blasts instead of punching, kicking, grabbing, throwing and knocking their opponents out.
I remember giving my friend a magma mighty max playset and $30 for dragon ball z 3 in the early 90's, he didn't even know what dbz was but some how ended up with the game. My cousin had part 2 in 93-94, can't really remember but they use to air the Japanese show in NYC on channel 53, had no idea what they were saying but I tuned in every week day at 5pm.
The story mode is only present in the Super Famicom version of Hyper Dimension, the PAL version released only in France omitted that mode for unknown reasons.
It is quite interesting the 90s era of DragonBall games were. Since it was before the franchise took off in North America thanks to Toonami and Cartoon Network.
Dragon Ball Z is the name of the manga, whole first saga from kid Goku to Majin-bu. Anime adaptation made people think "Z" is from the sayan appearance on, but it's not.
I so needed to get SNESDrunk today! Hearing you tell me to have a great rest of the day somehow always makes things better. Thanks man!
He’s not going to sleep with you buddy
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Something that I think makes Super Saiyan Densetsu worth checking out: you can actually fight Nappa and Vegeta in a way that changes which characters end up dying and needing to be resurrected. Piccolo is the only character who has to die for story's sake, but if you fight the Saiyans well you can actually go to Namek with Krillen, Chaotzu, Tien and Yamcha in the party (or some combination). I always thought that was really interesting.
In my playthrough super saiyan goku died to freiza and piccolo as the only survivor and defeated freiza it was pretty epic.
If you play and beat frieza with no one dead besides krillin to make ssj goku. Vegeta shows up as a secret boss and turns ssj. There may have been more to it, but its been years since i played through it
Wow, thanks, you all! Going to check that out!
Yeah but it’s a card game..
Super saiya densetsu was one of my first rom games on pc. Thx for the nostalgic video
Same here, one of my first RPGs (I later played Attack Of The Saiyans).
Pokemon and then this
Man... Super Saiya Densetsu brings so much memories from childhood. I must have a few hundred hours on this game!
few hundred? did you have anything else?
How many reviews have you done now? Seems the total has reached over 9,000.
God dammit, Nappa.
I see what you did there 😂😂
There? What you did? I see?
WHAT?! NINE THOUSAND?!!
NANII!?
They weren't released in all PAL regions, we certainly never received them in the UK, France did, along with the Sailor Moon games.
Really surprised to see a comment by you with so few likes.
he did say specific PAL regions in every game except the first one, to be true. All 4 fighting games were released at least in Spain as well. France, Spain and Italy were the three European countries were anime (specially Dragon Ball and Captain Tsubasa) was huge in the early 90's, but only France had a big enough market to consider translation so, we got all those games in French... I've learnt English playing Link to the Past, and some French playing DBZ2's story mode. Thanks, insensitive Nintendo Europe.
Thankfully, the French release allowed us to get halfway decent English translation ROMs!
That is a shame, Larry Bundy Jr. The United Kingdom or any other European countries outside of France did not get any Dragon Ball Z game up until the release of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai in 2002 when it was translated into English and other languages for the first time.
I owned the french version of DBZ : Hyper Dimension and the Story mode has been removed. It is only available in the japanese version of the game. There are patches though, that make it available.
Correct and the 3 games before dont have story in pal version eather. This was a very bad decision back then. I dont know why they do this
@@SnesForum No, only the 3rd(every version) and PAL version of Hyper Dimension dont have story mode.
That is at least true for the french version...
I used to have all of them.
@@dbkai75 Nice to know. I will check this out immadiately. Have a nice day and sorry for the wrong information. Btw. Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension is my favorite.
I wonder why they removed it. It doesn’t make sense
Great memories!
For the record, in France in the 90s there was an incredible craze for all that related to Dragon Ball Z.
When the Butouden 2 came out, everyone was getting stuck in the shops specialized in importing more than $100 at the time ... And finally, Bandai released it in PAL and the following episodes. Great memories!
ahah you right, j'y étais ! plus de 600Fr le jeu en import ... mais quel mythe !!
Yes!!!! My mom couldn’t find DBZ 3 for the Super Nintendo in France so she ended up buying me the Japanese version. I couldn’t understand anything but still loved it. I still also have hundreds of those playing cards…good times. I’m in my late 30s now. Time flies!!! Be
The 4 fighting games were only released in France and Spain, though in Spain we got the french versions but with 2 manuals, one french and the other Spanish (full color and all). I was dying to get them when I was a young boy, but they were never released close to neither my birthday or christmas season (the two chances I had to get videogames). On top of that they were extremely low distributions. I was lucky enough to get an import DBZ superbutoden 3 ntsc/j with an adapter, and played the crap out of it. Fast forward to 2009 the retro bug bit me and bought all the Dragon Ball games on Snes, and lucky me I did, cause the prices have since then skyrocketed. Nice video as always!
If there's been any video of yours that made me nostalgic about SNES games then it's gotta be this one. Spent so much time playing all of those games (especially Hyper Dimension and that ported RPG game) almost 2 decades ago back when people still recommended zsnes and even the worst english 'translations' were amazing to see and play. HD certainly holds up as a fighting game even if it has less replay value compared to the SF games, Killer Instinct or anything from SNK and I guess that the last two games in your video are still kinda neat for those who need a visual novel/adventure game fix while not being bothered watching 200+ episodes in a row or something (or reading the manga but let's be honest, most DBZ fans just watch the anime anyway).
From newer games I feel that Dragonball Advanced Adventure (GBA) and DBZ Extreme Butoden (3DS) are also must-plays for Dragonball (Z) fans, same with the Budokai games because playing with dragonball characters in 3D (THREE!DEE!) was mindblowingly awesome on the PS2.
I emulated DBZ Saiya Densetsu when I was mid 20's with no English patch and managed to get to Namek, and visit Guru before I couldn't work out where to go.
I mention it, because having watched the anime allowed me to follow the story, to work out where to go which I think is amazing it was portrayed so accurately.
Hyper Dimension and SB2 were equally great 👍
@Peter Dacey yeah same with me, thinking about it now I must have been early 20's at oldest, I'm 36 now and I remember I didn't have instant access to information either.
Chozah fearless also 36 and played in my early twenties I’m sensing a theme maybe it was because of toonami staying up late playing games watching anime
I beat it back in the day, untranslated barely knew how to use the cards. I abused save states and frame skipping but I finished it ☺
@@ManillaHeep Same here. No english version, trial and error, save states and a lot of pain. But i finished it. And still replay it fairly often. This is maybe only second to FF6 as my most replayed game of all time
Sb2 & hd? Those are my favorites for snes. I like sb3 fighting mode more because it's more fast and better. Sb2 had lag in battle especially in split screen mode. I liked sb2 for the story mode. It was really cool fighting underwater to. Hyperdimensions is my favorite. Plays like a Street fighter. Good combo system!
Glad to see someone not completely shit on Super Saiyan Tensetsu. I played it all the way through awhile back, and...it was interesting. But I'm glad you found some things to enjoy about it too, like I did.
It's a shame that the original Dragon Ball gets so over shadowed by DBZ.
Alot of what I enjoyed about DBZ came from how it continued the original's character growth, and I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much without watching the original Dragon Ball first.
If I'm being honest, I'd consider the first 13 episodes of the original series to be THE BEST arc in all DB conitunity.
DB was a light, fun adventure show with ecchi moments and a lot of imaginative characters like monkey kids, pigs, Dracula's, dinosaurs, robots, etc. Dbz was an awful scream heavy "I'm the strongest!/no I scream the loudest and have blond hair and blue eyes so i must be the strongest!" filler filled only human looking aliens vs alien looking Aliens show.
@@ggbetz because as originally intended, the DBZ timeline was supposed to end with Frieza. But the show was such a success Toei didn't wanted that sweet cashflow to stop so they asked Toriyama for more and he got lazy so he just rehashed the same plot over and over. I was a huge fan of DB and DBZ but I never cared about Super for that same reason, I knew from the start it was going to be more of the same and I wasn't wrong. Which is a shame because DBZ had dozens of awesome characters wasted like Piccoro and Ten... Fuck, even Vegeta was turned into a mostly useless sidekick for most of the series.
@@ObsoleteVodka exactly dude. No journey to the west vibe. They ruined gohan, goten and trunks suck, vegita 2nd class prince of no one was made into more of a stuckup joke. Boo.
Agreed. Most American fans creating content never even watched the original until after watching DBZ. They'll make you believe that anything other than Z sucks. I like og DB more so than Z, and I enjoy GT just as much as Super, which I think is overrated af.
As someone who *is* a fan of the series, I'd argue that most of these games are lackluster at best, with the sole exception being _Hyper Dimension_ depending on your tastes. If you're looking for games that utilize the IP well and that you *don't* necessarily have to be a fan to enjoy (that aren't the _Budokai_ games or _FighterZ),_ then I'd personally recommend the following:
#1) _Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure_ (GBA): A side-scrolling platformer/beat-em-up that occasionally plays like a fighting game. It chronicles the entire story of Kid Goku, has sprite work, solid gameplay, and there's even a 2P versus. This is seriously one of the best games on the GBA - maybe not top twenty, but I feel easily top fifty.
#2) _Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors_ (GBC): One of those games that doesn't neatly fit into any genre, this is basically a tactical RPG card game. There are top down sections where you wander around on a map and can find secret cards to build your deck, but it's honestly pretty obtuse, and you'll probably need a guide to find everything. The highlight is the battle system, and being able to select any character that you've unlocked in New Game+. It's also one of the rare few games at the time to cover the entire arc from when Radtiz arrives, until the end of _Z._ A bit weird, but worthwhile, imo.
#3 & 4) _Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku 2_ and _Buu's Fury_ (GBA): A top down action game. These are *massive* improvements over the first game. Not only is the art much better, there are also multiple characters selectable, and a slew of sidequests. The third game even has equippable items.
#5) _Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans_ (DS): With as many _DBZ_ RPGs that utilize a card gimmick, it's nice to see one that has a more traditional combat system. The highlight of this is the sprite work and animation - which are absolutely incredible - but everything else is fairly rock solid as well. With a game that just covers the time from the 23rd --World Martial Arts Tournament-- Tenkaichi Budokai to the fight between Goku and Vegeta, you'd think that this game would be severely lacking in content… but boy, would you be wrong. It isn't 100% accurate to the series by a long shot, but it's still entertaining stuff, and there's a ton of callbacks to the original manga, which is nice. This game was also made by Monolith Soft, who later went on to make the _Xenoblade_ games.
I've also heard good things about _Dragon Ball Z: Goku Gekitōden_ for the Game Boy, which is an RPG that has real time combat, and covers the entirety of the Namek arc. However, I've personally never played that one, and while it *does* have an English translation, it's translated from Chinese, and is just barely comprehensible.
For anyone that hasn't heard of these, then I hope that my descriptions have managed to pique your interests, and that you enjoy playing them. Cheers.
The reason why _Hyper Dimension_ has an asterisks next to it is because, while competent, I don't feel that it's on the same level as other less well-known fighting games on the SNES, such as _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters_ and _Sailor Moon S._ I think that it's a fine game to be sure - definitely better than a lot of licensed dreck on the SNES - and definitely worth your time, but I can also see why some people would be put off by it.
never played Legendary Super Warriors, i agree with everything else but the legacy of goku games, the first game just left too bad of a taste in my mouth
YOOOOOOOO! Thanks for finally doing this one, mate
I don't know about the first game and third game, but DBZ Super Butoden 2 most certainly does have desperation moves, called meteor smashes, that are pretty visually tasty. Just found this channel and love the content, me and my family enjoy the retro!
yeah, even the first one had it but only with Goku if I remember correctly.
Starting the 3rd episode, the Meteor Smash were even more tasty and unique than the 2nd. (However, Kaio Shin and C18 didnt have one)
Hyper Dimension was a sick game. My younger bro and I used to play it a ton when they released an English patch. Great fighting game and the graphics still look nice to this day. Great video!
I have loved Hyper Dimension since I was a kid. I know it's not the greatest fighter, but for a Dragon Ball fan, it was amazing at the time.
I always look forward to your vids! They make my mornings! Specially the "Rest of your day" part! You are great!
Never understood why there is no modern version of Super Saiyan Densetsu. Was such a good game man.
DBZ2 and DBZ3, both fighting games. these were my childhood.
DBZ2
DBZ Super Butouden 2 is one of my favourite games in the franchise. Cool graphics and moves, a nice Story Mode with some original stories with the movie villains (I actually do prefer the story on this over the original movies xD) and a battle system that did a good job bringing the source material onto the SFC. Also, the Japanese cheat code to unlock Goku and Broly has this Broly voice saying "Kakarot...", and you can input this command multiple times during the intro sequence for pretty funny "Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka-Kakarot..." moments.
Super Butouden 3, on the other hand, was such a disappointment... There were some cool additions, but lacking a story mode and being able to fly away from any attack just makes any improvement in the fighting mechanics pointless (just to clarify, in SB1 and 2, you needed to be in split screen mode to fly. In SB3, there is no such limitation, and you can pretty much use it anytime even when being hit).
Even if it's clunky, I still love Super Butouden 1 because it was my first SNES game, and played it for months. Goku's Meteor Smash and Perfect Cell's Perfect Combination are sooo broken, though.
I agree on Super Saiya Densetsu being grind heavy and having ridiculous encounter rates, but I love its battle theme. It's so catchy. And the battle system, while a bit luck reliant, has some cool ideas and I'd like to see a modern game with similar but improved mechanics.
Hyper Dimension is visually stunning and I find it a pretty solid fighter (I'm no expert, mind you). Goku's desperation move is one of the coolest attacks I've seen on any Dragon Ball fighting games. The story mode is ok, with some interesting extra battles, but it's nothing special.
The other DB games are more of a fan item than anything else, but are nicely done enough.
Wow, I wrote so much text xD I get a little excited when talking about DB games in general.
I find it so interesting that Super Butouden 2 is the first and only Dragonball game where you never officially can play as Goku..needing a cheat code to play as him is so crazy.
@Sheckie Shabang That makes perfect sense! They must have planned to keep Goku killed off or not have a Buu saga at all!
Super Butoden was bad. But we must respect their creativity and sense of experimentation (i would also add a couple of great songs, but i dont know if im just being too nostalgic about it)... There were serious limitations at the time. HD totally blew them away in terms of fighting game qualities, though at the cost of the flashiness of the quick dashes, flying and throwing huge attacks. It took a couple more hardware generations to allow a good balance of 'flashiness' and 'FG consistency' (not judging based on the likes of SF).
I remember seeing the DBZ rpg in Nintendo Power back in the day and thought it looked cool, only to realize it was a Japan exclusive, which felt like a major tease.
Yes, DBZ is all about characters grinding for exp so they can face the next boss. And dying isn't permanent, it's a cool down timer
Actually, the DBZ Hyper Dimension PAL versión doesn't have History mode. Only the Japanese Version has it. Thank you Bandai :/
(yeah, i have the 4 original PAL games for my SNES)
I remember in Densetsu, if you kill off Piccollo in the fight vs Frieza, Goku will go super Saiyan, shortly after you finish the game you will get a secret boss against Super Saiyan Vegeta
Piccolo??? Weren't you supposed to kill off Krillin instead??? Because that's what actually happens in the anime/manga
i remember playing boutuden 2 and loved it, fighting combos, space to move, battle beams with rapid taps to overcome. oh so good
Man I remember playing these long time ago using an SNES emulator, now, I can come back and look for these english patches, great video review!
The Super Gokuden games are pretty fun tbh. Loved the battle system.
Hyper Dimension has a very interesting mechanic for a fighting game: the health bar and KI bar are combined to one. So you lose health when doing special moves and heal when you power up. And this is a good represantation of what KI is supposed to be.
Wew, I'm really early to this video it seems.
I played the third fighting game at a friend's house. At the time, I didn't have much idea what Dragon Ball was (mom didn't let me watch it because it was "too violent" lol) but I still found it pretty cool to fight from really far apart or in the sky.
If anything, it's worth trying on an emulator for the novelty of moving around rather than being restricted to a certain distance from your opponent.
lol friggin' moms. I remember when my mom woudn't let me watch The Simpsons because Bart was a BAAAAAD infuence
I really love your channel. Been here forever. You're famous now! We need Turbografx Drunk 🤣
Happy 30th anniversary, DBZ!
It is always a great morning when I see a new SNES drunk appear on my subscription list.
Thank you for this man! Much love from Italy
Covering these games in 2019. What a time to be alive.
This was a thing I needed. How about covering other big animes of the 90s that got loads of Japanese only SNES games. Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon and others.
3:04 "La Legende Sayian" was the title for the French market (because France was the second biggest manga market after Japan, got the DBZ anime dubbed in the 90s while US had to wait 2000s, was the biggest PAL market for DBZ games and had the game fully translated while other European countries didn't)
I really needed this video. Thank you very much.
You know I will have a better day just cause drunk reminded me too I appreciate the heck out of you always saying that drunk
Usually I gloss over it but you know some days it exactly what we need to hear
I'm so glad you took the effort to pronounce the names. Too many content creators out there just give up and go "LUL IMMA SILLY 'MERICAN".
I really love your channel.
@MultiTarded You probably didn't realize it but he pronounced both the Japanese and French names of the games. Correctly, I might add for the French names.
Nice!
The best SNES guy on CZcams
If memory doesnt fail me DBZ Hyper Dimension was going to be released in America in 1996, if i have to guess it was cancelled because all the hype was focused on the N64 and Ban-Dai decided it wouldnt be profitable.
Imagine if it was updated and ported to n64
Do you know if there was an article talking about a possible american localization of Hyper Dimension? Just curious :D
@@roberthanthonymartinezrive7383 only one i know of was teased in a Club Nintendo magazine back in early 96.
@@captain0080 Whoa, the mexican magazine!? Gotta check my back issues at home, since i have the Venezuelan edition, which has most of the mexican content on it...
@@roberthanthonymartinezrive7383 that one, it should be the one with news from Shoshinkai 95, so any magazine between dec 95 and march 96
Your French is better than the usual CZcamsr.
" l'oultime meness "
I love the smell of new SNESDrunk videos in the morning
Thanks for the vid man! Keep up the great work!
The first one listed was actually really good
i love the weird little harmony at the beginning of your videos!
I know I say this a lot, but thanks for the content man! I only knew about 2 or 3 Dragon Ball Z SF games. I was lucky enough to find one in the box, but sadly I don't have a Super Famicom
you can either use a game genie to play super famicom on the super Nintendo or there is a really quick hardware mod that will allow you to play super famicom on the super Nintendo as well
to do the hardward mod the main things you need 3.8mm and 4.5mm security screw driver and a exacto knife.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for your time and have a great day.
God Bless you
Jeremy Scruggs
@@engagedswitch Hey thanks! I actually have a Game Genie. Don't know why I never thought to try that lol
oh my god the hours spend playing those games with friends, excellent vid as always and accurate, the third game is still fun to play when you know the franchise with nice graphics and all...thx man, i'm back in 1994-5 and that's awesome! :p
ALL OF THEM
Thank you for this video! I love when you cover super FAMICOM and PAL region stuff!
Butoden 2 music was so good. Good stuff
Super Butouden 3 also got a South Korean release. It's one of the few games that was actually translated into Korean, as most Super Comboy games just used the US English ROMs.
I did play this on my SNES when I was a kid and love it. Don't remember how I get my hands on the cartrige, but it was in japanese an ad no idea what the text would say and I had to figure out my way on the menus (but not being a native english speaker I was used to it already as a kid).
This video made me realize that it was not one game, but actually TWO the dragon ball z games I play as kid: Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2 and 3. This explains why years later I tried to replay the game but not having the entire roster leave a sour taste on my mouth (in my memories the game had Butouden 2 history mode with Butoden 3 roster).
Clashing powers where the most awesome thing to do with my brothers and friends, as we all where big DBZ fans when it was new back in the mid 90's.
Those fighting game are VERY popular with retrogamers here in Uruguay. Mostly because Dragon Ball still is a huge thing here, like the rest of Latin America
I'm older, I remember when Hyper Dimension was advertised in the back of gaming mags as a brand new import title. I wanted it so bad, but it was expensive at the time.
I played Super Butouden 3 a lot. A friend had a device called Super Magicom, that would dump the roms to floppy disks so we had a ton of games available (we often rented games together so we would expand our library), and we would often gather some people to play Super Butouden 3 tourneys. I still like that game
When I was a kid, I had that Dragon Ball Z 2 fighting game that was on this list. The music was actually really good.
You're crazy dude, the theme in Super Saiya Densetsu is godlike.
Seriously, i still listen to it to this day. I even got a heavy metal cover of it 😂
There are A LOT of DB & DBZ pachinko machines.
DBZ Budoten 3 was released very heavy into the Buu arc. They didn't include a story mode cause back then they had 0 idea how the story was gonna go after Babidi finally released Buu.
Super Saiya Densetsu all the way.
Btw, Super Butoden 1 made its way to American Switch systems for pre ordering FighterZ. It was still in Japanese though.
I played them all!! on my PC, back in 2001
I had a DBZ magazine as a kid that covered Hyper Dimension. It's probly the best snes DB game
Thanks for the video! I used to be a big Dragon Ball fan - I grew up watching the original Dragon Ball on TV, as did all the kids in my area in Romania, then watched DBZ as it was aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami show. I used to play all these DBZ games on my PC with an emulator with my cousin a LOT (ZSNES). And I enjoyed Super Butouden 3, as I thought it had better graphics than 1 and 2 and I was mostly interested in the Versus mode anyway. There was a SEGA Genesis / Mega-Drive game too, which was pretty OK.
Goku and Broly were unlocked till the begining in the french version of super butoden 2. The only code used was to unlock some sort of "turbo" mode
I used to play the butouden series in Honduras when I was like 10 they had arcades over there with like 100 games and in one of them they had those fighting DBZ I used to love them
I really enjoy these video, and thats the reason why (combined with my OCD) I must say it's not on your "Lists" playlist.
And yes, I already made a few of these comments =)
Cheers!
P.S. Sorry, 14th
The reason that DBZ3 was lacking a story was because at the time of it's released the Buu saga was still ongoing and they didn't get to the Super Buu part. It was too soon for them to know how the story would play out for them to make a proper story mode unless they decided to leave it as a cliffhanger.
I haven't even watched the video yet and just from the thumbnail pic I got SUPER FREAKING PUMPED FOR THIS!
Edit: done watching, thank you!
I actually LOVED that card-turn based rpg when I was younger. The random battles got pretty bad on Namek....but once you get really strong you just plow through them.
Discovering I could play these games on an emulator was a monumental moment. I enjoyed these games way more than DBGT Final Bout
Only Legends really stand out among those titles imo.
As far as I'm concerned, the tournament mode in Super Butoden 3 is the story mode. While it takes place during early Boo arc, it meant to focus on the 25th Budokai. Plus, the credits start to roll when you complete that mode.
Also worth mentioning, the combat in the Super Gokuden games uses a rock, paper, scissors system which can be hard to predict.
Man, I played Super Saiya Densetsu on Snes9X in Japanese without understanding anything, and I managed to finish it.
Shitty game, but boy do I love it.
SNESDRUNK, can you make a video about Battle Master? It's a Street Fighter clone (for snes, obviously). I don't know if it has some gimmick going for it, but I found it pretty enjoyable back in the day. Just a recommendation!
I feel like Totsugeki Hen and Kakusei Hen weren't gone into detail about :(
In Totsugeki Hen, you can speed up Goku's chance to have a turn by holding down L and R and increasing his chi. If you press start at the menu screen, you can set up various moves for Goku. Each of the 4 buttons have a rock, paper, scissors system to them. One of them being an evade or do several other defensive options, which was something you could do whether or not Goku fully inched forward for his turn. While I realize the game has a bit too much going on as far as the story repeating it's self, the games were actually pretty fun if you got into them.
Kakusei Hen was a bit more straightforward as there was no movement. It was mostly a rock, paper, scissors and a bit more simplified than the first imho. You could punch, kick, use Ki, defend or charge up ki (holding L+R) to use Goku's Kamehameha or Gohan's Masenko.
Never knew Dragon Ball was this old.
I dont know about the usa, but those dbz fighting games were really popular in colombia back in 94-97.
Let me low ball you. When I grew up in the 90s we were a Sega household. We had TWO Home Computers one of which belonged to my Eldest brother. He somehow (in the age before real internet) Got zsnes and torrent of all the super nintendo games. Some not even released in the states some in japanese.
And I can tell you definitively I played every SNES game. Every single one is worth it. 16bit - 32bit Era is the fucking shit you are missing out if you don't play these gems.
OMG i loved these db games I remember playing them on pc with an emulator
Hyper dimension was the shit. I remember how hard was to do the genkidama
OMG I WANT YOUR T SHIRT!!! Great video.
You da real one for this my man
If you think about it, DBZ didn't get it's first US dub until September of 1996. The Nintendo 64 launched launched that exact same month. It wouldn't have made financial sense for Nintendo of America to request a localization of any game in the series that no one was familiar with until the console they were on was already essentially sunset in favor of their next generation console. Just bad timing unfortunately.
I wouldnt recomend people to skip Botuden 3, thats the only one I had, and playing ti with friends was a blast (back then) theres also a code to unlock more characters, you also forgot to mention that theres even a counter systemfor when the enemy shoots a special technique at you , like reflecting-defending- and power clash just like in the game (these at least in the Botuden 3 idk about the others)
I completely agree !
For the counter system, its also on the 2 first episode, even though there is more way to block the energy wave as in the 3rd you can make them disapear so you dont lose any HP and doesnt take the risk to lose the button mashing fight if you reply with your Kamehameha(or any other super blast)
Btw, since the time I became fan of jrpg(during ff6 release time) I always wished to have this kind of gameplay element on turn based jrpg in order to counter enemy magic/skills... I liked to have parry or defensive tricks in Mario Rpg games, but something more like in DBZ 3 with the ability to strike back if you do it in the right timing etc. would be great !
@@dbkai75 that would be a great idea!
Yes i forgot about the dissapearing, actually maybe you know this but if you tried a power clash and lost it, if you were quick enough you could do it again before it hit you, and if that one failed you could then do the vanishing, or defecting or the clash again! but you had to have your Ki maxed out
@@ElBribri Yes I know. ;)
I just had on mind the worst case scenario but as you said, you can still either guard, deviate or make it disapear depending your ki amount and the skill you use.(unless you are ki is depleted and your character is tired)
Botuden 3 also is the only one with a handicap system. You can input a code right before the fight and it will briefly show an aura that will boost your offense and defense.
I remember when my older brother's friend Manuel introduced to anime. It started with Dragonball (of course) VHS tapes and random Sci Fi Saturday morning showings.
I, being a huge fan of Street Fighter, saw he had a region adapter and saw a DBZ fighter for all of thirty seconds. ⌚
I pondered and glistened through EGMs imagining what it could play like....
Would have loved it, but thanks to this video, know that my rag~tag self would have returned to Spinning Pile Drivers lickety split. 🌪️
I never came across these as a kid, cool review!
I've never been a DBZ fan, but the third Super Butouden game is very nostalgic to me. I bought this CD with a lot of roms from a classmate back in high school and my cousin would try to come visit me from another town just to play that game at my place since he was (and still is) a huge fan. I liked playing as the two kids because they sounded funny. IIRC, the rom I had was in French.
He also loved Go Go Ackman 3 because the main character looked like Trunks. Later we found out it was based from another manga of Akira Toriyama. Which reminds me, I have to ask him if he knows about the Dragon Quest series one of these days.
I don't mind Dragon Ball games as RPGs, but I don't like them as fighting games because in the Dragon Ball fighting games, all gamers want to do is fly around and spam energy blasts instead of punching, kicking, grabbing, throwing and knocking their opponents out.
I remember giving my friend a magma mighty max playset and $30 for dragon ball z 3 in the early 90's, he didn't even know what dbz was but some how ended up with the game. My cousin had part 2 in 93-94, can't really remember but they use to air the Japanese show in NYC on channel 53, had no idea what they were saying but I tuned in every week day at 5pm.
The story mode is only present in the Super Famicom version of Hyper Dimension, the PAL version released only in France omitted that mode for unknown reasons.
Costs reduction for a cheap and quick release I guess.
That split screen method in Super Butoden 2 is very interesting method of having a large playfield with tje verticality
Amazing video that was epic
It's so weird, seeing boo in a Super Nintendo game. The character didn't even appear in America until the Snes was dead and gone.
Was in love with densetsu as a kid
Yes I played these ones
It is quite interesting the 90s era of DragonBall games were. Since it was before the franchise took off in North America thanks to Toonami and Cartoon Network.
Dragon Ball Z is the name of the manga, whole first saga from kid Goku to Majin-bu. Anime adaptation made people think "Z" is from the sayan appearance on, but it's not.