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.
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
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.
@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
@@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.
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.
@@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
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
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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! 😂
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
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.
I have the GX Duel Disk for my cosplay. I later coloured it to match the dorm student (which I am aware there was a proper version but couldn't offer it). So yeah, still great to have.
I got an Orichalcos one even though I always wanted one of the GX ones. I also got it too late that I didn't get to be a kid when I had it, I was in that young teen period where I felt like I was now too old for it despite being obviously excited to have it.
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
I have all 3 of the duel disk still. The OG one is faded badly and the stickers are peeling off but it still activates. The chaos duel disk is my favorite and the GX is cool aswell.
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!
I still own both my original duel disks (battle city and Chaos) from when i was a kid. Definitely dont regret holding onto them. All these years later.
i was very lucky and get the good old OG Dueldisk even the Chaos Dueldisk as a child, i cant even remeber when, or how but they still here and both working.
Somewhere I still have my original Duel Disk and it was really fun to use as a kid. We'd go out to recess and instead of playing sitting at a table with our cards we could have duels standing around pretending we were in the show. It was also good because it meant that you didn't have to worry about the wind blowing your cards away.
I wanted the GX Duel Disk and got the Chaos Duel Disk instead, I was so sad because the Chaos had no button to fold out by itself, luckily I have now the original Duel Disk (the first one that ever released) in a very good Condition chilling in my "Gold Horder Dragon Room" in the shelf aswell
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.
I remember trying to get one of these (of either kind) when I was a very young child. They were like $20 if I remember correctly and no store had them. I vaguely remember calling each toy store in my area and being told one by one that they were "out of stock and don't know when more will come in". I tried on and off every few months for like a year before giving up on it. I think one store even told me the duel disk's spot on the shelf changed to something else as they weren't expecting more of them.
I had one but one day the longer part of the duel disk broke when part came together but my dad fixed it sort of, that it looked a little like Yusei duel disk years before before 5ds even aired.
Interesting video. I'm wondering now as both of the dule disk that I owned do have a field and orichalcos slot that you pull from underneath the disk. I'm not sure if it was just a Kmart thing or not...
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.
I had the original one and orichalcos one growing up, but donated them in jr high and sorely missed them. Around college, I found an original one in a thrift store for $4 and snagged it.
I had all the duel disks when I was young because (I dont know if I just got lucky all the time) I kept finding them at my local thrift store brand new in the boxes for $7 a piece. My favorite one was definitely the GX academy duel disk as it was the most accurate to the anime and the real life game since the spell/trap zones were in the back instead of the front. I have no idea what happened to all of them now though.
I had all three when I was younger, but they took up a lot of space and I was growing out of Yugioh, so I ended up donating all of them to goodwill. I eventually traded for a second copy of the original disc years later for some reason, which I still have today but never use. Good times lol.
i remember making my own out of cardboard, tape and pencils/sticks for structure. good times even though me and my siblings couldn't really use them as we couldn't even see each others side of the "field".
Got an OG Battle City Duel Disk. Thought about the Chaos and Acadamy Disks but didn't get either. Looking back, if I'd known that the TCG would release the Seal of Orichalcos in 2012 back when the Chaos Duel Disk was available, I would have gotten one.
I actually have one of the origional duel disk mounted up on my wall, and Ive always wanted the Chaos Duel Disk, but have never been able to get one yet 😭😭
I was so mad when my brother got the disk before me. He got it for his birthday, I thought with Christmas around the corner I would get one. Nope, had to wait for my birthday a few months later. Looking back on it they probably couldn’t find one during Christmas, but as a kid I felt so unnoticed
friend of mine used to have both versions. my wrist was too big for the standard one, and i think the Chaos had a bigger sleeve, so i stuck to using it. but i think at some point, he must have left them behind after moving, or just outright got rid of them
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.
I had the Scale of Orichalcos duel disk and it was so awesome I’ve been wanting a real functioning duel disk for players to use it would be soo cool and revive yugioh
I really wanted my own when I was young and still do to this day for now I'm waiting on a reproduction on Yusei's duel disk or a maybe a new modern version of it.
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.
I did in fact own one of these, though it was the darker version which wasn't spring loaded. I can't remember what happened to it, only that I stopped using it when it started to destroy the edges of my cards.
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.
Yea that new duel disk is bad ass!! I just recently got one and it lights up when summoning monsters, plays music and even has the life point sound effect. It can hold up to 50 sleeved cards but be warned it will damage them if not careful. All n all it’s worth the money
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.
Still have my GX duel disc that didn't even get sold in my area and had to be imported for a birthday. Never letting that thing go even if it does have quite the wear and tear these days.
It’s been fifteen years or more since I played yugioh with anything approaching seriousness or enthusiasm and I’d never seen the chaos duel disc before. Now that I have, I desperately want one. That edgy thing with the extending effect just reads so cool to me.
My first duel disk was the Orichalcos disk. I tried to win the original in a contest, but obviously didn't. My cousin had the original and eventually gave it to me. I got rid of both when I stopped playing the game. However, years later I got back into it and now have a GX disk and the second Yusei disk (without the little flip things). The Bandai disk is too expensive, but I'd love to get the Sevens disk someday.
I have one of every duel disk. Funny thing I never purchased any of them except the ones that were available in Japan. The ones that were hear in the US I just found in yard sales or online that people were wanting to get rid of because they were broken. I fixed them all and each have decks in them (random cards) and a copy of the ace monsters the protagonist that used that version of the desk (dark magician, blue eyes, and red eyes on the same one for example) in the monster card zone.
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.
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.
I did and still do have the old yugioh gx dueldisk i used to have 2 but i think i gifted that one to my best friend at the time (big mistake as it turned out we drifted apart and didnt speak to each other in over 5 years)
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.
i had a yugi one i got for x-mess one year, i broke it the same day by falling onto my face and trying to catch myself, then i got a shadow one, now im going to spend the next 3 weeks trying to think what happen to the shadow one
I remember I had my dad get me one as a gift for getting straight A's in like, fourth grade. I loved it. Sadly it was the OG and I couldn't use sleeves with it. RIP the corners of my Egyptian God Cards
