I'm a yu-gi-oh boomer and it was wild back then. No one knew the rules, you could make up rules and if you could convince your logic to your friends then it was legit. Seto and Brock are voiced by the same person. We can't forget the tin boxes that had about 60 cards in them.

When Flandrew said “world” I was waiting for him to say “but which one?” and start describing alternate universes

I'm a Yugi Boomer from Australia. I remember being there when the Legend of Blue-Eyes pack first came to our shores, and I remember my very first starter deck was Joey's. Red-Eyes was always my favourite card from the anime, so owning my own was the greatest day of my life at the time. I still own that card to this very day ❤

Oh man, this takes me back. Imputing the card number to get the card in game was such a fantastic idea at the time.

Me still collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards today.

This was such a genuine tribute, I was not expecting to relate so much to someone 8 time zones away

The first anime I watched was in the early 2000s, it’s between Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!

I'd love to see more videos like this! A "When Bionicle ruled the World" in particular, as you hinted at in the end, would be much appreciated!

I was there Gandalf, 5000 years ago.

As a kid, i brought my deck with me everywhere i went 😂

Please, make more! That was an awesome video!

Also, fun fact: Seto's English VA doesn't just voice Brock, he's also James from Team Rocket. And considering the latter's flamboyent voice, he would've been a perfect Maximilian Pegasus.

This was back when Yu-Gi-Oh use to be simple & the games not relying so much on heavy combos & broken stuff like it was today. The original anime holds an special place in my heart; as well as GX and 5DS to some extent. Mainly because these were the shows that got me into anime and being an history geek that I am. I will always cherish this franchise no matter how better or worse from here. But at least it gets new people into the series.

When you remember Dan Green used that voice in Hentai before using the voice for Yami Yugi. Smooth voice indeed.

Oh man Yu-gi-oh was such a huge part of my life growing up, my friends and I made cards when the anime came out and there weren’t any official ones

YASSSS I want more! I love your combination of analytical approach with firsthand accounts from your childhood and your dry sense of humor to boot. Honestly, these videos are some of the funnest ways to relive my childhood memories

Slice GX came along Konami has forgotten about those classic games that I enjoyed years back such as duelists of the roses worldwide edition dark duel stories and capsule monsters coliseum. Those games where pure gold and had awesome music and 3d battle animations on the ps2

Great vid! Would love to see more vids like this! Bionicle, Pokemon, all the ones you listed at the end!

That intro blew my mind. I had that Vegeta action figure as a kid!!! Man, I miss that toy :')

Guess I'm a Yu Gi Oh boomer too. I started collecting, playing, and watching the anime around Pharaoh's Servant release, and was active until about the time Tuner monsters became a thing. I still have most of my old decks and just dug them out while ive been on summer break from work. I did a tournament and my Aqua deck won. One of my students stole my Elemental Hero deck right out of my office. I seem to be missing a couple others, but still have some classics like Dark Magician, Blue eyes (no fusion), XYZ, Exodia milling, Dinosaur, etc. So nostalgic. I wouldnt want to play with todays metagame.

7:10 To this day there are still people out there who think MST negates, even though that didn't even happen in the anime.

Loved this video, this was an awesome trip down memory lane. The battle city arc was such a core memory for me, the first time I got really infatuated with the lore of a show. Probably tied in nicely to my love of mythology. Would love if you did more of these "ruled the world" vids!

This is fun, i was re-reading the Yu-Gi-Oh manga this week, and you come with this video. A really nice video, btw.

I genuinely wish Yu-Gi-Oh would have continued the story the way it was in the early chapters. Those early chapters were so good.

I need more videos like this one.

I remember when my brother and I came home with our starter deck Yugi and Kaiba and were so confused when the rulebook said you had to tribute summon. Ah good times lol

Yu Gi Oh will always have a special place in my heart, great video man!

I love all ur videos, great job!

Awesome video, would love more of these!

Yo, I just found my old copy of The Eternal Duelist's Soul and started playing it again! Got a bunch of the DS games I never played lined up as result as well, like Dark Troubadour and the WCs. I think what makes Yu-gi-oh and Digimon so nostalgic were the rotating casts. Mind-boggling how many different responses you'll get on a favorite season/era. Ash and Pikachu never really left us in comparison so even being a gen wunner doesn't feel like stepping into a new world every new generation. No shade, iykyk.

very good video, thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Nice, saw the previous Ruled the World vid for Phantom Menace and really wanted to see the proposed Yugioh vid. Glad to see it was one of the first ones out.

Great video. Really brought back some fond and wacky memories. Really wish you had mentioned takahashi passed away while saving someone from, I believe, a drowning. But maybe you didn’t know that. 👏🏻

Nice video, thanks for bringing up some memories!

Would love a vid like this for all the franchises you showed

When Yu-Gi-Oh first came out, I bought some LOB packs and went to my friends house to open them. In one of the packs, I got the body of Exodia. My friend wanted to trade pretty much every card he had for it, but I refused. In an anime moment of rage, he threw my newly opened Exodia out of the window. Thankfully I retrieved it in one piece!

I freaking loved Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid! Just the original though since I stopped watching it after GX premiered. But man those days were crazy! I remember me and my friends would be at the playground dueling and trying to play by the rules but it was hard to do since the rules were so complicated. My very first Starter Deck was Joey's which I kind of regret since his cards were so goofy. Would've preferred Kaiba's or Pegasus's Starter Deck in hindsight. Also I remember getting fake Yu-Gi-Oh cards at one point and didn't realize they were fake until a few years later and then I threw them all away. And I remember getting some booster packs. But man the anime itself was the best part of the whole franchise. It was so good!! Nothing will ever come close to that excitement of waking up on Saturday morning to catch the new episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh.

Great video I remember the anime,card game and playing the video games for yugioh. Good times.

Thank you for making this I love your channel and Yugioh it is the biggest part of my childhood, even more then anything star wars! Now all your viewers can know how awesome Yugioh was! And please feel free to make more Yugioh videos or videos in the series. I'm sure I'm not the only one (like my comment if you agree)!

Amazing video as always! You should make a similar video about the Guitar Hero/Rock Band fever haha

I was a Freshman in High School at the end of 02. I don't have the same yugi-boomer stories as many others because of that, but there was a time where it was kinda cool. Gravity Bind will always be my bae.

Great video! Thanks for your hard work

Eric Stuart is the guy who voiced both Brock and Seto Kaiba. I got to meet him at Metrotham Con back in early May. Really talented voice actor. He was the voice director for YuGiOh from 2001-2006. Only downside is that he didn't say "Screw the rules, I'm rich!" from the LittleKuriboh's Abridged Series.

The purple yugioh card background 👩‍🍳💋

Yooooo A Bionicle Ruled the World episode would be INSANE.

The world would be a much more peaceful place if countries would wage war using card games

Am I the only one who noticed all the new uh.. "other" Flandrews?

5:34 Credit where it's due for going way harder on Barrel Dragon's edits than they really needed to. Wish that kind of dedication went into the Deputymon in Digimon Fusion who still clearly dropped bullets.

I’d love to see more content like this from the channel! You’re not kidding about the classroom black market for these cards. As a kid it was truly like currency. I learned my first valuable lessons about economics and scams from trading YGO cards.

Great video, I was too into Pokémon to touch this, so it was nice to hear what all the hype was about. But those aren't 'Air Jordans' they are actually Air Max 95s 🙈

New Flandrew video involving YuGiOh ! Best Sunday surprise !

The video was great❤ But I was waiting for "when philsiopher's stone ruled the world" 😅 I hope it will be the next video.

3:38 And in Zeal it's revealed the entire universe revolves around and was created by a card, the Numeron Code.

Laws regarding advertising in cartoons is the reason why the localization had to simplify the cards' appearance, at least that's what I heard.

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Beyblade, and Digimon were the best monster anime franchise of all time.

How forget when my friends and I went crazy collecting the cards, we never really learned the rules during our childhood but that didn't stop us from having a lot of fun, in a sense trying to find the best way to play was the most engaging part of the game. And then there was fkg Steve, who only understood that with Exodia you would win for sure and had an Exodia-only deck. And yeah, he was right, since he always won in the end...😵

Dian Keto the lunch lady 💀💀

10:56 BIONICLE, PLS!!!!

I remember watching the anime.

I misread and I thought this video was about "When Yu-Gi-Oh ruined the world" 😂

Funnily enough the “No tribute for monster” thing is actually how it worked under the first rule set in Japan. You could just drop Blue Eyes. The stars were basically just flavour. 😂

great video!Thank you!

Yes please! I love it! Please more of that. I am excited for the Bionicle one :D

I collected the cards back when the first few sets came out. Got back into the game out of curiosity in 2020/21 and was muddled by the new mechanics but I got the hang of it. Made the upper half top 10k cut for last year’s WCS Regional Qualifier in Master Duel and passed on this recent one due to time constraints(also I needed to sleep lol)

Yu-gi-oh in the winter, Pokemon in the summer. that was mostly at the ages 12-17

I was a huge harry potter fan back then and I almost buy a harry potter backpack from a kid in my neighborhood with my deck of cards haha. This video brought back some good memories

I would definitely love to see more videos like this. Especially for DragonBall Z.

The Joey & Pegasus starter packs from 2002 are among my most prized possessions; I especially love the Pegasus deck for the Toon cards, plus Relinquished was probably my first introduction to, and what inspired my love of Lovecraftian style creatures That being said, I’m bummed I never got the Yugi & Kaiba starter packs back then for whatever reason

Yu-Gi-Oh still rules the world. It's the people who don't see much of it since it ain't mainstream here other than in Japan

Rest in Peace, Takahashi

2:07 _Incorrectly_ know in the fandom as Season 0. Even though it's a completely different series.

Nobody in my country was interested in YuGiOh, I don't even remember anyone selling card packs anywhere. But I do remember Spider-man cards, TMNT cards, and Bakugan's hysteria.

Literally bought my first starter deck from Woolworths :D loved this video

For sure a video on the different duel disks would be awesome. I've made 3 out of cardboard so far. No more needing to sit somewhere to duel. Also how about a videonon beyblade?

1:36 It was called Magic & Wizards (a reference to MTG, D&D and WotC all in one) at the time. I don't know how and why it changed.

Please do make more of these! 11:01

I hope you cover the games . I have fond memories of playing the capsule monsters and war of the roses on the ps2 . If only they got put onto the latest consoles

1:24 This was actually adapted in the Duel Monsters anime except he's replaced with a mugger who wasn't established to be a jailbird, Atem challenged him to a game of Duel Monsters high and low (each of them draws one card from Yugi's deck whoever drew the monster with the highest attack points wins) and instead of burning to death, Atem mind crushed him. Sending his soul to the shadow realm. Also in the original Japanese version the episode he wasn't a mugger but a pervert, making the English dub actually closer to the original manga lol.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone describe a scorpion’s sting as being “bitten” by a scorpion. Is this a regional phrasing?

I was in 3rd grade when it aired. It was insane. They even banned yugioh cards in my elementary school that's how crazy it got

I remember binge watching the anime. My sister was obsessed with the game itself. We both LOVED the abridged series (Which I'm hoping I caught a sneaky reference in the vid??)

I still play Yu Gi Oh with my friends, but we only play the classic version, before GX, it's actually pretty enjoyable

Booster Pack for 2.50 pounds ???? In Germany we paid 5 - 7 Euros / booster pack. Daaaayum

I would like to see when Spider-Man ruled the world.

I started this series with the anime. This series is a giant hole that filled my heart. Me and my cousin would always go to this community warehouse every month to get the latest cards. Yes we were suckers to get the those Chinese fakes or those sticker in the sticker machines,but it was something close to the actual cards we get. The Games we played on the series was memorable. However we played a loose version of the anime (like allowing face up monsters in defense mode) and the actually tcg rules. Heck my reintroduction to the series started way back when we discovered the abridged series. I mostly am an old man with the card game and live for the days of the original rules,but I'd at least adapted with weekly Edison. Well I know I can't possibly lose at least with World Champ 2004 GBA.

After GX, The game went into the shadow realm with the new mechanics

I would like more videos like this please.

What a great video, reminded me of my time sneaking behind my parents' backs to watch at least a few minutes of the anime back when I was little, they didn't let me watch it because it was "satanic" as Pokémon and basically the majority of cartoons and anime at the time. Never got to experience the tcg until way later when I discovered the video games, now I love classic Yu Gi Oh although the other cards like XYZ, Link and things like that are way too confusing for me.

That bit about Yugis grandad had me in stitches

8:04 I have two decks like that 😂

Had to immediately leave to go watch that YuGiOh drug PSA before I could watch this any further - it's amazing

I still love watching the animes every summer! Had a crush on bakura when I was little so watched with my brothers

Grew up with the 1st season of the anime and had the Yugi Starter Deck from about 2002~ or so. The old artwork was awesome and played into the horror aspects that got sanitized by 4kids. I 'grew out of it' by the time GX/5D's came around, so I missed how much the games morphed into the insane meta combofest it is now. The Japanese card game came first and actually has slightly different card effects, to the point where officiated games of the TCG require you to have your country's localization of the cards only.

World Wide Edition is how I learned to play this game

OMG I want the Bionicle video.

My introduction to the Yugioh anime was this UK kids show called 'Up on the Roof', which had a 4 or 5 episode Premiere. I remember the silly recaps where the presenter would dress up as all the characters. Pegasus was a Clothes Peg and when they mention rescuing Grandpa's soul,they would show an old man showing the bottom of his shoe.

I never even made the kaiba and brock connection but I do remember loving battle city when I watched it as a kid. I was pretty upset we were about to go into the semi finals and suddenly we go into a whole side thing with the big 5 story arc think I had to wait all summer until it got back to the battle city semi finals

I lived somewhere in asia so I didn't have the same experiences when it comes to Yugioh but it was also pretty big here. Sadly, due to how expensive the cards are (they are imported to us after all), most of us ended up buying pirated ones (the bad spelling and grammar is a dead giveaway) but we didn't really have a choice as they were the also the most accessible as stores next to schools would be selling them. My brother has two boxes filled with the cards and he used to play the game way back when he was younger. I didn't play and didn't understand the actual gameplay and only collected whatever cards I could get my hands on so my collection is really small. I loved the anime though and would watch it whenever it aired on tv. We didn't get the 4kids version so there was less censorship but the local dubbing still used the 4kids english names for the characters.

Yea that summoned up my childhood pretty good 😅

When Harry Potter ruled the world! I know you did videos on the games already but there is still a lot of Harry Potter hype going on due to the quidditch game coming out soon!