Why the Digimon Card Game FAILED in the West 

Yes, yes I will

"TK, hold my harmonica."

Well, I think my detective team found out the reason this failed in the west: No Angelamon card seriously though, you and DiamondBolt ought'a do a collab on the 1st Digimon Movie

Yes

*Harmonica plays as Matt approaches*

What, you didn't like that movie that was actually 3 unrelated movies? The thing that pisses me off the most about it is that it almost worked, the first segment is a generic prologue and works just fine stapled to the second; it would have been okay if it was just that.

@@hoodedman6579 The funny thing is, had they only waited another year or so they could have instead stitched the 4th movie in place of the third and it would have fit a whole lot better since that one is actually a direct sequel to the 2nd one, unlike the 3rd which was completely unrelated.

The writers actually did intend for it to be just the first two movies, but then the executives forced them to tack the third one on, because “muh new characters”

It does, indeed. :(

@@ruthmcnally310 Yup, the "YA GOTTA SHILL OUT A COMMERCIAL FOR SEASON 2 IN A PERFECTLY GOOD 2 PART MOVIE" kinda of derailed it a bit. I got so into looking at the comparisons between the original and the US version that I nearly reached a 3 page essay on Reddit. And now that I think about it... Revenge of Diaboromon would have been much better than the WIllis story if they wanted to paste 3 movies together... or a 2 and 2 to sell some VHS tapes...

Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Beyblade back to back in Canada, good times.

@@Animemus when you decided to watch the TV Listings channel one Saturday morning and discovered that some weird Fox channel in the 60+ range showed a six-hour 4Kids block every week, aaaaaaaaaaaaa

It was originally aired 5days a week like pokemon and yugi oh. Then it ended with all afternoon cartoons and foxkids/kidswb

Ps1 game is awesome

For you it is

This TGC feels like your playing Vanguard but in a different way.

Honestly I don't trust BoA with Digimon cardgames, they already tried and failed so many times now... Zenonzard was a recent casualty of their failures to launch cardgames over here too, though I think that one died in Japan so IDK.

Best card game I've played in a long time.

@@XxMeTa_Zr0xX so I am not the only one

@@antigrav6004 I agree.

man of culture

*monsters rule*

Monster Hunter

Mon Colle Knights?

They really need to release another Monster Rancher for smartphones. Tamagotchi was the highlight of my childhood.

I never hear anyone talk about Skyland, a nickelodeon cartoon that was aired during the same period as Avatar the Last Airbender.

dunno why but that made my day thx xD

One piece card: Yo!

I appreciate your avatar. Vancouver represent 🤟

owennewo14 😂😂😂😂

Shut up and grow a mustache already.

i think i still have some Digimon cards

they had several ones tbh

What? You never watched tamers?

Kid me had the pre-made decks and some boosters. Alas, they all got left behind in a move when I was a young teen.

Didn't expect to see you here, come here often?

@Cade Carrizales I seewe are both on the same kick at this moment in quarantine Haha

I’ll play digimon cards with you I still have a ton !

Yooo

Your syntax needs work

I lov u

God bless you!

Thank you!

@@MokoMediaOfficial login

*CARD SLASH*

Yep, just ignore the fact an instrumental of "The Biggest Dreamer" is playing in the background too.

@@Next-xm2dh *_CARDO SRASH!_****

I did this throughout the whole video. I want a pack of those cards now.

@@mattwo7 love that song

I owned a D3 Digivice Tamagochi, I have no idea what happened to it though.

They still make these! I saw one at EB Games the other day and almost bought it

Those vpet things are at my local target I bought one and, after accidentally killing my fifth digimon, haven’t touched it since I just don’t wanna go through the pain of having to see another gravestone

And now the new digimon tcg is cming out and its soooo much better than the old one. :D

I mean there's a very new card game coming this January actually

Only reason I knew about the card game was cause there was some cards from places like Burger King or Taco Bell (something like that) had them as the "toys" in the kids meal.

Ever heard of tamers?

@@mechatar1051 Tamers came after I got a few of the cards.

Yeah, I remember having a few too. I didn't know how to use them, and nobody else I knew even had any. XD

There are two problems with relying on Tamers. 1. The few times we actually saw the game being played, they never bothered explaining the rules and 2. even in the west, the cards that they used were based on hyper colosseum.

Do you put those translations online somewhere? I want to learn the game.

@@Heriarka There's a dedicated discord to hyper colosseum if you wanna learn and play the game.

XD

He knew he needed a sponsor for that lol.

This video has 3 ads on it. NOT demonitized.

@@nickhalfmann8397 With RU-vid anymore sponsors are pointless because you'll get demonized if Google thinks your should because Google.

@@kakashisensei9258 Dude its a running joke chill. Also ads have nothing to do with a creator earning their cut especially with what happened over October.

that was... an unusual story.

I hope you still have those cards, cause they'd be really cool to have

there is a new one that is actually really good

Tough

same for italy, and if I have to guess, most if not all of europe

Wasn't Digimon really popular in Germany? Or was that just the TV anime?

@@OrangeStar222 digimon is popular I'm Germany. I think just the TV anime even tho they got Tri in theaters too

Yeah they are many Digimon Fans in Germany.

@@OrangeStar222 It still is despite the lack of anything but the show. We sing the german Digimon intro song at the end of conventions. Important note: The german intro song is a translation(with the original instrumental track) of the japanese version, not a lazy mess like the english intro.

Yeah me too, they released CD dramas that explain how the story of tamers continue, but I want a f sequel xD, btw This reboot is real? if it is this is gonna be great

@@narx221 they already took out a teaser in their channel, it's called Digimon Adventure Psi. This is going to be a complete chaos just like Tri was...

ObnoxiousArtist I want tamers back on Netflix or on hulu

I love tamers

If there's one change I hope they make in the remake, it's that they should have Lillymon face ShogunGekomon instead of MetalGreymon. That would have been a perfect way to solidify Mimi's character development, make Lillymon seem that much better by not having that form's debut be against a Champion-level, and make the story of why ShogunGekomon fell asleep in the first place come full circle. Iirc, they did that in one non-canon novel, but not in the anime itself.

ramirezthesilvite Yu-Gi-Oh!

Shade Emperor What are you referring to?

@@aionicthunder Link Monsters... Just link monsters.

Kerta Losataure agreed

I see you’re still bitter.

Yeah

Yup

Digimon Monsters Digital 😂😉

Just like how dc comics is detective comics comics.

MTV Music

the new card game is way better

Seems to be doing well. I actually getting into it.

I think this current card game is here to stay.

Respect

Skittlessour I had Digimon cards, and I literally never learned how to play. I was able to kinda sorta figure out MTG on my own - enough to go to an LGS and have players correct me on how to play. I didn’t even know where to begin with Digimon.

@@WMDistraction if you want to learn the rule just play Digimon digital card battle in ps1 using emulator. I really like it than Yu-Gi-Oh ps 1

@@ilhaniman5753 jwittz said that the rules are different in that game.

The PS1 card game was great

Υugioh clone? Do you remember/know its name?

@@simosgaming It's literally "Digimon CCG". My favourite Western Digimon CG is the Digimon Fusion CCG.

Which one is the Yugioh clone?

@@cicadaplum Digi-Battle is the dumbed down version of Hyper Colosseum. D-Tector is kind of original *Digimon CCG is the yugioh clone* Digimon Fusion CCG is pretty original too.

It's actually a good TCG, I'd check out the rules if you want to get a glimpse digimoncard.net/cards/

I already have a decklist made when we get them

Its happening

You got your wish!

Congrats it’s been announced for global release

Same

I wish I still had them

Same, I got some Pokemon and Yugioh cards, and basically learned how to play them as a kid. I had some Digimon cards, and there were even a handful of other kids that did, but none of us could figure out how to play it.

Oddly, unlike other kids TCGs, it had a recyclable deck when you run out, basically there's no deck-out rule

Another “why (insert card game here) died” video would be good.

Mystery ? Neopets and Wow would be good picks.

Anyone here playing Duel Masters Play on Mobile ?

And speaking of Duel Masters, my guess to why the game died after a year would be the gag edited dub of the original show and how Kaijudo never followed the card game formula. That and it’s on a channel nobody watches.

I didn't know Kaijudo had a card game.

Yagi After this, the next three international games were from whole cloth.

I thought localization happened in the country that was receiving the imported product, so localization would fall to the American company trying to adapt the game. I somehow doubt the Japanese creators would make all those changes when they had a decently functional game already.

I mean, most people literally cant comprehend japanese tho? Or did you mean something else?

@@strangeclaims i think they are talking about the rule changes to the western version

Licensing offers a good balance between risk and reward in entering a foreign market. The licensor, however, needs to do more than just offer up some assets and back off. They also need to choose their licensees carefully. Nintendo went right to the top with Wizards, and it probably would've stayed with them had The Pokémon Company never come into being. Bandai choosing Upper Deck is. . .just weird. It would've made some sense in the mid-90s while even Wizards was figuring things out, but in the late 90s/early 2000s? Strange move.

Lol

The best part is that the commercial is even similar to KG's role in the film 😂 - he'll give "anything" to get his card back, just like his obsession with the gem in the movie.

@@TheJWittz And it was for a lucky item for him. Maybe it is actually Uncut Gems.

Same, got hit with a wave of nostalgia when the PS1 Digimon Card Game got brought up. Good times.

Digital Card Battle was awesome. There was actually two Digimon Card Video Games, but one existed only in Japan. Digital Card Battle is the actual sequel to it. It's still my favourite Digimon spinoff title too. I'll even say that the side mini-game in Digimon World 3 which is like a faster version of Digital Card Battle (uses the same card sprites too that Digital Card Battle uses plus all of the Digimon released in the third generation) is also quite fun too.

some say the storywritter played the western tcg and put his feelings in to the story.

@@powerthunfischdesdonners3086 no konaka was just a guy who directed a bunch of critically acclaimed dark adult anime who went, hey can I write a season of your kids anime.

Me before Tamers: it's just Digimon, let's watch this. Me after Tamers: (crying)

@@Awesoman9001 tamers is the best season for many reasons, but the fact that it went out of it's way to establish that there is no primary village/village of beginnings/etc. Before beginning to off people is just great.

@@michael_betts Well, actually, there should be. In the "Core World" there is, in fact, a Village of Beginnings. Buuut it works different... the data of the digimon travels all the way to the entrance of the so called "Dark Area" (Where the Seven Great Demon Lords and GrandDracumon live), and the protector of the entrance (Anubismon) sees if the digimon deserves another opportunity. If the Digimon was well behaved, it's data would become a Digitama and would go to the Village, if not, the data would be leaved at the Dark Area so other digimon can consume it or it would become a Dark Digitama itself. So... yeah, that's one of the Tamers things that bothers me... but don't get me wrong, Adventure didn't do it well neither.

Upper Deck took an upper decker on this game

*suddenly, you see two Sukamon, wearing pirate hats, playing the Upper Deck card game.*

I bought a deck just to see what the fuss was about while the anime aired. It looked kinda neat, though I wasn't quite sold on the shield system. (Only one color had creatures that could block?)

duel masters was never popular in any school i went to. no pokemon, no magic, only yugioh. even after i got into other games like duel masters and chaotic, it was still just all yugioh, everywhere, all the time, jumping down your throat. i still like the game, but i think i need a new card game these days.

back home it was super popular and I really enjoyed the videogames and the actual card game. Still have my cards and play with a couple of friends, but yep, it bombed and then when they released it again at Kaijudo it was even worse(in terms of bombing) I don't know what went wrong man, good game mechanics, amazing art, and there was always something going on in the game, I really liked how they handled the mana mechanics, instead of spending time waiting to get something like lands or energy cards(Magic & Pokemon) one would just use their monster cards to account for mana, it was great :( sad it is not sold anymore :( same as Star Wars CCG, that game was also amazing.

@@Neoclassicalmaese yeah, duel masters could have been a yugioh contender had it gotten more love. RIP.

I've heard of Duel Masters, but never actually interacted with it directly until about five years ago. It's anime never aired in my country's television but it did on a channel belonging to our oversea neighbor that was available through cable. I'm not sure if anyone watched it or played it or if the game was even available in my country during the 2000s. I did come across several decks of cards in a game shop during the early-to-mid 2010s. And they were heavily discounted; about 50 cents per deck. For comparison, the modern Yu-Gi-Oh! boosters were between 2 to 3 euros at the time. I bought 3 or 4 different decks just to see what they were like and to see how the game's played and now they're just collecting dust in a box.

There has actually been three Digimkn card games, all of which failed.... Yeah

Josuke best JoJo and Part 4 best JoJo Part. Also Stone Ocean is good :)

Isn't that the baby MTG card game?

Yes please. I need it

Yes

yeah i'd really like to see this myself

What happened

@@JuanGomez-ke5py basically a huge disagreement that Upper Deck and Konami had, Upper Deck trying to act against what Konami wanted them to do and there was even a court case filed against Upper Deck by Konami

@@LunarWingCloud Well it's good to know that Konami has always sucked, and not just in the digital realm.

@Mystic Digi I miss digimon heroes so much. 😭

There was digimon heroes but it wasn't a legit card game and it was gone :(

Because they're the better copies of MTG. Except im surprised that people actually play yugioh even more so without magnifying glasses. Konami really needs to sort that out MTG isn't that bad or hard to play.

Peter von Feldt Pretty sure Konami doesn’t have much of a problem with MTG other than seeing it as a competitor. As for the cards, most cards aren’t as long as people think and really isn’t much you need to know for them as a whole.

@@Openreality Thing is, most (if not all) Yugioh-cards can be simply broken down into shorter terms for understanding. "Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can banish this card from your Graveyard; add 1 'I broke my hand'-card from your Deck to your hand. You can only activate this effect once per turn" can be shortened in your head to "banish this from grave during your own turn, and search for an archetypal card". Oh, and "Only once that turn" should explain itself. It really is just alot of words so that even mongrels without any sort of advanced understanding can just follow what the card tells them.

Well if you only watched the anime your Digimon experience wasn't *beeping* enought .

@@poissonmulti-taches2742 Except that you didn't read "few Digimon video games" part meaning that I do have Digimon experience outside of the anime. I'm even playing Digimon Cyber Sleuth right now (though I have a lot of games to play outside of that).

Considering the evolution line it would make more sense. Going from werewolf to a mechanized form of the second evolution always bugged me as a child. X)

Read the pinned

@@Mikumo91 me too. Always bugged me. And I also preferred the Magidramon Mega over the Gallentmon Mega since Guilmon is dragon-like anyway

@@scribble71891 what bugged me was that wargreymon was smaller than metal greymon. Also it took me awhile to realize that gatomon(spellcheck please) was the champion form. I didn't realize that until the adventures 2 series and they started using fusions instead of ultimate forms

I think how my brothers and I worked it, we assumed the number doubled against an effective-type. This way digivolving wasn't necessary to win the battle, but it could net someone a match even if it meant digivolving into a type-disadvantage. I think this was inspired by the anime, where the triad of data/virus/vaccine didn't matter too much to the actual fights. I also think the hand-limit was 7 cards. Because we were kids. And no redraws.

Kids do that all the time--making up a game within a game--and sometimes it could be more fun than the intended way to play. It pays to have an active imagination, lol