History of Japanese TCGs #10: Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Creation (1996-1999)

[@Farfa]

This was so incredible, great video!

[@gillygabyte]

It’s so interesting to see how far this game has come over the years

[@bldrun1504]

Hype video c:

[@faemusic_]

If you’re wondering how your views increased; thank Farfa for showing us this video dude

[@brunobarbosa9728]

This is a wild ride, never would have guessed that yugioh was supposed to be boring from the beginning, lol set 5 pass

[@brunobarbosa9728]

Also, passing w no played cards also should be considered auto loss for realsies

[@bosH0g]

learning that the cardgame rules were first created by programmers for the gameboy game, suddenly weird rules like Missed Timing and the Damage Step make sense

[@duane_313]

5:10 So THAT'S why yugioh have such unique card size?! omg MIND BLOWN

[@poenpotzu2865]

I personally think what made yugioh so successful was a combination of luck, storytelling, and a corporation. Luck and corporation being the most obvious, people still have a fondness for the manga and anime, to now the abridge series is a part of the cultural zeitgeist. This also explains why there are so many toy cartoons because they are just glorified marketing

[@superilikeeggsyo]

I missed this series like nothing else. Hoping this one catches the attention of the Great Algorithm in the Sky for you, since yugioh's the subject matter.

[@bldrun1504]

Your blessing shall be active soon

[@TheKotaCan]

Best underrated channel on KZbin

[@flochforster88]

I love that Blue-Eyes was once genuinely the best card in the game

[@toughluv3058]

we missed you 🥺

[@ZoranTheSiegeTower]

I initially wasn't looking forward to this episode since I thought I already knew enough about the hustory of YuGiOh. I was pleasently surprised I managed to learn more card game history that was brand new to me!

[@OlOlOIIO]

It blew my mind to learn that Kaiba wasn’t cheating when he just Normal Summoned a bunch of Blue-Eyes, he was just playing by old rules. Wow.

[@alexpage10]

Yeah! Actually he invented the expert rules, in the battle city arc in the manga.

[@OlOlOIIO]

What a chad.

[@duane_313]

wait, you knew the official rules before seeing the anime?!? This wouldn't have been thought of as "cheating" if the first experience of the game was though the og series I mean.

[@Renigade68]

Oh wow I had no idea that the "official" rules were ever a thing, I had always thought the "expert" rules were something that Kazuki came up with to make the card game function more as an actual game that real people would play, and because he wasn't a game designer is the reason why they seemed off, take 2 tribute monsters for example, the amount of resources needed to summon them is crazy, I guess in the very early day Blue Eyes still saw some play cuz of the scarce removal, but needing to commit 3 theoretical normal summons over the course of 3 turns and go -2 in card advantage just to play a big beat stick has always seemed silly to me, like there definitely could've been a smoother way to amp up into your big monsters, I think Synchros actually cracked the code in a lot of ways, you saw plenty of vanilla Synchros seeing play in the early days of 5Ds cuz ramping up into Synchros was so much smoother, well that and they wouldn't have to brick in your hand.

[@IC-23]

Big monarchs also do a decent job without the extra deck since while you still invest 2 monsters keeping a big monster on the field is much easier than keeping 2 small monsters alive. If Lv7+ monsters could use 2 monsters or 1 Lv5 or higher for their summon they'd still be bad but nowhere near as bad as it is now.

[@ItsPForPea]

@@IC-23 I agree, either that or separate tribute summon from normal summon so that you can still tribute after you normal summoned. Or both really

[@pixelsheep3443]

Yesssss, welcome back! Been waiting for the next entry in this, love hearing about TCG history

[@Kelpwoud]

Found a link in the yugioh reddit.Wow you put a lot of work into this series!

[@Chaosic]

Great video dude and Yugioh came a long way and I like both Yugioh season zero and Yugioh Duel Monsters,thanks to Magic,Konami and the creator of yugioh that the tcg exists today.

[@vanesslifeygo]

So glad Yugi's hair is more sharp than what it was back then

[@FurthestBen]

Here from farfa. The history of how yugioh started is truly interesting. Also making me incredibly jealous of the ocg.

[@LonelyDistance]

A new Touya video is the perfect way to wrap up a long weekend. Thanks for yet another great video!

[@onparalelkenarag]

already knew most things said in the video but learning the culprit of yugioh card size and situation with mon-colle/pokemon during konami's version's infancy were great.

[@simonkorica9467]

You deserve it least a million views for this alone, doing the lord's work out here.

[@jobberjobber980]

Love your videos like this, keep it up!

[@EezhamDemon]

Great work, loved the scope of it. I've played the TCG on and off since it started but knew next to nothing about the OCG so this video was terrific.

[@folderbloat7561]

This video is amazingly high quality. Nice clean editing/presentation, fascinating subject matter. Deserves more 0s on the view count.

[@Elnikoangel66]

Amazingly well narrated. Thank you for the video, just what i was looking for

[@juanpedroza2654]

I can’t help but rewatch these, not only does it satisfy that itch for nostalgia but it helps me understand those details I never knew about and makes me love yugioh more. Thank you, make more!

[@jonleviarcamo8384]

Do more in depth YGO OCG history I love this content so much Its so informative and unique than the other channels are doing. Keep it up! 🎉 🎉 🎉

[@duelmastershideout278]

I've been waiting patiently for this

[@MrBBAF]

Very good video!

[@Trashloot]

I don't know why this series was recommended to me only now. This is super cool.

[@brownandbloom]

This was a very informative and well made video. It gave me an insight on what the OCG in its earliest day, and what a chaotic wild west it was.

[@GokudoBarzinho]

Thx for coming back

[@CyrusLeGrandProd]

Your videos are so clean man ! Keep up the good work !

[@GITSfan02]

This was an amazing video. Please keep making more content like this.

[@FailNetworking]

The algorithm should pick this up lmfao

[@2772CJ]

I've really loved these videos. I mostly play Vanguard these days, but always keep up with Yugioh. When I was younger I never understood why the rules were so different in Duelist Kingdom, and then they were changed to be more like the card game in Battle City. Interesting that a lot of the duelist kingdom style gameplay comes from those first games, and also those "official" rules. I played the Sacred Cards when I was younger a lot, and I guess they were using some sort of similar engine for all of those games from the first one in Japan, which is why that game also didn't really play too much like the card game. Really appreciate all the hard work on this!

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

The prodigal son returns.

[@IceshadeComets]

Oh my god this is exciting. This video was so interesting!

[@CasuallyWS]

My favorite KZbinr is back with my favorite series on the channel. This has to be a dream!

[@artemistxs]

The best videos I have ever seen about TCG, this is gold content right there.

[@Diabl0Mask]

Great video man, you deserve at least 100 times more views!

[@Mada100LetsPlays]

Great job on the video, can't wait for the next one!!

[@eliascsjunior]

I loved how you contextualized everything. Great video!

[@dudem1310]

Commenting for algorithms. Shout out to Farfa. Video is very well put together thanks man.

[@Trashloot]

Watching it for the second time after 3 months. This video is just fascinating.

[@MrRiswanluthfi]

Have been long time waiting a spesifik ygo video history like this

[@nsiderultimaseth]

Terrific video! Deserves way more views!

[@seekornadhif9270]

underrated video, good work general!

[@ghostsisterspookydogwood4360]

This video help make a lot of decisions in early tcg make more sense. Thanks!

[@BalmungHH0]

Super Expert Rules!!

[@goncaloferreira6429]

Another great history lesson. 5:00 card size matters: to this day i have met several people that pointed out the need to but special size sleeves to play yugioh is one of the reasons that made transitioning from others cards extra hard.; less size equals smaller illustration sizes, and art sells a game- not that konami values artists; less space to change the layout and the need for smaller font, another problem,

[@fernandobanda5734]

Yugioh's art is as big as Magic or Pokémon back in the day. It even covered more vertical space. The real victim was the font size (which is also understandable because effects were very simple at first and Japanese characters didn't take that much space).

[@goncaloferreira6429]

@@fernandobanda5734 are you saying it is a misconception on my part?

[@fernandobanda5734]

@@goncaloferreira6429 I think so. I can't find exaxt measurements on the Yugioh art box, but compared to a Magic card, the width of the artbox is barely shorter, but the height is much larger, like a square / 1:1 ratio. Yugioh covers much more with its art even though the whole card is a bit smaller.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Thank you KZbin for recommending your channel to me. 🙌🙏

[@TheDan14]

the bandai version is terrible but does feel like it's on to something, kind of a ccg variation of war

[@itsgaimtoduel695]

found this video thanks to Different Fight tweeting it out. just binged all the eps of this series. fantastic!

[@SuperNickid]

@Maniax Channel: I don't know if it was you talking, if it was you forgot to mention when sword of reveling light was a lingering effect cannot attack for 3 turn, it only effect the one currently on the field, like you see in the first episode yugioh duel monster, when Kaibai summoned the 3rd blue-eyes white dragon, and was still able to attack when the other 2 blue-eyes white dragon where effected by sword of revealing light.

[@ivanmaterazzo2631]

Bruh you definitely need to add some commas to your viewer count. This stuff is amazing.

[@TheShadowcomet]

Just incredible, awesome video.

[@nitemarestlk]

thank you for making this video. its amazing work.

[@Neoboo297]

So cool learning how a game I grew up with got its start.

[@XCrocer]

Great video man, keep it up. It really enjoyed it!

[@sawyercooke]

Absolutely amazing video, thanks for putting this together!

[@homecomin]

Great work man! Very interesting video!

[@YGOHermit]

YOoo this is awesome!! need more yugioh stuff like this

[@gagabarbidou5975]

I discovered you thanks to Farfa. Amazing video, man

[@danielkaragic7057]

I can only remember a specific scene but maybe someone remembers. There was a anime, that also played around a (card) game. There was a robot charakter, that could scan through booster packs, so he knew which pack to pull. Can anyone tell me what anime that might have been? Saw it around 2001..

[@seansupreme14]

Awesome video!!!❤

[@elrompecabezasdelmilenio6210]

im here to say you did a great job with ths video!!

[@D_Winds]

This was super interesting. Didn't know Yugioh went back before Forbidden Memories.

[@tehcatakai]

Yessssss

[@sebastiancrawford928]

Thank you! Great video. Subscribed!

[@cosmiccynic2757]

Great video, very informative!

[@CardOtakuDesu]

Love this channel 😍

[@DanielFlrenss]

This was nice to watch, think a couple of the rules from the "official" one could be wrong and I've been trying for a few years now to get one of the first rulebooks to see what the rules actually are. Like how Remove Trap and De-Spell says that they destroy 1 trap card and not specify face up and the same for De-Spell.

[@Rypio_39]

Top notch content Liked and subbed

[@tomp68]

Very well made!

[@cipper12]

I got here from Farfa. This video is incredible!

[@PAtB1992]

So well crafted

[@zegy8454]

Great vid. I learned a lot

[@unitofmeasurementlover]

You deserve more views

[@milessiegfield5323]

Algorithm gang. Anyway super awesome video! Incredibly informative and well made, thank you very much.

[@sevenman9672]

That Charizard quip hit home ;_;

[@astrograph7875]

Now you gotta do a video on the creation of Magic. You did 2 out of the big 3 when it comes to card games, now we just need the last one

[@astrograph7875]

@@a75431a tbf he has talked about non-japanese things before and the history of mtg is not something most non-mtg or even most mtg players in general know. A majority of MTG's fan base is casual and is pretty big. There's a lot of good reasons to make a video on it. Even if he only takes about from Japan's view, it'd see be worth to see since even less people know how it came to be in japan

[@TheShinyFeraligatr]

No. This is the history of Japanese TCGs. As he admitted back when, while Magic was an inspiration for multiple games, it didn't have actual major market penetration in Japan on a major scale until like three years ago... when they incentivized Westerners to buy Japanese product. So it's not a part of a "big 3" over there.

[@astrograph7875]

@@TheShinyFeraligatr It doesn't mean he can't do a side video of the history of mtg whether it be in the states or in japan. Also Magic also started finding its popularity in japan in the late nineties and only grew since then. It had a decent impact on the OCG market at the time and still has with japan to this day with mtg being between the 4th or 5th most popular card game there

[@philithegamer8265]

@@astrograph7875 Remember when it was uncool to play MTG infront of normies?

[@Clarkv2]

Great video!! Can’t wait for it to get algorythmed

[@Fxbox920]

Hey, great video

[@KevinFlores-ey8tz]

Kaen Jigoku in the video game is like every burn players' wet dream.

[@zojirushi1]

So underrated!

[@riccardomartina9517]

Get ready to be stormed by farfa chat now dude. Btw great video! Really enjoyed!

[@kellenshort9916]

history lesson for the day

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

It's time to Pokemon duel (yep the TCG gbc game called battles Pokemon duel) Pokemon duel was also a TFC app.

[@MrBrendanRizzo]

The moral of the story here is that Takahashi got real lucky. The other moral of the story is that kids are stupid.

[@philithegamer8265]

Facts. The game is so fundamentally broken you pretty much have to start all over if you want critics to take it seriously.

[@marvelsandals4228]

Takehashi spent most of his life drawing manga that never got popular, and even Yu-Gi-Oh! while initially had a following, wasn't the juggernaut it became until his chapter with the card game and Kaiba. I honestly don't blame him at all. He FINALLY got a huge positive reception to his work, with readers mailing him questions about where they can buy the cards and how to play it. The man realized he had an opportunity to be successful and wisely decided to just go for it. If people want the card game, so be it. I think the reason none of the Yu-Gi-Oh! knock offs have ever reached those heights of success is because he never INTENDED his manga to be an extended commercial for merchandise, so it was written like an actual manga with likable characters and a deep lore about ancient Egyptian magic. I doubt any knock off would bother putting that much effort into the story tbh

[@genyakozlov1316]

No, the moral of the story is that marketing is more important for success than quality. Quality is needed to make those who came to your product stay, but that won't matter if nobody came to it in the first place.

[@Kaoskuma]

Farfa sent me, holy shit why is your channel small when your content is this good, criminally underrated.

[@ohnoo4468]

You forgot fire spin on that charizard

[@Haganeren]

What i find amusing is that we often say that the anime break the rules of the cards.... But we were wrong... When the anime aired there were no rules !

[@ygomango9263]

im so happy farfa led me here

[@SYMgenshin]

Commenting for KZbin algorithm

[@duane_313]

WOW! The starter kit with the star chips! Did America ever get official star chips and dueling gloves?!? We would've ate that up as kids!

[@lost-worlds]

I don't think we did, I remember being disappointed with that when I looked into it. Even now, people are doing fanmade ones that sell well, so you'd think Konami would do official ones.

[@duane_313]

@@lost-worlds right. I always thought that was a bizarre missed toy opportunity

[@JiPrime]

how did this fly under my radar

[@chronic-joker]

didn't Takahashi ask magic to let him reference them directly got told no then made YuGiOh as a parody because of it?

[@Cal-fr9mw]

Came here from farfas channel. This video was great

[@otangakudyokeman7124]

here just to comment and press the like buttong =) no way such crazy work would go wasteful ! kinda sad Farfa posted this on his youtube channel honestly, I didnt like his video just because it is inappropriate, it is stealing in a way ... anyway, great video !

[@cyberdsd]

algorithm comment. very good video

[@TheDortmunderJungs]

Farfa was right, this shit deserves 1 M views