@@gameboylad dude you didn’t even talk about any cards that possibly could have been created with the construction you just offhand, mentioned it at like separate points after saying you were going to talk about about it but you skip straight to passwords
I think some of the new stuff they added was cool such as the elemental advantages. Just the execution with how some of the other things were handled not being the best. You can see in the future they fix some of the issues. An example being duelist of the roses having a full tutorial explaining it's exclusive rules in the game
i feel like what people need to understand about these games having different rules than the card game is the fact that the video game mechanics technically predate the official OCG/TCG rules. Dark Duel Stories was released when the OCG was already around, however it's like the 3rd game in a series of games that were anime tie-ins a year before the first card game products came out. The TCG & OCG pretty much overhauled the rules where they saw issues with Takahashi's vision.
earlier gb games didn't have tributes, while a later gbc game had tributes but seemed to rebalance monsters so some unexpected early 1000-2000 monsters required 1 tribute. i liked this one better. some of the earlier yugioh games feels nice as single player games, they all seem bs towards the end though
Fun fact. When this game was released the anime was still airing in Japan and going through the Battle City Arc. That's why you don't duel Yami Marik and only a couple of Rare Hunters.
Same reason why most of the White Rose duelists in Duelists of the Roses are Duelist Kingdom enemies and the only Battle City only character that shows up is Ishizu.
I was there. We had no options so this was a gem. People kinda wanted a proper story mode but there was just nothing to compare it to so no one felt cheated or pissed. Trust me it wasn’t like today. When you have nothing, you have no expectations, you treasure everything. We just felt lucky that they even released these. Yugioh wasn’t what it is today.
forbidden memories is kinda in that same boat. There was no expectations especially at a time the rules wasn't so clear cut. It's funny that at the time i thought this would be the worst game of the YGO franchise but this game is actually in the lower middle of all the games lol
I have to say, I love Yugioh, then and now. I love playing games like Duel Links, where I can Fusion Summon as a quick play spell when my opponent wipes the board, only for the just-destroyed "The Dark Magicians" to float back into two monsters, which I could then Ritual Summon into another monster and exile his boss monster, all during his turn. But I also love the old way of playing, where games often take longer than 10 turns and you draw more than 2 cards from your deck ^^
Yeah this is fairly true like as a kid in 2002-2003 you're just like well this is kinda like what happens on Kids WB and custom cards were nice. This was my first Yu-Gi-Oh game and I think it gave me enough to tide me over until I got 7 Trials to Glory a couple years later
Interesting details for the art of this game: it uses a mix of background tiles and using sprite assets like a second layer to allow more colors. This is why you only see art for one card at a time, and why the field is blank looking; the combination of backgrounds and sprites being used this way uses a lot of resources loaded at once, so its pushing the GBC really hard as it is! It's pretty impressive, actually.
Most of you will be new around here so if you enjoyed what you saw and wondered when more will be coming than I got you covered. I plan to release a video every two weeks with the next coming up monday! Thanks for watching and I hope to se you in the next video Edit: Sorry I was a bit late with the upload but it should be out on 9/15 around 2 to 5 pm EST!
I played this game religiously back then. Putting in the passwords on cards was like a treasure hunt. Trying to win as many duels as I could to run certain cards... It was fun for me at the time. Though I probably wouldn't waste my time on it again.
I think if you have more of a personal attachment to the game, it's worth playing. Just for the memories. Forbidden memories might not be good but I still go back and play it every now and then lol
@@TheMadVentriloquist Now that's a good game to have an attachment to. I had it but I never got to the end of it as a teen. maybe this time around I can hopefully
Konami is now making a new monster type, Illusionist (called Dreams here due to size limitations), in the physical card game adapting many of the game only monsters. Pretty cool.
@@windrider2190 Yep, Cornfield Coatl! It joins Spherous Lady (the only card to make the jump for nearly 20 years), Light Law Medium, and Mirror Swordknight in that regard.
I was nostolgic for the old handheld yugioh games I used to play as a kid and ran into this video, love the deep dive and the editing/humor. Great vid man!
Very old, but if I may, If I recount, Takahashi was a gigantic Tabletop RPG Game fan, primarily Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, one of the arcs that pushed the story on was against Bakura, who was a GM in a TTRPG, but due to Bakura's desire for the Millennium Items, he was basically a gigantic Killer DM (Quite literally, in this case. XD) This further explains the setting of the final arc of the initial Yu-Gi-Oh story: It was a Tabletop Role-Playing Shadow Game, with Yugi's win condition being to remember his true name and summon Holactie, The Creator God of Light and beat Bakura, and Bakura's win condition being to summon Zorc Necrophades and beat Yugi. In general, though, Yu-Gi-Oh took a bit of a "Villain/Game of the Week" style, where the various games was meant to be different, and sometimes ironic to the "Villain". When Takahashi covered a Card Game genre one week, the idea was based more around the other big card game at the time, Magic: The Gathering, but simplified and distinct. Haven't figured out what happened after that was pushed to the public though. Think it became a legit card game after a while, can't remember. *Anyways*, these two details are rather important, as they kinda explain two major bits in Yu-Gi-Oh's history: -Why Forbidden Memories, and several of the games that followed that stuck to this style of atypical rules. While it's extremely difficult to say or not, Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories video games was said to be developed using a beta rule set for the actual OCG that was being developed at the time, thus why they were extremely different from the actual Card Game we got. For better or worse. -Why the initial Duelist Kingdom arc had wacky and weird stuff going on in the duels: They were all working off of a D&D-style of logic. Take for example the infamous Duelist Kingdom Mako vs. Yugi duel with Yugi's "DESTROY THE MOON!" scene. In the TCG/OCG context, completely out there, and you'd need a proper card to do that. In D&D context, it works, because our real-world moon does affect the ocean's tides, so logic should work in the game. Sure enough, the oceans are gone with moon and lets Yugi win the duel. The "Beta Rule Set" point has some merit, as the initial OCG released in Japan around February of 1999, and Forbidden Memories (Shin Duel Monsters in Japan) released December of 1999. If the video game was developed as a computer-based concept of how the official card game would work and play before the cards went official and were printed, it makes sense to push out what amounts to mostly-completed work as an official game.
i'm glad I stumbled upon this video. For real, between this and the Dark Rising video, I just completely dig your style. So funny, and so informative of every detail in the games. I sure am looking forward for more :)
About the chest, you can scroll the pages of the chest really fast by holding start and pressing left or right. you can also sort the cards by holding start and pressing up or down. Doing this, you can sort by ATK, DEF, Type, Card number, or Alphabetically. However the alphabetical order of the cards is not reliable since they are sorted that way but still by their Japanese names instead of their translated ones. By the way, the instruction manual doesn't explain this, which is why many people don't know about this. I have a soft spot for this game since it was the first yugioh game I had access to, and while I didn't like it at first, it definitely grew on me. The same way people like to play Pokemon games to hunt for shines or attempt challenging runs, I like to run this game to farm rare drops or pass the time. The music is something I always liked about this game. I STILL play this game on my phone, its very different, limited, but it's a portable yugioh game. Which is something that if you were around during the genesis of yugioh in the west, you had to wait a while (EDS?) for the first proper YGO card game on handheld. Love the vids though, very entertaining. Keep it up!!!
WOW why would they hide that function lmao. Looking back I actually like the mechanics of this game more than even sacred cards and Forbidden memories. It's like a C- game to me especially compared to something like WCS 2004. I enjoyed the process of coming around to making the deck i ended up making for the game. Thank you for watching my videos!
Im so glad I found your channel this is the only thing UA-cam has done right in the past 10 years. Thank you for what you do this series is interesting as hell I can’t wait to come back to a new video
Oh hell yeah, I found a new favorite channel! Also I just wanna say... man its crazy how they make a brand new set of thousands of Yugioh assets every single game only to have it be asame-ish simulator every time. Also did you know the whole elemental system these early games have was mentioned in the manga.... exactly once.... and only came up.... once several chapters into duelist kingdom
Sir!!! I love that you covered this game! Dark Duel Stories was my only other game on gameboy besides Pokémon yellow and silver so I spent sooooo much time with it.
Yo I actually love this style of review. Where you review your experience with it. Kept me engaged through the entire thing. You also seem like you got a high tolerance for bullshit and a respect for difficulty and old games. You might like magic the gathering 1997: Shandalar.
I actually would love to cover some magic the gathering games! I recently went through a rabbit hole of the games so I can see myself making videos on them once I have a foundation for the channel
I'd love the Mystical Elf sprite made into an alt art for Mystical Elf. Heck, all of these sprites made into collectible cards(with the borders) would be cool.
@@gameboylad Yeah, Konami's a bit stingy. Especially when it comes to the TCG. Although, they have been slowly making more fan things. Like Seto Kaiba's briefcase.
I bought this game off a dollar store in brooklyn back in the day. Those were the days. I remember being so mad that it wasn't based on the card game. So little 10 year old me thought "Oh I'll just get Forbidden Memories, that's the REAL game." My poor child self. Still played these games to death! Awesome video!
When you were talking about dueling Mai, and the win condition being her not having Harpy Lady. The cards you were going over unlocked my memories of this game and your win condition is fuse Yamatano Dragon Scroll with Dark Plant. Every time lol
Oooh that makes that jungle dragon right? I was making it every now and then but it was super infrequent cause I only had one copy of the dragon scroll 😭
These are so well-made that I'll watch them and then a few months pass and I won't recall everything that you said or that happened so I can watch them again
Thanks for the continued support. It helps during the gaps between videos honestly. Sorry for the late reply. I'm Catching up to comment backlog since i was busy trying to finish the new vid lol.
Something to also mention, is that even if you grinded enough to afford putting multiple copies of the broken magic cards in your deck (or just cheated to max your deck cost limit), the game actually limited you to only being able to put 1 copy of each in your deck, that of course didn't apply to the opponents. I liked the game as a kid and actually completed it (though never knew about the postgame opponents beyond Yami Yugi at the time), but having revisited it recently, yeah it's pretty damn rough, and if I want a nostalgia fix of old janky Yugioh, I much prefer Forbidden Memories and its mods.
well that's just perfect lmao. When this game was out i knew a majority of kids who had this had no idea how any of it worked. kids do not like reading manuals
@@gameboylad I must have been weird, I loved opening up a new game and looking through the manual before I played it. I unironically miss video game manuals.
Gosh, the memories. I was very much in YGO at the time, what with the anime, the manga and having my mom buy me the Yugi and Kaiba starter decks. This game felt like icing on the cake. Retrospectingly I see how clunky and sometimes unbalanced it was, but I remember grinding for hours to get new cards and include the most powerful ones in my deck. The Gameboy was really home to some videogame experiments, like RE Gaiden or a HOMM game. Thanks for the video and I gotta say, even with the nostalgia, I won't get back in this one....
I played this yu gi oh game back then as a kid. And i know how i entered code for ultimate dragon, gatekeeper etc. And after seeing this video, i don't understand how i was still possible du defeat the game. I have to be very patient as a kid. Nice video, love you, greets from germany
Me and my bother both got this game same day from my grandpa who took us to a game store in a mall and we went to jack in the box after as we struggles to figure out how to play the game. We both finished the game and spent hours playing it. For us it was fun as hell after we understood it we even used our link cable to face each other good times
I actually grew up with this game. And I got to a point where I could have all those broken cards that he was talking about. I have no idea how to play the actual game. But I actually ended up getting all five Exodia cards by fighting with one of the characters until I ended up with all five. It's honestly really great soon someone actually review this came. It's been forgotten by time.
i remember playing this game as a kid and having no f*ckin idea how to play, but kept beating my head against it until i figured it out and beat it. still have hella fond memories of this game. sick seeing someone play it again edit: just wanted to say, yeah the cost of cards is pretty unfair, but you could also make some pretty broken 4 star cards that could wipe most of their cards. plus with the type advantage mechanic, you can kill a 3k blue eyes with a kuribo, and man it felt soooo good to destroy a super high attack monster with a 200 attack monster lol but it's still unfair and weighted to the opponent, but i still enjoyed it as a kid
I always wanted to play all of these old games, that I never could as a kid. Thank you for sparing me the time. Great video though, some funny stuff. I hope that you will make more soon.
I see Mackie's goofy ass smile on the thumbnail, I click on the video I'm a simple man lol another banger bro. ALso yeah fusion cards are so stinky brooooo
Oh wow, that brings back some childhood memories. I played this game all the way back when it released over here in Germany, back when I was still in elementary school. It was translated (not always a given for a game as niche as that), so I could find my way into it fairly easily, especially because I was also the type to read the instruction manuals multiple times just for the fun of it. First time I ever had problems in the game back then was during the Egypt stage, the first two honestly never felt like an issue. Did use passwords, but only for the few cards I owned, so nothing exactly broken. Did make use of custom cards though... for a while anyways. I'm not sure if that was a bug in all versions of the game, or just some weird bug that was introduced for the German / European version, but once while I combined two card parts, the game actually glitched out and erased the entire save. I was able to reproduce that later on with the same two parts because I got curious, not exactly the best experience the first time it happened though, haha. Clawed my way back to the Egypt stage after that, but never really continued because by that point I've had my fill of the game.
Damn that's brutal. Your stronger than me cause I would have quit the whole game if my file got corrupted the first time 😭 so many RPGs I dropped because of corruption
@@gameboylad Yeah. I know it involved parts from the second group (since iirc you could only combine parts in the first half with parts in the first half, and the same for parts from the second half of the list), and I know one of these parts was pretty much near the end of the list, but it's been over a decade, so don't know the exact combination anymore nowadays. Still, if there's anything to say about young me, I guess it's that she was damn persistent, haha. At this point in time, I wouldn't have the patience for it anymore either, but back then it was one of the only few games I owned at the time.
@@segafreak2000 It happens specifically with the last upper body of the second set of parts. Affected cards have no name at all. They don't necessarily corrupt the file they can also just mess up menus to the point you can't interact with any card that is displayed in the same screen in your trunk as the affected card. It never erased my file but was annoying enough to make me restart my file. I have the German cartridge but prefer to play on an English rom due to that issue just not existing in the English version at all. I'm currently trying to get 2 Magicians of Black Chaos from Yami Yugi after I found out that each duelist has special cards with a drop rate of 1 in 2048 and he is one of them as well as my fav card so I need that playset. So far I got only Meteor B. Dragon from Yami Yugi which is his other 1 in 2048 drop but I'm still trying. I love how games like this allowed you to just summon ritual monsters like normal monsters if you had the Ritualmostercard itself. So much easier than those useless ritual cards XD.
Even if the game hasn't aged well, I have to say it has some really gorgeous custom made pixel art for the Monsters here Considering future games will just just have compressed image files of the cards pixelated 😬 at least the DS games had full 2D/3D Renders of monsters during combat screen 2:55 AAAAAAH! I see Sacred Cards and Reshef were the successor of this Advantage mechanic
you quickly mentioned exodia, the first time for me when seeker used it, it was like a legit jumpscare and since then i was reluctant to fight him and when i did the possibility that exodia could appear was harrowing, it got a cool text though
I like it a lot as well although some people rate it low on the scale. Idk if my nostalgia is blinding me or people are too picky but I'll find out soon lol
I remember getting slightly annoyed with the custom cards as a kid because I used to just slam the ability to fuse a bunch of stuff in my hand, but none of the stuff you could make would fuse with normal cards.
Yeah which kinda sucks. Fusion in this game was neat but limited when compared to FM and DOTR. A rock custom card and female monster should ideally make mystical sand, but nope
never played this one. but i have a lot of love for reshef of destruction and there seem to be quite a few simularities, when it comes to the difficulty curve and the oldschool rules. im really looking forward to the continuation of this series, especially a potential reshef-video. more romhack-conent in the future would be cool as well (hoping for unbound. gaia and prism), but any gameboygame-content is always appreciated. dragonball z legendary superwarrior is, in my opinion, also definitely worth a video like this. kudos
I have mixed feelings about reshef but so far the more I play it the more I appreciate some of the things in it. If you liked reshef you might like this too honestly. I'm covering reshef of destruction so look out for that in the upcoming month!
I had this game as a kid, and can confirm I never made it past the 2nd set of duelists. I revisited it as a teen and beat it, but not without looking up good card codes, and farming card parts.
This and Pokemon Yellow version were the only games i owned til i got a GameCube in like 2003-2004. It's definitely a gem from my childhood. Recently me and my friend have been collecting older Yugioh games, and this is the first we got.
I hope it didn't cost much. one of the good things about these games is that most of them have not been hit with the dumb price spikes retro games have been getting recently
I swear I saw cheat code sites for this game claim there was a card called The Red Eyes Black Moth Dragon. Always wanted that card. Sounded like a cool concept.
3:12 ha ha i knew these because of the manga but they're not localised there just translated, it comes up in the first yugi vs pegasus duel where "light" is "white magic", "fiend" is "demon magic", "dream" is "illusion magic" and "shadow" is "black magic" so like yugi summons dark magician (black magic/shadow), pegasus counters with illusionist faceless mage i think ? (illusion magic/dreams) and at the end yugi summons summoned skull (demon magic/fiend) and then the duel gets cut off - it's something along those lines
Yeah your probably spot on! After this video I looked into the timeline of yugioh games, the manga, and the OCG (Official card game) I was surprised to see that they didn't really get around to making the OCG until after the second duel monsters game. So a lot of the rules are probably based on the early days of the manga and them testing the waters
@@gameboylad the games seemingly definitely originated some of the ocg rules though like the whole 8000 lp thing, also do they have five monster zones + five spell/trap zones ? (in the manga they play on an 8 by 5 grid with a map on it in duelist kingdom, and in battle city they use only five zones for both monsters and spells/traps)
@@Envy_May The YGO gameboy games only had one spell/trap zone. The 8000 lp might be inspired from the games cause the anime/manga LP values never got that high (it might be for mostly pacing and writing reasons though)
Thank you! I don't think their worth playing for the average gamer, but if your a fan of the series I think the gameboy games are worth a fair shot. The GBA games are much more worthwhile even for people who are not fans
I remember I got this game I grinded the shit out of it but then when I hit a wall I ended up on a cheat site found all the bonkers passwords and once I could stuff ace monsters meteor black dragon carried my ass through that game and if I remember correctly it was fairly easy to fuse into so I’d spam it the extra grandpa password for winning extra cards and parts was sweet I made a 2000/2000 lv 4 that carried me through the early game as well.
I didn't even think about fusing for b.skull. I'm so hurt from FM and not being able to own skull or red eyes that I forgot this game is a lot more lenient
I cannot explain to you how much nostalgia I am experiencing watching this video. It's like I'm seeing a shitty ass friend that I used to hang out 20 years ago for every single day.
This game was my childhood. I grinded the shit out off this game and blitzed through the whole game! I tried out shit tons off fusions and built custom decks for Ritualsummoning and Exodia. Never used any custom cards since I kever knew they existed.
Man I remember getting this game off a friend in middle school, he was selling this game, Kirby and a green game boy color for 20$! It definitely made my crappy life in middle school a lot better even though I remember this game being hard
@@gameboylad I’m sure he was just trying to get rid of it (meaning he probably stole it which is not cool) but as a kid I couldn’t refuse! Also in my middle school yugioh became like a drug and got banned cause of fights, slanging cards in the locker room and even death threats.. I couldn’t take my cards there even if I wanted to. It was pretty hardcore lol
I've always wanted to play Dark Duel Stories cos it's been one of those Yu-Gi-Oh games I've always heard of. I just assumed it was a classic. Thanks to you, now I don't have to play it 😂🙏🏾
Bit late on this video, but... Man, I played this a TON when it first came out. It's actually a lot of fun. It's crazy the power difference in the custom cards though. There are 5 star custom cards that have 300 / 300, and there are also 3 star custom cards with 2000 / 2000. Also your chance at getting a specific combination is pretty low given that there are 280 parts and 9800 combinations. Also the card art for Bone Mouse in the game makes me wish it was better. It's so cute.
I have such a nostalgic attachment to this game and it's aesthetic and music that it's almost scary. I may have to go back and play it one of these days for old times sake. It ain't a good game at all and I can't remember if I had originally beaten it with or without gameshark codes as a kid (I do remember looking up passwords for it on gamefaqs and using them to unlock the final duelists so I don't think I ever actually saw the credits for the game. ) but It'll probably always hold a special place in my heart even if I no longer play yugioh. It and eternal duelist soul. And I wanna say spirit caller... Those 3 yugioh games were the games I played the most as a kid/teen.
2:35 Funny enough i had reshef of destruction down the line(cant remember how old i was but maybe 10 or 12)but not the manual... Oh i was so confused till i got the hang of it
Fusion saved my sanity when I played this. I can remember entering battles with Joey just to try random fusions cuz you had guess which card went with what lmao even then I still never fully beat the game
I played this game when i was a Kid. Was my first Yu-gi-oh game. Good God, was it confusing, but i did enjoy certain elements of the game. I actually replayed it recently, only to softlock my emulator on the credits screen ;_;
I hope it at least kept the save file. I feel like I was a bit to harsh on this game cause their are somethings I like about it like the fusion mechanics
The fusion mechanics WERE cool, unfortunately the spells and traps felt too butchered, and the point limit was annoying, you only getting 5 added to your point maximum regardless of which duel you win made it to where I just had to bully poor Tristan until I could put one raigeki, change of heart, etc.. I'm still mixed on the whole type advantage thing, early game you depend on it, but late game, you reaaaallly wish it wasn't there most of the time.
semi-related. i think it's a little cool that a few of the constructed cards from this game actually became real cards in the TCG. Spherous Lady in 2004 w/Labyrinth of Nightmare. Cornfield Coator, Mirror Swordsman and Light Law Medium being released in *2022/2023* with the former 2 being in Duellist Nexus and the latter being in Dimension Force. unsure if they left the OCG yet or what. EDIT: accidentally typed 2024 instead of 2004. 👀
I don’t really remember much I’ve maybe played through this game 3 times I remember playing this as a kid with chicken pox and I hated the Egypt stage but I remember playing it again in like 2007 I remember hearing about passwords and having internet helped a lot but I’m just a big yugioh fan especially video games wise I sub btw thanks for the content
Honestly I watch a bunch of yugioh video and game stuff and randomly came in recommend and like my story I remember playing this game I haven’t played all of the yugioh video games but a good amount of them and do replay some of them like the ds ones sometimes
8:30 I actually learned because the card art was so well done and detailed the game boy color couldn’t handle displaying it at all times which is why the display is so bad the software literally was doing its best 😂
The music in this game slaps though. Apparently, a lot of the music used in this game was used in the previous installments to this game (this game is the third in the DM Series). Some of the music was also used in Duelist of the Roses and Falsebound Kingdom.
Yup and some of it was in capsule monsters on the PS1. I recently heard Yugi's theme in that game and it's kind of funny that they kept remixing that track throughout the games
27:58 definitely pretty late coming to this, but the manga was nowhere near done at the time, it's believed that all of these original characters they came up with (slysheen/heishin, the version of priest seto that's a complete dick, and darknite/nitemare) were part of some original concept for the millennium world arc that was drafted for the manga years before it actually got there although there's definitely no way to prove any of that, especially now that takahashi is dead and we can't get a real answer for it, but forbidden memories's storyline is usually what people use as evidence for that theory, since it's a massively different take on that arc long before it ever happened officially (forbidden memories came out in 1998, during duelist kingdom in the manga, but the millennium world arc didn't happen until 2003), before anyone knew anything about yami bakura and zorc or how the story was actually gonna end, they had an early version of ishizu in that game as well which is the only real point of evidence that they were working off of anything that hadn't been officially revealed yet
@@gameboylad I remember running through game with the warrior deck using swordstalker, greenkappa, and swordsman from a foreign land being my go to best monsters
Oh yea I remember playing this and forbidden memories when they first came out. I didn't have any instruction booklet so I learned how to do that stuff the hard way. How one might ask? I was a very stubborn kid.
I think people underestimate kids ability to beat games, especially through brute force. I definitely remember bashing my head into beating ninja garden and contra and watched other kids around me also beat difficult games.
@@gameboylad Also kids can be smart to recognize stuff. Like if your dream cards keep losing to fiends, a kid is going to think about and try to figure out how to overcome fiends, which they will through trial and error even if its just on accident on realizing something like unhappy maiden always beats fiends.
God I still have a physical copy of this game, I played it so much as a kid even though I didn't understand a single damn thing about it. Also I had to make a list of how many times I beat someone once I found out about the 5 rule because I couldn't never keep track, lol. It's a miracle I have fond memories even though I had no clue how this worked.
It's so much easier to look past all the bad as a kid. I didn't really understand the concept of a bad game until I got shadow the hedgehog for my birthday and even then I tried so hard to convince myself it's not that bad lol
@@gameboylad Pfft omg, look shadow the hedgehog may be an edgy mess of a game with some of the worst level design and confusing layout i've ever seen but I still had fun with it. Bad or not, lol.
I think i had to use custom cards to get dream cards in this game, but by the end game, i had a full set of 2000/2000 monsters in my deck, and the game was pretty fun for theory crafting, i just wish there was more of it, like custom battles, or random ai battles that can be repeated, as the game would be pretty interesting then, as i still own this game, and the ps1 game as well.
Played countless hours of this game! For a while the holographic Seiyaryu that came with the game was my favorite card in my deck (until some jackass in middle school stole it) Funny story I don't know what my elder brother did to my game, but he took it to school with him and when he brought it back my in game name had changed to "ABC" and I had 20 copies of every card in the game with everything unlocked. IDK what he did, but thanks bro. 👍
I replayed this game about a year ago and it was rough, I had fun though. Got lucky and got a harpie lady from mai after my first win and later got a dragon zombie from joey. I had to grind a lot, and got some more lucky drops and after a lot of trial and error I won. I remember how much I struggled with this as a kid but gradually put things together. My cousin borrowed my copy as a kid and built me a deck and unlocked a lot of stuff for me while I realized how the deck lacked balance and modified it later. This time around I was better at keeping my deck balanced in element distribution. I did use a couple passwords for the bonus card from grandpa after each duel and a specific card or two. Early Game Zombie warrior and flower wolf were my bread and butter while late game it was all about Mystic Sand since I got a lot of female and rock monsters.
I just find it funny how this entity of evil casually asks you "have you got a pencil on hand?"
"Your in grade school right? You should have a number 2 pencil on you"
@@gameboylad dude you didn’t even talk about any cards that possibly could have been created with the construction you just offhand, mentioned it at like separate points after saying you were going to talk about about it but you skip straight to passwords
I love how this game is based on the actual rules that Takahashi came up with
It pretty much forces you to read the manga to understand them
I think some of the new stuff they added was cool such as the elemental advantages. Just the execution with how some of the other things were handled not being the best. You can see in the future they fix some of the issues. An example being duelist of the roses having a full tutorial explaining it's exclusive rules in the game
Is also the same rules Sacred Cards used but with a couple of changes.
There's the first edition rules before duelist kingdom and then the duelist kingdom rules and then the expert rules.
i feel like what people need to understand about these games having different rules than the card game is the fact that the video game mechanics technically predate the official OCG/TCG rules. Dark Duel Stories was released when the OCG was already around, however it's like the 3rd game in a series of games that were anime tie-ins a year before the first card game products came out. The TCG & OCG pretty much overhauled the rules where they saw issues with Takahashi's vision.
earlier gb games didn't have tributes, while a later gbc game had tributes but seemed to rebalance monsters so some unexpected early 1000-2000 monsters required 1 tribute.
i liked this one better. some of the earlier yugioh games feels nice as single player games, they all seem bs towards the end though
Fun fact. When this game was released the anime was still airing in Japan and going through the Battle City Arc. That's why you don't duel Yami Marik and only a couple of Rare Hunters.
you actualy can duel Marik through the password system or smth like that
Same reason why most of the White Rose duelists in Duelists of the Roses are Duelist Kingdom enemies and the only Battle City only character that shows up is Ishizu.
I was there. We had no options so this was a gem. People kinda wanted a proper story mode but there was just nothing to compare it to so no one felt cheated or pissed. Trust me it wasn’t like today. When you have nothing, you have no expectations, you treasure everything. We just felt lucky that they even released these. Yugioh wasn’t what it is today.
forbidden memories is kinda in that same boat. There was no expectations especially at a time the rules wasn't so clear cut. It's funny that at the time i thought this would be the worst game of the YGO franchise but this game is actually in the lower middle of all the games lol
I have to say, I love Yugioh, then and now.
I love playing games like Duel Links, where I can Fusion Summon as a quick play spell when my opponent wipes the board, only for the just-destroyed "The Dark Magicians" to float back into two monsters, which I could then Ritual Summon into another monster and exile his boss monster, all during his turn.
But I also love the old way of playing, where games often take longer than 10 turns and you draw more than 2 cards from your deck ^^
Yeah this is fairly true like as a kid in 2002-2003 you're just like well this is kinda like what happens on Kids WB and custom cards were nice. This was my first Yu-Gi-Oh game and I think it gave me enough to tide me over until I got 7 Trials to Glory a couple years later
I love the spritework for the card art in this game
Genuinely incredible stuff they made with the art
Agreed! Mystical Elf looks so cute in this game
Interesting details for the art of this game: it uses a mix of background tiles and using sprite assets like a second layer to allow more colors. This is why you only see art for one card at a time, and why the field is blank looking; the combination of backgrounds and sprites being used this way uses a lot of resources loaded at once, so its pushing the GBC really hard as it is! It's pretty impressive, actually.
Yeah the artwork in this game is mighty impressive!
Most of you will be new around here so if you enjoyed what you saw and wondered when more will be coming than I got you covered. I plan to release a video every two weeks with the next coming up monday! Thanks for watching and I hope to se you in the next video
Edit: Sorry I was a bit late with the upload but it should be out on 9/15 around 2 to 5 pm EST!
I played this game religiously back then. Putting in the passwords on cards was like a treasure hunt. Trying to win as many duels as I could to run certain cards... It was fun for me at the time. Though I probably wouldn't waste my time on it again.
I think if you have more of a personal attachment to the game, it's worth playing. Just for the memories. Forbidden memories might not be good but I still go back and play it every now and then lol
@@gameboylad The game I have a personal attachment to is the World Championship 2006 with Jaden on the front.
Almost beat the game.
@@TheMadVentriloquist Now that's a good game to have an attachment to. I had it but I never got to the end of it as a teen. maybe this time around I can hopefully
Same - I revisited as an adult and I was like wayment - I remember it being soooooo much crazier ha
Konami is now making a new monster type, Illusionist (called Dreams here due to size limitations), in the physical card game adapting many of the game only monsters. Pretty cool.
It's a pretty neat call back honestly lol
Isn’t one of the illusion monsters also one made from card parts?
@@windrider2190 Yep, Cornfield Coatl! It joins Spherous Lady (the only card to make the jump for nearly 20 years), Light Law Medium, and Mirror Swordknight in that regard.
Ngl, i really love this game. It's like Diet forbbiden memories, and 8-bit card artworks slap
I think I like this more than FM honestly since it has card effects at least lol
I was nostolgic for the old handheld yugioh games I used to play as a kid and ran into this video, love the deep dive and the editing/humor. Great vid man!
Very old, but if I may,
If I recount, Takahashi was a gigantic Tabletop RPG Game fan, primarily Dungeons & Dragons. In fact, one of the arcs that pushed the story on was against Bakura, who was a GM in a TTRPG, but due to Bakura's desire for the Millennium Items, he was basically a gigantic Killer DM (Quite literally, in this case. XD) This further explains the setting of the final arc of the initial Yu-Gi-Oh story: It was a Tabletop Role-Playing Shadow Game, with Yugi's win condition being to remember his true name and summon Holactie, The Creator God of Light and beat Bakura, and Bakura's win condition being to summon Zorc Necrophades and beat Yugi.
In general, though, Yu-Gi-Oh took a bit of a "Villain/Game of the Week" style, where the various games was meant to be different, and sometimes ironic to the "Villain". When Takahashi covered a Card Game genre one week, the idea was based more around the other big card game at the time, Magic: The Gathering, but simplified and distinct. Haven't figured out what happened after that was pushed to the public though. Think it became a legit card game after a while, can't remember.
*Anyways*, these two details are rather important, as they kinda explain two major bits in Yu-Gi-Oh's history:
-Why Forbidden Memories, and several of the games that followed that stuck to this style of atypical rules. While it's extremely difficult to say or not, Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories video games was said to be developed using a beta rule set for the actual OCG that was being developed at the time, thus why they were extremely different from the actual Card Game we got. For better or worse.
-Why the initial Duelist Kingdom arc had wacky and weird stuff going on in the duels: They were all working off of a D&D-style of logic. Take for example the infamous Duelist Kingdom Mako vs. Yugi duel with Yugi's "DESTROY THE MOON!" scene. In the TCG/OCG context, completely out there, and you'd need a proper card to do that. In D&D context, it works, because our real-world moon does affect the ocean's tides, so logic should work in the game. Sure enough, the oceans are gone with moon and lets Yugi win the duel.
The "Beta Rule Set" point has some merit, as the initial OCG released in Japan around February of 1999, and Forbidden Memories (Shin Duel Monsters in Japan) released December of 1999. If the video game was developed as a computer-based concept of how the official card game would work and play before the cards went official and were printed, it makes sense to push out what amounts to mostly-completed work as an official game.
Its so wild that two of the custom cards were actually released in real life
The me from 2 years ago would have never expected them to do that
i'm glad I stumbled upon this video. For real, between this and the Dark Rising video, I just completely dig your style. So funny, and so informative of every detail in the games. I sure am looking forward for more :)
Thank you! I'm lucky the algorithm is on my side so far for this to even land in peoples feed lul. My next video is coming out on 9/12 the soonest!
About the chest, you can scroll the pages of the chest really fast by holding start and pressing left or right. you can also sort the cards by holding start and pressing up or down. Doing this, you can sort by ATK, DEF, Type, Card number, or Alphabetically. However the alphabetical order of the cards is not reliable since they are sorted that way but still by their Japanese names instead of their translated ones. By the way, the instruction manual doesn't explain this, which is why many people don't know about this.
I have a soft spot for this game since it was the first yugioh game I had access to, and while I didn't like it at first, it definitely grew on me. The same way people like to play Pokemon games to hunt for shines or attempt challenging runs, I like to run this game to farm rare drops or pass the time. The music is something I always liked about this game. I STILL play this game on my phone, its very different, limited, but it's a portable yugioh game. Which is something that if you were around during the genesis of yugioh in the west, you had to wait a while (EDS?) for the first proper YGO card game on handheld.
Love the vids though, very entertaining. Keep it up!!!
WOW why would they hide that function lmao. Looking back I actually like the mechanics of this game more than even sacred cards and Forbidden memories. It's like a C- game to me especially compared to something like WCS 2004. I enjoyed the process of coming around to making the deck i ended up making for the game. Thank you for watching my videos!
Im so glad I found your channel this is the only thing UA-cam has done right in the past 10 years. Thank you for what you do this series is interesting as hell I can’t wait to come back to a new video
I'm just lucky youtube decided to throw my vids in the algorithm every now and then. Thank you so much for watching!
your content is godlike tyvm for posting and for all the work in these
Oh hell yeah, I found a new favorite channel!
Also I just wanna say... man its crazy how they make a brand new set of thousands of Yugioh assets every single game only to have it be asame-ish simulator every time.
Also did you know the whole elemental system these early games have was mentioned in the manga.... exactly once.... and only came up.... once several chapters into duelist kingdom
Sir!!! I love that you covered this game! Dark Duel Stories was my only other game on gameboy besides Pokémon yellow and silver so I spent sooooo much time with it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Looking back I felt i was a bit to harsh to it. it's still not good but i prefer it's sytem over many of the later games
Informative and hilarious. Great video!
The battle theme in the first area is one of the best chiptune tracks I've ever heard. Been stuck in my head since release.
I like the tracks in the game lol. gameboy remixes of tracks in FM and duelist of the roses
@@gameboylad I did not know they were remixes of tracks from those games. Damn.
The "shit pushed in" metaphor always gets me XD
Yo I actually love this style of review. Where you review your experience with it. Kept me engaged through the entire thing.
You also seem like you got a high tolerance for bullshit and a respect for difficulty and old games. You might like magic the gathering 1997: Shandalar.
I actually would love to cover some magic the gathering games! I recently went through a rabbit hole of the games so I can see myself making videos on them once I have a foundation for the channel
I'd love the Mystical Elf sprite made into an alt art for Mystical Elf.
Heck, all of these sprites made into collectible cards(with the borders) would be cool.
That would be amazing! I'd love for that to happen. Pokemon and magic does that kind of stuff all the time but Konami never does much for collectors
@@gameboylad Yeah, Konami's a bit stingy. Especially when it comes to the TCG.
Although, they have been slowly making more fan things. Like Seto Kaiba's briefcase.
New favorite youtuber
Love to see it!
I bought this game off a dollar store in brooklyn back in the day. Those were the days. I remember being so mad that it wasn't based on the card game.
So little 10 year old me thought "Oh I'll just get Forbidden Memories, that's the REAL game." My poor child self.
Still played these games to death! Awesome video!
These videos are really good and really funny. Please keep it up
I'm trying my best to keep it up 😭I'm almost done with the next video so expect it today or tomorrow!
When you were talking about dueling Mai, and the win condition being her not having Harpy Lady. The cards you were going over unlocked my memories of this game and your win condition is fuse Yamatano Dragon Scroll with Dark Plant. Every time lol
Oooh that makes that jungle dragon right? I was making it every now and then but it was super infrequent cause I only had one copy of the dragon scroll 😭
These are so well-made that I'll watch them and then a few months pass and I won't recall everything that you said or that happened so I can watch them again
Thanks for the continued support. It helps during the gaps between videos honestly. Sorry for the late reply. I'm Catching up to comment backlog since i was busy trying to finish the new vid lol.
Something to also mention, is that even if you grinded enough to afford putting multiple copies of the broken magic cards in your deck (or just cheated to max your deck cost limit), the game actually limited you to only being able to put 1 copy of each in your deck, that of course didn't apply to the opponents.
I liked the game as a kid and actually completed it (though never knew about the postgame opponents beyond Yami Yugi at the time), but having revisited it recently, yeah it's pretty damn rough, and if I want a nostalgia fix of old janky Yugioh, I much prefer Forbidden Memories and its mods.
I love the fact that you used the Front Mission shop music!
Front mission is tight!
fun fact: the "dream beats shadow etc etc" type chart is explained in the instruction manual that came with the game
well that's just perfect lmao. When this game was out i knew a majority of kids who had this had no idea how any of it worked. kids do not like reading manuals
@@gameboylad I must have been weird, I loved opening up a new game and looking through the manual before I played it. I unironically miss video game manuals.
Gosh, the memories. I was very much in YGO at the time, what with the anime, the manga and having my mom buy me the Yugi and Kaiba starter decks. This game felt like icing on the cake. Retrospectingly I see how clunky and sometimes unbalanced it was, but I remember grinding for hours to get new cards and include the most powerful ones in my deck. The Gameboy was really home to some videogame experiments, like RE Gaiden or a HOMM game. Thanks for the video and I gotta say, even with the nostalgia, I won't get back in this one....
loved this game as a kid, the diy cards were super broken but it was very fun.
going through your series now, great stuff!
I played this yu gi oh game back then as a kid. And i know how i entered code for ultimate dragon, gatekeeper etc. And after seeing this video, i don't understand how i was still possible du defeat the game.
I have to be very patient as a kid.
Nice video, love you, greets from germany
Loving these videos, wished yt recommended you to me sooner
Me and my bother both got this game same day from my grandpa who took us to a game store in a mall and we went to jack in the box after as we struggles to figure out how to play the game. We both finished the game and spent hours playing it. For us it was fun as hell after we understood it we even used our link cable to face each other good times
This game is amazing. I loved this, and finding out and noting down all the best fusions and created cards ❤
I remember my dad got it for me at toys r us and playing it all the time on my trips to Mexico growing up zoa was my favorite card on the game
Got this recommend seems promising just subbed keep up the good work
Thank you so much for watching and subbing! I put a video out last week and another should be on the way by next week. I won't let yall down o7
I will give it a watch
I actually grew up with this game. And I got to a point where I could have all those broken cards that he was talking about. I have no idea how to play the actual game. But I actually ended up getting all five Exodia cards by fighting with one of the characters until I ended up with all five. It's honestly really great soon someone actually review this came. It's been forgotten by time.
i remember playing this game as a kid and having no f*ckin idea how to play, but kept beating my head against it until i figured it out and beat it. still have hella fond memories of this game. sick seeing someone play it again
edit: just wanted to say, yeah the cost of cards is pretty unfair, but you could also make some pretty broken 4 star cards that could wipe most of their cards. plus with the type advantage mechanic, you can kill a 3k blue eyes with a kuribo, and man it felt soooo good to destroy a super high attack monster with a 200 attack monster lol but it's still unfair and weighted to the opponent, but i still enjoyed it as a kid
I always wanted to play all of these old games, that I never could as a kid. Thank you for sparing me the time.
Great video though, some funny stuff.
I hope that you will make more soon.
Yeah unless you have an attachment to this game, it's not really worth the time. Thank you so much for watching the video 😭
I see Mackie's goofy ass smile on the thumbnail, I click on the video I'm a simple man lol another banger bro. ALso yeah fusion cards are so stinky brooooo
THANK YOU for explaining the games made up rules!! That explains EVERYTHING!! I subbed for that alone. You rock.
good looks! thanks for the sub!
Oh wow, that brings back some childhood memories. I played this game all the way back when it released over here in Germany, back when I was still in elementary school. It was translated (not always a given for a game as niche as that), so I could find my way into it fairly easily, especially because I was also the type to read the instruction manuals multiple times just for the fun of it. First time I ever had problems in the game back then was during the Egypt stage, the first two honestly never felt like an issue. Did use passwords, but only for the few cards I owned, so nothing exactly broken. Did make use of custom cards though... for a while anyways. I'm not sure if that was a bug in all versions of the game, or just some weird bug that was introduced for the German / European version, but once while I combined two card parts, the game actually glitched out and erased the entire save. I was able to reproduce that later on with the same two parts because I got curious, not exactly the best experience the first time it happened though, haha. Clawed my way back to the Egypt stage after that, but never really continued because by that point I've had my fill of the game.
Damn that's brutal. Your stronger than me cause I would have quit the whole game if my file got corrupted the first time 😭 so many RPGs I dropped because of corruption
@@gameboylad Yeah. I know it involved parts from the second group (since iirc you could only combine parts in the first half with parts in the first half, and the same for parts from the second half of the list), and I know one of these parts was pretty much near the end of the list, but it's been over a decade, so don't know the exact combination anymore nowadays. Still, if there's anything to say about young me, I guess it's that she was damn persistent, haha. At this point in time, I wouldn't have the patience for it anymore either, but back then it was one of the only few games I owned at the time.
@@segafreak2000 It happens specifically with the last upper body of the second set of parts. Affected cards have no name at all. They don't necessarily corrupt the file they can also just mess up menus to the point you can't interact with any card that is displayed in the same screen in your trunk as the affected card. It never erased my file but was annoying enough to make me restart my file. I have the German cartridge but prefer to play on an English rom due to that issue just not existing in the English version at all. I'm currently trying to get 2 Magicians of Black Chaos from Yami Yugi after I found out that each duelist has special cards with a drop rate of 1 in 2048 and he is one of them as well as my fav card so I need that playset. So far I got only Meteor B. Dragon from Yami Yugi which is his other 1 in 2048 drop but I'm still trying. I love how games like this allowed you to just summon ritual monsters like normal monsters if you had the Ritualmostercard itself. So much easier than those useless ritual cards XD.
I love the SDD theme for Ishizu so much that was a good choice bro
Great review! Thanks for sticking it out so we never have to :D
The deck level was the closest things to a mana system we ever got.
I kinda wish they mess around with it some more in future games
Even if the game hasn't aged well, I have to say it has some really gorgeous custom made pixel art for the Monsters here
Considering future games will just just have compressed image files of the cards pixelated 😬
at least the DS games had full 2D/3D Renders of monsters during combat screen
2:55 AAAAAAH! I see Sacred Cards and Reshef were the successor of this Advantage mechanic
Yes! The card art in this game is amazing and deserves so much praise!
you quickly mentioned exodia, the first time for me when seeker used it, it was like a legit jumpscare and since then i was reluctant to fight him and when i did the possibility that exodia could appear was harrowing, it got a cool text though
I wasn't even aware if he had it or not 😅
Nightmare troubadour is such a good game, please get around to covering it in the future 🙏
Love your vids
I like it a lot as well although some people rate it low on the scale. Idk if my nostalgia is blinding me or people are too picky but I'll find out soon lol
I remember getting slightly annoyed with the custom cards as a kid because I used to just slam the ability to fuse a bunch of stuff in my hand, but none of the stuff you could make would fuse with normal cards.
Yeah which kinda sucks. Fusion in this game was neat but limited when compared to FM and DOTR. A rock custom card and female monster should ideally make mystical sand, but nope
never played this one. but i have a lot of love for reshef of destruction and there seem to be quite a few simularities, when it comes to the difficulty curve and the oldschool rules.
im really looking forward to the continuation of this series, especially a potential reshef-video. more romhack-conent in the future would be cool as well (hoping for unbound. gaia and prism), but any gameboygame-content is always appreciated. dragonball z legendary superwarrior is, in my opinion, also definitely worth a video like this.
kudos
I have mixed feelings about reshef but so far the more I play it the more I appreciate some of the things in it. If you liked reshef you might like this too honestly. I'm covering reshef of destruction so look out for that in the upcoming month!
I had this game as a kid, and can confirm I never made it past the 2nd set of duelists. I revisited it as a teen and beat it, but not without looking up good card codes, and farming card parts.
they use to churn games like this out as if any kid would want to go through this
This and Pokemon Yellow version were the only games i owned til i got a GameCube in like 2003-2004. It's definitely a gem from my childhood. Recently me and my friend have been collecting older Yugioh games, and this is the first we got.
I hope it didn't cost much. one of the good things about these games is that most of them have not been hit with the dumb price spikes retro games have been getting recently
@@gameboylad most of them are less than 15 bucks. Some even just around 6. Pretty solid deal honestly.
I swear I saw cheat code sites for this game claim there was a card called The Red Eyes Black Moth Dragon. Always wanted that card. Sounded like a cool concept.
Black moth dragon sounds sick as hell lol sounds like something I would see in a souls game
3:12 ha ha i knew these because of the manga but they're not localised there just translated, it comes up in the first yugi vs pegasus duel where "light" is "white magic", "fiend" is "demon magic", "dream" is "illusion magic" and "shadow" is "black magic"
so like yugi summons dark magician (black magic/shadow), pegasus counters with illusionist faceless mage i think ? (illusion magic/dreams) and at the end yugi summons summoned skull (demon magic/fiend) and then the duel gets cut off - it's something along those lines
Yeah your probably spot on! After this video I looked into the timeline of yugioh games, the manga, and the OCG (Official card game) I was surprised to see that they didn't really get around to making the OCG until after the second duel monsters game. So a lot of the rules are probably based on the early days of the manga and them testing the waters
@@gameboylad the games seemingly definitely originated some of the ocg rules though like the whole 8000 lp thing, also do they have five monster zones + five spell/trap zones ? (in the manga they play on an 8 by 5 grid with a map on it in duelist kingdom, and in battle city they use only five zones for both monsters and spells/traps)
@@Envy_May The YGO gameboy games only had one spell/trap zone. The 8000 lp might be inspired from the games cause the anime/manga LP values never got that high (it might be for mostly pacing and writing reasons though)
I bet an any% speedrun of this would be interesting.
I remember this game. Card crafting was cracked.
Youre PFP is Stephanie from the phychic club in Pokemon tcg. "Strange power".....one of my dreaded opponents in that game. Nice video dude.
Thank you 🥹 I have a Pokemon tcg video coming out hopefully this month so you'll have to see more of her soon lol
Interesting video, never tried YuGiOh Game Boy games myself.
Thank you! I don't think their worth playing for the average gamer, but if your a fan of the series I think the gameboy games are worth a fair shot. The GBA games are much more worthwhile even for people who are not fans
This is one of those games I hated back then, but I at least got the cards from it.
I remember I got this game I grinded the shit out of it but then when I hit a wall I ended up on a cheat site found all the bonkers passwords and once I could stuff ace monsters meteor black dragon carried my ass through that game and if I remember correctly it was fairly easy to fuse into so I’d spam it the extra grandpa password for winning extra cards and parts was sweet I made a 2000/2000 lv 4 that carried me through the early game as well.
I didn't even think about fusing for b.skull. I'm so hurt from FM and not being able to own skull or red eyes that I forgot this game is a lot more lenient
I cannot explain to you how much nostalgia I am experiencing watching this video. It's like I'm seeing a shitty ass friend that I used to hang out 20 years ago for every single day.
I hope i'm not the shitty friend lmao
This game was my childhood.
I grinded the shit out off this game and blitzed through the whole game!
I tried out shit tons off fusions and built custom decks for Ritualsummoning and Exodia.
Never used any custom cards since I kever knew they existed.
Playing without custom cards? Your a true soldier for sure lol
I was 7 or 8 when this banger dropped, and i beat it so many times. Mw and my brother just "dueled" each other over and over for duelist level.
I was that asshole who always ran three man eater bugs as a kid.
Dubious activity 💀
Another banger dude
I do my best out here!
@@gameboylad lol. I thought i was on a dungeon dice ep.
Good thing they both bangers
@@BuffaloBillCraplism lmaooo don't worry i thought the same thing
Man I remember getting this game off a friend in middle school, he was selling this game, Kirby and a green game boy color for 20$! It definitely made my crappy life in middle school a lot better even though I remember this game being hard
Not gonna lie all that for 20$ sounds like a steal. I wish I can just buy one right now for 20
@@gameboylad I’m sure he was just trying to get rid of it (meaning he probably stole it which is not cool) but as a kid I couldn’t refuse! Also in my middle school yugioh became like a drug and got banned cause of fights, slanging cards in the locker room and even death threats.. I couldn’t take my cards there even if I wanted to. It was pretty hardcore lol
I've always wanted to play Dark Duel Stories cos it's been one of those Yu-Gi-Oh games I've always heard of. I just assumed it was a classic.
Thanks to you, now I don't have to play it 😂🙏🏾
Bit late on this video, but... Man, I played this a TON when it first came out. It's actually a lot of fun. It's crazy the power difference in the custom cards though. There are 5 star custom cards that have 300 / 300, and there are also 3 star custom cards with 2000 / 2000. Also your chance at getting a specific combination is pretty low given that there are 280 parts and 9800 combinations.
Also the card art for Bone Mouse in the game makes me wish it was better. It's so cute.
I have such a nostalgic attachment to this game and it's aesthetic and music that it's almost scary. I may have to go back and play it one of these days for old times sake. It ain't a good game at all and I can't remember if I had originally beaten it with or without gameshark codes as a kid (I do remember looking up passwords for it on gamefaqs and using them to unlock the final duelists so I don't think I ever actually saw the credits for the game. ) but It'll probably always hold a special place in my heart even if I no longer play yugioh.
It and eternal duelist soul. And I wanna say spirit caller... Those 3 yugioh games were the games I played the most as a kid/teen.
I always wanted to give spirit caller a whirl every time I saw it. That and 2006 are games I know a lot of people have an attachment towards
I've been replaying FM lately, and honestly, the deck building and chest system in Forbidden Memories is sleek and does its job really well.
Yeah it's definitely the blue print for future games
2:35 Funny enough i had reshef of destruction down the line(cant remember how old i was but maybe 10 or 12)but not the manual... Oh i was so confused till i got the hang of it
An interesting relic of the past in YGO history.
Nowadays, DDS is sought after for the promo cards.
I bought the JP version recently but used. I can't imagine how much this game cost brand new
I remember a lot of the struggles but when I got to the end I used to brag to my friends who were stuck
This game will give you bragging rights for sure lmao 💀
This was a well done review! I had this game as a kid but I never got around to beating it. Will you be making more videos on yugioh games?
This game is grindy and hard so I don't blame you. And yeah I plan to make more videos on yugioh and other card games
Fusion saved my sanity when I played this. I can remember entering battles with Joey just to try random fusions cuz you had guess which card went with what lmao even then I still never fully beat the game
I feel like a genius cause I breezed through this game when it came out. This game taught me how to play yugioh.
That's what this game was I used to love this game so much. Maybe I'll have to look for an emulator
Looking back now I think this game is a lot better than several later entries lmao. Give it a whirl
I remember being good at this game , I still have my copy lol
I played this game when i was a Kid. Was my first Yu-gi-oh game. Good God, was it confusing, but i did enjoy certain elements of the game. I actually replayed it recently, only to softlock my emulator on the credits screen ;_;
I hope it at least kept the save file. I feel like I was a bit to harsh on this game cause their are somethings I like about it like the fusion mechanics
The fusion mechanics WERE cool, unfortunately the spells and traps felt too butchered, and the point limit was annoying, you only getting 5 added to your point maximum regardless of which duel you win made it to where I just had to bully poor Tristan until I could put one raigeki, change of heart, etc.. I'm still mixed on the whole type advantage thing, early game you depend on it, but late game, you reaaaallly wish it wasn't there most of the time.
bro when I learned you could get cards by entering the bottom left number, I began hounding kids to look at their cards.
The most fun part about these cards was bringing them over with you into the games. An era long gone now
semi-related. i think it's a little cool that a few of the constructed cards from this game actually became real cards in the TCG. Spherous Lady in 2004 w/Labyrinth of Nightmare. Cornfield Coator, Mirror Swordsman and Light Law Medium being released in *2022/2023* with the former 2 being in Duellist Nexus and the latter being in Dimension Force. unsure if they left the OCG yet or what. EDIT: accidentally typed 2024 instead of 2004. 👀
I don’t really remember much I’ve maybe played through this game 3 times I remember playing this as a kid with chicken pox and I hated the Egypt stage but I remember playing it again in like 2007 I remember hearing about passwords and having internet helped a lot but I’m just a big yugioh fan especially video games wise I sub btw thanks for the content
The passwords make this game bearable. Cuts a bit of the grind but you still gotta get that duel level up. Thank you for watching and subbing!
Honestly I watch a bunch of yugioh video and game stuff and randomly came in recommend and like my story I remember playing this game I haven’t played all of the yugioh video games but a good amount of them and do replay some of them like the ds ones sometimes
@@chris25128 I'm lucky youtube has been putting my video in the recommended recently. I cn't wait to make videos on the DS games!
8:30 I actually learned because the card art was so well done and detailed the game boy color couldn’t handle displaying it at all times which is why the display is so bad the software literally was doing its best 😂
Yeah I recently saw a video that was talking about the pokemon tcg game. It was a pleasant surprise lol
@@gameboylad yea good shit tho 🔥
That was true even with gba yugioh games. It was impossible for the system to have the picture of the cards in miniauture all the time
@@nightmare674 that’s why they was faceless on the phases😂
The music in this game slaps though. Apparently, a lot of the music used in this game was used in the previous installments to this game (this game is the third in the DM Series). Some of the music was also used in Duelist of the Roses and Falsebound Kingdom.
Yup and some of it was in capsule monsters on the PS1. I recently heard Yugi's theme in that game and it's kind of funny that they kept remixing that track throughout the games
I vaugly remember beating this game on a road trip as a kid
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This game came out in Japan in 2000 the manga ended in 2004
That streets of rage 2 soundtrack slaps.
the ost is a knee slapper !
27:58 definitely pretty late coming to this, but the manga was nowhere near done at the time, it's believed that all of these original characters they came up with (slysheen/heishin, the version of priest seto that's a complete dick, and darknite/nitemare) were part of some original concept for the millennium world arc that was drafted for the manga years before it actually got there
although there's definitely no way to prove any of that, especially now that takahashi is dead and we can't get a real answer for it, but forbidden memories's storyline is usually what people use as evidence for that theory, since it's a massively different take on that arc long before it ever happened officially (forbidden memories came out in 1998, during duelist kingdom in the manga, but the millennium world arc didn't happen until 2003), before anyone knew anything about yami bakura and zorc or how the story was actually gonna end, they had an early version of ishizu in that game as well which is the only real point of evidence that they were working off of anything that hadn't been officially revealed yet
21:30 hahahah wtf dude XD
After watching these im curious for a review for duelist's of the roses
That won't be coming for a WHILE lol. I have big plans for it
@@gameboylad I remember running through game with the warrior deck using swordstalker, greenkappa, and swordsman from a foreign land being my go to best monsters
Mako.dek was how i ended up beating duelist of the roses
Oh yea I remember playing this and forbidden memories when they first came out. I didn't have any instruction booklet so I learned how to do that stuff the hard way. How one might ask? I was a very stubborn kid.
I think people underestimate kids ability to beat games, especially through brute force. I definitely remember bashing my head into beating ninja garden and contra and watched other kids around me also beat difficult games.
@@gameboylad Also kids can be smart to recognize stuff. Like if your dream cards keep losing to fiends, a kid is going to think about and try to figure out how to overcome fiends, which they will through trial and error even if its just on accident on realizing something like unhappy maiden always beats fiends.
God I still have a physical copy of this game, I played it so much as a kid even though I didn't understand a single damn thing about it. Also I had to make a list of how many times I beat someone once I found out about the 5 rule because I couldn't never keep track, lol. It's a miracle I have fond memories even though I had no clue how this worked.
It's so much easier to look past all the bad as a kid. I didn't really understand the concept of a bad game until I got shadow the hedgehog for my birthday and even then I tried so hard to convince myself it's not that bad lol
@@gameboylad Pfft omg, look shadow the hedgehog may be an edgy mess of a game with some of the worst level design and confusing layout i've ever seen but I still had fun with it. Bad or not, lol.
I think i had to use custom cards to get dream cards in this game, but by the end game, i had a full set of 2000/2000 monsters in my deck, and the game was pretty fun for theory crafting, i just wish there was more of it, like custom battles, or random ai battles that can be repeated, as the game would be pretty interesting then, as i still own this game, and the ps1 game as well.
these the days where the only way to get more out of it is by playing it multiplayer. I doubt many were able to do that though
Played countless hours of this game! For a while the holographic Seiyaryu that came with the game was my favorite card in my deck (until some jackass in middle school stole it)
Funny story I don't know what my elder brother did to my game, but he took it to school with him and when he brought it back my in game name had changed to "ABC" and I had 20 copies of every card in the game with everything unlocked.
IDK what he did, but thanks bro. 👍
Lmao my brother was the same when I took his emerald to school and found out how to clone pokemon
I replayed this game about a year ago and it was rough, I had fun though. Got lucky and got a harpie lady from mai after my first win and later got a dragon zombie from joey. I had to grind a lot, and got some more lucky drops and after a lot of trial and error I won. I remember how much I struggled with this as a kid but gradually put things together. My cousin borrowed my copy as a kid and built me a deck and unlocked a lot of stuff for me while I realized how the deck lacked balance and modified it later. This time around I was better at keeping my deck balanced in element distribution. I did use a couple passwords for the bonus card from grandpa after each duel and a specific card or two. Early Game Zombie warrior and flower wolf were my bread and butter while late game it was all about Mystic Sand since I got a lot of female and rock monsters.