By the time the game came out on September 27th, 2004. However, the developers, after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the company who held the rights to Dragon Ball Z, were forced to convert all of the character models and the attack names. History Starting out as a DBZ mod for Quake III Arena, Bid For Power had all of the popular characters that you can see in many other games in the Budokai series of games.