/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10353849
My experience was like that. I remember seeing some of the DBZ movies on TV in '94, then the Zero dub of original DB around 1995 (it was only the Pilaf saga or so iirc, or that's what I remember watching), then finally proper dub around 1996, I remember it getting to the Red Ribbon, then restarting from the beginning and it was like that a couple times. Around when I was watching the Piccolo Daimao (or "Pikoro Daimaku") saga, I started getting more into the whole franchise proper, playing the Super Butoden games, watching more of the movies from spanish VHSs, and also reading the manga imported from Spain (many local comics stores carried many manga edited in Spain, I was also reading Ranma for example, years earlier it started on TV here).
By the time DBZ started airing here in Argentina, in early '98, I was already familiar with the story and all the characters that would come.
I have nostalgia for those times being so confused, consuming different bits of the franchise without knowing too much yet, like for example I was watching Piccolo Daimao saga on TV, playing Super Butoden 2 with the Cell saga, and reading the Boo saga on the serie roja manga. My mind was stimulated to the max and my imagination ran wild.
>>10353853
Yeah they were cheaper builds than the Bandai originals, and they indeed did some customized bootleg as fuck figures ("Bulma" and "Goku Jr" or whatever), but they really did have the license from Bandai and got the molds for them, they are official believe it or not.