Yu-Gi-Oh's! First Simulator- Eternal Duelist Soul! 

What are your thoughts on EDS?

I remember using a magnifying glass to read passcodes in a price guide and use them in the GBA game.

I love Eternal Duelist Soul,took me years to unlock all the cards and the duelists as well. It was the first Yugioh game I got in the 2000s.

The game that taught me how to actually play! I remember when I did first play this, I was bummed it used "Battle City Rules" because at the time, I hated tribute summoning.

Eternal Duelist Soul really is a Cyber-Stein into Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon into Megamorph moment

I got this game for my 10th or 11th birthday and it basically taught me how to play.

EDS and the Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship Tournament 2004 game were my introduction into actually playing Yu-Gi-Oh properly.

I remember watching a bus driver's trainee playing this on the way home from school.

When Yugioh first started airing in the US I was so hyped for the game that I downloaded and played this game in Japanese and clicked around with the game until I figured out the rules and what a lot of the cards did The puzzles that were only in the Japanese version of the game were a real doozy since I couldn't actually read the cards and the English version of the TCG hadn't been released yet to give me context. But it really says something about how effective the UI really is that a 10 year-old who can't even read the cards can navigate the game and learn

Having not had a big playground scene at my elementary school when the game was starting off, EDS is where I really cut my teeth on Yu-Gi-Oh. As much as I prefer Stairway as my favorite of the duel simulators, that game owes so much EDS for laying the foundation.

I had this game as a kid I loved it so much. I mean, I still have the cartridge as an adult, and I’m playing it right now lol

Also, boy did these early OCG simulators mess up my perception of what was available in the TCG. Took till I was in collage for us to get Meteor Black Dragon!

Okay I started playing this after this video dropped and I'm OBSESSED. I've basically been playing a suped up version of The YK Detox Deck from YGOfrom0 and its been so fun to see my monsters graduate from Skull red bird to two headed king Rex to Guardian of the labyrinth to 7 colored fish. Yugioh at its finest

This never came out in Europe... Or at least the UK. But Worldwide Edition did and it contained more or less the same game as far as I'm aware.

I had this thing on my phone- and i loved it. This was years after i actually stopped playing ygo

I never got to play Forbidden Memories back then, but my best friend had this one and we played together. The grind was much more bearable with the two of us taking turns. Whenever we got new physical cards (fake of course, they've never sold originals where we live) we would try the passwords and see if they worked. Surprisingly they did most of the time and gave us the actual card, and when they didn't work it was usually because the card was too recent to be in the game.

I didn't play the game, although I did play a lot World Championship 2006 AND Tag Force 1 which was crazy. Tag Force 1 was like a dream at age 15. I insisted my parents to buy it for me online (when they didn't like the idea at 2008), but they still got it for me. And I played so much. It was so much fun as the game started kind of like a dating sim (When I tried to hit Alexis...) and then it was great on everything. Looking back my decks were shit, as I tried to use very spesific cards and it didn't work well....

Oh, I remember Forbidden Memories, that game was so dumb, I love it! As far as videogames the first one I played (and the one I have the best memories, too) was the GX for the GBA, the trials on that game were pretty nice practice.

Me and my brother used to play this like crazy when we were kids I have so much memories with this game it's very good game to kill time and just wanna go back into old school yugioh Did you know Japanese version has a mode where it teaches you yugioh mechanic?

I got this from a friend for X-Mas and don't at all regret the countless hours I've spent!

Its strange, but his voice, humor, and apprarance reminds me a bit of DonutOperator.

Eternal Duelist Sooooooouuuuuuulllllllll. Top 5 Yu-Gi-Oh game for in my opinion and is the main reason why I knew how to play the game outside of battle city rules. You should cover Reshef of Destruction next.

Great! Can you do more videos on old school Yu-gi-oh! games. Or ranking like your top 5 games, thank you!

That game is a true master piece, simple and fun, the music itself is legendary

Pretty sure my parents ended up spending more money on the batteries I ran through my GBA playing this game than the game itself 😂

I ❤ Eternal Duelist Soul

I never played EDS, a few months ago I preferred to play the Japanese version as the main menu is almost identical to the duel monsters 2-4 GB games, the images of the packs are the same as the OCG so I wouldn't have to memorize which pack is which. Curious enough, the track that plays when you duel against a randomly encountered rare hunter/ ghouls (the exodia guy, lumis and umbra, pandora/arkana) in the Japanese version is slightly different to EDS

"...and hand traps." You mean hand trap. Who was using exchange for Kuriboh?

This game got me into goat format. I have it on my phone to play 😊

Great video. Could you perhaps eventually talk about yu-gi-oh online? I know It existed but I don't know too much about its popularity nor last days. Anyway, its just an idea, keep the great job Janjo.

Whn I was a kid I played Forbidden memories and then this and I was like wtf how do I fusion monsters lol

EDS was definitely the easiest to understand yugioh game I played as a kid. Whereas Forbidden Memories would become nearly unplayable near the end. The only thing that made EDS kind of boring at times was the requirements for unlocking new packs and duelists at times. Why do I gotta duel someone 20 times?