Man, back in the day me, my brother and dad took turns trying to kill 100% power Frieza in story mode. We sucked so bad, it took forever, and I can't even remember who took the actual W, but it was great.

When I was little, trying to beat final perfect cell with an injured gohan was rage inducing. Beating it was a nightmare.

My lord that spinning part with Radditz killed me as a child

Fun fact: So we know there are 153 episodes of the original Dragon Ball series, and 291 episodes of the follow-up series Dragon Ball Z. Over the course of both series, Goku uses the Kamehameha a total of 97 times. That comes out to around one Kamehameha every four or five episodes

Dear gawd, I was sooooo obsessed with DBZ back in the day. The yelling, the hammy voice acting, Toriyama's distinct art style, freakin' hot muscle-y space monkeys capable of vaporizing entire planets...etc. What more could a blerdy chick possibly want?! And don't even get me started on Freiza & Cell...!😍 That aside, I was super-stoked when I received Boudokai (PS2 ver.) as a belated Christmas gift (in early January 2007). It looked great and the voices & dialogue was spot-on. But, damn it, it was hard. I never finished it.

That Intro hit hard my boy lol, I'm 32 and can remember playing this game in my mid teen years. Lord how time flies yet I can remember those days like it was yesterday, good times.

Maybe the best cutscenes ever in a dragon ball game. Also I loved the art style. I unclocked everything at the day and left me wondering where the f*** was the Buu saga

The AI in this game were so brutal. Took me way too long to beat frieze on normal difficulty. If you come back to this game you should do Hercules mode.

JFC that intro statement had my 30 year old ass dying. I remember watching DBZ when I was 9 years old after school. Literally look forward to it all day, run home and kick the tube on.

The most impressive thing about Vegeta is that he went through all that fighting, and he didn't even break his iPhone.

My favorite DBZ fact: Goku going Super Saiyan is a Christmas miracle. Vegeta and Nappa land on earth on 3 November. Next day, Goku's in the hospital, they find Kami's ship. It takes 10 days to re-program it. They get to Namek 34 days later. Same day, Goku leaves for Namek in the Capsule Corp ship. Gets there six days later. Has one really long day fighting the Ginyus and Frieza. We're now 51 days past 3 Nov. It's christmas eve. Merry Christmas

This was absolutely amazing. It wasnt just a game, it was an experience. Music and everything. It was so close to the anime styling too.

Micky: "People get so frustrated playing fighting games with me because I just don't block" Me: "Wait, you can block in fighting games?"

This game is what got me into Dragonball in the first place. I definitely give it credit where credit is due

This game was one of my first PS2 games I'd love to see more for the nostalgia.

No game has come close to this one in terms of presentation. The fighting system is the definition of undercooked jank compared to Budokai 3, but the story for this game is unmatched.

Micky you know how to hit where it hurts in the first moments of your vid. Love what you do, cheers.

3:15 Anime can actually be a great way to supplement Japanese learning because everything has good clear enunciation and there's plenty of memorable contexts for what you hear. Unfortunately, shonen anime like Dragon Ball and Naruto aren't the best to start out with since one does not get plenty of chances to issue a promise to kill someone via punches, kicks, and explosions, or declare that someone will become a ninja president all that often.

Budakai 3 was my childhood! Me and my brother and sister would go at it for hours and then running the story mode to get every character. Damn this brings me back...

Man I remember holding this case after I picked it up from the store. Such a great feeling reading the manual on the way home and the anticipation! Unmatched and the digital kids now will never know this feeling 🥺🥺

Good point about Raditz. It took the two strongest people on Earth at the time to take him down and even then they were both fucked up and had to sacrifice Goku to even manage it.

I broke my gamecube joystick during the Raditz minigame back in the day. Good times.

"The one who will die, is you!!!...... Scram!!" ~Frieza

thank you for this, very enjoyable video takes me back, the nostalgia is heavy here

Best Frieza voiceover was LittleKuriboh and nobody can change my mind

I oddly love the art style of this game

I would love to see you finish this game before moving on to 2 or 3, its really entertaining

Man bro nice video, I’m 2weeks late seeing this but I’m glad it got recommended for me to see today. You have gained a new subscriber and also a fan, I stayed up and played this game all night long as A kid. Infinite world, all the budokais and sagas. I think it would be really cool to see some more THROWBACK DBZ GAMES!!

Thank you Micky for being such a amazing person we don't deserve you

Yeah the difficulty spikes were nuts. I remember multiple instances of having my hands be sweaty as fuck, especially when fighting Cell

Thank you for featuring every formative video game from my youth that I haven't thought of in over a decade!

Radditz is my boy thanks for talking about him I actually made a few cocktails after his move names lol. Shining friday is a sparkling pink lemonade with orange vodka and a cherry with chipped ice. Saturday crush is a deep red sangria with sprite and sliced oranges and lemons. Double sunday is pink lemonade, grape soda cherry vodka and sweet schnapps of either peach or apple, Weekend is a combination of these three drinks with the alcohol halved, Where as vacation delete is these drinks with the alcohol doubled watered over ice guaranteed to make you forget a week. My favorite is the shining friday.

13:38 Yajirobe is a master at hiding his tiny power level. You can see in the dialogue, he sensed Krillin behind him before the attack was even launched. He had no idea Yajirobe was there. DBZ fans know this. But in the Tenkaichi games, Yajirobe can't be locked onto as easily as other characters. You have to have an open line of sight on him. A pretty cool and small detail added to the games for us who pay attention.

Hey Micky after completion you can revisit the storymode for alternative scenarios and fights from the story that weren't available the first time around e.g. everything on Namek prior to Goku's arrival.

I remembered when I first got this game, I was struggling so hard against Cell and throwing a rage!

6:59 damn that minigame was so difficult the first times

As someone who has never seen or played anything Dragon Ball related this is a real trip to watch

I specifically skipped this HD release because of the omission of 2. I really liked the weird boardgame story mode

This is great my man you should most definitely do more

I still remember renting this game when it came out

Christmas morning circa 2002.... I come down stairs to a large box and a dvd sized parcel wrapped up... I open the box first to find a second hand fat PS2 (single mother , not a lot of money) and a copy of Budokai 1 in the small parcel. Played it nonstop for a long time and then Budokai 2, then I got Budokai 3 for my birthday , I still remember my friend Roy coming over after school to play it, then Tenkaichi and I even pre-ordered Tenkaichi 2 from GameStop (the one and only game I've ever pre-ordered) I liked Dragonball Z already but now Dragonball Z was life. Now 20 years later , I've a whole shelf unit filled with the orange bricks, the Blu-ray's , the viz-bigs, the 3-in-1s and full colour manga , boxes full of bulk DBS cards and binders filled with the good cards... Play Fighterz on a daily basis and Xenoverse 2 and Kakarot get picked back up every few months, this game changed my life and it'll always have a happy place in my heart

i played this game 20 years ago on my ps2 when i was a kid, i really loved playing the tournament and earning dragon balls.

Lmao the Mario wwwaaaaah! sound 😂 That was always my fave thing in that game

Such nostalgia! I had both 1 and 3 and beat literally everything. I probably burned thousands of hours between the two lol!

You really started this off with a spicy fun fact didn't'cha?

I remember appreciating this game when it came out since we were waiting for a modern DBZ game. But I also had the PS exchange disk for my PS1 and had been playing legends for years so I was understandably disappointed because that game really pioneered the Tenkaichi 3d free roam environment back then which was so for ahead of it's time and I was really expecting a structure like that that took better advantage of what you need to be capable of in DBZ.

11:18 I like how u say it like I use to bring back old memories

I tell you that the Raditz special beam cannon mission was the hardest mission of my life !! I still haven’t beat it my cousin did back in the day lol

Please do the rest of the DBZ games, I fw with how you review/edit

This game actually introduced me to dbz. I’ve been a huge fan of the series ever since.

Once again I have no idea what's going on due to never watching DBZ but hey, it's still nice to see Micky D genuinely enjoying one of his childhood/teenhood games.

Love this game the rage moments as a kid with my brothers were great! Difficulty was next level

We are, Mickey. I turn 30 this year.

ohoho yes. so this was the one I played when I was a kid. Realized it the moment I saw the "Spin the analog" minigame during the Raditz boss battle.

This game introduced me to dragonball. I found that game in a store and thought it looked cool. So I bought it and it was great. It was good for me that it had such a good story mode for me to understand what happens. Now I am a big fan of dragonball. But without that game I probably wouldn't be.

My favorite of all the games. Mostly because of the memories with the soundtrack

ah the old ps2 memories after school lol damn i remember playing oregon trail in art class talking to my friends about turning on some toonami and watching the episodes only to play the game as well. how the days go by.

I remember the broken combo system in this but it was so much fun. But sadly for whatever reason they never added a tutorial to explain it and they hid like 80% of the different combo strings characters can do.

Recently started playing it again on my gamecube, i forgot how satisfying it is to pull off a good combo

This takes me back when I was a child

Super throwback !! Do the second 1!!!

Bought that game at Circuit City back in 04.Oh the memories...

Found you through a Morrowind meme and there's this 5 hour old video. Nice.

omg those menu sounds sent me through time

Love that character select screen

I used to play this all the time. When this came out, I had only seen a few episodes of the Z show, but never the full series. So this was my reference to anything z related. I final did get to see the real series yrs later, and I was in for a shock cuz of the filler and different dialog. But I knew the initial story. But I was bummed that the following games didn't continue this method of story and gameplay. Would've liked to see this style with buu and gt. And the mini games were hard. The super saiyan transformation was still amazing and iconic for me.

Also, the what if scenarios on this game are really cool. And I bet some people don't even know

I still have this game on PS2 and literally played it a few days ago. Good game!

The radditz spin minigame thing was the reason i threw my controller through the room multiple times as a kid. I loved the game but this minigame always made me sick

Raditz went SSJ3 in Dragon Ball Heroes, I know it's just a game and not canon but it'S still funny :D

Ngl that totally got me hahha, well done xD 6:25

Dragon Ball Heroes, the japanese Arcade game that up until a few years now used old Budokai 3 models, has a card with Raditz SSJ3( one with nappa too, his, mustache grows bigger). The game also has a bit of a promotional going the last few years called Super Dragon Ball Heroes(the game has gone through a lot of updates since 2010-2011 when it was released). There's a lot of fan service forms that have come from it.

Bruh I spat when u said Yamaha was in his classic pose I wasn't watching it just listening to it like a podcast while driving. Shits hilarious knowing most dbz fans will know exactly what your talking about

memorizing combos and doing hidden combos that are super intense like piccolo combos is what makes you unstoppable once you play budokai 3 or tenkaichi with spamming ability

This is my favorite game of all time. So many memories.

My friends and i would have full tournaments in Budokai 3 back in the day. i miss those days

when you had to know combos! playing this game and learning new combos to do in budokai 2 two do specials was cool af for the developers to make more than one way to do specials like Kamehameha ➡️PPPE , K➡️PPPE for a small example but there hella more.

I remember really liking the art direction at the time because the characters looked exactly like the action figures I had. Good times. Also good lord, the soundtrack...

It's still the DB game that feels the most loyal to the anime with the most authentic cutscenes and the best music (Gamecube version)

I played Budokai 2 soooop much even if I get that it wasn’t that great. Made a custom Goku where he only had Super Saiyan up to Three, Kamehameha and Warp Kamehameha. The rest of the capsules were just those that that let the Chi level increase by itself. Also played the first game but it didn’t have that customizability I enjoyed in the second. Too bad it wasn’t part of the remaster.

I remember when my father bought me this game it was right after we moved. It made me so happy 😌

Heh, King Kai Fist, that's a very literal translation of Kaioken

What are your thoughts on GT, Mickey D? It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I think it's quite enjoyable. Also SSJ3 Raditz is in Dragon Ball Heroes and yes his hair is longer lol

Considering Raditz had very little screentime in the series and the FighterZ movesets are directly referencing the manga/anime, I just don't think there was enough source material to design a full fighting game moveset for him. *YET.* If the Super Hero leaks are accurate at all, we might be looking at a comeback for Raditz, thus giving him more source material to design around, and he finally gets added to the roster for FighterZ 2? 🤔

You forgot to mention the main endgame challenge to this game, doing the World Tournament to get money or Zenni as they call it, collecting dragon balls and getting breakthroughs for your characters.

This game was my first real exposure to DBZ as a kid. I'd seen glimpses of the sow on Toonami late at night but bedtime always caught up before I could even get invested into an episode. Playing this game taught me a lot about difficulty and after sobbing into the controller and begging GOD for a win against super perfect cell, I'd beaten the game and replayed it for years until the Xbox 360 came out.

"We're all getting old at an incredibly fast rate!" ... just kick me in the teeth Mick

I went on a weeklong vacation with my Mom when I was 5, but my Dad had an intense allergic reaction and couldn’t join us. When we got home, he had started playing Budokai and unlocked all of the extra characters (shy of Great Saiyaman). It was so much fun to play with him - even though he constantly kicked my ass. When Budokai 2 came out, we spent so many weekends playing together to finish the story mode.

This was my favorite game as a kid . Best story mode I ever played to this date

The best KZfaqr out there

Just so everyone knows, you can add the original soundtrack to the HD budokai 3 (maybe budokai 1 as well) using Multiman, putting the files on the PC, swapping out some sound folders, and putting it back on the PS3. I did it many years ago, so look into it if you're interested.

I remember playing this on the ps2 when my parents got me this for Christmas truly good times

Love ya mick

I loved the line after Goku went super saiyan and said “IT OVERRR FRIEZAAAAAA…!!!” Gives me chills

If you tap up up or down down on the D-Pad you can dodge a attack if you time it right.

Every time a new cutscene started I heard the original soundtrack in my head, what was "like a burning wind" originally?

intro hits hard haha

Although the game has aged like milk imo, it’s such a classic! I remember when it came out man, everybody had to get it. It was truly the first big time DB game in America.

yo i remember popping in this mini disc on the gamecube back in the day.

I always liked how in that game you could play as Goku wearing the jeans T-shirt and brown jacket and how there was the side story of Vegeta becoming super Saiyan first