Opening FIRST EVER Yu-Gi-Oh Cards! (Original Bandai 1998 Cards) 

These are the original Bandai OCG cards from 1998/1999. They were almost always sold out and if Konami’s Duel Monsters game boy game didn’t sell well Bandai would still be in control of Yugioh now. Some cards made their first appearance here instead of the manga, the red eyes seen here could be pulled from a Bandai carddass machine before it was even introduced in the story

Skipped some cards that are pretty obvious. If a card is Toei only, I put (TO) after it. 3:23 Dragon Capture Jar 3:57 Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress #1 4:25 Celtic Guardian 4:44 Silver Fang 5:14 Chimaera (TO) 5:25 One part of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection", a bit like a Fusion, or a Maximum Summon from Rush Duels (TO) 5:36 Night Soldier (TO) 5:50 King Beetle (TO) 6:13 Golden Pegasus (TO) 6:17 The Wicked Worm Beast 6:30 Mushroom Man 6:58 Gorgon (TO) 7:03 Red Hecate (TO) 7:15 King Rex (TO) (if you ever wondered what two-headed king rex's relative was) 7:28 Dark Energy 9:06 Dragonic Pulse of the Land (TO) 9:27 Koumori Dragon (Devil Dragon in Japan) 9:39 King Beetle, Gorgon, Violet Hecate (TO), Neon Knight (TO), Night Soldier, Rokugan (TO) 10:03 Dark Zora (TO) 10:26 Dragon Piper, Clown Zombie (Murder Circus Zombie in Japan), Killer Needle (Killer Bee), Horn Imp (Imp), Tiger Axe, Skull Servant (Wight) 10:40 Armored Lizard, Battle Steer, Mammoth Graveyard, Barox, Harpie Lady #2 10:50 Torike (Saigaa) 10:51 Battle Warrior (Grappling Warrior Ultimator) 11:07 Ryu-Kishin (Gargoyle), Wattkid 11:26 Kojikocy (Demon Hunter) 11:30 Armored Zombie 11:49 Hercules Beetle, Feral Imp (Gremlin), Crawling Dragon #2 (Corpse-Devouring Dragon), Jellyfish 11:53 Sword Arm of Dragon (Sword Dragon), Dragon Zombie, Shadow Ghoul 12:01 Gyakuten no Megami, Catapult Turtle, Kairyuushin, Metal Guardian, Giant Soldier of Stone, Axe Raider, Garoozis 13:45 King of Yamimakai 14:32 the doll on the right is Rogue Doll (Holy Doll), bottom right is Beaver Warrior (Louise) 14:52 Megazowler, Two-Headed King Rex, Summoned Skull, Aphrodite (TO), Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress, Blackland Fire Dragon (Dragon of Darkness), Dragon Capture Jar, Judge Man, Celtic Guardian 15:56 Harpie Lady 1, Armored Basic Insect With Laser Cannon (TO, sorta), Basic Insect 16:32 The girl is Miho, from the Toei anime, and Shadi

14:43 explains why Joey summoned flame swordsman as a normal monster

"My friend Chris's collection has no pathetic cards, Farfa!"

time to kill my computer with this, but this is the list 1st generation -dragon capture jar -winged dragon, guardian of the fortress #1 -celtic guard -silver fang 3rd generation -chimera (exclusive) -piece of blue eyes white dragon 3 body connection (exclusive) -night soldier (exclusive) -king beetle (exclusive) -golden pegasus (exclusive) -the wicked worm beast -piece of blue eyes white dragon 3 body connection (exclusive) -mushroom man -gorgon (exclusive) -red hecate (exclusive) -king rex (exclusive) -dark energy sheet 1, from left to right, top to bottom -magical hats -meteor dragon -dragonic pulse of the land (exclusive) -blue-eyes white dragon -piece of blue eyes white dragon 3 body connection (exclusive) sheet 2, from left to right, top to bottom -king beetle (exclusive) -gorgon (exclusive) -violet hecate (exclusive) -neon knight (exclusive) -night soldier (exclusive) -rock-gun (exclusive) -chimera (exclusive) the 2 he dropped -koumori dragon -yellow hecate (exclusive) back of sheet 2, from left to right, top to bottom -mushroom man -hitotsu-me giant -the wicked worm beast -dark energy -golden pegasus (exclusive) king rex (exclusive) the two cards he picks after sheet 2 -dark zorla (exclusive) -red hecate (exclusive) sheet 3, from left to right, top to bottom -dragon piper -clown zombie (looks like crass clown, but the name is clown zombie, which exists) -killer needle -horn imp -tiger axe -skull servant armored lizard -battle steer -mammoth graveyard -barox -harpie lady 2 -battle warrior -torike the cards he pickes after sheet 3 -wattkid -ryu-kishin -harpie lady 3 -battle ox -kojikocy -armored zombie -swamp battleguard -fiend kraken sheet 4, from left to right, top to bottom - sword arm of dragon -dragon zombie -shadow ghoul -hercules beetle -freal imp -crawling dragon 2 -jellyfish back of sheet 4, from left to right, top to bottom -Gyakutenno Megami -catapult turtle -kairyu-shin -metal guardian -giant soldier of stone -axe raider -garoozis sheet 5, from left to right, top to bottom -horn of the unicorn -kunai with chain -pumpking the king of ghosts -cyber shield back of sheet 5, from left to right, top to bottom -king of yamimakai -exodia the forbidden one -left leg of the forbidden one left arm of the the forbidden one -right leg of the forbidden one -right arm of the forbidden one -labyrinth tank -kazejin pick up card after sheet 5 -elegant egotist -sanga of the thunder sheet 6, from left to right, top to bottom -saggi the dark clown -silver fang -baby dragon -great moth -larvae moth -rogue doll -flame swordsman -mystical elf -beaver warrior back of sheet 6, from left to right, top to bottom -megazowler -two-headed king rex -summoned skull -aphrodite (exclusive) -winged dragon, guardian of the fortress #1 -blackland fire dragon -dragon capture jar -judge man -celtic guardian sheet 7, from left to right, top to bottom -curse of dragon -gaia the fierce knight -red eyes black dragon -thousand dragon -dark magician -gaia the dragon champion -harpie lady 1 -Armored Basic Insect with Laser Cannon (exclusive technically) -basic insect back of sheet 7, from left to right, top to bottom -yugi muto -yugi muto (Atem version) -joey wheeler -kaiba -tristan -tea -melody -shadi

all card names that Sam didn't get to @5:22 Chimera, it's not a card we have in the TCG, closest is Chimera Flying Mythical Beast, or its parts. @5:24 The Bandai version of Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. @5:39 Night Soldier, we don't have that card. @5:51 King Beetle, don't have it @6:12 Golden Pegasus, don't have it @6:17 Wicked Worm Beast, came in an early starter deck here in TCG @6:58 Gorgon, we don't have it @7:02 Red Hecate , I have no idea why it uses the name 'Hecate', we dont have it here. @7:11 King Rex, we have Two-Headed King Rex but not regular in TCG/OCG @7:27 Dark(ness) Energy, we have this. @8:00 Magical Hats, Meteor B Dragon, Dragonic Pulse of the Land (no counterpart), Blue Eyes and a Blue Eyes Ultimate piece. @9:23 King Beetle (again) Gorgon (again), Violet Hecate (no counterpart), Neon Knight (no counterpart), Night Soldier (again), ROCK GUN (no counterpart), Chimera (again) @9:26 Devil Dragon, here it's called Koumori Dragon @9:36 (In Sam's hand) Yellow Hecate (no counterpart) @9:57 All listed previously @10:03 Dark Zora (we don't have this card) @10:07 Red Hecate (again) @10:21 These are all TCG cards, Dragon Piper is unmentioned and Crass Clown is actually Clown Zombie, the poopier version. @10:43 These are all cards we got in TCG, Armored Lizard, Battle Steer, Mammoth Graveyard, Barox, Harpie Lady 2 (with 1's look) , Battle Warrior, Torike (Saiga in OCG) @11:04 Ryu Kishin (basic, not powered) , Wattkid - we have both of these, early releases too. @11:26 Kojikocy, Armored Zombie, Swamp Battleguard all TCG @11:52 Sword Arm Of Dragon, Dragon Zombie, Shadow Ghoul (with Wall-Shadow's art), Hercules Beetle, Feral Imp, Crawling Dragon #2, Jellyfish (all TCG cards) @12:07 Gyakutenno Megami, Catapult Turtle, Kairyu-Shin, Metal Guardian, Soldier of Stone, Axe Raider, Garoozis (all TCG) @12:20 (on the table bottom left) Fiend Kraken @12:44 King of Yamimakai, Labyrinth Tank both TCG @ 14:52 Megazowler, Two-Headed King Rex, Aphrodite (we dont have this as a card), Blackland Fire Dragon, @15:58 Basic Insect and "Firearms-Attached Armor - Basic Insect" lmao @16:30 Melody, only from Yugioh "Season 0", then Shadi who I think was featured in regular Yugioh.

The puzzle card is the "first fusion" for Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. In the YU GI OH serie season 0 Kaiba use a spell card to bind 3 blue Eyes. It looks like a Red crane like triangle with chain, the 3 combined got 9 000 ATK. The funny thing is that Pokemon start to do "puzzle cards" like the break ones for example almost 20 years later x) Impressive to see the Alpha version of Yu Gi Oh! =)

Man u managed to get a solid 10% of those right, insane collection though

F for the missing Ultimate Blue Eyes Pieces

What an amazing vid! These were the roots, where it all began. The cards look exactly like the cards from the manga

Uh Sam the blue hair girl is not serenity wheeler she only exist in yugioh season 0 and her name is Miho Nosaka. Season 0 is dosent really have much card battles more like yugi fight people on mutiple games and then sent them to shadow realm

This is the best way to start your week watching Sam open some og badass cards

Man the red eyes look so sick, enjoyed the video!

My absolute favourite cards from Yugioh! So happy to see this video :D

I would definitely buy reprints of those original arts Blue Eyes and Red Eyes in the TCG. Especially that Red Eyes. Too bad they are likely forever lost in time. They all look amazing!

Everytime you see all 5 pieces you have to build it, Every. Single. Time!

Happy Monday!!!

That koumori dragon 🙌🏽 One of my very first cards ever.

These cards were made when yugioh season 0 was made and I didnt even know that they made the cards at the time

I was at nats in like 2013 and the Eric Stuart was there and I got him to sign my Bandai blue eyes and it was the first one he’s ever seen. Was pretty cool.

I have the Bandai Red Eyes Black Dragon, it is one of my favorite artworks for Red Eyes

Those Bandai cards are incredible. The only card I have from the series is the Blue-Eyes. Always found it cool that Blue-Eyes has an English name where as everyone else has a Japanese name. Anyways really cool!

There are some yugioh cards even older than that, Sam, find the Dueling Monster Konami Cards

The Best of These Yugioh Cards Because is a Masterpiece

I know I'm 7 months late but I'm just discovering this channel. Pretty much this are cards that were shown in the season 0 of yugioh, this is before the yugioh we all know today. I was so excited when you showed the 3 hecate cards! Season 0 es really different but I love it.

The card that has a green dragon is Komouri Dragon from starter deck Kaiba

btw the gate guardian bandai card is like the rarest bandai card worth a lot of money so if you get it. yeah

5:55 looks like moon envoy to me with a less interesting weapon and the bug looks like kwagar hercules 6:16 probably firewing pegasus 6:25 wicked worm beast 7:17 either little D or Taumasaurs 7:22 dark energy 8:55 thats just regular meteor dragon the fusion material for the meteor black dragon 9:30 thats koumori dragon i think that translates to evil dragon but some cards kept their japanese names. 9:23 top left is kwagar Hercules maybe or its fusion material top middle could be doma the angel of silence (same kind of head piece and wings) top right could be magical ghost, that one evades me too middle left is maybe karbonala warrior middle middle is either moon envoy or masaki the legendary swordsman right middle is stone ghost bottom is probably Chimera the flying mythical beasst 10:50 thats Torike 11:09 Oscillo Hero right i think Ocubeam left 11:28 Kojikocy 11:34 looks like armored zombie 11:36 swamp battleguard 11:38 Fiend Kraken 12:15 pretty sure thats metal guardian 14:54 Megazowler 16:36 That's Miho, She was only in season zero, Honda liked her in one episode.

Sam I choud thank you, because of you I started to play Yu-Gi-Oh online so Keep up The good work.

Its neat to read the Japanese titles. Celtic Guardian is Elf Swordsman. 5:39 says "Night Soldier" or "Knight Soldier". 5:50 is "King Beetle" Though likely also a play on words as "Kin" means gold

Buddy, considering the vintage of those things,you really have no idea the gold mine you are in possession of. Every single one of them is something that was in the original Yu-Gi-Oh, before it even aired in the States. Prototypes, to boot. And including the Five Pieces? Dude, you had better lock those things in a vault somewhere (and I'm not joking).

So I don't know if anyone explained it in the comments, but the puzzle that he has is blue eyes ultimate dragon... Sort of. It is the ultimate dragon, I forget how specifically you summon it but you need all 3 blue eyes and a chain card that combines the 3, then you need the 4 cards that make up the whole card. There's more I'm probably forgetting. Also you selling those Exodia pieces, I've been looking for years for the Bandai Exodia pieces, would be perfect for my collection

As someone who was played Yu-Gi-Oh in the LoB days, I was interested in everything Yu-Gi-Oh and learned about these cards from a Yu-Gi-Oh magazine in 2003 and always wanted some. It strikes me as odd that so many players (even older ones) have never seen these, not even pictures.

Happy Monday Duelist !!!! wooaaah openning 1998 packs !😱 crazzyyyyy !

There’s a place where I live and there’s 1st edition cards for 600 like 6 decks

The pictures are accurate to the manga, so if you never read it, I don't blame you for not recognizing them. Also the last girl isn't Shizuka Kawai (Serenity Wheeler) it's Miho Nosaka. She was a part of a chapter in the manga, but got a bigger role in the first adaptation of the YuGiOh! anime, also known as season 0.

This is an amazing collection!! They’re probably too much to put a price on them Love the OG!

Yeah! I have loads of these. Never knew when they were from

Man these cool cards are cool great video dude 😎👊

These are awesome, I’d love to see a sealed pack opening of these some day

Oh.. Sam opening 1998 ygo cards..juz finish graduate highschool that time...great!

These cards style would have been perfect for ghosts of the past

Traitoooooooorrrrr lmaoooo that’s my favorite part! 🤣🤣🤣

9:33 - That's Kumori Dragon. In the Yugioh Duel Monsters anime it appears in episode 2 when Yugi faces Pegasus in a shadow game.

Cool af video man. I almost feel embarrassed knowing almost all these cards 😂

I own a small handful of these cards, got Suijin, Kazejin and Sanga. but no Gate Guardian. i love the design of the 1998 cards, personally.

*I really want this entire collection!*

16:30 that's Miho from the first ygo anime. "The forgotten friend" 😢

They look like you’ve stolen then right out of Kazuki Takahashis private stuff/safe. Like Peagasus himself was drawing them right of an ancient pyramid walls.

This is cool. And even if we didn't get them in tcg the older games had quite a few of them especially Duelist of Roses

16:25 Ah yes my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! character "Tea Johnson" lmao. Recognizing all these cards was super fun.

ohhh this is gonna make my bandai blue eyes sky rocket!! TO THE MOONNN!!!!!!

Those bandai cards were awesome. I had a bunch as a kid that a friend gave for free and I threw them out when I got older because I thought they were fakes. I feel so stupid.

That skull servant looks dope!

2:04 I myself mostly collect magic the gathering TRAITOR!!!!!

this was actually amazin , pretty sick

I remember getting a pack of these SOMEHOW as a kid but I have no idea where they are now. Though I vaguely remember thinking that they must've been fake cards back then since I also had the Kaiba deck, so I think my younger self may have either threw them out, lost or exchanged them, I'm kinda mad at myself lol.

To bad he didn’t got the pieces of ultimate blue eyes white dragon 🐉

those season 0 backs of the cards are 🔥

Sam,the puzzle cards summon Blue Eyes ultimate in that game and is essentially a win con I think

those break cards are pieces of chained blue eyes white dragon from the 1998 toei animation movie which starred it and meteor black dragon. it was a promo i think

These cards are played like war just shuffle you decks and flip if it's a no attack or defence it gets added to the next cards attack or defence as a equip.

A lot of these cards I remember frmo the psx game Forbbiden memories (since it was the earlier days of the manga too)

The traitor part was so satisfying. Lolol

these cards are 23 years old

When Sam said Celtic gaurdian looked Zelda like, I died inside.

The Puzzle Card is actually called "Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3 Body Connection". You had to have 3 Blue-Eyes + a magic card called "Wicked Chain" on the field to play it. It was able to attack 8 times consecutively.

These cards are SICK!!!!!!

Wow sick cards man, i think those cards are from yugioh season 0

Straight from the tombs of Egypt/Japan. A historic presentation indeed. Where's the velvet rope and reporters?

Thanks Chris!

Do 1998 cards smell as good as 2002?

These cards look awesome

It is even more fun when you get 80 cards and thoroughly explain the rules to a friend and play REAL duel monsters, it's super fun when you learn the limited card pool, I suggest getting enough cards to play with and sleeve them of course

Had the best night yesterday Watch the best video in the morning Have the best day today

Happy Monday

that intro was dope

Do another video of this cards when you know more about them or how much $ their worth😯 im so curious now

You can use your camera on your phone to translate the cards

Nice, you have the non text bewd. I have been told that is harder to find.

The Bandai cards are so cool. I have all of them except Gate Guardian, I think

I actually have a set of cards I bought as a souvenir when I went to Japan with my father. Yu Gi Oh didn't exist outside of Japan yet. I just kept seeing Yugi's face plastered everywhere. Bought a manga (vol 13. Yes, the one in Duelist Kingdom where Kaiba threatens to jump off the castle) Hardly understood anything that was happening, but it was cool and the cards seemed to be a big thing. So I bought a booster off a machine that dispensed them. One of the cards had nothing but text and (1/6) printed on it. Figured it might be the rules. Bought them till I had all 6. Never imagined it'd come to NA. Let alone it becoming so popular here. So now I can confidently say that I'm most likely the FIRST person outside of Japan to ever collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I still have them all in a small pinewood box beside me. And no, none of those cards were anything good. XD Also accidentally bought a pack that didn't have the (1/6) cards. I always thought they were just spoofs. But I guess that booster was the OG set of cards. Got Great Moth, Celtic Guardian (same as yours) and some other monster I know exists in TCG form, but can't remember the name of for the life of me. You have a copy of it at 14:38 middle from the top, rightmost card.

My cousin have all 5 puzzels of exodia (1998) too and blue eyes 3x (+ the big blue eye puzzle) :D

you got about $500 ~ $1500 worth of cards. i have to check for the condition. i used to sell those OCG cards on my eBay.

thats actualy not srenidy, thats someone from there og friend group that didn't make it into the animaie of 2001, her name is miho-chan

16:29 Tea Johnson 😂😂😂 These are epic

That's not Serenity, her name is Miho Nosaka, basically another Teá. These cards you have though, are based after the original manga/season 0 of yugioh. When the pharaoh played all sorts of games. In the chapter/episode where they meet Kaiba, he takes them back to his mansion, and challenges Yugi to a game of duel monsters. In turn, the yugioh we have today, was never supposed to actually exist. It wasn't until the first duel between our beloved Kaiba and Yugi, that really sparked the interest. Takahashi was bombarded with letters and request and questions pertaining to the game, and once he realized that one chapter got more attention then the first few did, that's when he decided the card game would probably make him a ton. At least from what I've always read/seen about the bandai cards anyways.

on ebay the average price is like 60$ for excelent-NM blue eyes.

That was Anzu...tea wasn't a thung back then and the other girl was Tristans crush but not Joey's sister...i remember this from season 0 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime

Whoa. Pegasus's Dragon Capture Jar had 100 attack and 200 defense in the anime, now I understand why.

Cyberknight has done 2 vids on them

They're awesome cards

9:35 koumori dragon 12:00 shadow ghoul then the brown neetle is hercules beetle

I think you forgot to put the band and album link in the description box.

The cards that you're getting that are a puzzle are the blue eyes ultimate dragon

You got great cards! Some cards here are worth more than most, especially the ace monsters of the main characters of Yugioh. The price or value of these cards vary greatly. I'm from the Philippines and some cards here are sold for approx. less than a Dollar. But the foils / holos are at least $5 to $10 each. However, most cards sold here are damaged. Near mint cards are hard to come by and are really expensive. I think most of these cards can only be bought in Japan (damaged / used / near mint). Some "common" cards I recently bought were around USD 1. A seller here posted these: Near Mint Blue-Eye super rare here is around USD 210 and the Red-Eyes USD 110. I don't know if these prices are credible but that's what's listed.

The puzzle is Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon from Yugioh zero movie

9:24 on top on the right side definetly a Dark Magician Girl, so maybe the guy in the middle is the Dark Magician, that green guy must be Feral Imp, in the middle on the left maybe a beaver warrior, right side can be Giant Soldier Of Stone, on the bottom ont the left for sure a Chimera, The Flying Mythical Beast, even in that version the moon behind him is there!

The Bandai yu gi oh cards what an awesome find. Wow before Konami got the exclusive rights. Bandai has rights to make cards that’s awesome

Such a cool video!