Dragonball Back in the Day

Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by Daimo-Rukiri » Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:28 pm

Anyone remember the old flash games? Blast to Namek or off to Namek comes to mind + the awful fighting game that was around during the early 2000s?

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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by Godo » Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:32 pm

This would be a good example of types of websites that I used to venture back in the old days: http://www.angelfire.com/dbz/marksdbzwebsite/
Apart from that, there was MFG, a Swedish (now dead) website and forum, Daizex, Planetnamek, Pojo, Funimation's website, Da Black Goku ect.
Also I have memories of bad VHS rips and fansubs that took ages to download, MP3 music from Dragonball and much more.
I miss those days of exploring.

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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by samuraix123 » Tue Dec 17, 2013 1:27 am

Godo wrote:This would be a good example of types of websites that I used to venture back in the old days: http://www.angelfire.com/dbz/marksdbzwebsite/
Apart from that, there was MFG, a Swedish (now dead) website and forum, Daizex, Planetnamek, Pojo, Funimation's website, Da Black Goku ect.
Also I have memories of bad VHS rips and fansubs that took ages to download, MP3 music from Dragonball and much more.
I miss those days of exploring.
Wow! I felt like I just stepped back in time by visiting that site. Thanks! :D The background made me dizzy though! :P :lol:
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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by Godo » Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:06 am

samuraix123 wrote:
Godo wrote:This would be a good example of types of websites that I used to venture back in the old days: http://www.angelfire.com/dbz/marksdbzwebsite/
Apart from that, there was MFG, a Swedish (now dead) website and forum, Daizex, Planetnamek, Pojo, Funimation's website, Da Black Goku ect.
Also I have memories of bad VHS rips and fansubs that took ages to download, MP3 music from Dragonball and much more.
I miss those days of exploring.
Wow! I felt like I just stepped back in time by visiting that site. Thanks! :D The background made me dizzy though! :P :lol:
Yeah! It has the obligatory Rock the Dragon theme, and also it has 100 (!!!) images!

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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by Ringworm128 » Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:48 pm

Never saw it, is that good or bad?
The Evangelion dub had the same sort of voice acting as the Buu arc, not great but not bad. It got better during the directors cut dub. To put it simply original dub = Cell to Buu arc, DC dub = UUE dub and Rebuild dub = Kai dub.

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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by ABED » Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:06 am

I was more referring to season 3's dub. It still woulda been bad, but even if the actors were green, a quality script, the original music, and casting voices appropriate for the roles as opposed to emulating other actors would have done wonders even early on. I whole-heartedly believe that.
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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by Hellspawn28 » Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:03 pm

I had my own DBZ Xanga when I was a freshmen in High School back in 2005. I wanted my own DBZ news site and I wanted to become as popular as daizex at the time. I end up deleting it like a week because I didn't want to update it time to time and not enough people were visiting it.
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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by Zephyr » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:44 pm

samuraix123 wrote:Do you guys remember using that Cartoon Network site and there was a game like thing called Cartoon Orbit. and if you watched Cartoon Cartoon Fridays every friday and you would get these codes to type in from the host of CCF and you'd get these things called C-Rings(Don't google that by itself trust me guys! LOL) But I remember trading almost everything I had to just get the Dragonball Z rings.
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Oh man, that. Bringing me back now. I was addicted to that shit. But I could never get my hands on any of the DBZ C-Toons.

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Anybody remember these? I found this specific issue in a Fredd Meyer once when I was 10, and talked my parents into buying it for me. That's where I first learned about GT, it was insane.

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Re: Dragonball Back in the Day

Post by samuraix123 » Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:51 am

Dude Yeah! haha! :D :D I had one but it had Trunks on the front cover! and seeing peoples drawings and the Japanese release of the toys was only something I could have dreamed about. :lol: I actually have a PDF of the one with trunks on the cover because unfortunately the sands of time decided to take my official release away. lol
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