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

This was so incredible, great video!

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

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

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

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.

Best underrated channel on RU-vid

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

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.

we missed you 🥺

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Super Expert Rules!!

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.

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

The prodigal son returns.

Love your videos like this, keep it up!

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

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

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

The algorithm should pick this up lmfao

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.

Very good video!

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!

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! 🎉 🎉 🎉

@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.

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!

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.

I've been waiting patiently for this

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

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

Thx for coming back

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

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

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

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

Yessssss

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

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

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

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

Thank you RU-vid for recommending your channel to me. 🙌🙏

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I loved how you contextualized everything. Great video!

Terrific video! Deserves way more views!

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..

underrated video, good work general!

I discovered you thanks to Farfa. Amazing video, man

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

I got here from Farfa. This video is incredible!

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

Absolutely amazing video, thanks for putting this together!

thank you for making this video. its amazing work.

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,

Just incredible, awesome video.

Great work man! Very interesting video!

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

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

Awesome video!!!❤

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 !

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

That Charizard quip hit home ;_;

im so happy farfa led me here

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

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

Thank you! Great video. Subscribed!

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

Great video, very informative!

Top notch content Liked and subbed

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

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!

So well crafted

history lesson for the day

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

Love this channel 😍

Great vid. I learned a lot

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

You deserve more views

You forgot fire spin on that charizard

So underrated!

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

Very well made!

Commenting for RU-vid algorithm

Hey, great video

Came here from farfas channel. This video was great

I'm making a TCG myself, It's very interesting to see how YuGioH had such a simple start, yet it could afford it only because of the promise of something bigger and the manga.

Awesome. Very good! The starter box is awesome, but the ex & ex-r are more available that became our tcg starter decks.

how did this fly under my radar

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 !