How did people react back in '92?

No one outside Japan, aside from random bootleg nerds understood it.
There are no Japanese anons here to answer you.

>>11841315 (OP)
How did people react back in '96?

>>11841315 (OP)
Super Sonic? You mean like Super Mario? Seems cooler, at least.

nobody outside of japan knew wtf dbz was in 92

>>11841378
lol

>>11841367
Super Mario didn't turn blond with spiky upward hair

>>11841378
Some people did
Not in the US though

are you people seriously going to pretend that you totally knew all about DBZ 4 years before the first english release, in a year when probably none of you had internet? absolute best case scenario, you had an anime shop at your local mall or something and maybe you saw some posters or even an imported japanese manga once or twice and had no clue what you were looking at

>>11841560
All I knew of anime at all was these plastic brick phones with water where you pressed air buttons to blow rings around into notches from a Chinese dollar store in the bad part of town

They had anime screen shot stickers glued inside the back of the window and I thought it was some transvestite thing, I THINK it was dbz

>>11841732
Things that never happened.

>>11841315 (OP)
i cummeded and shitted so hard that my CRT imploded on itself from the sheer pressure. my fuarking hero goku flew down in super saiyajin form and congratulated me for getting the epic reference, but then he killed my dog after he found out my sister was a bejitabro

>>11841341
Shut the fuck up zoomie. You don't know since you weren't alive. I had subbed VHS tapes of DBZ tapes weeks after the episodes aired in japan that were mail ordered through fan zines.

>>11841341
kill yourself, retard narcisist schizo autismo. You make everyone sick. Here and irl. Everyone sees the absolute excrement you are. Kill yourself.

>>11841315 (OP)
Everyone thought the tribute to Dragon Ball Z was cool because everyone loved DBZ and Sonic. Zoomers, do not reply to me. Just kill yourselves.

>>11841560
not everyone here is from the JewSA. Kill yourself immediately.

>>11841739
kill yourself, zoomer

>>11841315 (OP)
Sonic owes so much to Toriyama it's insane

Super Sonic = Super Saiyan
7 Chaos Emeralds = 7 Dragonballs
Shadow = Vegeta

Just to name a few

>>11841378
Started airing in 1990 here.

>>11841927
shadow is not vegeta

>>11841930
>>11841378
Oh and we actually got DB *before* DBZ too.

>>11841921
35 in December.

Nobody in the US knew about Dragonball Z in 1992. We were barely getting a few random dubbed episodes of the ORIGINAL Dragonball around that time.

On top of that Super Sonic was not common knowledge among gamers back then either. I remember my cousin telling me about the "rumor" that Sonic turns into some super powerful gold version and it just sounded like one of the many other such fake secrets back then.

Very few people in the US would have known about both Super Sonic and DBZ back then, much less also know about Super Saiyan Goku.

>>11841942
Everyone involved in the anime community back then knew about it.

>>11841961
>Everyone involved in the anime community back then
So two people, great

>>11841315 (OP)
Dunno about ’92, but I definitely associated Super Sonic with Super Saiyan when Sonic 3 came out.

It was weird. I knew about DBZ character names and a general gist of what happened even though I had never watched it. But Hawaii is kind of weird with it's Japanese stuff.

>>11841315 (OP)
"cool, Sonic has a invincible form that you get if you're good enough at the game"
>>11841912
just because you were 30 years old in 1992 doesn't mean the rest of us were. and it was still turbo fucking niche to get fansubs in 1992.

>>11841942
The comic explained Super Sonic. That's how I knew about it

>>11841917
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>>11841921
kill yourself samefag

>>11841315 (OP)
Oh, i was just hearing the news about that alleyway driller incident.
Shame about that dude involved.

>>11841315 (OP)
Thought it was cool and fun to use, that's about it. I didn't know DBZ in 92. Can't remember how I reacted to seeing Super Saiyan at first, besides thinking it was badass. Not sure if I even made the connection to Super Sonic immediately, but it doesn't take long to connect the dots.

I know this is an american website but by this point you guys should know Dragon Ball is popular in the whole world right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBw6YJB3uE

>>11842024
At the time it was really only popular in Japan and France, possibly Mexico.

>>11841942
>On top of that Super Sonic was not common knowledge among gamers back then either. I remember my cousin telling me about the "rumor" that Sonic turns into some super powerful gold version and it just sounded like one of the many other such fake secrets back then.
That's pretty funny. I can see how, the Special Stages in 2 are a pain when you're kids. Wasn't my experience though, even before unlocking Super Sonic myself there were kids in the neighborhood who knew how to get him. Plus one kid showed off the in-game cheats and Super Sonic with them. Including the debug mode where you could turn Sonic into stuff like rings and objects to place on the stage, which was memorable.

>>11841980
Same here

>>11841927
>Shadow = Vegeta
First of all, you're not vegetari

>>11841927
>Shadow = Vegeta
First of all, you're not vegeta.

>>11842023
>Can't remember how I reacted to seeing Super Saiyan at first
I remember watching the Freeza fight undubbed on a local Asian TV channel. The American show was still earlier in the Namek Saga (and looping back to the beginning so it took forever to finish).

Seeing Namek falling apart and Super Saiyan Goku fighting Freeza while the weird (to me) original music played was awesome.

>>11841927
I never knew Bulma was dying of brain aids and Vegeta being an artificially made superweapon brokered by a space-faring demon, not to mention Bulma getting shot by some Red Ribbon henchie.
We just got to see the Spawn inspiration of Shadow last year, and his Bat-Man side this year, and you're still on about your arrogant jobber being Chadow.

>>11842032
You're right, I googled and apparently DB only came to Brazil in 96
But we also got new consoles later than usual so I think most people saw them at about the same time
So I can't really comment on OP's question of "how people reacted in 92", sorry I didn't pay attention
In my experience (around 96) people didn't comment on it, maybe because it was kinda obvious

I remember how it all happened. In 1994, police received a call from an anonymous whistleblower telling them the frightening truth: Super Sonic was based on super saiyan Goku from Dragonball Z. A scrupulous forensic analysis of 5 minutes of the TV show concluded this was, indeed, real. American people found out about the coverup they haven't seen from the times of DokiDokigate. All evidence pointed to one man: UG Naka.
The police were told to arrest the suspect. But being a speed freak that he was, Naka jumped into his white Toyota Camri and drove away. A chase ensued, but being Asian, Naka crashed his car into a tree 10 minutes later.
Naka got apprehended, but he assembled one of the finest legal teams in history. In court, his defense showed that Sonic wore gloves; but they'd never fit on Goku's hands. This stumbled the prosecution; to the shock of the public, the jury decided Naka was not guilty.
However, most people still thought he did it. There was a persistent rumor that if you put a certain game into a S&K cartridge, it shows the words "I did it" instead of "no way". Naka even wrote a book titled "If I did it" to exonerate himself. But it was mostly just his rants how he hates gaijins and that he is never going to give them the code for Nights. Even my boomer granddad who never played Sonic said to me: "this Eugene Acker fella definitely stole it from that Akira Tori Amos guy".
Shigeru Miyamoto later commented on the matter: "Naka trial proves gamers will put up with mediocre evidence if the lawyers are good". But he also expressed his relief for his "brotha Naka" and said that "white people can't hold us in chains no mo".

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>>11842032
Heck saint seiya/kotz might air in US?

>>11842279
it was on cartoon network and never got big
>>11842073
you're also SEGA territory there

>>11841927
7 macguffins is an abrahamic trope long predating DBZ

>>11841739
You're a zoomer if those kind of toys aren't known immediately to you, retard. They even still exist, but being a zoomer, you likely didn't have toys anyway, but we ALL had toys in the 90s and got toys from dollar stores every fucking day

It's hilarious how Zoomers desperately try to be one of us but prove with every waking post they have no fucking clue about anything in the 90s
>Linkin Park is 90s music
>Ed Edd and Eddy is soooo 90s
Fucking dumb faggots lol

>>11843425
to be fair half of the historical revision comes from zoomers, and the other half comes from foreigners who didn't experience the first world, American 90s, and come here to post as if anybody gives a shit about their experience growing up in a third world country

>>11843425
>Clearly modeled after a Vita
>"This is what us boomers played!"
Pretenders like you can be sniffed out a mile away

>>11843461
I'm not a boomer, I'm a Millennial. If it wasn't a toy from the 80s and onward I didn't have it but all sorts of these water/hoop games littered dollar stores in all kinds of varieties of cheap Taiwanese tat

>>11843467
That was the most common design of that cheap water toy from the 70s to the 90s, if you was a kid anytime in those three decades you would have seen that version. They were everywhere and barely a step above Tiger's LCD crap in terms of enjoyment.

>>11843473
No shit, I actually had this because my sister didn't care about it and it ended up abandoned in my room. By that time though like I said, these things were everywhere, tiny pocket versions from dollar stores, cartoon tie in ones, blah blah. There were hundreds and you probably had like at least 5 as a kid in various forms.

>>11841315 (OP)
>hey that little guy in the game turns yellow
>oh cool
/thread

>>11841935
Dragon Ball (original, not Z) aired in the US as early as 1989. nobody watched it so the franchise went dormant until the late 90s when Toonami picked it up.

>>11843495
>that little guy
In 1992, Sonic was seen as an exotic, mystical new character and everything he did made kids all around the world go wild with imagination and wonder.
I vaguely knew DBZ because of vidya mags covering the SNES games, but didn't know much else. I noticed Super Sonic was looking like a DBZ character but as a kid I didn't know how to interpret it, I thought maybe DBZ and Sonic shared the same universe.

>>11843425
I'm 34, the comment was more toward anon NOT finding the chink bootleg version with DBZ screenshots in 1992.

>>11841739
What a bizarre thing to dispute.

>>11843957
That just means you lived light-years away from urban areas

>>11841964
I went to cons that had like a thousand people. So probably hundreds of thousands of people in the US already knew about super saiyan weeks after it aired.

>>11842003
I was a teenager newfag. It wasn't niche if you were into anime. The entire community swapped tapes.

>>11842003
>just because you were 30 years old in 1992 doesn't mean the rest of us were.
Bwhahahaha go kill yourself, tripfag gen-Zombie.

>Just because you had 10/10 grades and a working toilet doesn't mean the rest of us were
Go back to India. All this generation of muttaloid gen-Zombies need to be sent to India where they belong.

SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP*STRANGLES* YOU how can you be such a lying retarded piece of shit? Do you gen-Zers even look in the mirror? This is why you gen-Zers don't breed with each other, your natality is down 40% for a reason. You are genuinely disgusting creatures nobody wants to interact with you.

>>11844360
>it wasn't niche if you were into something niche

>>11844519
>SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP*STRANGLES* YOU
this is autism from a plane of existence us mortals can't comprehend

Toriyama is king and he keeps inspiring young people in their art like he was doing in the 90s

>>11841351
How did people react back in '96?

>>11844586
Nobody considers that art though

>>11844519
are you ok?

>>11844617
>Nobody
>it's only him and a few depressed winers
*pat pat*

>>11844629
>winers
The corret term is "sommelier"

>>11844629
I've never seen babies wearing Hammer pants and with rectangle eyes/Doritos hair at any art exhibit

But ok live in your bubble

>>11844631
Here, have a taste of my Château Sperme from 1961

>>11841315 (OP)
I didn't.
Still don't.

>>11844637
Non!

>>11844635
cool. next time you visit one maybe take off that burr you keep up inside your fluffy ass

>>11841341
fpbp

>>11841341
Lmfao you’re fucking stupid

>>11843818
>Dragon Ball (original, not Z) aired in the US as early as 1989.
They only aired in a few cities as a test and it was a horribly butchered version

A proper Dragon Ball version only really aired in 2001 in the US.

>>11841315 (OP)
Go ask the French, Philipinos and Brazilians, because they're the only ones that cared about DBZ before the 2000s had begun.

>>11844834
that's what I was getting at.
the same thing nearly happened to DBZ, it was also originally sold into syndication only in a few markets where it performed horribly. they just happened to get lucky enough that one of the networks who bought the show was Ted Turner's Cartoon Network who decided it would slot in perfectly with their afternoon action cartoon bloc called Toonami, which at the time was airing Voltron Robotech Sailor Moon and Beast Wars.

Super Sonic is a good mechanic

>>11841315 (OP)
In Portugal it aired in 96, we followed the French DBZ for translation.

Nothing much to say, point of sonic 2 wasn to play more sonic, and super sonic at the end felt more like a "wow, just like DBZ" Easter Egg" than anything related to the actual Sonic 2.

Only in Sonic 3 does the Super Sonic thing become explicitally a plot-starting device.
But in Sonic 3 and Sonic&Knuckles first and possibly only cartridge on cartridge add on that's what really draws attention that makes one go "duuude" and the super sonic overall felt like an Easter Egg, as the focus of Sonic 1, the Top Canon for "Sonic Logic", has no Super Sonic

In retrospect, super sonic feels weird, it's really the only blatantly japanese influence in a very american influenced japanese game
>a red white and blue mickey mouse type mascot who has the powers of a dc comic book character who fights a guy who's basically doc ock with minions
>and, he goes super sayain

it's the kind of thing you'd expect more from the 00s era games in hindsight, but there it was from the start, the one little gem of awkward japanese shit before the final fantasy waifus and space salamanders

>>11847328
Sonic is full of references to japanese media.

>>11842075
kek

>>11844519
Nigger I'm past 40. You'd have to be in your late teens or early 20s at the earliest to get fansubs thru the mail.

You're old and fansubs were fucking niche in the 90s. I have no idea why you started rambling about India, are you mentally retarded?

>>11847328
Eggman is more a Dr. Wily clone than anything else

Just as then, as now.

No one in the west realizes these two are just Joseph Joestar and Jotaro Kujo.

>>11841315 (OP)
With rage, confusion, impotent fear.

SEGA was literally in 3rd place for most of the Japanese version of the console war. The kids who bothered to play Sonic 2 probably went "Oh neat; Sonic went Super Saiyan just like Goku!" and continued on with their day.

Most shit in video games back then was cribbed from something else, so they didn't care.

>>11848378
GR. Guardian Stand

>>11841942
https://youtu.be/YxbD5p_9THA

>>11844610
>96
Try 1990
Nomura ripoff Lodoss War

>>11841315 (OP)
>How did people react back in '92?

Unless you were a 90's Otaku-whatever, Dragon Ball was relatively unknown where I live. I do remember watching episodes of the original Dragon Ball in the early 90's. But Dragon Ball Z did't air on TV (Oceans Dub) here in Canada until 1996- 1997. Te episode where Goku transforms into Super Sayian for the first time aired in 1999. But the show always teased the transformation in the intro from episode 1. I owned a Sega Genesis Model 2 when I was a 12 with Sonic 2. I remember completing all of the bonus stages and obtaining Super Sonic. Then later finding the cheat menu to just unlock it later. I had no idea that the transformation was a reference to anything back then.

>>11841315 (OP)
>How did people react back in '92?
Good, here in Spain from Spain, Goku, bola de dragón and the list goes on were a religion. Street fighter II and others games.

But what people loved in 1992 was drawning

>>11853367
so much soul and locura