The Life and Death of the FIRST Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game

[@RedMageUltra]

“Grandpa’s a master strategist who taught me everything I know (about Duel Monsters)! Of course, I had to unlearn most of it when the game started to actually have rules.” - Yugioh the Abridged Series, episode 84

[@lillasagna5487]

Brilliant

[@normallyscott563]

I love how influential that abridged series has been.

[@DialE4Eggs]

Glad to see Jwittz come back with an obscure TCG I’ve never heard of

[@DialE4Eggs]

@@recitationtohear egg

[@smb-c3po]

And he's a total daddy who actually confirmed himself to being bi.

[@FeatheredCrow]

You’ve never heard of YuGiOh? Were you born after 2005?

[@droppings]

…yugioh is obscure???

[@almightyk11]

@@droppings did you not watch the video?

[@halowaffle25]

The Yugioh OCG (and before)has an INSANE history. I'd love to see more on it inthe future.

[@Bopnan]

I recommend the History of Japanese TCGs series by Maniax Channel. He had a two parter on the first two years of the OCG.

[@BobSmith-tm2kj]

Same! I got into JWittz for his Pokemon content but fairly recently got really into YGO so getting more like this would be great!

[@smb-c3po]

I've always preferred Yu-Gi-Oh to Magic anyway 'cause it's the superior card game.

[@drm726]

Jwittz: I can’t believe they actually wrote the rules on the cards themselves! That’s crazy! Me, looking at a modern YuGiOh card with a literal novel’s worth of text on it: yea, that’s super crazy!

[@thotobliterator1587]

Yugioh 1998: Each card comes with its own rule!! Yugioh 2023: Each card comes with its own rule book!!!

[@megamachopop]

​@TheMahayanistImagine being in 2023 still thinking that Pendulums are an issue.

[@vonakakkola]

@TheMahayanist but actually link cards really ruin the game (more than it already is without link cards)

[@exploshaun]

@TheMahayanist Pendulum cards are trash and did nothing noteworthy for the tournament level. Link monsters are the ones that accelerate the game to its current state.

[@TeamIGFTW]

My completed collection of the Bandai Yugioh cards is my prized possession. Only hard card to for me to get was the Swords of Revealing Light promo that I had to drop a little over $1000 for. I love them so much

[@TheJWittz]

Sounds like a sweet collection! Those promos are hard to get 😯

[@Vallite_God]

That’s super cool, I really love it when someone is a dedicated collector of something! There’s just no passion quite like collecting an old card set or maybe a specific kind of card or figure!

[@smb-c3po]

I can't find four of the decks I'd created, they were last seen before I got my room together.

[@josephwallacepike7264]

@@TheJWittz Yu-Gi-Oh! creator dead Kazuki Takahashi 7-4-2022

[@haileeraestout5567]

@@TheJWittz I Should Be OLDER That Yugioh

[@ProfessorTakatoPalm]

I’m glad your back Jwittz. It’s great to see you again. RIP Kazuki Takahashi we will all miss you and we’ll keep the card game alive and strong. Heart of the Cards!!!

[@smb-c3po]

May a flock of Winged Kuriboh sing him to his rest.

[@jacobrivera1721]

Believe in the heart of the card

[@ShinziiArt]

He died?! :(

[@MP-hb3ij]

Manteremos o legado de Takahashi vivo, descanse em paz.🇧🇷🇯🇵

[@smb-c3po]

@@MP-hb3ij I don't speak the language.

[@rokmare]

I remember we used to have carddass machines here in Chinatown everything was in Japanese but since the art was from the popular anime people collected them anyway there was this one time I got into an argument with my sister in front of a store that had the machines outside because she pull a rare holographic card that I wanted (I was very young at the time) the store owner got mad and removed the machines and even convinced the other stores that had them removed it as well and that was the last time I ever saw the machines and needless to say the best moment of my life was to see that store went out of business not long after

[@johnnyhellkite6347]

Cardassss!!!!!

[@ironmuro]

3:53 The "M and W" actually stands for "Magic and Wizards" rather than "Monsters and Wizards". Even more reason for the name to change to "Duel Monsters" later as "Magic and Wizards" is redundant. It also is a rather on the nose parody name for "Magic the Gathering" made by "Wizards of the Coast".

[@CatsRul85]

I think that's the main reason it would have gotten changed is because there's already Magic the Gathering (like having to change Magic cards to Spell cards )

[@Dunsparce206]

@@CatsRul85 I mean, it was called Magic and Wizards because it was a not-so-subtle parody of Magic the Gathering(made by Wizards of the Coasts) because in the early days of the manga each chapter focused on a parody of real 90's fads that happened/was happening in Japan, each with their own unique villain.

[@HoopsandHipHop]

This was a classic JWittz video. It's not often these days that I learn something this substantial about one of my favorite franchises, but I had no idea this existed lol. Great stuff!

[@ordinary_deepfake]

Why not do a Collab that would be awesome 👍😎👍

[@MegaNicole1977]

I feel like we can all agree that the Yu-Gi-Oh season 0 intro is a freaking Bop

[@TheJWittz]

YGO Abridged has burned it into my brain for the rest of my life

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@TheJWittz J-Wittz? Can you check out the Worker-Right-Coverage trying to help the Workerclass that 'Some More News' made and decide if its worth-sharing?

[@brandoncastellano1858]

The ending song is still the better song in my opinion. The piano at the beginning is just beautiful.

[@shelbybayer200]

The true king of Games Was the creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise Kazuki Takahashi Rest In Peace your majesty

[@juliamavroidi8601]

i think it was intended that you split your cards evenly with your opponent, kinda like those Top Trumps car/horse decks. That way even if you had all of Exodia, it would be up to chance whether all parts would end up in your deck.

[@rmzing]

Imagine if the decks are just all Exodia, and the game then becomes, who can Exodia the fastest

[@Kaiser00Wilhelm]

@@rmzing This one character in the anime basically had that deck. It was one of the rare hunters from Battle City

[@GigaOtomia]

@@Kaiser00Wilhelm From what I remember of the video games, he literally has no name. Straight spiky white hair that doesn't ever go out to the sides, and they just call him "Rare Hunter".

[@FluuuffInari]

That sounds like a REALLY easy way to mix up and take home each other's cards

[@Chernobog2]

@@GigaOtomia the dub referred to Marik's whole organization as "The Rare Hunters" and that guy was just one of them. In the original the organization was "The Ghouls" and the one with Exodia was codenamed "Rare Hunter." Some early English tie in stuff (like Dark Duel Stories) call him Seeker instead for some reason

[@lobo2367]

Yu-Gi-Oh season 0 needed more time to breathe. Modern gothic horror shlock aimed at a kid audience is a genre that we'll never get back

[@XxXDrakonkillerXxX]

It was accurate to the books

[@ImmaSpam__________________Can]

Speaking of book accurate I remember buying the first 4 manga on Google books when I was a kid and being "bamboozled", for lack of a better word, by what I saw. I was like "I don't remember this from the show👁️👄👁️"

[@SumTr011]

Oh yes, I am ALWAYS here for more JWittz Yu-Gi-Oh! content.

[@smb-c3po]

Or just JWittz content in general, he's a total daddy.

[@SumTr011]

@@smb-c3po *dad

[@smb-c3po]

@@SumTr011 And he's a total daddy.

[@SumTr011]

@@smb-c3po nah

[@smb-c3po]

@@SumTr011 Yeah, he's a total daddy and he's actually confirmed to be bi.

[@KingsBard]

Finally someone actually goes into depth on the Bandai cards

[@Renekin93]

I love that Exodia in your deck means you win. I never thought about the fact that you had to draw all cards and play one card every turn, so if you fill your deck with monsters, you can never have less than 5 cards in your hand and end the duel once you drew Exodia. Truly pay to win.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

It's actually even funnier than that. The rules never specify a limit on how many duplicates of a card you're allowed to have, so you in theory could have a deck with nothing _but_ Exodia cards.

[@MrSkerpentine]

@@LonelySpaceDetectivedon’t most tournaments have a default cap of around three?

[@MrSkerpentine]

local man discovers how trading card games make money jokes aside, Exodia especially was Bandai intentionally preying on people’s need for the mystical OHW cards when they first started to release them. One of the five was originally only going to be released at an event or convention of some kind, and *so* many card-thirsty players showed up that they had to call in police officers because they feared an inevitable riot

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

@@MrSkerpentine _Were_ there tournaments for Bandai's card game? I kinda assumed that since the rules looked like an afterthought and I couldn't find any mention of any official tournaments, basically no one played this; let alone Bandai holding any competitions. Also re: the riot thing, I thought that was something that happened with the OCG/Konami game. Or was this a thing that happened for _both?_

[@mrsentimental1995]

May the creator Kazuki Takahashi rest in Peace. A big part of our childhood shall live on in the heart of the cards and legacy he left behind!

[@ParmMannREBORN]

I recently found out about the original Yugioh card game and it is so bizarre to me. Wild how long it took until we got to the famous version of Yugioh

[@DanielFlrenss]

I believe I may have figured out the rules a bit more. You both play the cards at the same time like war and not like most TCG's, each monster only has one attack and if they "crash" and don't get get destroyed, they are sort of left to the side and can be destroyed by the "ultimate" dragon and even reused by Tea's character card. to avoid not having monsters to play, you have to play low amount of spell and use Yugi to draw 3 cards.(Still not a single rule for "bricking" on spells)

[@dsproductions19]

Honestly, I really liked the Season 0 anime. It really helped show that Yugi was the "King of Games" as opposed to just a decent duelist. And all the crazy games and punishments were entertaining, too.

[@turtek12]

I kind of want to see the Season 0 plot reimagined in the mainline anime (season 1 and later) style. The flashback in season 1 to the "mugger" that Atem mind-crushed kind of hinted at that, and it would have been interesting to see the original idea expressed in Takahashi's later style.

[@minicle426]

The problem lies in the fact that it wasn't really drawing in viewers. Which is why it was cancelled and semi-rebooted.

[@SaberWolf94]

Great video man as usual and respect for paying tribute to Kazuki Takahashi. It's unfortunate that many of the biggest youtubers that are all about yugioh didn't even acknowledge his passing when it happened.

[@brycevo]

I kinda miss early Yu-Gi-Oh with all the different games. The dragon card game and tamagotchi were so cool

[@omegaphoenix7085]

Yeah I love the dragon card game I wish they actually made Yu-Gi-Oh cards of that dragon game

[@Bezaliel13]

I miss the little "mini-games" from the DM era. You know, when part of the toyline, that I also miss, included games.

[@omegaphoenix7085]

@@Bezaliel13 Yeah for me my favorite was The dragon game because I felt I had so much potential and probably the best game to come out if it actually exist more realistic than the others

[@Bezaliel13]

@@omegaphoenix7085 Be nice if those dragons got cards.

[@m0002856]

I miss the early Yu-Gi-Oh as well. I thought the manga was written so much better than the anime adaptation as well. The anime doesn’t realize that Bakura is a main villain for a long time, and they use him like a side character who pops up and does spoooooky things…. Meanwhile, if you read the manga, you get given bits and pieces of Bakura doing evil things behind the scenes. He shows up constantly and manipulates things from the shadows. The final game he plays with Yugi is amazing as well. It feel disconnected and out of nowhere if you only watch the anime, but it’s a perfect parallel to his first introduction in the series where he plays an RPG with Yugi and his friends. I think the manga even references that this game will be similar to their first, and that game never happened in the anime. Plus original Dark Yugi was a badass, and there was proper character development given to him to make him a mysterious character. The scene with Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom versus Dark Yugi also makes a lot more sense. There really wasn’t any reason for little Yugi to be afraid of the Dark Yugi in the anime version, but the audience has seen what Dark Yugi has done to people in the manga so it hits us harder as well.

[@_Banjo_]

"king of games" makes so much sense if there were actually supposed to be other games. Thanks for the video, super interesting

[@xibalbalon8668]

I was just rewatching the japanese Digimon video, I absolutely love these vids on the earlier days of card games

[@TheJWittz]

Perfect timing!

[@badBoiSlots]

It’s weird a lot of fakes used to have the same back as these old cards

[@ghastlygibus2121]

The ideea of playable characters from manga/anime was retried by Komani with the game Duel Links which u have a large varieties of characters with different skills to choose from. Is good to see this ideea from the earliest days of Yugioh that saw the light of day after almost 2 decades.

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

9:06 I want that Solemn Judgment card parody called "no" because quite frankly, that's its real name.

[@terminusest9179]

When the world needed him the most, he returned. So happy to see more videos from you Jwittz.

[@Forever_Zero]

Of course people think Yu-Gi-Oh! is complicated, even the game itself took some years to figure out its own rules... Jokes aside, this was a very fascinating piece of Yu-Gi-Oh! story. Rest in peace Kazuki Takahashi

[@FallenAngelHiroko]

When I play--and it's just me and my niece and nephews--it's bare bones. We like to be able to keep the flow rather than spending 5 minutes reading the card and trying to figure out what it's trying to tell us so we could use it properly every turn or so. We find it more fun that way.

[@Forever_Zero]

@@FallenAngelHiroko Personally I only play with the Yu-Gi-Oh videogames but yeah, I can see why that is a good option. I don't see myself teaching someone every rule in the game, heck I don't think I would find someone with enough interest to learn everything

[@willbowden6897]

Gotta say I had absolutely no idea this existed. Thanks JWittz, as always

[@risel56]

_"Here's all thirteen rules in the Bandai Yu-Gi-Oh game, abridged."_ LittleKuriboh should be showing up any second now...

[@Zanji1234]

:-P and now a small story about the first OCG card sets... were the Head of Exodia was part of a Tournament Promo making it highly impossible to get and they hat to close the venue since it was crowed and fights errupted

[@MBTYuGiOh]

Oh man, I love these. These days they’re really popular in the TCG as field centers!

[@Bynne2]

That Kaiba the revenge music is pure nostalgia, discovered yugioh as a whole through a KtR demo disc. Great video!

[@trillman1111]

I fell like I have been watching you for almost 10 years now. but unlike old KZbinrs, you have always had a constant evolution and growth to your video style.

[@trillman1111]

I went back. it's been 11 years, I remember getting excited by your card of the day.

[@zakariakhan19]

Every time thejwittz posts I actually get an adrenaline rush

[@TheJWittz]

Me too tbh

[@wlm1697]

Sad

[@haroldnecmann7040]

@@TheJWittz his voice is great

[@Chuckndo]

A classic JWittz video. Still haven’t missed a beat! Been so cool seeing new videos after so long and still improving on what you’ve mastered over the years.

[@brycem.1774]

Yo JWittz, now that you’re back I need an updated tier list of your favorite board games/card games! Sushi Go has become one of my all time favorites thanks to your last video, but I’m curious to see how your tastes have evolved and what you have to recommend!

[@mewdreamer]

This was a great video. I've seen these early Yu-Gi-Oh! cards before, mostly the ones featuring the characters from the Toei series, but I didn't know the full history behind them or how Konami first got involved with the franchise. That was pretty interesting. Kazuki Takahashi's passing still feels so unreal to me. It was so sudden and tragic. I truly hope that he is at peace and his loved ones are doing okay.

[@girththeogre]

The Mega Man Battle Network TCG didn't use life points either. You would "take damage" in the form of putting (X) cards from the top of your library into your "graveyard" until you've run out of cards in your library. The result being: play a deck based around Electroman (or at least, I think that was his name) which has effects that return cards from your graveyard back to your library, thus being the "best" deck to play because you had access to "healing" in a way. There are a lot of cards that can properly do this; but most of them were electric type, in effect narrowing how much you use this game mechanic. I've a lot of card games in my youth and for some reason this just stuck with me. Great, informative video! Thank you!💚

[@coopigeon619]

Wow, this video is amazing and I learned something new.. Kazuki Takahashi was a legend and Yu-Gi-Oh has had a huge impact on me growing up and something I still hold dead to me to this day. His art style inspired me to get better at art, his stories resonated with me, and nowhere can I find a better cast of characters. Yugioh is amazing because Kazuki Takahashi made it amazing. Rest in power, the real life King of Games.

[@chriszilla2000]

Good to have you back JWittz. Even though I am not a Yu-Gi-Oh enthusiast, I do not mind watching your content.

[@HermitGRAB]

I'm glad to see Jwittz come back making content. This man is an inspiration to a lot of us.

[@Patterrz]

I've been a YuGiOh fan as long as I can remember and I never knew this existed

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

Only reason I know about it is that there's a small youtube channel called Maniax Channel that talked about the History of Japanese Trading Card Games and the 10th episode is about this whole really weird early Yugioh era such as before you had to tribute monsters and before Konami had control

[@mohammadmurie]

Pat same, and didn't know you love Yugioh too

[@the_shiny_wartortle_8913]

I also see you every time in comments of videos I also watched.

[@frankartanis1290]

I like the Bandai cards' art style. They have a very unique feeling of "being a game". A combination of JRPG and American comics, which is exactly Takahashi's style.

[@JMotion]

Konami recently printed an anniversary Dark Magician card that features artwork similar to the original Bandai Dark Magician, but with modern Konami colouring, and it's simply incredible.

[@DaneeBound]

Considering how dire many of Bandai's early video games on Famicom and Game Boy turned out, it should be no surprise to anyone that Bandai's Yu-Gi-Oh! card game turned out the way it did. Bandai is not associated with quality until they swallowed up Namco in the mid-2000s

[@lokephoenix1039]

I’ll always be a huge fan of Digimon from before Namco became part of it, but I’ll be the first to admit Ban Dai are doing way better now

[@TrekPythonChild001]

"Monsters that were completely unique to either the card game or the Toei anime" -Aphrodite Yeah, I wonder why that one didn't stick around in a game that was (at least at that time somewhat still tangentially) related to ancient Egypt... XD XD XD Bless you for this wonderful video. And, truly, an eternal sweet rest to Takahashi-sensei. One of the greats, even if he only gave us the singular seminal work.

[@pn2294]

Well, Ancient Greece did have trade and relations with Ancient Egypt, so it’s not impossible

[@user-to9ge8ii9n]

11:22 - Dragon Warrior Monster footage hit my nostalgia so hard. The depth in that game blew me away as a kid and is still my gold standard in the genre. Great video! ❤

[@reesette7912]

I will hear no disrespect towards my girl Miho, she was one of the best parts of Season Zero (along with Yami Yugi being a complete psychopath in it).

[@-AirKat-]

Her design is pretty basic but I love it all the same

[@pn2294]

Yugi wasn’t a Psychopath; Kaiba was though.

[@Amoshuryu]

heheheh carddass

[@cookieface80]

@@pn2294 Well, he does burn a guy to death.

[@pn2294]

@@cookieface80 that guy was a serial killer

[@DragonOfDrakness1992]

Oh! Did I see a Keyforge card at the opening!? I would love to see a video about it, it is one of my favorite card games and the ONLY one I keep on playing weekly.

[@r3almarck]

RIP Kazuki Takahashi... thank you for making my childhood awesome.

[@NicoNekoArt]

I always was curious to know more about the earliest days of Yu-Gi-Oh and you delivered with this video! Fantastic work! I wouldn't hate it if you one day covered how the Dark Magician Girl was first introduced!

[@silveramv7686]

I was just thinking about this man talking about card games because I got back into Digimon recently. Hilarious timing Mr. JWittz xD

[@ClassactX93]

Can’t wait to see more! Great video as always!

[@FirithPanda]

Season 0 was great and I enjoyed every moment of it.

[@a.dennis4835]

6:33-6:35 I want point something out. The actual rule is: "Select 1 Monster Card from your hand and play it to start a Battle." This implies you HAVE to summon a monster. In fact in the manga, Kaiba automatically lost to Pegasus due to being unable to summon any monsters. So in order to prevent this from happening, you need to have less than 5 non-monster cards.

[@ang3r3dv3t]

I heard of season 0, but didn't know much about the carddass yugioh cards. Very awesome, and loved the tribute. I played from the beginning and collected the cards and games. I still have my collection and love them all. Had to pick up the Seto Kaiba 25th anniversary briefcase for the PC. Keep up the great work!

[@SgtByrd93]

Master Duel got me hella addicted right now, so obsessed with my Power of the Dragon REDUX deck

[@kiddextersgodlyadventure129]

I liked the Takahashi tribute at the end. Was good of u to include that

[@daytonchris8351]

yu gi oh was one of those games where in the beginning i think most kids didn't know what the exact rules were because of how many different versions of the rules there were(unless they read the rule book). i thought it was duelist kingdom rules at 1st because of the anime, and then got even more confused when i played forbidden memories for ps1. i remember when i 1st started going to card events at books a million playing by duelist kingdom rules everybody thought i was crazy. lol

[@TransformingWing57]

Fun fact that Jwittz missed, that wonky 4 piece blue eyes was a reference to that toei 'movie' he mentioned at the end. I recommend if you guys ever get the chance check it out, it's genuinely an interesting watch for many reasons.

[@Mr110074]

Wow a Jwittz Pokémon and a Jwittz YuGiOh video in such a short amount of time? My birthday came early.

[@TheJWittz]

I'M BACK, BAYBEEEEEE

[@BluntmanEXE]

I would pay to see a duel between Season Zero Kaiba vs modern Kaiba. Also, awesome to have you back, Jwitz. Looking forward to more deep dives like this.

[@ArcRay20]

this was an interesting watch. im ho0nestly surprised with how much ive heard of "Season 0" that i have never heard mention of the gachapon-esque card game.

[@jasondetilly5647]

Great video! I'm a Yu-gi-oh fan, but I didn't know about that card game! Also, nice homage to Kazuki Takahashi. RIP

[@gonesoon15649]

Tbh Carddass is called Card-Dasu, which is a pun for "Giving out Cards" which the machine does. I seen them but I never pulled the machine myself as I play some Bandai card games myself, loved card games from both companies anyways. But pretty informative (except Carddass/カードダス pronounciation)

[@velvetbutterfly]

Though you forget a lot of Japanese are dropping the "unnecessary" sounds, I'm pretty sure it's at least partially due to English being a mandatory language to learn, so if you showed that word to a Japanese person who never heard it said they'd likely drop the "u" sound and say it closer to what Jwittz says

[@mightyowl1252]

You know it’s a special day when Jwittz uploads a video.

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

Even crazier is how some Konami cards got alt artworks BASED on the Bandai cards! Namely Dark Magician.

[@Onepiecetcg777]

Fun fact: yugi (the little guy) was a perv in season 0

[@CatsRul85]

I've missed your videos and great to see you back again, this was cool to learn about and look forward to whatever you do next

[@RiverChaos]

I remember TRYING to play the card game by the rule book and got so frustrated with it that I settled to just collecting the cards instead along with Pokemon cards (no one in my school played the Pokemon TCG), and that's how I ended up with a giant collection of cards collecting dust in three binders on my shelf.

[@TheDragonaf1]

Rip Kazuki Takahashi, its our turn now.

[@Lightmagician60]

i think saying that modern yugioh being "usually fine" is a little generious btw i do notice a lack of Bushi Road games in your opening pile. Vanguard: is.. a Success?? Buddyfight: died as fast and it's meta Weiss: is a Niche Niche and Luck and Logic: was a failed Success. i'd love to hear your takes on these

[@beauaadams153]

I mean Yugioh could be better again if we get a new set of master rules that slowed do certain summoning mechanics. But Vanguard surprises me its even around the game has the fastest powercreeps ever and they even had to reboot the series a few times.

[@eldavid8774]

jesus christ man why so negative?, just because you dont like something doesnt mean is not fine or that they are not successful with their own audiences

[@Lightmagician60]

@@beauaadams153 Vanguard has a weird issue of making things that aren't good for the game. Like they make a good game first, then nuke it. G era made consistency issues worse, and rised offensive power standards without touching defensive power standards V era rebooted the game, rised the defensive standards, and lowered offensive standards, but got out of hand no with "power" creep but with "feature" creep Overdress, rebooted again, fixing the consistency issues from the beginning, reduced the amount of "colors" so they aren't diluting the power to thin. But for whatever reason, as if they have a child on the dev team they can't say no to. We have over triggers. Which a good % of the community and even tournaments say is banned

[@roguelikemike]

So happy to see you uploading again, I was missing me some JWittz

[@leftygurl]

was kind of expecting the arceus dex video to be your only one for a while, happily surprised to have this show up, glad you’re back, bud.

[@literallyeverythingstaken]

2:00 you finally summed it up, I was always so confused if they really pivoted like that DB, Yu-Gi-Oh, the original fans must have such a shift from what it began as and it ended up into

[@SoraIndigo]

Great video jwittz. Still on the pray train for a video on yugioh games (Yugioh The Falsebound Kingdom)

[@squizzlor]

Cardass explains a-lot, the vending machine culture of Japan is fascinating. Seeing some game design choices for Japanese games as cultural is interesting

[@QueenCheetah]

Ah, an exploration of the games that started it all- and the insane anime that slowly morphed into a slightly-less insane anime! Thank you for exploring this, Jwittz!

[@jakegearhart]

There's very few people I drop everything to watch a new video from, but you're one of them.

[@ThatAlchemistGuy]

Should do a video covering the game Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories for the ps1! It was in this weird spot, being more close to what the TCG is now, but still having some funky mechanics.

[@mdudegamer]

Yo, I had no idea Capsule Monster Chess was revisited in any capacity, that's really neat it managed to get a video game!

[@kstanni87]

Poor Miho she got ditched before the west knew about her

[@bdpickett]

I played that Yu-Gi-Oh Gameboy game for hours as a kid. Loved playing it, even with the changes to the rules.

[@josephodonnell9865]

They would never dream about writing rules on cards today, thats definitely a glaring design flaw...

[@thesurvivor7853]

If I'm honest as someone who has played every tcg I could get my hands on, this is one of my least favorite card games, the anime and Manga live in my head as favorites, and is the reason I learn and play so many card games.

[@PokecrafterChampion]

I haven't been recommend a jwitzz video in years, I almost scrolled past but I'm glad I didn't, he really hasn't changed much, it's nice to come back to.

[@thatonedude5277]

One of the weirdest things about this version of duel monsters to me is that in the manga they had life points the stars thing is something they made up.

[@DennisTamayo]

Fun fact: Season 0 produced & animated by Toei Animation was aired on TV Asahi, which aired other Toei anime shows such as the Sailor Moon series & Slam Dunk.

[@psyxypher3881]

0:17 I was THIS close to unsubscribing.

[@RukilEngetsu]

I start the video; 30 views I refresh after the video; 3000 views This man's still got it~

[@StegDarkhorse]

I was going to say I couldn't believe only that original Yu-Gi-Oh game cracked the top 15 for GB games out of all the Yu-Gi-Oh games that came out. Took another look at the list and lo and behold there's another at Number 7. The... Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba decks game. I didn't even know that existed. I wonder how bare bones it is compared to like, Dark Duel Stories on GBA.

[@Arrusoh]

A video so soon after the last one. I am so happy that one of my favourite channels is back. I know your life if busy, so thank you so much for the content Jwittz

[@ContraG]

J-man I think you've become the King of Games. You've covered so many type of games and franchises. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the hard work!

[@BigKlingy]

I noticed that Fire Emblem Cipher card back at the start... I'd never heard of that Konami Gameboy Yugioh game that kickstarted everything, so this was a fascinating bit of history. Don't know if that ever came out in the west.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

We later got the third game in the series; called Dark Duel Stories over here, and The Sacred Stones and Reshef of Destruction are also later entries (The Eternal Duelist Soul, Stairway to the Destined Duel and the World Championship Tournament games are also technically part of the same series, but those games follow the full OCG rules unlike the other games so I don't really count them). GX Academy might be part of the series as well; it has "Duel Monsters" in its Japanese name, but I don't really know anything about that game. It also had a pair of spin-offs that included Forbidden Memories (the only game of the two to play remotely like the GB games) and The Duelists of the Roses, and a sort of "sister" game in The Falsebound Kingdom which reused assets from TDotR. Apparently the fourth game is set to be localized in a retro YGO game collection Konami's announced, which is neat.

[@VladBieber]

JWittz is such a nostalgia trip for me. After watching TheActMan and then Critical critic Yu-Gi-Oh, and now seeing that JWittz did a deep dive into the original series is so satisficing and heartwarming to see.

[@penguinguy1551]

It’s so, so good to have you back again popping up in the feed from time to time :)

[@PatLund]

Kazuki Takahashi died? I never even heard about it. RIP to the man who created one of the biggest parts of my childhood.

[@jamiewalsh3349]

A Game Boy game made the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG what it is now? Cool! This is why video games and my favourite franchises go hand-in-hand