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I love how he's breaking down the the covers and boxart. A very lost experience in todays video games.

Budokai 3 actually had a bunch of secrets around the map if you looked, Such as unlocking spirit bomb early, Finding Cooler, Getting SSJ4 and or finding Broly etc.

These games were my childhood. The amount of time I spent playing Budokai 1 will always be some of my favorite memories.

Budokai 3 deserves a current gen release. It was honestly my favorite DBZ game of all time. Nothing comes close.

Got the first Budokai game on Christmans 2002, I was 14 years old. For weeks before the release date, I remember looking at gameplay pictures in Gamepro magazines and being blown away. It's all I would talk about in school with my friends. Being able to play through the DBZ storyline was simply amazing. Some of the best memories in gaming! I know the sequels improved on it, but nothing beats that first experience I had with Budokai.

Man, I remember a time when I was 11 or 12 years old when I was foaming at the mouth for months waiting for the first Budokai game to come out. Such a great series, glad this video came out so I could relive those good times.

I love the fact that you could absorb different characters as buu in budokai 2. I remember kicking butt as cell buu.

Budokai 2 was my GAME! It felt so satisfying to press square square square circle to do a kamehameha.

I loved all of these but Bukokai 2 has some great memories, me and my bro would co-op the story mode and take turns with each character on the map!

Burst limit would have been perfect if it actually went past the Cell saga and included the Buu Saga.

I’d say 1 is my favorite, I loved the alternate timeline type missions…like if vegeta became a SS when he first ever fought Goku, or when Cell absorbs Krillin and becomes an orange version of The baby cells. God I loved Budokai so much.

The amount of detail these games have is really amazing for the time I would’ve loved to be on the Development team.

My favorite now is for sure Infinite World which I’ve always seen as Budokai 4, but I love the trilogy. 1 had a great story, 3 had great mechanics and 2 was really charming. As a kid I always wanted to play 3 but I didn’t have a copy, but I did have a copy of 2 that I played til the cows came home. Great memories

I remember playing Budokai 3 religiously. I have no recollection of how difficult it was, but I remember thinking, as a kid, it was damn near impossible to unlock SS4 Gogeta (one of my favorites) and I was the happiest kid in the world when I finally got him. Love this game, definitely wanna pick it up again.

I found your channel a few months ago and love it. Keep up the awesome videos. Fun Fact, for those who don't know, the snow maps are actually from Dragon Ball, when Goku rescues a girl's dad from the Red Ribbon Army's tower (which is in the background) and meets Android 8.

Budokai 3 has remained my absolute favorite fighting game

Man the Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi games were my childhood and it was the first Budokai game that actually got me into DBZ as a kid alongside the classic Toonami

"So a puny Saiyan is it?! You, mock me?!?" *Blows hole through zarbon.* That animation is more cemented in my memory than the original.

I remember having Budokai 2 for like a year and a half before I figured out custom slots and selecting custom mode in the free fighting mode. It was like getting the game all over again once I figured out that I could go Super Saiyan 3 or use Big Bang Attack. What a time to be alive.

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Thank you for making this brought a tear to my eye. I thought I was the only one who had a nostalgia bone for this. I'm not even a fighting games fan but these games drug me into the fighting games zone.

I can't believe you didn't bring up the what-if scenarios from Budokai 1, like Cell eating Krillin when he tried to get android 18 and him getting a new form to reflect that. Was great

Great trip down memory lane. Thank you.

I used to have all these games growing up and I ended up selling them for games I don't even remember. This brought me back. Great video!

Those were just the beginning of dragon ball z games coming to consoles but no where perfect as the ones you see on Xbox 360 PS3 xbox one PS4 Steam

this is the video i was waiting for! Still get some childhood friends together most weekends and we play these and Mario Kart Double Dash all night. Great times

Love your content my big fella ! It’s so NOSTAGIC !! Feeling old men😢😂❤ Keep goin !

Huge Dragonball fan here, since I was 4, I'm 24 now so 20 years with this franchise, I remember Budokai 2 the most, I literally went and found it and brought it, for nostalgia cause I still have a ps2, i literally pulled the case and manual with the disc out right when you did. 1 and 3 I liked, but I never played early on, I wound up playing those two later on the ps3 hd collection (which I also own) but two was my fave, cuz when I was 8 in 3rd grade my mom had got it for me for getting straight As in school played it to death.

those opening videos were the best - budokai 2 I bought on a whim and it literally rejuvenated my love for anime and I've never looked back

Was anticipating what you'll say about Budokai 2, warm the heart to hear such praise, that was the biz for me, so many hours spent on that game, prob still my fav DBZ game to date.

Going through life rn but your videos are helping me through in some type of way

maaaaaan matty, you hit the nail on the head with the dbzb2 dragon world take and that snow map song. absolute freakin banger.

Love your videos man, some good stuff! Just found your channel too. it's great going back to and reminiscing about all the classics we grew up with in the ps2 era. Keep up the great work man!

Love your retro content! my last Dragonball was tenkaichi 2 💖

The Budokai games hold such a very special place in my heart. Budokai 3 in particular, probably has my favorite fighting game roster, not to mention the best anime game opening of all time (the international version with lyrics, obviously)

I was NOT ready for that intro when I clicked this video! the nostalgia slapped me right across the heart

Happy Friday to you too bro! Thank you for an awesome episode! 👍🏻

Loving the fact you’re covering dbz games now

I bought Budokai 1 when it came out originally on PS2, and it actually came with a folded poster inside the case that showed all the characters in the game along with a bio(iirc). Not sure if this was just an initial run thing, or if it came with all PS2 copies of the game. Just a fun fact I wanted to share.

After Ultimate Battle 22 and GT Final Bout these were so much better. love all of these. Budokai 1 was a game changer. I actually did like 2 as well but 3 was my favorite. Sucks HD versions didn't have 2. Then Budokai Tenkaichi was insane with the roster

I remember getting Budokai 2 for xmas the year it came out, i was 5 or 6 years old and it was one of the last gifts I opened and it just seemed like Santa i mean my parents saved the best for last and like you said Matty about the shiny cover, i was just in awe unwrapping it and then on top of that my parents also got me a dragon ball with it. Then when Budokai 3 was coming out, I remember my grandpa took me to Gamestop to pre order it and to this day i still have the behind the scenes/making of disc it came with. Thanks for the video Matty and the massive wave of nostalgia i got from it. Earlier this summer I met Chris and Sean at Fan Expo and it was just a dream come true i was literally speechless meeting them. I got up to Sean and just said "Hi. Sean." and reached to shake his hand and Sean goes "Oh your name is Sean to?" and i replied "No you're Sean I'm Joe. Sorry i don't know what to say you're like my hero". Worth it

Love the chill GT/z them in the background

The budokai 2 dragon world was literally the most fun thing ever! So excited for budokai Tenkaichi 4. So fun to revisit these game of my childhood

Budokai was a blast, and the first fighting game I was obsessed with. It is so good.

Budokai 3 was insane at the time. I couldn't believe how good the graphics were. I wish I never sold my copy!

I didnt watch the video before commenting this but it looks like a good place to share my passion with Budokai 3. This was back when blockbuster was still a thing, i loved the first two but 3 absolutely captivated me. Even though Dragon Rush was an incredibly frustrating mechanic vs cpu (i broke a controller fighting perfect cell) there was SO much content the story modes to unlock and explore, and the replay value was great with how you could spec and level characters. When you beat the story with all characters you unlock Dragon Arena which was SO FUN. I mained android 17 all dayyyy

I'm so glad Matty love Budokai 2 as his favourite it was also my favourite and will always be one of my favourite games of all time. The board game was so awesome a lot of cool strategies. I'll never forget fighting kid buu I had to much frustration on that board game. He was hard.

Excited for all the dbz vids. Budokai tencaichi 3 was my fav

Budokai 2 was my first every introduction to the dragon ball universe I had never heard of it before then and after I played this game I fell in love with dragon ball and it now my favorite anime and one of my favorite things of all time

Classic games I loved all the secrets and unlockables in Budokai 2

I used to grind TF out of the first Budokai game. Mannn childhood memories ❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Love the videos

It's worth noting that part of the reason Tenkaichi 3 is so expensive now is because it never got a second printing like a lot of other DBZ games. The publisher lost the license basically right after the game came out, so the first run of copies were the only ones ever made.

I loved the board game aspect omg I remember that! So fun almost forgot

This video brings me back!!!

Been playing these gems since I was 5 these games & the tenkaiechi series defined my childhood 🔥

These games were everything to me when I was a kid. The tenkaichi series never hit me like the budokai series. Budokai 1 was good and 2 was awesome with the what if fusions. Budokai 3 was just the best. I sunk so many hours into 3 and I loved it. I wish they would make a game like budokai but with dragon ball heroes story line.

One of my fondest memories is my dear mother walking into our local game store and telling the clerk "I'd like the Dragon Booty Call" please.

I remember I used to turn the tv down all the way to Play Budokai 3 super early in the morning before going to school, around elementary. I was so hooked on the game, it wasn't even mine, but when I had to move out of town, my friend knew I loved the game so much he gave me the very same copy I own to this day!

Glad they get so much love I still have 5 of the first 6

To this day Shin boudikai another road is one of my favorite psp games. Just the fact it's strait up boudakai on ps2. I desperately want there to be collections of these, boudakai tenkaich, legacy of goku and may others just so they are available on modern consoles.

Love for budokai 2 is very rare, glad to see somebody other than myself say good things about it.

Oh how I miss the Dragon Ball Budokai games I remember having these games back in the day for the PS2 unfortunately my PS2 stopped working when I was about 14 damn do these games bring up nostalgia

I remember playing these all so much as a kid haha. Especially loved the second game. Also could you make a video on your game collection matty?

Bro soo much money would be made beside tha happiness. Budokai 3 literally is my 2nd if not fav dbz game of all time, neva got tired of playin it fr. 😩😭

These were the Exact Games that made Me a Dragon Ball fan as a kid. I didn't have access to DBZ as a kid but I had Budokai 1/2/3 for ps2 and even in Video Game Form Vegeta and Piccolo were my favorite characters.

almost 27 now, i was a kid when Budokai 1 came out, spent countless hours on it, amazing childhood memories will always be one of my favourite games

Loved the Budokai series. The fact it was releasing around the same time as the release of the series in the western market was what made it even more special. I remember PLAY Magazine released a save file where every character had breakthrough unlocked. My copy ot budokai 3 is still in the loft (attic) along with my ps2.

When budokai first came out, it had also came with a poster with all the characters in the lovingly beautiful animation that the game is known for. I had that poster on my wall for years, till i ended up taking it down and had lost it after so many years. If there was a way to find it again i would most definitely purchase it and hang it back up.

Back then the only way to find out about these games at least for me was through game informer with GameStop I love getting off the school bus and going straight to the mailbox at our apartment complex and boom there it is!!!!

Got hit with so much nostalgia seeing the covers of these games!

I remember getting dbz budokai 2 when it came out i begged my mom to take me to eb games and pick it up for 50$ back when games were 50$ new lol so many good memories and I remember going Christmas shopping with my mom and seeing budokai 3 wrapped up in a plastic bag knowing ill have to wait a month until Christmas to play it. I'm 29 and sadly I lost my mom in 2021 and my dad in 2022 a year and 3 days apart from each other. On his way home from work he'd stop and buy me a game and hide it somewhere in the house and make me hunt for it lol. Always remember the good times and the small things one day you'll miss them and its going to hurt more than you can imagine

Budokai 3 is my favorite of the series and my all time favorite DB game alongside Kakarot. Back then I was more into 2D fighting games than 3D ones and I didn't liked Tenkaichi that much. I even downloaded some modded PS2 version of the game where they had like super saiyan 6 or something from those Dragon Ball fanfics. I also remember my cousin rotating the analogue stick so hard that his skin peeled off during beam clashes and he was forbidden from playing because of it lol. Those were the days.

Perfect timing, after I finish up nba street vols 1-3 i was going to play this series next!!

Budokai 1 also came with a poster of SSJ Goku that had a short bio and special move combo for each character with their 3D sprite on the backside.

DUDE NICE! My favorite is budokai 2 aswell that’s the one I played the most

awesome video, also i can't wait for you to talk about the Xenoverse games

I definitely grew up with Budokai 1 the most out of the games in this video. I loved the cutscene presentation, the unlockables, the what-ifs mode, and it was just an overall fun time that I still find myself coming back to for the occasional nostalgia trip. I will say that the final fight against Perfect Cell's powered up form was and still is one of the most ruthless fights I've seen in a fighter. But on the reverse end, playing the tournament mode as soon as I unlocked one capsule absolutely broke matches. At the time, it was with Vegeta's Final Flash move. As soon as I got a capsule equipped that set power to Max at the cost of not transforming, I could just spam that move all I wanted, and it'd win me every single one of them. I was honestly kind of surprised to hear Budokai 2 as endorsed as it was. I played that game one day as a kid and just couldn't get into it. It was nice that it had the added characters, but I also played Budokai Tenkaichi 3 beforehand, so that much didn't matter. What did matter to me at the time, however, was the presentation. And it just felt lazy. I'm not sure if it was Dragon World mode I played or something else, but I just wasn't having a good time with it. I can't remember if I was renting it at the time or had actually purchased a used copy, but I returned it back ASAP. It was funny when I found the HD collection later on and saw that Budokai 2 wasn't included and just thought "Well duh, it's barely a game". But I might try it again and see if maybe I've just been treating it too harshly all these years. Budokai 3 I wouldn't play until years later. Just never got around to getting a copy at the time, but I knew people deeply praised it for the added fighting mechanics. When I finally played it.. I think the overworld map and leveling were actually detrimental to my experience. The map was just too tedious to get through, and the leveling I felt just complicated things. While the fighting was nice, it was just so weird that I wanted to play something else. And, of course, those cutscenes were just not great. Infinite World I played with a friend as a kid. And if I thought Budokai 2 was bad, I just did *not* like Infinite World. I'm not sure what it was beyond the mini-games, but neither of us were getting into it and we both dropped it pretty quickly. I have not yet played the PSP games, though I'd like to. And I had no interest in the HD collection upon seeing it years back, and I really don't have any interest now. If I already have 1 & 3, why would I pick up a version with censored blood?

i remember alot of people not liking the Budokai 2 gameboard mode but I thought it was pretty fun. It definitely stretched the runtime of playing through the main game lol. Never bought Infinite World but I wish I did at the time.

some things I always appreciated from Budokai 1, were the Kaioken transformation having different levels, 2x, 5x, 10x, which is often nowadays just "kaioken", and cell's power-weighted (super buff form) he used against gohan out of desperation, something i havent seen in any other DBZ game (although sadly you dont go super buff when using cell in any other game mode, it's just the AI in story, but, just the fact that he's there really)

These games were on rotation with NCAAFB, GTA3, and Yugioh games, and that was the bulk of my early 2000s gaming. Still remember how I felt the first time playing Budokai. Having been a fan of DragonBall Z since they were airing episodes on Fox in the 90s, it was a childhood dream come true.

My brother got the dragon ball z budokai HD collection and sold it like a week after getting it. He was a big fan on those games and I seen him play all of them. Never knew why he sold the HD collection untill I heard the music.

I got a playstation 2 around 2002 and I really wanted dragon ball Z budokai... I opened up my present form my mum on Christmas day and it was dragon ball GT final bout on the ps1 I just smiled and said thank you even now she doesn't know she got me the wrong game all these years later

Im so happy i subscribed

I had the poster with the character roster on the back for the first game! Wish I kept all my old posters and games :( at least have my n64 and all of its games as well as the wii, but rip ps2 &3 collection

For the Budokai 2 Snow Level - My head-canon is that since the earth dragon balls never “disappeared” Frieza just came straight to Earth

I picked up burst limit looking to spend my money on a dragon ball game and it has to be my favorite, the way the animation was, only let down was the story since it went up to cell games + broly (slight Easter egg he goes ssj2 in the end as a cutscene but you can’t play ssj2 goku at all) but also playing as bardock and even meeting goku as a what if was tear jerking when I played it the first time. Super fun I wish they would’ve made it to go towards the buu saga maybe even some GT

How can you forget these games;; my whole childhood right here🥹🥹

I love the Budokai series. They were my favorite fighting games, especially Budokai 3. My brother and I played the hell out of it, but I only managed to beat him once (as SS4 Gogeta).

Despite all the DBZ games that have come out over the years, BT1 has the most badass and authentic Intro of all of DBZ games of the Franchise. BT2 and BT3 in my opinion still remains the most Unique and the best DBZ games in terms of content, quality and fanservices. And from the gameplay perspective aspects, these DBZ games that I mentioned are very close to the anime itself because of the Vibe and Charm, I don't know how to describe it but it was, and still is the most Unique DBZ experience you could have with the combat factor. (- Sheer amount de of characters - Transformations mid-battle (powering up and down) - Fusions mid-battle - Fast gameplay that has that "woah" feel - Tons of extra content - Story mode covering all sagas + movies - What If sagas - Shenron having permanent impact on game (character unlocks and whatnot) - Great tournaments that rotate availability - Edit characters with items (buffs) - 5v5 battles - Really Great and Epic Soundtracks - Destroyable environments - Entire stages could be blown up into their "destroyed" alternatives - Mission 100 being a great challenge - Artwork is 10/10 - Sound effects are great - Combat feels heavy and satisfying) Only Budokai 3, Infinite World and the Raging Blast 1 and 2 are still considered also very solid DBZ games, also the hidden gem that a lot of DBZ fans missed from PS2 Era of DBZ games is "Super Dragon Ball Z" which is also a real Unique and DBZ game, especially for the different gameplay aspects perspective. ✌☯️

CLASSICS MATTY!!!!

I never got into DragonBall/Z/etc Had no access to the anime back then do no inclination to buy the games. I do love DQ though. I mainly watched because I love when you get all excitey about games you love and you may yet convince me to get that DBZ game for my PSP. It looks like a banger for my PSP collection!!

Budokai 1 is great for the nostalgic cutscenes and story 2 is great for the co op board game story 3 is the best overall experience when it comes to the roster, and gameplay.

I used to play every dragon ball game you can think of until i played tuknichi budokai 3, i couldn't stand any db game after that, it raised the bar so much, one of the greatest games of all time

The year was 2016, 14 year old me went to the king’s day garage sale, my friend and neighbor sold some of his PS2 games. I was curious and looked through his games, two of them peaked my interest. These of course were Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 and 3. I grew up as a Nintendo kid, and while my brother really wanted the console DBZ games for GameCube and Wii, we only had Legacy of Goku on GBA as well as Supersonic Warriors 2 on DS (eventually when we got our first PlayStation, the PS4, we got Xenoverse as well). As a DBZ fan, I just knew I had to find a PS2 THAT DAY. So I scoured the entire area for a PS2, and I did! I found a PS2 Phat, 1 DS2 controller, 1 Third Party controller (Big Ben), the Memory Card, Component Cables, Power Cord, a Remote Control, and she even threw in GTA San Andreas as a bonus, FOR ONLY €20 euros! I then proceeded to purchase Budokai 2 and 3 for €5,- total (got me a discount because I was his friend). I got home, booted up Budokai 2, it won’t load past the Language select screen… Budokai 3 however worked like a charm, WOW, I FREAKING LOVED THAT GAME. And thus my PS2 Collection began, with Dragon Ball Z to kick it off.

Man, the GameCube port of Budokai 1 is really overlooked. The graphical updates alone make it worth the slightly poorer control scheme. I have a lot of memories with these games. I actually won a Budokai 3 tournament that the gaming club at my high school held.

Still feel like Budokai three is one of the best DBZ experiences you can get in video games for nothing else than the ability to have beam struggles. Some of the most iconic moments from the series center around those energy clashes and so few of the games actually put that mechanic in.

Holding the controller with one hand and using the other to spin both sticks 😂 good times 😌

“The overworld in budokai 3 doesn’t have any secrets” My brother in Christ have you played that game? All the coolest moments are secrets buried in the overworld