Game:

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden (1993)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 25:29

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Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden for the SNES Playthrough

Before Dragon Ball FighterZ, before Dragon Ball GT Final Bout, before Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, there was Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden for the SNES!

This was the first Dragon Ball Z game I played back in the day.
The gameplay was unique with the split screen and flying for mid air combat. Very different from Street Fighter, which I was more familiar with at the time. As you can see I did not learn how to play this game well at all, but the fun is real lol. A lot of the motions for super moves I can only pull off on the left of the screen these days (apparently), and the timing for blocking/deflecting/ dodging super moves is very precise, and I'm disappointed to say I did not pull off any of those in this playthrough.
Nonetheless this game is fun to come back to after over a couple decades of not playing it. I recommend trying it out for yourself. If you live in the LA area, Bookoff at Pacific Square in Torrance/Gardena has tons of these on the shelves. (Its pretty cheap on ebay too).

Hardware used:
Original SNES (model 1 i think, with the plastic tabs removed to play import games)
Scart cables from retro access cables
Original SNES controller
EVGA external Capture Card
Retrotink 5x

Software:
OBS to record
Davinci Resolve to cut, scale, center

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Game Start Screen Animation
0:49 - Goku vs Piccolo
2:06 - Goku vs Vegeta
3:45 - Super Saiyan Goku vs 100% Freeza
5:42 - Piccolo vs Android 20 Gero
7:33 - Super Saiyan Vegeta vs Android 18 (L)
9:00 - Piccolo vs Android 18
10:17 - Piccolo vs Cell
12:15 - Piccolo vs Android 16 (L)
13:38 - Goku vs Android 16
15:06 - Goku vs Trunks
16:50 - Goku vs Gohan
18:51 - Goku vs Perfect Cell (L)
20:23 - Android 16 vs Perfect Cell (L)
21:11 - Trunks vs Perfect Cell (L)
22:42 - Gohan vs Perfect Cell
23:50 - Ending

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