"Beloved RNG Nightmare" "Your opponent will kill you in 2 turns" Boy, this game is ahead of it's time

"Nightmare doesnt have a single magic or trap card. Hes 100% monsters" Wow, who wouldve thought episode 1 joey was the final boss

My dad bought this game for us to play together when I was in first grade. Over the years, we played it pretty regularly trying to beat it ( no cheats or internet) When one of us finally beat this game, idk who was first. I was in 7th grade I still remember the celebration 🍾 ✨️

Fun fact: in the unmodded game, the computers LEGITIMATLY cheat because the game will CHANGE THE CARDS IN THEIR HAND depending on your own moves

Ah yes. Forbidden Memories. That game where getting a Meteor Black Dragon could take a whole summer and getting trap cards was harder than pissing out a house fire.

Regardless of how young you were, you learned _real_ fast that Twin-headed Thunder Dragon was your best friend.

When the final boss said "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I really felt that.

What I did was farm the Meteor Black Dragon, The Red Eyes Black Dragon and the Meteor Dragon. Red Eyes+Meteor Dragon makes a Meteor Black Dragon. By the end of the game, I had 3 Meteor Black Dragons and I could get another 3 by fusion in my deck. And let me tell you, the feeling of having 5 Meteor Black Dragons in the field is amazing.

As a kid I always thought I was cheesing the game by making Twin Headed over and over and using raigeki to clear the board

Played this game for countless hours with my older brother when we were young. He has since passed away and I still come back this game every once in a while and remember those days. Rip big bro

You can also copy your save file to another memory card and trade with yourself essentially duping your 1 of cards into your main file. Ideally you farm some star chips, save, make a copy of the file, buy a card, save and trade them into your main. Then copy your main save and repeat.

Hold up, Seto, Isis, 1999? That means this game had input from Takahashi himself, as the World of Memories arc wouldn't begin until 2001. Also cool that he already had the whole story figured out.

I remember playing this game as a kid, I had no memory card, and losing any match is instant game over.

I love how Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon is like, the win button in 8 yugioh games over the course of 30 years.

Dude this video made me so happy. I played this game a lot as a kid and was like wtf why is this so hard. As a yugioh fan boy back then it was so disheartening to get rolled so easy. It's so relieving to know this game was intentionally stupid hard and I wasn't and idiot. Great video

Imagine. Knowing Yu Gi Oh and only ever seen battle through this game 20+ years later a friend of yours introduced you to the actual duels and rulings... Then realizing that Normal Summoning Meteor B Dragon or Blue Eyes without tribute is a bit of bullshit Literally the story of my life there.

“Because it was made in 1999 the only strategy is to assume the characters gender”😂 that absolutely sent me

I loved this game as a kid who was obsessed with all things Yugioh. What I really liked was that you could turn on an option to play a fully 3d cutscene of the monsters battling. It took forever and added nothing in terms of win potential, but it was still a neat feature.

I played this game obsessively as a child and even to this day as a 30 year old I have not beaten the final six. Good job on beating the game, dude!!!

I spent MONTHS trying to beat this as a kid and I finally did it with the help of an older cousin, such amazing memories

The memories are probably forbidden because the RNG in this was the start of a few people's actual gambling addiction

I played this game so much as a kid that i still remember every detail about it to this day. At 16:40 when the spell cards turn " darker" after the enemy hovers over them, it's guaranteed that they're not trap cards. They are traps when they are not highlighted by the darker shade.

Insanely good video. I just tripped down some nostalgia recently and got wayyyy too re-invested in this beautiful monstrosity of a game. I love the perfect balance of entertainment, information, and pro quality that you brought to this. Super helpful!

This is really bringing me back. Merging cards was literally my past time and I always hit a wall and just restarted... This game was frustrating but also got me so excited when certain cards would do cool animations.

They quickly integrated the tribute rule because the very first iteration of the card game (basically when the volume 1 OCG booster pack came out) did not require tributes and stars only denoted a cards rarity. So everyone was running three copies of dark magician and gaia the fierce knight.

One of my fondest memories of this game was trading a twin headed stacked deck and raigeki's to a file as soon as it could trade and beating Heishen at the Palace winning a Mystical Sand only for him to turn right around and say something to the effect of "If you think I'm finished yet" and then getting mopped

I never know I needed this video. Thanks so much for bringing up "fond" memories - exactly liked how you put it!

Forbidden Memories is my favorite card game. Absolutely love the music and vibe of the game, and the gameplay is super satisfying. One of the best feelings in the world is when you finally get that card that you've been farming for. Such a great feeling~

I think many of us wish we had our save files from games played long ago. I'm glad you made 8yo self proud! Time for me to dig though my old game list for a hit of nostalgia.

I had Meteor B. Dragon in my first playthrough, and I never got further than the first time I faced one of the big Palace Guards, because they immediately played Gate Guardian, and I had no Equips. That should tell everyone something about how dang near impossible the game was. Thanks for just further confirming it.

My mind is blown. I haven’t thought about this game in like 15 years. Thank you so much for this. I always liked the weird fusion concept of this game.

HOLY.. I recently had memories of this game and then this video somehow hits my feed. I couldn't even remember the name of the game at all. I never understood the moon signs or how fusions worked. What a fun watch, thank you

As a kid I honestly thought that the reason I couldn't make it past, like, the third duel was because I sucked at the game. Thinking back now though, I swear to God that game just decided every time I would get close to winning to give my opponent a board wipe. It is also entirely possible that I did in fact suck at the game, AND the game was unfair. Either way, I never made it past the third duel.

Reshef of Destruction is another one of those unbearably hard and tedious Yu-Gi-Oh games. The mod that makes the game not check the field for a second after every god darned action is essential. Forbidden Memories is equally ruthless though. The heck is up with those A-Tecs, all for just one shot at a spell/trap. Good show on beating this. Also, excellent breakdown on the strategy and mechanics. All the necessary information while still concise.

This was a very interesting watch, never thought I’d watch the whole thing, keep it up!

This game and Duelists of the Roses made the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon one of the memorable Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for me, it was always such a cool moment to fuse a random thunder monster with a baby dragon to get a 2800 monster on the field.

Lmao what were the devs thinking with this level of rng??? This is madness, i dont know how you managed to go through this! Kudos to you!!

Wow what a grind!! What were the developers thinking?? Congrats on beating this RNG nightmare!

That final gauntlet was insane. Everytime I advanced further I kept thinking, "Finally A Checkpoint!" Only for this game to teach me what depression was as a child. Reached nightmare once when I was younger, lost immediately to two ultimate blue eyes and quit for good.

Amazing video, really enjoyed your advice for getting through the end segments of the game. I remember as a kid I would take two memory cards and use the trade feature to improve my starter deck. One memory card would be for my main deck and the other would be one where I would start a new player and just trade off all the good cards it got to my main player. haha

Oh man the nostalgia hitting good right now. I remember spending weekend after weekend with my friend in middle school playing this game on his PS1. Playing multiplayer was hilarious because you had to turn your back to the screen while your friend had their turn. The night we beat this game is a memory I will always hold on to.

I played this game a lot a a little kid. I never could finish the game. Almost made me crazy back then haha. Super satisfying to see someone beat the game and actually explain how to beat it. My 6yo self would be really happy 😂

I thought the order of the Guardian Stars was decided by the elements that they represent. The monsters’ attacks during the 3D battles change depending on the GS you pick, so when you pick Neptune you pick the Water based attack, which is why it gains advantage against Mars monsters (Fire).

I absolutely loved this game as a kid even though I had no clue how all the mechanics worked. I also remember it including three cards with the game. I think it was red eyes black metal dragon, harpies pets dragon, and metalmorph.

Love this style of content Skoottie! Keep up the good work!

Quick correction: You are fully able to get meteor black dragon as a playable card without fusing for Heishin 2nd. it's a rare drop from Pegasus and IIRC meadow mage as well as Jono 2nd. So the first of the final 6 is slightly different. This may be different in the US version I'm not sure.

Glad to know I wasn't alone in struggling with this game. Finding all the unique fusions as a kid without knowing why some worked and others didn't was always a blast

Oh I loved this game. Being able to see the cards battle it out in the 3d setting, and also doing the fusions was my absolute favorite

I love how the more videos people make of this game the more we see that almost everyone just kinda played it cluelessly for hours and naturally worked out independant of each other that twin headed + equips is just how we win. Its such a shame that the starchip system was poor except for getting more low cards to fuse up and a chunk of cards were locked behind the PS.

I just finish my research on this game, and I'm pretty sure your deck is one of the best out there. Twin Head Thunder Dragon is the most easy, cheap, and strong fusion in the game. Congrats, you're one of the best players to discover it when you're young!!!

Gosh I love this game back in the day. The music was soo good too

This video was really well paced and informative. I always found the batshit fusion system in this game really amusing as a kid. I replayed it recently and still get stuck on modern day Kaiba. Your breakdown of the meta was really well detailed and I enjoyed watching your journey.

I used to love this game as a kid. I never got anywhere near the end, but thoroughly enjoyed playing it time, and time, and time again.

I’m 28 now and a casual gamer but this game was my all-time favorite from my childhood and I still like to play it today! I think I got it when I was 7 and of course I didn’t read the rules then so I didn’t know you can swap out cards from your starter deck. I would pretty much brute force my way through with Twin Headed Thunder Dragon and got as far as Pegasus, I think? Took 7 year-old me all day lol When I revisited this game as an adult, one time I “accidentally” beat Heishin with my starter deck. I got the cards to make THTD by my second turn and Heishin played Umi. I know he had cards that topped 3300 attack but didn’t play them? Idk, I must have had some incredible luck. It warms my heart that there’s still a community based this game, just thought I would share lol

Learning the fusions with my friends 20years ago (10 yo) and beating this game like some 10 years ago (20yo) after a nostalgia rush was one of the best feelings of my gamer life. Its one of the best games ever made and a must for anyone who likes card videogames. Probably will play it again after watching this really good video. 10/10

Really good video Skoottie, the editing and story telling worked very well together

I remember playing this game as a kid thinking what the hell is happening?! I grinded for days for good cards to even get close to beating the game

This is so relatable man, loved this video!

Grinding this game for hours was always a mood killer for me. In the past few years, I discovered the 15 Card Mod which when played on an emulator, allows you to get 15 card drops from an opponent instead of one. Cuts the game down to roughly a 40 min run and it’s always a blast.

Ahh, forbidden memories....that bring back memories....my favorite feature of the game was after selecting a monster to attack, you press square to chose which enemy you want to attack and a 3d animation appears to show how your monster attacks.

This is one of my favorite games of all time, almost every year I finish it. But currently I always play on an emulator with increased speed, so I don't waste so much time farming. My strategy is to farm Meteor B. Dragon with Meadow Mage 1 and some equipment with Pegasus. Anyway, I had a lot of fun watching your video, I'm enjoying the secondary channel. byeee

This game was amazing. I and my brother played together this game. We used to write down which monster fuses with which and also equip cards too so that we will have easier next time. I still remember there is a woman in red with with flower head band that fuses with the Wolf😄

I played this and Duelist of the Roses sooooo much as a kid, I loved them more than Pokemon games! I never got that far in either of them or fully understood the rules, but the one thing I'm sure of was that eventually I got further than my older brothers!

Forbidden Memories is one of my favorite games. I've been playing it for 2 decades already. It's not hard once you know the game like the back of your hand lol. My dad used the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon themed deck strategy back then but he rarely could win against me. Good times.

The soundtrack in this game is so weird and dark, I love it. And the free duel song is a bop! Never even got passed the tournament as a kid so this was very interesting to see

love playing this one, it should get a remake

Forbidden memories was so hard. It was only because everyone complained about how easy the game before it was so the developers decided to make the next one ridiculously hard. The AI only used cards that had attack of around 800, no more. lol

you could have duplicated cards with 3 memory cards, as soon as you have one copy of a card save that game, start a new game on the second card , trade the cards to that one, also have a copy of your original save game on the 3rd one so you can restore the previous data to the first and trade the cards back from the second to the first, rinse and repeat saves a lot of time

One of my favorite games ever. I remember watching my older brother and neighbor play this growing up and they couldn’t even get passed the high mages (because it’s really tough lol). In late high school (a good 12 years later) I decided to play the game on my own file and figure out how to beat it. After research I doubt out you beat the snot out of low meadow mage for 3x MBD and S/A tech Pegasus for megamorph 3x. I ended up beating the game but man is it tough.

Omg, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who found this game unbearably difficult. I never really knew if I was the only one or not. I was never able to get past Heishin 2. His Gate Guardian always, without a doubt, would always kick my butt so hard.

I absolutely love the aesthetic of this game and the old school cards. Its funny how ahead of its time it was when you look at modern yugioh speeds and the punishing CPUs of the late 90's gaming era are in full effect.

I still remember the moment I finally got to beat Nightmare on my PS1. I literally went crazy after all those (countless) attempts. Forbidden Memories definitely has to be one of the very few games, if not the only one, I have ever spent so much time on grinding the impossible out of the RNG (Megamorph - Meteor Black Dragon). That video brought back a loooooot of childhood nostalgia!😅

This, Capsule Monster Coliseum and Duelist of the Roses were my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh games growing up. I played them all so much.

The fushion mechanic was so satisfying to explore and playout.

Ahh the memories, I remember throwing random stuff together hoping for fusions. Though my brother and I didn't have second memory card to play versus so we just alternated after each duels. Congrats on finishing the game!

This video makes me so happy. I always thought I was just awful at this game. Happy to know it wasn’t just me.

I got back into the actual card game a few years back, and one of the best decks at the time was Thunder Dragons. Even though i was told not to, I slipped a Twin Headed Thunder Dragon into my extra deck because of this game, thinking it would be funny to actually play it in real life. That card won me a locals tournament and I swear i heard that "You Win!" Jingle after the game was over 😂

Before watching the video, the title reminds me of the yugioh game I played when I was young boy. Turns out its the same video game you discussed. This video brings a lot flashback for me! ❤

I played this game so much when I was younger, never beat it. I got an emulation of it a year or so ago, and still haven't beaten it lol but it's still so good. I finally learned what battles to grind. I spent so many hours dueling meadow mage to get Meteor B Dragon, then like a few a hours later I got a second, and maybe two duels after I got my third! I was so ecstatic when I got those! Near one of the best achievements I've gotten in video games lol

An incredible video! So much thought and effort went into this, great job skootts

Your channel is very underrated, can't wait to see what else you make

Incredible video. I have never played this game, but it looks like a crazy strategy you made. Especially that final battle was pretty epic.😄❤️

Wow what a video! You went hard on this one, I remember playing it and not getting far as a kid, and I played the TCG. Could not wrap my mind around it. It also came with a Winged Dragon of Ra card which is why I bought it lol. Only minor complaint with this video is the pronunciation of Seto and Mai threw me for a loop.

Takes me back to Duelist of the Rose. I remember my main go to fusions was Twin Headed Thunder Dragon. Wish I can go back and play it more maturely.

I remember playing this when i was 8, alongside ffvii. I love this game and its tunes are bumpin! I think i got to the fated/finale(whatever) 6 a couple tiems byt traded ilthe game in for FF tactics at some point, ehich i dont regret as tactics is phenomenal

This actually looks pretty cool, especially the fusion mechanic

Man, I always thought I was just bad at this game. Learning all of this makes me feel so much better!

Ah a fond childhood memory unlocked. I vaguely remember this game but I rememeber the high levels of frustration while playing it . Good times.

Maaaan thanks so much for the memories brought back

Man I loved this game so much, I remember going through all my irl yugioh cards like blue eyes and such and entering their codes to see if I could buy them in the game with stars but it was always impossible. I think cards like blue eyes were 999999 stars or something insane and completely unobtainable. Still had so much fun and the day I got twin headed thunder dragon in real life was extra cool.

If you want to make a deck to beat down the final 6 here’s how: If on an old ps1. Get 3 memory cards. Whenever you start a new save, the starter deck includes some mostly basic cards and 1 or 2 really valuable magic/trap cards ie raegeki/trap hole. Once you have a save with good cards. Copy save 1 to another memory card. Use the 3rd save to tradeover all the cards you find. In about an hour you should have 3 copies of every bullshit powerful backline card and a deck to run nothing but lightning + dragons for two head thunder dragon. It is also fairly easy to grind meteor black dragon but not necessary.

I remember this game, I learned the fusion thing fast and that facedown defense was apparently a Trigger for ANY opponent to suddenly make 3500 atk monsters lol

@ skoottietv i played yu gi oh forbidden memories back when it was released and i love the game i remember playing it on the floor we were just about to move house i love playing it. when i last played the best opponent to farm was the meadow mage on s rank u could get some insane cards from him consistently. however i love the grind u did those final 6 were brutal.

This makes me feel really good about making it through all the high mages except mountain a hodge podge of THTD and Mystical Sand + equips as a kid. I just liked playing the witch with equips and tried to keep the dragon as a back up, though that meant I'd never got past Seto II or that goddamn High Mountain Mage.

This game demolished my dreams when I was a kid… I’m glad I found this video. Brings me comfort to know it is as hard as I remember it being!

I think it is really impressive how you did the calculations on what cards to use to power through this game. Also I love how, when the final boss finally lost, he said “not again” like it doesn’t seem like he has many losses so idk what’s making him tick like that 🤣🤣🤣

I played a game similar to this: Dark Duel Stories. That game made Mystical Sand my friend since there were like 100 ways to summon it and you can stack equip cards instead of just Megamorph (Malevolent Nuzzler, Electro Whip, Cyber Shield, etc.). I found cards like Blue Eyes Ultimate and Gate Guardian risky since your opponents could steal it, but if they steal a Mystical Sand, you can kill it with a type difference.

I loved this game, i collected the trading cards at the time too, i stumbled into the twin headed dragon strategy completely by chance and beat the game after maybe 40 to 50hrs of grinding. this was back in maybe 2000

If only this was the hardest yugioh game, that honor belongs to reshef of destruction.

Funny enough Twin headed isn't actually the automatic go to option for the final 6. Since a lot of the fights default to Yami terrain and the only monster they use that can really gain the buff is Cosmo Queen, any dark magicians, skull knights or Zoas you get technically have a higher base statline than Twin headed, as well as all having a beneficial guardian star vs Blue eyes, and since they're not fusions leave more potential cards in your hand to be equips. And if you have meteor dragon and red eyes off Jono 2nd you can fuse Meteor B too if you don't get lucky enough to get him as a single card. The game kind of has a natural flow to it of "get female monsters, dissolve rock and beasts asap" to make mystical sand Nekogal and Flame cerberus which gets ya to pegasus. Transition into Twinheaded after that and then into spellcasters and meteor B for the end game. Since you'll likely grab a few dark magicians and Skull knights while farming for generic goodstuff cards off meadow mage anyway. Also obligatory pegasus grindings a helluva pain. Great video tho very fun! I just replayed this game myself like 2 weeks ago so funny to see an upload of it so soon afterwards, and that's why I still have like this flowchart in my brain fresh in memory. Many a fond memory of sweeping house with Twin headed thunder dragon though.