Top Ten Yu-Gi-Oh Cards Based on Konami Video Games 

I'm so used to Yu-Gi-Oh that I would've just accepted that there's a fish that flies around in space with no extra backstory

Two things about number 6: Castlevania Vampire Killer is not only the Japanese name of the card, but also the official name of the whip that (almost) every Belmont uses. Named after its use, I guess. Meanwhile, Vampire Lord and Vampire Genesis are technically a reference to Dracula himself, as he is always resurrecting from the dead and, when cornered, transforming into his monster form complete with horns, spiked bat wings, claws, and big muscles.

1:51 in the country I'm from , these games are called Nemesis . I thought Gradius was the name of the ship.

Considering that Konami has the rights of Silent Hill, I found amazing that they prefer to make reference to the main competition, Resident Evil, in the Vendread Archetype. By the way, the new support for Vendread is clearly Nemesis and it looks awesome.

Also, Vampire Killer is the name of the song of the first level of the Castlevania game

I always like it when companies reference their stuff in other stuff.

Never knew Koitsu and his boys were from a videogame, but this just makes me love that useless archetype even more.

20:29 Hark, the Aitsu angels sing

Funny thing with the Moai Interceptor Cannons: in the german version of the card, its name is missspelled as "Moai AbfangkanoNNen", with "Abfang" correctly translating the interceptor part, but the german word for cannon, "Kanone" is spelled with only one N whereas "Nonnen" with two N's refers to women of the clerus, making "Kanonnen" kind of an accidently (at least i hope xD) word pun of Cannon and Nun. So the german Card translated back to english would mean something like "Moai Interceptor Cannon Nuns". Another glorious example of Konami being absolutely horrible when it comes to german localization xD

Hey, it was fun to be a part of this video! Glad to see people seem to enjoy it! I'm especially happy with how the Parodius and Gradius Grunt enemies segment. For the record, I coordinated nearly all the gameplay footage, Sam was player 2 in the Lord British segments and he did the Gradius NES bits. -- A.T.

There was a mistake made when talking about Solar Flare Dragon: in this video, it was stated that you need to control another pyro type monster to use it's burn effect, which isn't actually how it works. You actually don't need to control another pyro monster to get it's burn effect during the end phase (or any other monster, for that matter), but it cannot be attacked if you do control another pyro monster, so you got it half right, Mr Top 10 List

I find hilarious how when AT says they were a Guinea Pig for Prof. Oats at 18:24 , Bubonic Vermin is in the background, very nice editing

One of my favorite combos was 3 solar flare dragons dropped with ultimate offering and laugh.

Still waiting for my Senator Armstrong card.

Ryu Kokki from Ryu Kotsuki is probably a mistransliteration, or possibly the intended Japanese pronunciation: the character "tsu" in Japanese is used in a smaller form to denote that you pause for a syllable to duplicate the next consonant sound. The best-known example where this happens is Tekken, where they combined the words tetsu (iron) and ken (fist.)

Other honorable mentions: - Roll Out! - its OCG name “Get Ride!” is based on the Konami anime “Get Ride! AMDriver”. Though it is based on the name of the anime, there is a video game based on that. Get Ride! AMDriver is about a young group of fighting force who could wield their own riding vehicles in battle to defeat their enemies (similar to how Red Rangers in Power Rangers use their Battlizer in battle), the concept of it is kinda similar to the effect of Roll Out! Where it equip union monster to one appropriate monster on the field.

I knew about the Gradius references, but as i don't know much about shoot'em ups the sheer ammount of references flew over my head. Amazing. The Castlevania and Goemon references were pretty clear, i wish Konami made more of those.

13:57 Yae looks SO CUTE there. I miss those games. 17:32 did Elena write this?

About ninja sasuke, there's also "hand destruction" with his artwork (I know it thanks to Exodia players), enforcing the idea of destroying things

I read the title wrong an thought that you were going to talk abut the most based Yu-gi-oh cards, that would had been epic .

6:47 small note: the small 'tsu' (つ) in Ryu Kokki's JP name is actually a special use of the character that is silent but emphasizes the following consonant. It's usually written in a smaller font size to distinguish it from the voiced 'tsu'. This is usually transliterated as a double-consonant in English, thus 'Ryu Kokki' is pronounced the same in Japanese as English. Edit: also, i think 'Vampire Killer' is also the name of the Belmont Family Whip.

I never caught the Spyral reference. That's cool. MGS remains my favorite game series of all time.

except for that one time in the Kagome video when jUdgment meter was dubbing the scene when mistress centipede was liking kagomes face that WAS ANNOYING

Fun fact: Alex Mitchell topped twice with a Gradius deck in 2009 and 2010.

37:07 Maybe you should make a video on “pseudo archetypes” like this one at some point in time. That’d be interesting.

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i had no idea there were so many old school games in yugioh, mind.blown.

I don't know if you take suggestions for lists but I had an idea for one after watching your Inuyasha and Yu Yu Hakusho lists. (Top Ten anime characters that only appeared in video games.) Games based on popular animes that featured a character that was exclusive to that game. The idea came when watching the before mentioned videos I got reminded of an Inuyasha game that was released on the Nintendo DS. The story involved Kagome's school getting a foreign exchange student from the US named Janis. And as it turns out Janis is also capable of going through the well back to Feudal Japan. So she ends up joining Kagome and the gang for a one-off adventure. So Janis could be a contender for this list. Another contender for the list that I thought of off the top of my head could be Android 21 from Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Something you forgot is that "Vampire Killer" is actually the name of the whip the Belmonts use. Further it was the lover of Leon Belmont, Sara Trantoul, who gave her live to empower the whip of alchemy and help Leon defeat vampires like the one that turned her. This was the whole kickoff of the series as thiet ordeal was revealed at the end to have been orchestrated by Mathias Cronqvist (aka Dracula) in his bid for power. The Vampire Killer whip having the soul of the Vampire Sara and loyal only to the family line of her ex lover, has been almost a character of itself in its whip form throughout the series. The Japanese name of this card makes A LOT more sense now. The included Belmont is a cameo as one is required to wield the whip, but the dark attribute and instadeath effect against other dark monsters with the name "Vampire Killer" makes it clear that THE WHIP is actually what the card is centered around. The whip is enhanced by the soul of a Vampire making it dark but since she was vengeful against other vampires and gave her eternal life to take a form that could be used to destroy them, the effect of destroying all other dark monsters it battles makes perfect sense to the in game story. This also explains why it would fit being part of the Vampire series instead of having the name slightly altered to act as pure antisupport. Sara WAS a vampire. There is no need to alter the name slightly the the word Vampire to exclude it from the archetype because she WAS a vampire so it still fits. She just happens to be a vampire who also allows her soul to be used to kill other vampires. With all this in mind, this might be the most clever and unexpected expressions of a Konami character in YuGiOh ever. People will mistakenly think it's referring to the clear Belmont weilding the whip but with the origional Japanese name of the card and its details in mind, the truth is revealed. In fact..look at the art. You gave the Belmont tight against the one side of the card and the castle way against the left, both references to the series as background cameos, but the whip ITSELF is what is focused on in the center art of the card. The art is balanced by the surrounding cameo references but the Vampire Killer is actually what takes center stage in this imagery, THE WHIP!

Fun fact: Moai and Brain Golem are also bosses that you fight in the Konami fighting game Monster Maulers (or Kyukyoku Sentai Dadandarn, in Japan). The Moai in that game now has arms and a body, and Brain Golem is just like in the cards and previous games (big flying brain with tentacle arms, and one big eye that you can actually hit it out of the monster).

Judgment meter needs to be in all your videos because thats why i watch them.

Sasuke Samurai and Sasuke Samurai 4 have occasional use in goat format. Sasuke Samurai 3 also has a very niche use of swapping it to your opponent and then crashing into it to draw cards for yourself.

Lord British itself is also a reference to the creator of Ultima, Richard "Lord British" Garriot.

Solar Flare dragon can not be attacked if there is another pyro on the field. Not he burns if there is another pyro on the field. If you have two on the field, your opponent can not attack because they are both pyro and can not be targeted if there is another pyro setting up a lock so you can burn your opponent for a thousand. Also Sasuke Samurai show ups on the spell card Card Destruction.

BES monsters losing a counter when they attack is a drawback nobody asked or needed

In BES archetype. There are Tag Force exclusive support cards for BES. BES Assault Core: If your opponent controls a monster and you don't, you can special summon this card from your hand. Basically the archetype Cyber Dragon for tribute fodder. Sheild Recovery: A spell card. Place 3 counters on a BES monster you control. You know these would be very helpful for BES. Not great but better.

Vampire Killer is also the name of the Belmont family’s magic whip.

Hands down I like the Gradius references the most. Though the Goemon ones I never knew about until this video.

Good effort, guys. There's a few mistakes, though. And I'm surprised you didn't mention Ambitious Gofer. 5:03 BEF Zelos is the final stage in OG Gradius. 5:47 This is segment is cool because even Famicom game collector me, didn't know this. 8:21 the guy in middle is Ryu Kokki? 10:44 Spyrals look cool 11:00 Ahhhh I wish you could have mentioned that the Sasuke Samurais all have had Goat Format play. The original was a popular flip monster kiler, #2 was a tech card that saw fringe play, #3 was a mill and Creature Swap set-up card and even #4 has seen play in a few strategies. Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke was used in Light beatdowns. 19:08 I don't think you did the best job explaining this. Flint is a general gameplay mechanic, not a power-up. 20:22 Itsu segment was tiiiiiiight JM and AT were hilarious. 26:32 Why didn't you mention Samba from Parodius? 28:16 you confabulated Solar Flare Dragon's effect and could have mentioned it was a popular Fire deck card in Chaos and Goat Formats 31:42 Gradius cards were a rogue deck about 12-10 years ago, although this data was mostly under-reported until recently. 35:33 no that's Vic Viper not Lord British 37:50 Safe Zone saw competitive play. you could have mentioned this. Tryin' to be constructive, not negative.

Vic Viper T301's effect is actually another game reffrence. In Gradius V there is a level where a Vic Viper comes from the future to help you out for half the stage. The level has the two Vic Vipers navigating parallel mazes and cleaning away dead ends for eachother. It's actually a cool moment. Especially when you figure out the time displaced Vic Viper will become you after you get caught in a black hole on a later level

In the early days of Duel Links i used to have a Victory Viper deck that would use its support cards to boost itself to big numbers and ocasionally create option tokens to overwhelm the CPU opponent... The good old days

I think the cores would have been a lot better if they had a way to reliably add new counters on them.

14:38 Oh no, Trend's brother is crying. He was probably at a birthday party and Sasuke just used him as part of a substitution jutsu. What a mean ninja. Ancient Tree didn't deserve this.

Ultimate Baseball Kid is from another Konami game? I ran an amazing burn deck with him as the MVP of it in the 2005 edition and I had no idea :P You might've missed Ben Kei out of the Goemon references by the way. Though he's based on a historical figure, his card matches his in-game appearance and references the fact he's a bit of a hoarder in that game.

Xexex is actually the great villain of the Xexex games, he itself appears as a Prize card from 2005 Championship, called King of Destruction- Xexex (a match winner card that cannot be played )

Space Mambo is one of the first cards i ever got and still one of my favorites.

Great video. But do you remember when you made videos if Yu-Gi-Oh was a fighting game. Could you make another one because it was so interesting and I would make some changes. Dark magician should be a strong fighter with a few long range attacks because in it's card text, it says that it's a powerful sorcerer because of it's physical strength and defense

Mind-blowing. I recognize nearly all of these cards, but I only ever recognized that DDR and Gradius had anything to do with video games. Surely Lord British is somehow also connected to video game designer/amateur astronaut Richard "Lord British" Gariot?

I'll be totally honest, I had always thought Getsu Fuhma was a woman.

so basically, everything was gradius all along

A few things about the Arcade Game Xexex. The Flintlock (the player's ship) would wield the Flint pod (a front attachment) throughout the entire game alongside its main weapon (Proton Lasers). While attached, the Flint pod would protect the front of the ship from enemy projectiles. It could also be charged to have it fire a large array of tentacles. The Flint pod could also be fired forward (like a missile) using a special button (this detaches the Flint pod). The Flint pod would stop at the first enemy hit creating a small blast at that location. Afterwards, the Flint pod would float about in that location slowing/weakening enemies in said location (that were not already destroyed by the aforementioned blast). Using the special button again whilst the Flint pod was detached, would call the flint pod back to its original position in-front of the ship for reattachment. I don't know what game you were describing. Also, there is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Card named "King of Destruction - Xexex", that I thought you would go over.

Main event time!

Hey MrTopTenList. I’m so sorry for missing this list last week. After running my errand, I somehow missed it in my notification. But I love the fact you covered the Yugioh cards centered around Konami games, my favorite being Vampire Hunter since I love the Castlevania series. Really appreciate your ambitious lists!

It was nice to see MTTL, AT and JM together in the same video tbh w U, I think its a huge shame that you didnt use any music from Konami games in this video. Konami gaems have great music. . Is Konami music banned on RU-vid? And why didnt yuGiOh make a card about rocket Knight Adventures?

5:04 bro ....that's the battleship that serves as the final stage of the original gradius game okay can you make a top ten list about Spyro now? and when are you fishing the Kirby streams?

Actually, the airplane men were very easy to play. I had a deck on them and it, actually whipped a ton of people lol. Ufo turtle, mothr grizzly, and flying kamikiri got them straight from the deck, and onto the field , ignoring any need to tribute. There was also discarding them and using monster reborn or call of the haunted back then, or premature burial. Once you equipped two airplane men to each other, they went to 2500 or 3000 atk and I believe your opponent couldn't activate anything in response to their attacks too, and they even did pierce damage ( I THINK, I could be wrong on this). But, yea they were REALLY strong for a total gimmick for a short time. Don't get me started on the Huge Revolution combo deck. If you managed to pull that off you basically won. Your opponent literally couldn't come back from it back then. It was obviously MUCH more challenging to do but, there are consistent ways to make it happen, especially now with all of the normal monster support

Damn, I really miss that old school Konami logo!

Konami also make movie based cards as well. Kozmo archetype is star wars

Btw True Fact: Not one but two archetypes are based off of Castlevania, Vampires and Evil Eye.

Btw Parodius should be pronounced Pair - Oh- dee-us as its a series of games parodying the Gradius games! Also, doesn't Lekunga resemble. Marvels Shuma Gorath, right down to the pulsating eye?

Once again, it was a lot of fun to be a part of this video! Thank you to Justin, Dan, Toasty, Sam, Rebecca, Rae and Kyle for their contributions, as well-- A.T.

I played goemons great adventure for n64 as a kid and was playing yugioh when the sasuke and lady ninja cards came out. Never made the connection that it was a reference! haha, the more realistic depictions are so funny in context

Watching the *cover art* in the new *getsu fuma* game i notice the armor of the protagonist could be inspired in the card *mad archfiend* (im almost sure it is)

Vampire Killer is the name of the whip weiled across the generations of Belmonts in the Castlevania games. The English card was changed from "Killer" to "Hunter" for no other reason than Konami's obsession with censoring tcg versions of cards.

I actually think it would have been fitting and funny if option hunter stole your opponent's equip cards

This video blew my mind 😂 I just didn’t think about other Konami games but now I’m like dang. They knew exactly what they were doing this whole time 🤣.

Fun fact: Parodius is the origin of that one "wow" anime sound effect

vampire lord and vampire hunter effects also its a reference to castlevania ,vampire hunter destroying and vampire lord by effect and triggering his revive like in castlevania when dracula keep coming back to be kill by bellmonts again.another reference to game its the vendread archtype to resident evil,they also have a story in theirs cards. also a detail i forgot resident evil is from capcom not konami maybe you could make one list that not inspired by konami games.

Very informative video. I didn't even know most of these were references. Another great one my friends!

The name "Vampire Killer" actually comes from the whip of the same name passed down through the Belmont and Morris lineage in the Castlevania series. Its wielders include Simon Belmont, Richter Belmont, Trevor Belmont, John Morris, and Johnathan Morris.

I know that this is not from Konami game itself but my personal favorite references by Konami are the Inzektors and Masked Heroes. They all looked like Kamen Riders. Also my favorite XYZ card Evilswarm Exciton Knight looked like a cross between Shadowmoon and Kamen Rider 555's Orphnoch King.

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There's also Star Drawing, which resembles Maxwell from Scribblenauts. (Not a Konami game originally, but they did publish it in Japan.)

I believe the Castlevania card being called "Vampire Killer" in Japan is in reference to the whip, which is called the Vampire Killer.

Judgement meter vs Ragnarok: Judge: "Why are u on fire?" Ragnar: "I was born this way" Judge: "Poor you, your parents are sick to put their own baby Ragnar on fire"

I think all the Gradius themed effect cards should’ve had the effect text “This cards is always treated as Vic Viper”, but in the Cyberdragon way, not the Harpy Sister way.

MrTopTenList you need to address that Lorenzo, the Three Time Videogame Champion, confirms that ITALY is canon in the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe. This is important because it links the Yu-Gi-Oh! and JoJo universes and as such proves that the Kaiba's Solid Projection system is an extension of Stands by means of technological marvel. This is CONFIRMED on my wikipedia that I made, the FREE wikipedia for me to edit. I'm disappointed this hasn't been addressed in any of your videos. BTW can we get Top Ten BUTTS on Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards? You'rte the brest!!!

I love the reference of Metal Gear Solid Snake and Tactical Espionage Expert is a great reference. I love how Konami had many references to the games we all know and love. I hope Konami starts making amazing games again but unfortunately that's like saying Nintendo giving us a new F-Zero game. Cool video. ^_^

Can you do a top 10 hammer wielders?

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It would be insane if konami made a whole metal gear archetype.

It makes me sad that no one remembers the very first Metal Gear game on the NES. All anyone ever thinks about is Solid. It is good, but the original Metal Gear needs some love and recognition too. Besides that, I'm excited to find out that Koitsu, Aitsu, Soitsu, and Doitsu has their own video game. That's actually the reason why I clicked on this haha.

"I duke devlin summon my very phallic spaceship, but because it's summoned by me, it grows twice it's regular size. duke devlin always rises to the occasion"

Solar Flare Dragon is also from Gradius.

God it's like adam Ruins Everything but somehow worset

21:34 nice ;) also great vid MrTopTenList but Konami is NOT a vidyagaem company anymore. they are a PACHINKO company and the fact they havent ruined YGO will always leave me confused Also: JudgementMeter is best girl. Period.

For Number 6, there's also a reference to big bad Konami Drac, with Vampire Voivode (and Zombie Vampire) , who looks almost like SoTN Drac, minus the daddy beard. Vampire Genesis can be a reference to his Final form Even the Grim Reaper, and Carmilla have references in Yugioh , with respectively Vampire Grimson and Vampire Vamp.

Funnily enough, I just made a "Gradius"-Deck the other Day. Mainly because "Victory Viper XX03" can become stupidly powerful, with "United we stand" equipped it can get up to 4000 ATK with two "Option-Tokens" on the Field.... A funny little Deck.

7:22 Despair from the Dark: "IDK guess I'll just die then..."

B.E.S Covered core's effect was base on the core itself was covered by spinning impregnable armor Tactical Episonage Expert's effect was base on Chaff grenade or Electromagnetic grenade Brain Golem and Moai also appear in Konami arcade game called Monster Mauler Gemini Scorpion also Castlevania's reference base on Hector and Issac from Curse of Darkness

I wish konami allow to use the konami code in yu-gi-oh master duel

Please tell me that the next Yu-Gi-Oh themed countdown will be the Top 10 Yu-Gi-Oh Monsters with weird Yu-Gi-Oh Typing.

I have wondered for YEARS why the *itsu cards exist, when they're all so weird and bad! Glad to have that burning question settled.

I think it's funny that Getsu Fuhma and Ryu Kokki have effects that destroy each other while also having Vampire Hunter that can destroy both of them since they are both Dark type. It's like the bigger, more well known franchise stamping out the lower less known one.

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4:25 I love how he's talking about Lorenzo using fake cards when Jaden (and most of GX tbh) constantly uses fake cards!

did you guys just ignore the fact that the Gradius archtype was an actual viable YCS and a high tiered deck and is apart of competitive ygo history?

I got 2 Better Call Saul ad in a row for this video

Them not making Silent Hill cards is a huge waste and a shame