I Played Every DragonBall Z Game on the PS1

[@logancade342]

DBZ ... my childhood was defined by the intergalactic battle between the forces of ™️ versus the defenders of ©️.

[@GZiz84]

Underrated comment

[@Tahsistah]

Love this

[@BananaMana69]

So I was expecting this to be one of those videos where you just talk about the game a bit and show it off a bit but the fact that you actually got in depth with these games and explained them sucked me right in. Great video.

[@evprince]

When I look at games I really look at them 🔍

[@AnonimitySmith]

I played the crap out of all 3 of these games as a kid. All 3 were the Japanese releases and I had to use my "Golden Finger" mod chip that plugged into the back of the console like a game shark. My copy of Dragon Ball Z Legends was a burned dvd-r. And it may have ended up being called "A Legend" in the European release but my copy had "Dragon Ball Z Legends" written on it. I remember having a spring inside the lid of the disc tray and having to initially put in a U.S. PS1 game to unlock the region lock... *sigh* nostalgia... great vid. Thanks. And I really did enjoy the heck out of all 3 o f these games in the 90s because that was all that existed, and I was thrilled that it existed. And yes, Legends was a lot of fun despite the goofy mechanics. 6 characters fighting at the same time lol

[@LivinMyJeffLife]

I played all 3 of these as well! There was a store called "TBS Comics" & they had all 3🥰 Super Baby is actually playable in Final Bout with a Cheat Code‼😇😁

[@daxhill2807]

The second game was ELITE when it came out. Imagine you end up with a dbz, game when your 9, you have the translator disk, and you get to re-enact a 1v3 Gohan vs cell jrs. You could also knock opponents through the terrain - a feature ahead of its time. Was one hell of a game.

[@chibinya]

yeah this game was sick. First one you could fly around rapidly, send people flying and teleport behind them, slam them into the ground. The graphics looked sick for the time. The special move cinematics are still legendary to this dya.

[@QueLoKevin]

Dragon Ball Z Legends is legit the best DBZ game I've ever played. It's fast paced with insane mechanics that makes it the closest to how we always imagine controlling the anime.

[@East_Texas_Gaming]

Same. I've owned it for 20+ years. Still the fastest dbz to date. Gameplay is even faster than Sparking Zero and xenoverse. And the combos are endless, unless you run out of ki. Same with vanieshes and follow up chase attacks, all limitless.

[@DerPokeDude]

Budokai Tenkaichi are the best out of DB Games

[@Neo-Midgar]

There actually was a story mode in Japanese UB22. They just didn't want to spend the money to dub or subtitle it.

[@McCourt.]

It wasn't a "story mode" just cutscenes before and after the match. Some fights had unique interactions but definitely didn't tell a story.

[@chapterblaq]

​@@McCourt. Its better than nothing ...one of the funnest aspects of fightings is the pre fight dialogue 😂 Like budokai tenkaichi or Sparking Zero rn. They can be amusing

[@Neo-Midgar]

@@McCourt. That's what story modes were in games like this in the 90s, it still counts. Just like the story modes in the Butoden and Hyper Dimension games. Hell, even games like Mortal Kombat these days are still just that, cutscenes before and after battles, just much, much more elaborate. This was far more than most fighting games had for a story in 1994. Hell, most had nothing but a ending cutscene, and even that's just if you were lucky.

[@McCourt.]

@@Neo-Midgar Bro it's an arcade latter where a fighter says the same line to each other before and after every match... It's telling no story whatsoever. Dragon Ball GT final bout had the same thing just less cool looking. The Butoden games told the story of DBZ so you didn't even need to watch a single episode to understand what was going on and also had what-if stories. Games on the SNES and Genesis had flushed out stories either in text you can read on screen or in the manual. Even Mortal Kombat 1,2 and 3 had texts about characters back stories and reasons why the events are taking place.

[@n64central]

The wild part about Final Bout is that GT didn’t even air in the US yet, and the internet use isn’t what it is today, so it probably shocked a lot of fans to see there’s a sequel

[@Bingo_the_Pug]

You had to be REALLY into the series to know that there was a GT in the mid 90’s. Us few that had access to fan dubs knew of these foreign characters when regular normies hadn’t watched anything beyond the Frieza Saga.

[@ElhamGerrard8]

I still remember collecting GT stickers and playing Final Bout like 6-7 years prior GT release. You really had to be into the world to avoid getting confused.

[@East_Texas_Gaming]

We played GT final bout in 1999 at PEAK DBZ toonami hype and were confused as hell when we popped the disc in and saw Frieza WITHOUT horns ! And Majin Buu, we were like who is this ??? And Pan, Trunks, Cell....we were lost. Also, the voices weren't the voices from the show. It was so bizarre to us, but it was the only American DB game we had at our disposal at the time so we played despite the sluggish, clunky gameplay.

[@Neo-Midgar]

Yeah, I got Final Bout and Legends when the Cell Saga was wrapping up, so you can imagine my confusion and wonder: "whoa, who's that fat pink guy, and why did Vegeta turn evil again...wait why is Goky a Kid again? A golden ape named 'Baby'?...SUPER SAIYAN 4?!?" It was a wild, wild time, and I was schooling all my friends on characters they wouldn't even see for 4+ years.

[@FreddyKruegerRealEstate]

Sorta, but not exactly. I was in highschool when the Final Bout game launched in the West. We knew about GT. If you were into Dragon Ball Z at that time, and not a small kid, you probably knew about GT and AF. At the time we thought GT and AF were both real, and it was thought that GT was a alternate universe parallel to Z (not far from the truth). While AF was the continuation of Z, being mysteriously worked on in Japan. People also knew that the series was a old show, and that you could read first hand accounts online of people who knew Japanese who watched the "Boo Arc"... It was fairly obvious, because even in 1998, there were Dragon Ball Z figures, posters and merch in magazines (especially EGM and NewType), online and some stores that featured future trunks, Super Saiyan 3 Goku, and kid Buu. And magazine were very popular. Even early internet had lots of early anime sites for things like Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, and some other Shonen like YuYu Hakashu and Slayer. And while most people didn't have internet, this was at age of people virally spreading rumors, movie plots, game codes (remember mew in the truck in Red & Blue Version?) and everything else word to mouth. And this got around. We knew who many of the characters in Final Bout were, but thanks to the localization - most the characters in the game where anyone's guess ot us. That was part of the fun of it because honestly the game was far from fun, even at the time. And even if you were one of those people lucky enough to have a computer, have free reign at the phone line, have a browser subscription AND be tech savvy: even if you looked at Japanese sites to find images from GT, there was unfortunately very little to gleem from it because localization barely existed. So Final Bout existed as a mystery for us, wrapped in a vague understanding that it wasn't canon, full of both familiar and unfamiliar characters - where we had no clue who was good or bad - until many years later.

[@Arc115YT]

Ultimate Battle 22 was my first DBZ game, too! I was too young to really know how to play properly, but that didn't stop me from pouring dozens of hours into it throughout my childhood. It was also the first game I played with friends a lot.

[@BobbyHo2022]

We played it too. But every fighter played the same to me.

[@Forrealsyall]

I gotta admit, I really like Dragon Ball Z Legend, I also have the Saturn version which runs a lot smoother, and (in my opinion) looks a bit nicer since it uses more pixelart elements for super attacks over low poly 2D. It also has more detailed environments and a few destructable environmental details. The story mode certainly can drag, but it also offers unique events and cool optional scenes. I enjoy hopping into it every now and then just doing some VS CPU.

[@ForThePeople6]

Your tweakin the regular GT cover was dope and clean

[@vel2118]

I agree it's my favorite Dragon Ball cover art

[@jarfmusic]

I clicked INSTANTLY

[@davidburton4836]

This is a great video! You're love of the Dragon Ball franchise is palpable, and I just subscribed to your channel. However, I do have to say that spelling "Buu" as "Boo" isn't exactly wrong. While the katakana for the name would be written in English as "Buu", his name, as well as the wizards he was created/released by, get there names from the famous phrase coined by Disney's Cinderella "Bibidi-Babidi-Boo". "Buu" is the closest approximation you can get to "Boo" using the Japanese alphabet, so while "Buu" may be the more correct spelling, "Boo" more accurately portrays the meaning intended by Akira Toriyama to an English speaking audience. Freeza's name however, is incorrect. Freeza’s name is a pun on all things relating to the cold. As both Freeza’s and Coola’s names end in a short “a” vowel (rather than the long â/aa which usually signifies “er” in kana spellings of English words), Freeza’s name is typically spelled with an “a” at the end (as opposed to “Freezer”). Logic would of course follow that his brother’s name should in turn be spelled in a similar fashion as “Coola” (rather than “Cooler”). FUNimation chooses to spell the names as “Cooler” and “Frieza”, removing the consistency between the names and their final vowels. The actual English word “freezer” would be written out in katakana as フリーザー / furîzâ, so it would stand to reason that we should spell the Dragon Ball character’s name as “Freeza” instead of “Freezer”. "Vegetto" in Final Bout is a preferable spelling to Funimation's use of "Vegito" once you learn that Kakarot in Japanese would actually be Kakarotto in English, as the fusions are supposed to have a fused name as well, and "Vegito" leans heavily into the "Vegeta" side. The "I" actually comes from the ""I" in Vegeta's Japanese name "Bejīta", if you were curious. Really, there is no accurate way to translate Vegetto's original name of "Bejitto" without explaining how Japanese names work, and how some things just can't be translated 100% accurately in English. It is for this reason that I have a preference for the Viz manga translation of "Vegerot", as though it is rather silly sounding, it accurately gets across the intention of the fused name going by a combination of Vegeta and Goku's Saiyan names. If you're curious about any other characters names, I suggest you look up MistareFusion here on KZbin. He has a series where he goes into depth on the Dragon Ball manga as well as anime where the names he uses are as accurate to the original Japanese intention as can be understood by a native English speaker. He also provides a brief explanation of why he chooses to pronounce the name in such a way as to allow for a better understanding. He also has a few videos specifically about character names, why they're written how they are, why they're translated how they are, as well as any puns or double meanings they're derived from. If you've taken the time to read all of this then I appreciate it, and nice work on a wonderful video!

[@evprince]

I did take the time to read all of that very informative!

[@davidburton4836]

Thank you! I look forward to catching up on all your old videos, as well as any videos you upload in the future.

[@twall91]

Having read pretty much all of this as well (mostly just to see if there was anything major I hadn’t already learned about in my 20+ years of love for Dragon Ball) I can personally say that A.) I’m glad funimation changed the little aspect of Cooler’s name as it sounds waaaay better and exudes a… “cooler” attitude (pun very intended) as I’ve always seen him as the far more badass character of the two between him and frieza. I’m glad that he’s only been used sparingly. Annnd B.) I think I prefer ruminations naming conventions for pretty much everything overall. All the weird grammatical inconsistencies that would pop up if they didn’t change some stuff would drive me nuts! lol… or at the very least they’d sound far too goofy. I think Dragon Ball has always toed the line between badass and goofy perfectly and I’d hate for it to tilt too far one way and disrupt that perfect balance they’ve had for almost 4 decades

[@CoachFashow]

Also for legends you forgot to talk about the % Mechanic to how close you get the battles to Manga.

[@swempytimes]

"The game really makes you FEEL like anime" -IGN

[@fullmetalu320]

I really felt like Dabura™️

[@ryanhorton9594]

I played so much Ultimate 22. Majin Vegeta was the only character I maxed, but I enjoyed the grind. Also, I loved the classic GT Final Bout cover!

[@cloudtg462]

Vegetto is actually the proper way to spell his name For whatever reason, Funimation changed Goku's Saiyan name to Kakarot from Kakarotto. And then added an I to Vegito Vegeta + Kakarotto = Vegetto

[@djb1ge]

"Kakarotto" is the Japanese pronounciation of "Kakarot". Dunno if you watch DBZ subbed or not, but you can hear Vegeta saying it like that in the Japanese version of the show.

[@HeartburnMan]

I always believed Vegetto was more Vegeta and Gogeta was more Goku. I would of loved to see Gokhan though

[@Jeviok]

I played Dragonball: Final Bout, the original Japanese release version. Bought it on the internet as well as a playstation converter that allowed me to play imported games. So at the time I was the cool kid who had the only dragonball game with Buu and GT characters in it. I managed to have fun with it even though it was terrible. I love the intro cinematic and I like to play The Biggest Fight music in my group exercise classes. Something that always bothered me was how much Great Ape Bebi looks like Alf.

[@XxKeNoHxX]

Biggest Fight is an amazing work out song

[@MrDrewmooz]

Man you do a great job making videos, really professional and well done - your Channel should be way bigger!!!

[@Meeko2689]

I had those games growing up! This video brought so many childhood memories

[@190mohammedyasin6]

Found ur channel as I was searching which dbz game is good on ps1 and saw this pretty amazing keep it up

[@evprince]

Lots of DBZ on my channel so welcome!

[@joshhamester]

Had all 3 of the japanese versions imported in the early 00s along with a modded PSX just to play them. That's how big the DBZ mania was to an 8 year old in 2000.

[@kap1618]

I still can't get over the fact that gt was airing during the ps1 era. I had final bout but man my memory must suck.

[@steel5897]

DBZ games really got good at the PS2, I don't think they've ever been as good as the PS2 era

[@Deeeeezeeeee]

Burst Limit was Excellent on the Xbox 360

[@regg58]

Ultimate battle was also my first dbz game, it was trash but I enjoyed playing the hell out of it until i did get a ps2 years later Humble beginnings lol

[@xShinigamiRyukuux]

A couple things about Final Bout. It's very much the "Dragon Ball GT" game. The reason why SSJ4 Vegeta wasn't included was because he didn't exist yet (FB came on 8/21/97, SSJ4 Veggie premiered 9/17/97). Given it's release date, it's easy to assume development began sometime during the Baby arc, so that's probably why we didn't get Super 17 or any Shadow Dragons. For the voices, when they this game came out, FUNimation was still outsourcing their actors (from Ocean Studios for DBZ at the time) and didn't have any dubbing studios of their own. The show itself was on a break between the Saiyan and Namek arcs, so when it came time to bring this game to America, Bandai just used the European translation, and hired another dubbing studio to haphazardly dub the character intros. Pretty sure FUNimation had zero involment until the 2004 reissue, which they co-published with Atari. Last is Boo/Buu's spelling. The Boo arc hadn't come out in the US yet (we were barely at Namek), so that's we got "Vegetto" instead of "Vegito", "Boo" instead of Buu, but still got "Frieza" instead of "Freeza". They probably could've changed this in 2004, but probably had their hands full with Budokai 3 by then.

[@McCourt.]

It was created to be a mixture of Z and GT. That's why it was named "Dragon Ball Final Bout" in Japan but for whatever reason added GT to the Western releases.

[@vel2118]

@@McCourt.still the chose the GT font for the name

[@ryans-archive]

Dragon Ball Final Bout isn't a GT game. The Dragon Ball GT name was only put in the English versions.

[@dragon666777]

It's still pretty heavily centered around GT though, between the characters taken directly from or being based on GT taking up almost half of the roster (8 out of 17), adult Goku's design specifically being based on his appearance in the first GT episode, and Baby being the final boss Not sure why they didn't just title it as a GT game, but given GT was already proving itself to be a failure during this game's development, I assume they wanted a more broad appeal

[@vel2118]

@@dragon666777I agree ! plus the Font is definitely GT style

[@boyka6695]

Bro final bout may not have good soundtrack but the intro music was a real banger. I listen to it when i was frightend to get brave and it worked

[@Haseo92]

The first ever DBZ game I ever played was on the ps1, I wasn't even aware of dragon ball at the time. Still a lifelong fan 25 ish years later.

[@Ds117]

A friend of mine had some kind of import game he had to put a spring in the PlayStation it was a whole process but the game had characters in it we wouldn't see on TV for like five six years

[@IceBear518]

I had the boot disk that came with the spring back in the day bought from a local game store and they also sold copies 22 and final bout but they were the Japanese import copies.

[@scottjones845]

In GT SSJ4 Goku definitely didn't have finished animations. When he shoots a ki blast? It looks like he's showing Vegeta that he has crack in his pocket

[@obsu]

the way he shoots ki blasts is closer to Broly than anything super saiyan 4 resembles

[@sicmyde]

I remember my friend getting the first 2 games from eBay right before the PS2 was released. Legends was the goto game though because everyone was over Final Bout since it was old to us lol. great times

[@crabcakes448]

As someone who grew up playing DB games from the famicom all the way to now, Dragon Ball Legends for the PSX (and the Saturn) are severely, severely underrated. The soundtrack, while nothing too special, isn't horrible by any means. It feels DB at its core. Also, while the specials might take too long at times, these big finishers do the fights justice. For example, during the Frieza fight, start it out by allowing Frieza to kill Vegeta. After that, let Goku hit Frieza with the spirit bomb, which means you activate your special attack twice. Swap him with Krillin, and allow him to die. Lo and behold, a very angry SSJ Goku is there, ready to rip Frieza a new one - and you have an amazing change in OST. The game rewards you for playing as closely to how the fights played out in the manga as possible, allowing you to unlock its true ending. It's unwieldy and a little tricky to get a handle on, sure, but there's a reason why it still received praise from critics. For myself, it's so much better than Ultimate Battle 22.

[@thefcw]

THIS. 100% THIS. It’s a game that gives you more the more you put in. I loved coming home and beating the game in a single evening when I got home from school, especially cause it was so far ahead of where the anime was here in the US/Canada. A three on three DBZ fighter was just mind blowing at the time.

[@n64central]

Bro was literally pushing 1 button in ultimate 22 😂

[@PapaRainYT]

Up triangle down x left l1 right r1 should be ultimate battle 27 if my memory serves me correctly at the title screen

[@thefcw]

DBZ the Legend was easily the best of the three, especially when playing it with a mod chip PS1 back in 99ish. This was way before Budokai so actually getting to play through the sagas blew our little minds at the time.

[@justin200310068]

You’re crazy the soundtrack for ub22 was amazing the game sucked I agree final bout soundtrack was amazing too

[@logTopic]

My dad's cousin somehow got a copy of The Legend for his PS1, and one of my best memories is playing it with him at our grandma's house back in either 1999 or 2000. It was the most accurate depiction of a DBZ battle at the time. Didn't understand any of the Japanese, but somehow learned how to play the game haha. He's the one that got me into DBZ.

[@darwinespinoza3440]

The first time I played Densetsu was on a trip to Ecuador. My cousin owned an arcade and I saw some kids playing it and I got instantly hooked. It’s one of my favorite early video game memories of Dbz

[@aweiz6265]

Seeing a retrospective on UB22 that doesn't just shit all over it is extremely refreshing

[@KoolKatBeatz]

Built me an amazing Vegetto. I've been undefeated for decades... still waiting for a worthy opponent to challenge me!!!

[@samuelcampos1411]

I remember playing these in the midst of the Frieza saga playing on Toonami in America. I was mind blown seeing characters I’d have no reference to till years later

[@ulubulu_]

Final Bout was actually called Dragon Ball Final Bout, with no GT on the title, so I think it was just a DB game with the most popular characters at the time

[@DC-ts4uu]

Great video! Just a heads up, Boo is not spelled wrong in Final Bout. That's how his name is meant to be spelled, the dub changed it to Buu. The manga and subs both spell it Boo, as in Bibidi Babidi Boo, the Disney song

[@TheKingOfRooks]

GT wasn't out when Final Bout came out, and the Funimation dub hadn't started yet

[@phenompy]

I played the DBZ Legends when it came out, we got it really fast in South America (as you imagine the franchise is quite big here since the early 90's), 10 to 12 year old me loved that game and thought it was really fun.

[@MiyahCervantez]

The dbz games on gameboy advance were great also and this p.c. d bz game i played one time was amazing very simple but cool and yes there was one comment i seen that i remember getting a copy and having to prop open ps1 by using a small stick to bypass closing ps1 was only way to get disc to spin backwards n play on ps1

[@home9dog2blue199]

DBGT Final Bout had beam clashes too. i remember bc the camera does a 360 swivel 😂😂😂

[@hajime_87]

The game final bout might have started as a DBZ game. But in Japan it's just dragon ball final bout. Z or GT isn't in the name.

[@vel2118]

still alot of characters where gt based... clothing etc... plus the Font of the name was in GT style

[@hajime_87]

@vel2118 which version? The 2004 version had the Funimation GT logo on the cover art.

[@ThreeSwordXenas]

The actual game legit has GT on the cover

[@hajime_87]

@@ThreeSwordXenas that's how it was marketed in America. The Japanese version is just dragon ball final bout.

[@gamma_dc8289]

9:23 i dont think it was a mistake. Gogeta's debut movie, Fusion reborn, didnt come out over here until 2006. Im pretty sure they named him "vegeto" not to spoil who he really is

[@robo361]

Whenever my brother and I would practice fighting with characters in ultimate battle or final bout we would ALWAYS fight ss.trunks Hikari no willpower is the goat of soundtracks

[@KingdomHeart556]

I really couldn’t tell if ssj4 Goku was meant to seem like he is an all powerful badass with his slow walk and barely visible movements or if they just fucked up the controls for him somehow and decided not to fix it 😮 it’s awful either way

[@jeremyhall2727]

To bad America didn't get the game version of ultimate battle 22. The Sega version is the updated one. Think of it like how Street fighter 2 kept updating their game

[@djb1ge]

Despite it not being very good, I'll always have a soft spot for Final Bout. I had a Japanese copy as a kid and for what felt like forever, it and Legacy of Goku were the only Dragon Ball games available to us. When Budokai 1 finally dropped, we were all so happy. lol

[@ImNotJoshBoltz]

I remember in high school my neighbor and I bought and split all three of these at our local Vintage Stock along with that gold spring import device. I didn't care for Ultimate 22 and Final Bout was meh, but man I sank so many hours into the DBZ Legend trying to get the accuracy score. Always thought it would be cool to get a retro style remake.

[@RyuuzakiL5]

Dragon Ball GT Final Bout was launched Fabuary 1st, and at that time the Dragon Ball GT was at the Baby Saga, so, no Vegeta GT or SSJ4 Vegeta, no Super 17, no Shadow Dragons and no Gogeta SSJ4.

[@jeremyhall2727]

My god 😮 you know how to play ultimate battle 22? You didn't quit because it's hard. I was skipping until you started doing in deep explaining everything. I will saved this one to my playlist & watch it later. I just wanted to say wow

[@guitarblueghost]

Final Bout have a bad soundtrack? I think its the only good thing the game has...

[@NotaGiraffe4]

If you don't like it I completely understand but DBZ The Legends was FAR and away the best DBZ game of this era and I loved it's unique mechanics.

[@RyRy69420]

That's insane to say dragon ball wasn't big in the mid 90s....as a kid in Canada alone we were playing the DBZ games burned on ps1

[@countgrammar04]

You can turn off the beam struggles in final bout. After turning it off, they come out in real time.

[@da1fromdaheightz]

i was born in dominican republic, we had these games in mid 90s it was an amazing time 😢

[@DigitalLogos]

UB22 was my first DBZ game too. I loved it despite it being a total slog. I remember spending time poring over used media stores as a kid trying to find Final Bout until they re-released it. What a disappointment it was after having played a lot of Budokai 😂

[@bigdawgpablo]

I loved the second game!! I had a bootleg ps1 in Colombia with a copy of this game!! I also, played battle 22!!

[@RomanJr316]

Well Future Trunks has one of the coolest designs. They follow that up by giving him the worst design in GT

[@bigdawgpablo]

Dragon ball and DBZ where very popular in Colombia!! I had toys and watched it all since 1993.

[@GrandAlchemist]

Dragon Ball GT Final Bout When this game came out in the US the Funi dub didn't even exist yet. The choice to not use the Ocean Group to get the few lines of vocals is still baffling, but when you're not expecting much profit, you cut corners where you can cut them. That being said, I actually liked the voices for the most part. Actually, now that I think about it, when this game came out, there was no official translation for Buu, Vegetto, Trunks, Cell, Pan, or Baby. I thought Vegetto's music was pretty dope. When doing a beam struggle you just have to mash triangle to win. You are also able to counter, block, or deflect when the computer attacks you. If this is still an annoying feature you can go into the options menu and turn of Demo mode and the game will behave like UB22 and the rest of the Botuden games. Meteor Mode was an odd choice of rock-paper-scissors to add to the game and it is also able to be turned off. As for the development time and roster oddity for it being named Dragon Ball GT Final Bout... well... it was only branded GT in North America. The original Japanese release is just Dragon Ball Final Bout. Given the timeframe, adding the GT branding is even more confusing because, well, as one of the small number of people in the US that even knew about Dragon Ball, what difference would the GT even make to people? I will be honest, this game is what made me dig deeper into Dragon Ball as a whole (at the time I was only aware of Z and had only been watching it for a year). Maybe that was the point. Not sure. Anyways, this game was only half-done 6 months out from its release date. They probably finalized their roster when they started developing the game, which was most likely around the time SS4 Goku and Golden Oozaru Baby were brand-spankin-new, which is why the roster is so GT light - Super 17 hadn't debuted yet, the Shadow Dragons weren't a thing yet, and neither was SS4 Vegeta. All that being said, this game was likely just slapped together for a cash grab. The fact that it even came out in America when it did was surprising. It was a truly bad, and at that time, to a pre-teen desperate to dive deeper into Dragon Ball, wonderful game and it was the ONLY official Dragon Ball game we would have in the US until Budokai came out.

[@KKDRK]

This vid is super fuckin underrated

[@nebulapig]

I remember hooking a gameshark(i think that was what it was) up to my ps1and leveling goku to virtually unbeatable, then playing my brother in law and crushing him. Good times.

[@ryans-archive]

You really like those widescreen mods, huh?

[@ElhamGerrard8]

Early 2000 I had a Manga kinda comic variant of Dragon Ball non canon movies like Garlic Jr. and Turles. In one of them there was a number to order Ultimate Battle 22 or Final Bout. My parents allowed me to get one. I decided for Ultimate Battle 22 because of the cover. The cover in Europe was different than the one you showed us in your video. The game was in French so I was like okay this game is probably only released in France for Europe. I live in Germany and this is no joke the game was released 3 years later after I had mine from that manga comic variant. A few friends of mine had Ultimate Battle 22 burned on a 💿 prior its original Europe release. They also had Final Bout and Dragon Ball Legends. Ultimate Battle 22 is 💯 better than the other two PS1 games. I had a lot of fun as a kid. Final Bout was really shocking I mean besides the opening intro the entire game was terrible. Around 2005 I came to play Dragon Ball Legends / Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu and man I was lucky I didn’t went to buy it unlike my friend who paid for a burned disc of it.

[@lnfskate6083]

i had ultimate battle 22 and my friend had dbz legends , we had the jpn piece to play it on our ps1

[@Dredrick]

I made friends with the weird new kid at school when he showed up and said he had GT Final Bout. That ended up going... not well for me but hey I got to play a DBZ game I never heard about before so no ragerts

[@Mitissa515]

"As a Vegeta fan..." aaaaaand clicked Subscribe

[@TheMOHANMANIAexperience]

In the gt game you can turn n the counter thing off in the options

[@warrenellis1023]

Gt. My speculation was it was developed during the first arc of gt and they dipped into Z to fill out the roster.

[@ghostwriter1440]

When I was a kid my friend had a modded ps1 and had a copy of DBZ the Legend (though until today I’d long forgotten it’s name) I recall enjoying it, thinking it was cool but found it hard to play. I feel like maybe it was multi player?

[@IronMikeBison]

I loved the dragon ball z legends as a kid, as an adult now it prob sucks.

[@East_Texas_Gaming]

Its still great bro. Been playing it since 2001.

[@vicodin12345]

Man if there was a way to know how many hours you put into games back then cause this 3 were the top in my childhood having to get the chip to play Japanese games on the ps1 😅

[@masenko2006]

dragon power on nes is a reskinned dragonball games so... maybe the first game not final bout? also when final bout came out in japan episode 56 of gt had just aired so super saiyan 4 vegeta/gogeta wasnt a thing yet

[@dotmurda]

Play the saturn versions! (There's no gt... but the first 2!) And compare them... would live that review

[@luparindes4081]

DBZ The Legend came out in europe also and on the Saturn witch is the best version to play. Its one of the best DB games period and it was the first to actually recreat the fighting in the show. Sending an opponent into the rocks and fly after them to continue beating the crap outta them is never not fun. The sprite work is amazing! One of my fav DB games ever!

[@MaskedFighter]

DBZ Legends was the best, an actual story mode 3 vs 3, most characters. Cons, worst graphics and Couldn't do super moves only when the cutscene activates. Ultimate Battle 22, decent amount of characters great soundtrack, epic intro , it's just the gameplay sucked it was too slow. Final Bout..Honestly the best thing about the game was the intro, one of the best, the soundtrack and SS4.. we didn't even know SS4 existed until playing Final Bout and it looked so wild and powerful, other than that it was the weakest of the three games, low characters roster, no story mode, terrible voices on some versions, slow gameplay, one thing i did like was the aura charge and the mini cutscenes for super attacks beam struggles but the rest of the gameplay was garbage, we all loved it at the time because it was when DBZ was at it's pinnacle in the show so we always fantasized about playing a Dragonball game..Then came Budokai 1 and we forgot all about the ps1 games the first Budokai blew us all away. Budokai 1 changed everything..without the first Budokai game there wouldn't be the Budokai series there wouldn't be a tenkaichi series and Raging Blast etc lets all thank Budokai 1 for opening up the doors.

[@Eddy-ov4tx]

I loved DBZ Legends and Final Bout. Sure by todays standards it's AWFUL, but back then, it was amazing. Loved the cinematics , music, characters and voice overs.

[@DoomyRei]

Nice fun game

[@ithugauniverse2941]

Legends actually was number one in my book 😩😊

[@ThreeSwordXenas]

When I was a kid final bout was one of the greatest games I've ever played....then fast forward to when I'm older and actually bought it cause it was americanized I realized I was bugging lol still fun for nostalgic purposes but that's it lol shit i even still remember the code to unlock everyone oh and bte in order to win the clashes you have to press square, triangle, and circle repeatedly

[@TheOGNoName]

I had UB22 when it finally came out here in America. Was extremely disappointed by it. I think i had already played Budokai and I was expecting a story mode like it had but with Buu added to it (i was a young kid. I know better now)...I always wanted to play Legends and Final Bout but never got to. I was always extremely intrigued by the cover art to Legenfs because I had no idea who Kid Buu was but I thought he just looked so cool. GT was like a myth back then so I was pretty interested in it too. Never got to play those 2 though.

[@chibinya]

Final bout OST is fire, you neeed some q-tips. Many tracks are recycled but they are re-arranged to be much better than in the old Butoden games. I can't name a bad theme from this. The game does suck though. As for Idanaru DBZ Densetsu, I thought the super move cinematics in it look extremely good. Even current-gen DBZ games don't have as good "directing" for the iconic moves. Final Flash and that adult Gohan Kamehameha peaked in this gme and haven't caught up.

[@AngeVNs]

I liked DBZ Legend but I can see why you wouldn't

[@chapterblaq]

Lol I definitely owned a copy of Ultimate Battle 22 as a kid. We were poor as fuck and were still on PlayStation 1 😂

[@Thenewbagman]

"People here, in the west" Fkn USA xD

[@aRbItEr82x]

I swear to god I played the legend on ps1 and it was in english, mind you it was a pirated copy so most likely it had an english patch

[@AlbironiePunso-rb1eo]

Games in the PS1 is soooo legendary

[@bejitostk]

11:19 I know this vid is 7 months old so you might already know this but trunks theme in ultimate battle 22 is just a remix of a song by Hironobu Kageyama called Hikari no Willpower kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqSUl2ywbZiCiKM

[@rgmusic4769]

Ultimate battle 22 might have weak gameplay but that OST I would Jam it when I played Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 on my PS4

[@mulekezicanorole]

ive played those games here in my country (bRazil) thanks to piracy, and i guess its really a matter of taste, but the second game you talked about, i played a lot and enjoyed it, but the first game, that you had a lot of experience withm i could not stand to play lol.

[@joshhamester]

Man gotta disagree on the Final Bout cover. That illustration went hard as hell and still looks so badass. The later american version that came out in 2002/2003 was pure garbage.

[@HeartburnMan]

I shit my pants when I got a copy of ultimate battle 22 and even though its absolute ass I still loved every second of it

[@shawnbrian3850]

I bough a emulator for PS1 Dragon Ball, GT battle battle in 2001 or 2002. There was an America version but that thing was worth my then my 15 year old ass could afford lol. For a year or two it was the only thing we could play to the Dragon Ball Z PS2 game came out

[@DA50886]

Having player DBZ Legend and DB Final Bout, the criticisms here seem quite convoluted and perhaps tainted with recency bias. Games in the 90s were clunky by nature. There were some standouts which were very smooth and intuitive like Marvel v. Capcom and Tekken 3 but the controls for Final Bout were intuitive enough if you knew how to play other fighter games. The frustration from the mechanics appear rooted on the lack of knowledge of how they work more than anything else. I do not know how to read and speak Japanese but both Legend and Final Bout had their merits for their time. Legend was able to approximate the frenetic pace of epic DBZ battles on a relatively inferior hardware platform (although one considered state of the art by late 90s standards). It also allowed for epic matches with a friend. If you knew how to manage your team, you can gain the upperhand in a 3v3 fight whether against a friend or the CPU. The finishers allow for a pause of tension and to enable the the losing side a respite to rally and get back in the game. Final Bout had klunky mechanics but once mastered, one can have hours of fun playing against the CPU or a friend. There were so many means to fight. From beam clashes (it required button mashing to win) to timing button prompts for meteor clashes right. If you know what you’re doing you can end a meteor clash with an unblockable super which will feature a unique closing voiceover if the super ends up being the finishing move.