Why Duel Disks are Important for Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@felipea6755]

Went back home a couple of months ago and dug out my OG duel disk from my parents attic. My wife was not impressed 😂

[@GatorEXYGO]

Lmao, that’s kinda cool it was still around after the years!

[@matteomigliore1477]

How could she not?

[@ForestX77]

Sounds like you need a new wife.

[@Kspice9000]

Huh didn't know blow up dolls could have another expression. Ba da-tss.

[@a1joryj]

Get a new wife LMAO

[@josiah566]

fun fact - in the original manga, Duelist Kingdom featured the duel box rather than the gigantic stadiums in the anime. The Duel Disk was a way for Kaiba to challenge Pegasus because it required duelists to stand farther apart rather than sit across the table, something which Kaiba thought would be a solution to Pegasus' Millennium Eye.

[@thanoseid2883]

i think that's the way we will get this kind of dueling irl. either duel stadiums or boxes or d pad from zexal.

[@Jazmission]

The duel box made a cameo in grand championship

[@jebbryant6522]

​@@thanoseid2883it's absolutely gonna be the zexal type. I really wish it'd be the stadium type but ar or vr is way more reasonable than massive holograms

[@gamerman782]

​@@jebbryant6522Although the duel box would be cool, since the holograms were like a foot tall, except for exodia

[@ChouRaiyuki]

Curious then; were the giant holograms for cards in hand an anime only addition?

[@GoldenGuitar_]

My parents refused to buy me a duel disk as a kid, but later i found the OG duel disk at a flea market for like 2€ and bought it with my pocket money. I can't describe my happiness playing with it. It was great.

[@tomislavmanitasevic895]

The same dude i bought battle city and oricalcos 😍

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

You could've purchased 300 black men for that price.

[@Stormchazer246]

Shit, I was lucky to find the duel disk I have for less than $100

[@literallygrass1328]

​@@TheModdedwarfare3300 BLACK MEN FOR ONLY TWO POUNDS?

[@vatarants]

​@@TheModdedwarfare3i would buy your mom for 1$ 😂

[@Rito.94]

The weirdest thing about duel disk in the anime at least battle city, was that you could see the freaking holographic projectors fly out the duel disk and set themselves perfectly to the sides

[@draketheduelist]

To be fair, I can _very_ easily see this as repurposed weapon tech from Gozuboro that Seto salvaged and incorporated into his duel disks. Wouldn't be the only time Seto did this, like with the finals tower. Probably the blimp, too. The weird thing is that they stopped shooting off the projectors later. Often this was because the projectors were built into the more elaborate environments and / or the God Cards were probably legit self-projected because something something shadow game (the one that always gets me is Ishizu somehow saw Osiris' coiling body _from the window of her room)_ but by Orichalchos / Doma arc, i think the anime legit forgot about them.

[@darklight0528]

​@draketheduelist well for the orichalchos arc, it was kinda plot holey when it came to immersion, as the antagonists duel disks probably operate differently from the normal ones (and were implied to have been discovered before the definitive duel disk was ever made). As for the final arc, to me, it was just one giant shadow game so....really they never really had an excuse to ever really pull out the projector launchers because beyond the battle city arc everywhere else has been mystical death duels or in the tournament case, in an amusement park where solid vision tech (kaiba land) was always present

[@draketheduelist]

@@darklight0528 Oh yeah, you mean the buried duel disk? Where the younger Raphael appears to dig one up in, as Abridged put it, a random-ass GY? That was actually a dub change. In the Japanese, Dartz has Raphael dig up his parents' remains, specifically pulling up their skulls. (How their remains were buried when they were lost at sea is beyond me, but it's implied that those skulls _weren't_ actually Raph's parents, which is arguably _far more_ f%%ked up as Raph just exhumed two graves of random strangers by hand for no reason.) Dartz then tosses one of his duel disks _into_ the hole with Raph afterwards. Raph did _not_ dig up a duel disk as the dub implied. Apparently the Japanese find Western cemeteties especially morbid and creepy because we bury people whole without cremating them first. Most likely there were some extracultural crossed wires on the depiction of that cemetety scene regardless, probably using it for the aesthetic without fully understanding it.

[@darklight0528]

@@draketheduelist Well damn, thanks for the fun fact! That just makes it....a lot more messed up though lmao, than what it was already implied-

[@thanoseid2883]

@@draketheduelist it was his siblings skulls actually. as for the "lost at sea" it was later implied that they were found dead.

[@DSdemon767]

The GX toy duel disk was my favorite. It could accomadate sleeved cards and the spell/trap slots were behind the monster zones whereas all the others were in front. This was the most screen accurate

[@Signerdragon123]

Yusei's did age well if you consider using it Arc-V style with the table as the blade. Then again, it's detachable blade gimmick could pave the way for a screen accurate 3D printed blade.

[@TheReZisTLust]

​@@DeviTechonbladeNeverDiesyou could tilt your arm and bam, obscured vision

[@Brawler_1337]

@@DeviTechonbladeNeverDiesI’ve heard that the reason the Yusei duel disk went back to the front-facing S&T zones was that the rear-facing zones tended to damage cards. I think it’s an acceptable tradeoff, considering you can just hold the blade downward to obscure cards while setting them. Another interesting thing is that the S&T zones will let you fit two single- or double-sleeved cards at the same time, so you can use the Yusei Duel Disk to summon Xyz monsters and use the corresponding S&T zone for the materials.

[@weberman173]

there are a few reasson it went to front facing ST zones. Of the dueldisks we got in the west(batle city, Chaos, Duel Academy, and the Yusei "flip up" dueldisk) of those 3, only the Duel academy one acomodates STs in the back. The Chaos one has the problem of do to how it "folds" that the second slot(Starting from the side nearers the players hand) is entirely obscured by the Graveyard and the "connection" to the Main body. there is no real way to incorporate a Slot there for a ST card. the first slot is also similiar prolematly, and do to the folding mechanism its relativly problematic everywhere. the Front was already slanted in its design so it was easier to incoporate it there and ALSO it provided th ability to read the card name while in it, which backfacing dosnt. The Yusei Flipup Dueldisk has a similiar problem as it has relativly thick and wide connectors to the main body, the space is just not there without having to bend the card at some akward angels around the 2nd and 3rd slot. Slots 4 and 5 would be easiy modifications all things considerd, and slot 1 is "doable" but strains the cards far more.. it being Modular (as in you can detach the blades) makes printing potentialy more accurate versions doable far ieasier thenthe other ones.. essentialy all you would need would be a thicker blade that extends further up a bit so you can slide it in without the GY being in the way. The normal non flipup JP exclusive(iirc) dueldisk has the same problems just more accurate Monster ones and the Battle city one is essentialy the 5Ds one but "smaller" with all the same problems, slot 1 4 and 5 woudl still be easiyl doable as backloaders, but 2 and 3 are even worse as the blade is marginally closer to the "main" body making it a pain to reach that area in genera. the GX dueldisk didnt HAVE this problem, its connector from blade to main body was IRELEVANT to the zones. Whatever that was intentional by the Toy department to make it.. well easier to sell as a toy or not dosnt matter here but the way the GX dueldisk is shaped makes it the only dueldisk we have where the ST zones are not coverd by the Connection between mainbody and blade. The middle "light orb" in frontof the GY is what saves it. because the zone right in front of the GY is entirely unused by zones. zone 3 and 4 where a bit "annoying" to reach, but they where nto directly blocked by the connector or main body, @@Brawler_1337

[@kaitlyn__L]

Same. I saved up and bought it off eBay when it was new. Eventually sold it all at 13, but regretted it and started buying boosters again at 16 for a few years 😅 no duel disk though

[@lux_max.]

A real fan made it out of cardboard

[@Wott248]

I literally did that lmao Though about it's condition ummmmmmmmmmmmm It Broke. By My Hand. I Spent So Much Duct Tape On That.

[@ryuzayuki1997]

I did that a few times ages ago, they were not that good as I was a kid and didn't have the prop making experience I didn't now. I might do another attempt when I have the time.

[@jondo7680]

I made exodia out of cardboard using the printer at school as I was 8 or something.

[@minicle426]

Kaiba: That's what poor people do!

[@eseos]

i did it :')

[@ARDIZsq]

As the Pokemon guy in my high school friend group of card game nerds, I saw one of them with a Duel Disk once and thought "Man, that looks so stupid. I wish Pokemon had something like that." XD

[@cbbblue8348]

Pokemon did have, its wonder launcher but it came out during bw so it never caught on as gimmick or something fun

[@rona2264]

​@@cbbblue8348 Thats a video game thing... he meant irl for the trading card game. Not for the Video games. how would that even work? i guess it can work like Megaman Battle Network irl PET that connects with the game.?

[@Icemansam44]

As a current Pokemon player I wish we had something like these

[@azzaelulbrinter]

I love how the duel disks and solid vision are at the core of the original series plot, with Kaibe inventing solid vision at the start of the series as a form of revenge against Yugi's yami no game (season 0 times), then Pegasus wanting to acquire that tech to see his wife again, which started the whole Duelist Kingdom arc. Then Kaiba put the solid vision tech on the duel disk as a way to fight against Pegasus without him seeing his hand (or so Kaiba thought), and then the Duel Disk was the perfect excuse to launch the new master rule and Battle City.

[@tomaskaila]

Yeah that's really what was interesting about the original series, it wasn't just people playing a card game with an increasing number of gimmicks, it was also the story of how Yugi accidentally caused a billon dollar tech race between two insane billionaires.

[@dreadknight0]

In the anime, part of Kaiba's strategie were using the solid holograms to can take pegasus by surprise but in the manga. Kaiba's Disks had a whole bunch of new rules due to the fact that it only had 4 spaces for cards. That's why Kaiba was so interested to make pegasus fight with his disks too, with new rules made by Kaiba he'd have upper hand, but at the end Pegasus made him play normally when brought his souless brother's body to play.

[@flamboyantwarlock7101]

It's probably my favorite thing about Yugioh. Kaiba constantly being confronted with Magic, deciding that Magic is a bunch of bullshit, then figuring out how to do the same thing with science. Kaiba and Yugi result in this weird mishmash of dark fantasy and near-future cyberpunk that you don't get anywhere else.

[@BurstFlare]

@@flamboyantwarlock7101 "deciding that Magic is a bunch of bullshit" That's a localization change. In the original Japanese dub, Kaiba does acknowledge the existence of magic, but still doesn't take it well.

[@salvadortoscano2534]

​@@BurstFlareI think the intent is more, "I can do that, too, without all the weird cheating you're doing!" You can call something bullshit even while acknowledging that it exists. You're just stating you don't like it.

[@hugomendoza5665]

Never thought about it too much whenever I was watching the anime--which probably just goes to show how seamlessly it adds to the immersion without drawing too much attention to itself. Gx's use of the design to align with the personalities of characters was a fantastic point that I think helps make the anime feel that much better to watch.

[@N13J]

Duel Disk is FASHION itself in GX.

[@salvadortoscano2534]

​@@N13JJust like any technology that a society accepts

[@TheCosmicJester01]

As a kid I had the Orichalcos Duel Disk. Loved it so much and played with it often. Though, I guess at some point the batteries leaked and were left inside for so long, it shot the electronics and it no longer lit up or made noises. I cannot recall what happened to it by this point now. It's only been like. 15 years or something lol

[@No__Vanity]

Bro i dont know what happened to my duel disk aswell even tho i didnt have many toys and i never stopped playing yugioh.. all off a sudden 90% duel disks in the world just disappeared 😂 did aliens take it? I dont know

[@lssjvegeta7103]

did you take any souls with it?

[@Mister_BIack]

I had the chaos duel disk as well but I don't remember it needing batteries... Is this a mandela effect moment or was there another version of it?

[@TheCosmicJester01]

@@Mister_BIack it took those tiny ass micro cell batteries.

[@teddtbhoy]

That was the one I had as well, the moving part ended up breaking from too much use, but it was probably my favourite toy.

[@MrHomemPacato]

Let's not forget that in the manga, before the arenas, they played on a table. Crazy stuff

[@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6]

I got the Oricalcos Duel Disk off Ebay due to there being no Battle City or 5D version at the time but I really do love the style they put into them that honestly helped make feel like if you could you would walk out and just have a match (to plug in Team APS this would also be really good for when quarentine years kicked in and distance was in place and the distance skit they did really nails the fact you can play physically without the worry.) but I would like to just add one more thing, during the Japanese airing of Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens there was a live-action skit that did simple teaching for how to play (card types, effects, positions and the like) but during a couple of these they actually had him show you how to make a Rush Duel Disk out of cardboard so you could play too. not sure if it would have fit into the video but its worth mentioning as you do have an option to have a nice basic Duel Disk so long as you had glue, cardboard and a reliable way to cut the exact pieces

[@wfjhDUI]

1:00 "completely functional"

[@CrimsenOverlordVideos]

Functional in the show at least

[@kentknightofcaelin4537]

Unfortunately they kinda mess up your cards.

[@TheDealer1228]

Yup. I remember wanting one when it first released and my best friend got one before me for his birthday and it completely turned me off. Felt cheap, didn’t hold cards right, and often smushed the corners to hell. I was good with my playmat after that lol.

[@BramLastname]

The GX ones are said to be nicer to your cards, But it's like saying hitting someone with a Frying Pan makes them bleed less than a crowbar, Just don't use either one and you won't have the issue at all.

[@simpson6700]

@@TheDealer1228 same. I played one match on my friends duel disk and the corners of my cards were damaged after a single match.

[@bruticus1496]

I had the Oricalus style disk, it had a good chance of wrecking cards if you were not stupid carful

[@MrVariant]

Hopefully VR will help bypass that. Shame Konami is kicking the can. Also the card effects and such are too long so you'd have to read them anyway, so a table is more practical anyway. 3:00 that explains why they didn't use actual cards in the commercial let alone sleeved ones 😂

[@SpiritualAura96]

I remembered having one when I was younger and got confused as why the slots for the trap/spell cards were on the outside instead of the inside like in the show but still enjoyed it very much. I even remember after watching Zexal and seeing so many different designed duel discs that I made some fan made ones, like one to resemble a shark as I had a duelist that was a surfer, one that was glassy looking and covered with jewels and so many more. Those were the days 😊 I need to do that again as I felt like that was a lot of freedom and really opened my creativity

[@KumaPaws376]

What other card game could you play on your arm!? I always loved duel disks...especially in GX where all the antagonist duelists had a unique one (like the jeweled ocean used by the sea captain). My favorite are the professor's duel coats! Where the deck is on the chest and auto draws each turn, and its like a guitar on them instead of on their arm! Great video! Thank you for the nostalgia!

[@GatorEXYGO]

I love how GX did such a great job with making their characters unique between the Duel Disks and all the archetypes introduced.

[@Chernobog2]

I like Yubel grew an organic duel disk out of their arm, and how Darkness (Nightshroud) in season 4 played the cards onto his 5 wings. I also like how in season 1 Jinzo didn't use any kind of dueling medium and just projected his cards himself, and when Saio (Sartorius) dueled Manjoume (Chazz) he just played on a table and used his own power to summon the cards. I dislike how Link Summoning made the actual postion of cards on the field matter because it meant we couldn't get any more odd looking Duel Disks

[@Not_An_EV]

​@@Chernobog2quite the opposite. The inclusion of link zones just means theres a whole new untapped market of awesomely weird shaped duel disks. They just got lazy in designing them towards the end. Look at any of the duel disks that appear in 5ds, zexal or arc v. Duel disks were awesome in og yugioh and gx and that's it really.

[@Chernobog2]

@@Not_An_EV 5Ds had a few unique duel disks, like that knight guy who had a shield shaped duel disk

[@AccelerationYGO]

I remember having the original and the GX duel disk when I was younger, and I remember when season 4 of GX came out I had spray painted the gx duel disk red to match the new anime variant because we didn't get the colored version products released in the US/Canada.

[@GatorEXYGO]

Yeah, the different colors of the base mode look so cool

[@scrubyscrubrton]

I had an original Duel disk growing up , I would end up accidentally breaking it over the years but it certainly was a great deal more durable than the rerelease version. In fact the locking mechanism was strong enough that you could lock it half way so it was cocked diagonally forward a bit from the full rest position which I found to be really cool.

[@GitsuneG]

1:48 Dood, that is not a motorcycle, that's a D Wheel. That's like calling a Duel Disk a wristwatch.

[@Endermen1094]

Most d wheels seem to be a based from a motorcycle design

[@notapplicable6985]

A duel disk doesn't really look like a watch. A D wheel looks like a sci fi motorcycle

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

Nerd

[@mifffalden9225]

My friends and i as kids made our own (rather flimsy) duel disks out of cardboard and stuff. They were too flimsy to actually wear and play the game so we still sat down and just used them as playmats. I made one based on Crowler's duel disk in GX. Fun memories.

[@leandroroman7053]

You earned those PhDs in dueling with those handmade duel disks. My respects.

[@adamvoid555]

Haha, we did those too! We figured out how to put them on our wrists though. A bit cringe but fun times.

[@BlueSparxLPs]

I did similar as a kid. I used card sleeves as the card zones superglued to the cardboard so that the card wouldn't fall off or get damaged. It worked surprisingly well but the durability was definitely low.

[@rwberger6]

Always found it funny the first time they showed off the duel disk its shown shooting out these two attachments that become the hologram projectors. And then it never showed them again.

[@nuttybuddy7928]

would you rather they waste 15 seconds of the limited runtime showing the logistics of a Duel starting or would you rather they get down to the actual thing you came to see, ie the Duel?

[@burningfox4974]

I’m still waiting for Yugioh VR. That be a cool addition to the series.

[@ShayTheValiant]

I had the original duel disk and the chaos duel disk, but for some reason I gave the original to a friend when he moved away, only to have him tell me a few years later that it broke. Still have the chaos duel disk, though. I hope to get a new original one some day, and maybe a GX one as well since that one has always been my favourite.

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

I really like that you could see duel disk technology advance throughout the show.

[@765craven4]

Fun story from my high school years. 2016. I have somewhat fallen off playing Yu-Gi-Oh but still have my deck from the late Synchro, early XYZ era. I have a friend I still occasionally play with who I go to school with, let's call him DJ. DJ, a theater kid, has got some weird quirks, but he wears them with the total confidence only possible for someone with no social awareness, no shame, or from being an actual Chad. DJ is a super fan of Yu-Gi-Oh, has a collection of Duel Disks, multiple decks, narrates his turns like he's a character in the anime, the works. We had used his Duel Disks a few years ago during our after school gaming club for the novelty. We would occasionally play some games during lunch, and one day, out of the blue, DJ brought his Duel Disks to lunch during high school. During lunch in a side room of our cafeteria (all glass, visible from all sides to the main cafeteria and to the outside) and one of the Football guys, let's call him Andrew, who I'm acquainted with and at least friendly towards walks by and asks what we're doing. Andrew is a pretty cool guy, pretty popular, attractive guy, very accepting of people outside his normal social circle, not judgy. He has a few of his friends with him and we can tell they see a couple of 16 year olds playing Yu-Gi-Oh and are confused at Andrew even talking to us, let alone not laughing at us. We tell him we're playing Yu-Gi-Oh and he's just like, "Oh, cool." DJ, unprompted, challenges him to a Duel, in that room, tomorrow. Andrew, surprisingly, accepts, despite not really knowing how to play. The next day he and his friends showed up, DJ brought his Duel Disks and a couple of decks and they actually start a game. Andrew is fumbling his way through and has only passing knowledge of Yu-Gi-Oh at best, having probably seen a few episodes when he was younger. DJ is narrating his turns like he's in the anime and Andrew actually starts bantering back. They actually start getting into it. Andrew's friends start getting into it. This shit is actually happening. A crowd starts to form of probably 30-40 people in this side room, standing around these two goofballs playing Yu-Gi-Oh and narrating like they're in the show. One of his friends and I break out our phones and start recording. I've since lost that recording, but it's a treasured memory. DJ would go on to become quite popular and well known at our school for the few years he was there. During the talent show of our senior year he and some of the other theater kids did a Star Wars duel that was very well received. Andrew and I became more like friends, sharing some AP classes. I became fairly well-known and accepted in most social crowds, as I was the Editor in Chief for the school magazine, so I knew a lot of people and had friends and acquaintances in most of the social circles. Still, I did have my tight knit circle of friends that I mostly stuck to, playing Yu-Gi-Oh and MTG during Lunch, or battling Pokemon on our 3DS.

[@Nirvash89]

I had both the OG Duel Disk and the Chaos Duel Disk at one point, but sadly, one of my parents threw them away (since they were "just toys" and I was "too old for them"). I'm currently tempted to get one of the versions released recently, even if they are kind of pricey.

[@killerwolff3048]

1:40 card games on motorcycles

[@miyaw9360]

*thats BS*

[@CathrineMacNiel]

A childrens card game you play on a two wheeled transportation device?!

[@mattmeadows6568]

Hey Yusei

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@mattmeadows6568Jack?

[@calebbones6502]

I remember seeing this in the store one day selling for $30 and working all summer to save my money so i could buy one. i loved the hell out of it but years later and i went on to sell it at a garage sale when i was in high school for a few bucks. i remember that i later saw they were selling online for an absurd amount and was disappointed in myself

[@chipsdonut1]

I had the gx duel disk. But my favorite one has gotta be the Supreme King's one. the way it just spins and becomes active just amazing.

[@spartanlz]

I remember one day we went to Toys R Us and I convinced my Dad to get me the Chaos Duel Disk and a new set of YuGiOh cards. I was the coolest kid on the block until the main series ended and people moved onto PSP's and Nintendo DS's.

[@Xalarh]

Dude, so much nostalgia. I got a duel disc when I first started getting into yugioh at like 9-10. It came with yugi vs kaiba decks, an instructional dvd and a duel disc. I wasn't too big into kaiba so I traded his blue eyes which I really regretted later. Seeing how expensive some of this stuff is now makes me really regret not taking better care of it because I can't just go and buy my old stuff. But I was a kid. I had gotten rid of my cards which were all 1st and 2nd edition. And some of those cards are worth in the hundreds but I just liked the art at the time

[@kamajuchikekenate]

Ever since 5Ds was Synchronized in Croatia and I got to watch it every morning before school,I always wished to get one and then right after Yuseis Duel Disk was gonna come I waited till it came to the toy shops,but it always was out of stock...so till this day I sometimes regret not being the Flash incarnate,to get the Duel Disk on the time...though no matter how or if I forget about Yu-Gi-Oh from time to time,bc. of life as a 19 year old...I'll cerrainly continue moving foreward and try to snatch one of the old or the reproduction duel disks,just because I hold Yu-Gi-Oh! real close to my heart becayse it helped me a lot while growing up in the wartorn country as much as it helped me later make some friends along the way,even if I lost them later on in life,since they gave up on all that...I still keep my 1st Cards I ever got and will never traid nor sell them because of what they mean to me... Anyhow,liked and subbed and hope you all will have a nice day and hopefully we'll see eachotger on the Battlefirld playing a Childrens Card Game❤

[@KnightsofGaming2016]

Just a casual Yugioh card collector but just the idea of having a competitive battle with Duel Disk is cool as hecc! My favourite designs of Duel Disks are those that are based or are weapons like the one from the Fusion dimension in Arc-V that looks like a shield with the panel where you place the cards being based on a sword and the one from GX that is essentially a freaking gun/blaster. Hope we get more Duel Disks like those.

[@thatontariofarmer]

I remember going to Toys Rush when these first came out. Drove an hour to get it. I was happier than a pig in sh*t . Lots of schoolyard and backyard fun was had.

[@TheBlockerNator]

2:44 Looks like they're playing Forbidden Memories rather then the TCG

[@DogOfWar64]

My cousins had these as kids and they pinched their fingers on the opening disk part and they cried so hard their mother threw it away lol

[@JohannaA.5013]

One duel disk I always wanted is Camulla’s one! That would fit my Vampire Empress Costume.

[@GatorEXYGO]

It’s such a good Duel Disk with how it fans out and has the gold color. If they had made more of the GX Duel Disk replicas, that would’ve been cool, but there were SO MANY! 😂

[@DSdemon767]

I liked the dark signers duel disk from 5Ds and wished that became real

[@carwyn3691]

Even as a kid I saw these things for sale and thought "nah that's too much"

[@Netherwolf6100]

After my sister broke my old duel disk, I ordered the Proplica Japanese Kaiba Duel Disk. Still have it to this day and I freaking love it.

[@syferblade]

the american commercial was pretty irl accurate it was just a bunch of nerds afraid to get beat up running away to a secret meet up

[@kalp2113]

The Pendulum era would create a whole other field format that time so maybe thats why there where no duel disk made during that format and ruling

[@uwumique]

I recently saw two people dueling live on tiktok, both standing with a dueldisk... that was the coolest live i ever watched and i understood what was going on way better than if they played on a basic table

[@DMDracoMoondragon]

I actually had the Chaos Duel Disk years ago. I actually really enjoyed the Waking the Dragons arc of the anime, and the Duel Disks used by Dartz and his cronies were honestly some of the coolest around! It was also more compact than the original one, since the actual field was telescoping. Still fit the unsleeved cards nicely, though! That was back before I realized how valuable sleeving cards was.

[@aeneasevers]

I (32 years old and from Germany) had the first Dual Disk back in the days. It should still be lying around somewhere in my old stuff at my mother's home.

[@talenstout8324]

Duel disks allow for the game on the go. Now we need duel disks with extra monster zones. I’m gonna get a duel disk at some point.

[@lAlwaysHopel]

It’s ridiculous and uncomfortable to play. Just play on the ground.

[@allsystemsgootechaf9885]

​@@lAlwaysHopelthis. My brother and i eventually just used them for lifepoint counters 😂

[@internetjerk2839]

Yeah they seem fun till you realize you have to keep your arm in that awkward position especially when you remember these are meant for kids and weren't exactly light

[@MisterJ355]

​@@lAlwaysHopel piss ofd

[@Jairyoku]

I’m so glad I still have my Og duel disk 🙏😭❤️ Glad you got your 25th anniversary one!🎉

[@hoylsaintjebus]

the ultimate card destroyer

[@baka030hydroid]

My buddy has a duel disk still, and every time I see it I just remember all of our goofy duels back when I had fun with Yu-Gi-Oh. Good times indeed. I still have my original deck somewhere, back before I understood how statistics and hypergeometric distribution worked

[@phorchybug3286]

It's... Tacky but a decent anime weapon. Would be cool if they made one with Extra Monster Zones.

[@DeadwaveCarrier-oc1wo]

I remember seeing the commercial for this and really wanting one so bad, despite not actually watching the show. But as you stated, there were eventually other animes with toylines and I did invest in a little in Beyblades and that other shows where the monsters were orbs.

[@FatherOfGray]

I never got one as a kid because I was smart enough to know that holographic technology wasn't there yet and that you'd still have to stand uncomfortably close to another person to play effectively. You could argue that both players could read the card effects out loud, but someone could totally just lie and say a card does something that it doesn't and if you didn't know what that card actually did you couldn't call it out. Ironically, despite the Duel Disk not coming into use until later in the anime, it was better used as a prop for playing pretend Duelist Kingdom Yu-Gi-Oh where you make up card interactions by the seat of your pants roleplaying style since the card text doesn't matter as much.

[@diamondmetal3062]

The concept of duel disks is just cool, honestly. A high-tech summoning apparatus in the shape of a blade. I’ve been trying to see how, if at all, you could bring something like that to MtG.

[@marimakesstuff3900]

the concept of duel disk even shaped OTHER card game anime series. Takahashi truly shaped anime history.

[@thedudehi]

man what a throwback. I loved my dueldisk but no one else I knew played yugioh so i would play by myself in front of a mirror. Good times. Thanks so much for this piece of nostalgia.

[@jkid1134]

I have one of the OG ones. I suppose you're right about them being valuable as a narrative device. My experience was that they were IMPOSSIBLE to duel with, though we certainly did a few times. I get that this was at a time when spinning plastic was all you needed to call it a toy, but you can't read their cards or half of your cards and where do I put my side deck, extra deck, and banished cards, and even the life point counter (which is the most useful thing on the disk - we would use them sometimes even when playing on a table) only has 3 real digits so good luck healing to 10k or solemning to an odd number.

[@lpfan4491]

Where you put your banished cards? Into one of your pockets. Literally not even joking, that is legit what they did in the anime before they instead made those cards peace out and vanish from existance somehow.

[@herohut725]

I have two battle City Duel Disk from back in the day and a chaos duel disk but since they don't fit the sleeves I decided to make my own. I made 2 of them. I looked up tutorials on how to make the basics of the monster and spell/traps zone and made my own version with card board, clear tape, magnets, and hot glue. Covering each piece of cardboard with tape was the annoying part but I was happy on how they turned out. They're prototypes but still function. I made them so you could play Rush and Speed duels. Aside from the deck and graveyard, there are slots for the extra deck, banished area, and side deck. I've yet to make a video on them because I'm still adjusting them. Good vid by the way.

[@dudono1744]

Do you have a slot to put your hand on while you search your deck ?

[@herohut725]

@@dudono1744 the second one does have a place to hold your hand cards so long as the amount of card isn't too much

[@orangegalen]

Still have one of the OG’s, but the sliding part is shot and won’t rotate. Been meaning to try and take it apart to try and fix it, but it’s one of those toys that’s not meant to be taken apart. Batteries are dead but replaceable - nothing corroded thankfully.

[@XionDarkblood13]

I think another reason it’s as cool as it is, is that it’s very much like old westerns. Two people stare each other down and you can see their weapons. Then the classic “draw” where they get down to business can involve fancy shenanigans and posing.

[@reallyhimongod]

1:20 always loved the way it transformed!

[@Cyvelia]

Ok, but let's talk about the realistic use of Duel Disks. My brother and I both had one, and yes, they looked really cool. However, there were a lot of problems with them. 1. More often than not, you’d need to read your opponent's card effects. This means you'd have to walk across the room and take the card from their Duel Disk to read it. It gets really annoying when you have to do this repeatedly. Not to mention, the spell and trap cards were almost completely hidden in the bottom slots. In a normal game I would often glance at peoples traps and spells to help me come up with my strategy, however because your opponent is usually standing like 6 feet away from you it can be hard to the title of the card. 2. Cards would often fall off the Duel Disk. If you leaned forward too much, cards would fall off the field and onto the floor. Sometimes, even your deck might fall out. 3. After a while, your arm gets tired, especially if you do 3-5 duels in a row, which makes problem #2 happen more often. 4. Sometimes, the life points you lose would be a very specific number, so we’d still need a piece of paper nearby to do quick math. If I think about it more I could go on. All in all, there were times when it was super fun, but after using them about 50 times, we never picked them up again. In my opinion, they weren't as fun or interesting as in the anime.

[@NinjaXFiles]

I think we need duel disks to become more like smartphones. Well not exactly smartphones but "smart-duel-disks" where stuff like card reading is immediately readable on a tiny screen Also making it so that card zones can detect the card information and that info going to a screen for both duelists would help a lot. Sort of a hybrid between smart technology and bluetooth technology. And making the duel disk as light as possible so that the arm doesn't get tired would fix that issue I believe. One would be able to move faster with the arms that way

[@aim32505]

i remember always wanting a duel disk when i was younger (never was able to find one) so my dad went out his way to make me a homemade one out of cardboard and tape to hold the cards in place ontop of a watch so i could actually wear it. the thrill and fun i had with that homemade one was awesome and i still have it lol just couldnt deactivate it or play spell cards but it held monsters

[@AchanCham_]

Incredible video. I was only recently introduced to the show and was blown away by how good it was. Seeing that they made a chaos duel disk is amazing!

[@CathrineMacNiel]

1:42 CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!

[@sylnz97]

was at my moms house last week and found my old duel disk that I haven't seen in atleast 10 years in the basement and that fuckin thing somehow made me interested in yugioh again and here I am LMAO

[@raymondkunkel642]

Imagining Atem and Kaiba having their usual heated banter right prior to a duel ONLY to pull out a damn foldable table to conduct said duel sounds hilarious.

[@oscardaone]

There was a gun disk from 5ds Salem town that I wish was made but it being shaped like a gun would have hurt sales. However I wish they would remake the chaos duel disk. I feel like that they could have made it more collapsible like in the anime, but at least you can store it more easily even while wearing it.

[@TheShapingSickness]

Remember back then I was at a LGS, and a little kid walked in with his dad, the kid was wearing the duel disk, everybody was so enthusiastic about dueling the little kid, didn't care too much about the rules and let him win every game, everyone was having fun that day.

[@Gomace]

I remember seeing a Yu-Gi-Oh GX duel disk at Toys 'R' Us, and not knowing what it was. A year or so later I watched the GX series on TV, and I realized that I had seen one of those duel disks at Toys 'R' Us and went there to check it out. Apparently they didn't sell them anymore. I grew up with lots of tv shows not planning the availability of the toys with when the kids would eventually get into them. Such a shame.

[@onlinemenace]

"Unfortunately the duel disk has no field spell zone." Me: "Yeah, I don't remember in the anime any... *My brain immediately when saying that* "Hol' up! There WAS a field spell zone in that thing!" And then I remembered it was a slide-y holder that was under in one of the extremes of the disk. Would be cool to see Konami, or maybe a bunch of dedicated fans make a bunch and host a tournament with them. Even if it's for the pure joy of using one as intended

[@gabrielkappenman816]

Always loved these, my and my sister grew up loving yugioh. She had og duel disk and i snagged the chaos duel disk. Still have it to this day, very cool video!

[@DovonMac1]

Your last line of gaining something that you’re lost is the exact story with me losing my old dmg gameboy when I was 4 or 5 and it turn up in an auction about 25 years later with my name still in it

[@LuwiigiMaster]

I'm now curious if any other duels in the anime were ever held either at a table (like episode 1) or at a stationary terminal, like duelist kingdom. I imagine the former would be useful for two people to casually play, perhaps to experiment with new cards, and the latter would be useful for a big exhibition duel.

[@Lucifer_Crowe]

Kaiba Vs Ziegfried was held in a duel arena As was the Duel where Yugi showed off Heart of the Underdog

[@duncethedoctor]

What's the story about the og version with the rounded life point counter at 0:06 ? That one looks premium.

[@TheCapitalLetterM]

Got my duel disk hanging up right now on my bed, waiting for the day it ever needs to be used.

[@daviddavis3939]

I had one of the OG duel disks, and eventually got a chaos one. They are long gone now, and sometimes I consider buying them. When I check prices I quickly decide against it. I have one of the anniversary ones on display and I am just happy with that.

[@mitrikgaduk347]

Back in my day my Nephew had the original (if I remember, I'm around 4-5 years older than him, I was around maybe 9-10, he was like 5-6), I remember putting it on my arm and noticing how heavy the thing was. Due to the thicker plastic, it had a serious heft to it, and you could "swing it open" like the Anime without it breaking or falling apart. We literally swung it open so many times, I was surprised it didn't snap in 10 different places.

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

I really wish there was a version that was compatible with your phone or something, or at least at that point compatible with Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links. I'd 100% perform a Raging Pendulum Combo while dressing a bit like Yuya, and being able to do that at a local card shop would be so cool. I honestly wish there were locals for Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links, but I don't think that's a thing.

[@Sergeantmajormario]

Something I found interesting was that the standby phase to activate animation of the Duel Disk was purely an anime thing. In the manga the Duel Disk was always active and we never saw them fold up

[@alanlavery]

When I was a kid, I only knew one other person with a duel disk in my area, and we agreed to do a outside battle. But walking on the way there, my deck fell out of the deck holder right into a drain. I was devastated.

[@TheShurimanPigeon]

Me and my brothers all had different disks as kids and we loved them. The oldest had the OG one, the middle had the Oricalcos one, then me, as the youngest, had the GX duel disk. Good times

[@tehpurplepills]

my favorite scene is in episode "flight of fear" where kaiba meets allister on his corporate aircraft, so he presses a button to make all the rooms furniture to go down into the floor, while stating hes always prepared for a duel lmao. We're not going to duel on some table and chairs, like some animal!!!

[@jamesredmond7001]

I still have both the OG and the GX duel disks in my closet - I remember I only got about two weeks use out of them for actual card games (then we decided that actually sitting down and playing across from one another was more fun than trying to see our opponent's field from 7-8 feet away) though. That said, they *did* have a great second life as shields when we were using nerf guns, especially the GX one :) Also, the progression from card table to duel arena to fully fledged duel disks was always one of the things that I appreciated the most about the Yugioh anime and manga - card games weren't always the biggest thing in the world, we could see the progression of things over the first couple of series, as both the rules and the technology finally cemented themselves into a final, dominant form. And that for me has always given Yugioh a leg up over any of the other game-gimmick anime and manga that either came out around then, or followed in Yugioh's footsteps.

[@michaelhayes8519]

I had one of these as a kid, but I don't know what happened to it. My family split apart and my whole childhood was ruined, gotta love childhood trauma 😂

[@DustyTheDog]

I remember getting my original duel disk back in like 2003 or 2004. Was the best birthday present I had yet

[@LifeGameDesign]

I'm surprised I don't remember this memory myself but I begged my parents for a duel disk when it came out when I was in primary school - When the yui gi oh movie came out I took the duel disk there when watching the movie and my dad said all these kids were going nuts about it. I was really shy so I probably didn't talk to them and make friends. I just remember that it really established my connection I had to the anime and game I was so into.

[@Brotherman94]

Both me and my sister were into yu-gi-oh. One christmas my mom got my sister two duel disks. I was confused and asked if one was meant for me. Especially since I played the game with friends and my sister just collected the cards. My mom said they were both for her...that was the most heart broken I've ever been. But my sister did let me take one to my friends when I asked.

[@Ominvus]

More reasons that I still love my Choas Duel Disk. Edgy as hell and love it in the anime. I got mine in the early years when the Chaos Duel Disk was still on shelves in KB Toys. Love my brother for getting it for me. Looking at it now, I could make my own that actually opens close to the anime version. Just need the time and passion to actually implement that plan.

[@HybridHero]

Holy shit 70K congrats bro!

[@GatorEXYGO]

Got me like Patrick thinking “WHO ARE YOH PEOPLE?!”

[@dreadknight0]

When me and my friends were kids, we made our own duel disks with paper, cardboard, glue and any weird thing we could add to can do the form, I remember I used 2 pens to hold the big place where you have to play your cards.

[@Ghostalking]

my brother and I played so many games on our chaos duel disks

[@douglasthequilava]

A friend of mine who got me back into YuGiOh owned the Orichalcos Duel Disk, and i would have loved to have my own duel disk to use so me and him could have recreated Battle City style duels

[@SukoYote]

I have a knockoff duel disk. The card zone detaches from the main section, and it doesn't really have a stabilizer on it. So, unless it's really tight on the wrist, it's going to rotate downward. And rather than 5 card spaces, there are 6, and it slips out, giving the monster and spell/trap zones. I did a review of the actual duel disk for the school paper. While it was neat, I didn't like it because it creased the cards in order to keep them still.

[@Brawler_1337]

I had a GX duel disk as a kid, but I didn’t really use it I never really played the game at all. Come college, I end up joining the Yugioh club and I get brought up to speed with the game. I end up loving the game, and for Christmas 2012 I decided to buy myself a 2010 Duel Disk Yusei to tinker around with. Looking back, I wish I had ordered a second one, because it’s so much fun playing a fully-sleeved deck and Extra Deck in it, and I’d love to be able to do proper anime duels or film live action shorts.

[@JeremyBelpoisX]

I never had one growing up but I always loved playing with my friend's OG Duel Disks at his house...until I accidentally broke one of his when I climbed onto his trampoline for a jumping duel. My mom later took me to Target and got him a replacement: the Duel Academy Duel Disk! I would always try and use it myself because it was so cool (I apparently stink at learning lessons about respecting other's things lol), but sadly we drifted apart years ago and I haven't seen him in over a decade. I do have two different styles of Yusei's Duel Disk (one with the card flip function, and one without) I got off eBay a year ago and I will proudly display them for my channel!....when I have shelf space, lol.

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

I haven’t played much in close to a decade now, but I still have the GX duel disk that I bought back during that era. Of course once I started playing competitive yugioh, it wasn’t used much, but I’m glad I still have it.

[@dubbyplays]

*My opinion:* The thing that always bugged me about Duel Disks was that they appeared too big and heavy. I've always wondered "how do duelists stand and hold their arm still with the Duel Disk raised for hours without dying of cramps?". With Zexal, Duel Disks finally appeared lighter and simpler; a tablet that hides the Field platform inside. But the design was very different from the classic early YuGiOh, which looks very cool, almost like a "side arm ninja blade". Arc-V is where they really revolutionized it for me: the Duel Disk was a tablet but the Field platform was a solid hologram-laser projected from the device. Thus making the Duel Disk the lightest ever made, taking up the historical "ninja blade"-shaped design and allowing variety in the designs based on the characters. And finally, Vrains has arrived. Duel Disks are no longer shaped like "ninja blades" but simple circular virtual technological bracelets. 100% comfort, minimum weight (but since most duels are set in the virtual world, there is no such concept as "weight"). The only exception are the main characters, such as the protagonist, who unlike everyone else, his Duel Disk maintains the classic "ninja blade" shape, similar to Arc-V's, but with a totally different shape and perfectly in tune with the protagonist's style of play (plays computer-themed cards) and the cyber space setting. Thus making it my favorite Duel Disk ever. Then came Sevens. Let's not talk about Sevens.

[@ItsPForPea]

Sevens' duel disk is shaped like a seven, I love it.

[@dubbyplays]

@@ItsPForPea I can see that, it's just the series being a huge delusion to many YuGiOh anime enjoyers. Because they rushed Vrains last episodes (and even had lost the budget for the CGI), because the Sevens series was in progress and Konami wanted to prioritize that. And because in Sevens it loses that seriousness/coolness aspects of the OG series and was turned into a kids show. Many nostalgic don't like when their favorite cartoons gets "family friend"-ed as toons for 3yo kids. Even if sometimes they're not that bad or there's nothing wrong, is something that's hard to explain why many don't appreciate it.

[@KuroReisho]

I saw someone say that if they actually try mastering the hologram for yugioh Even people who don’t play would want to start It would literally be the biggest thing in the world Imagine walking around a corner and you see a battle between chaos angel and barrone de fleur in hologram form with added personality Movements And cool effects It would be so awesome

[@Katastrophe9009]

My brother and I both had one of these. It was pretty awesome to be able to play the game away from a table, like at a park or something. Yea, we looked like total dorks walking around with these big hunks of plastic on our wrists but we were kids, we couldn't care less.

[@wizrad2099]

YuGiOh needs to be the forerunner for pushing the next generation of console games to include VR gaming. You put a fully emersive YuGiOh VR game on the market and you'll see success.

[@Ryanmiller70]

I remember as a kid going over to a friend's house who had 2 duel disks. We decided to try playing a match with them, but quickly found them to be way too heavy and awkward to use while standing so we just set them on the ground while using the cards. I still haven't touched a duel disk since then despite still really wanting one. I'm just not willing to shell out over $100 for a decent one that can hold card sleeves.