“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
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!
Pendulum cards really messed with the game. I think overlay was interesting, Synchro was fine, we definitely needed fusions with GX but Pendulums were absurd.
@@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.
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!!!
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
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!
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".
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 )
@@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.
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!
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
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.
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.
@@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?
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.
@@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".
@@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
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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)
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.
"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.
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
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.
@@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
I fell like I have been watching you for almost 10 years now. but unlike old RU-vidrs, you have always had a constant evolution and growth to your video style.
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.
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!
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! ❤
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
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.
:-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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!💚
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
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.
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
@@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
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Hey TheJWittz. I really like your videos and I wanted to make a request. You previously did a video about Yugi's best and worst monsters. I really enjoyed that video and wondered if you could do a similar video about Joey/kaiba's best and worst monsters. I hope your having a good week. Take care.
I've considered it! I need to double-check and see if they have enough games/cards/data to sort through. The other protagonists (GX, 5DS, etc) DEFINITELY have a lot of games under their belts, though...
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.
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.
The effect of Elegant Egotist is actually explained, but you have to look at the text of “Harpie Lady 2” and “Harpie Lady 3”. It’s more like Elegant Egotist is part of the cost needed for their effects.
Hey Jwittz, it's a well known fact that you like niche as well as popular CCGs. Have you heard of Redline: Tactical Card Combat? The front half it's a variant on Magic the Gathering's Commander format, the backhalf it's Mecha fighting in simultaneous combat over a set of objectives, trying to control everything or run the enemy out of resources. I've played it and it's pretty good, feeling both similar and different than MTG in a variety of ways.
