So wild!

Yea at least in the early days of ygo tho they actually used the banlist to balance the game instead of push product

​@@JanjoZonehey man nice vid btw what are the names of all the yugioh music pieces you used in the vid.

@@yellowwall3471 mostly from Forbidden Memories!

@@JanjoZone thanks man

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Totally 😎

We'd eventually get them!

@@JanjoZone some took too many years tho haha, my Mystical Refpanel was a seris 2 card and only came out in like 2010-11

@@joaorcmelo sadly yet perhaps for the best lol

@@JanjoZone bahaha, nothing like using it to steal draw power from your opponents cards

Oof

Well the original game in the manga was called Magic & Wizards! The game is meant for kids, but as it expanded beyond cardass machines, they do need older people to buy it for they're the ones with money.

@@JanjoZone The OCG or the Bandai one? Or are you referring to the in-universe portrayal of the game in the manga? Cuz I wouldn’t say the game irl is meant for kids. Because the OCG packs confirm the player demographic being early to late teens as I have just pointed out earlier. And they have since 1999 and still do to this day. And let’s not forget the inappropriate artworks with the Harpies, Soul Release, Ultimate Offerings and etc. So that’s something we can’t overlook. The only official Yugioh game that is meant for kids is the Yugioh Rush Duels card game. And Konami made that officially clear. So saying the OCG was “meant for kids” is a huge contradiction as Konami wouldn’t have put “Target age 12 years and older” on the back of every single pack, deck and set in the OCG as a target age range, if confirmed otherwise. It wouldn’t even make sense, marketing wise either. They literally put that on the very first set that came out and still continue to do so, to this day. So it’s pretty obvious that Konami intentionally did that because they knew what player base they were primarily targeting. And judging by the official age range, it’s clearly intended to be a teen demographic. It’s just common sense. Remember, it’s targeting the same age group as MTG and trying to rival it. Also Konami official OCG tournaments are age restricted. They only allow junior high school students at very least. Also the Yugioh series (except Sevens and Go Rush) is a Shonen series which means, it’s main target demographic are early to late teen boys (12-18). And keep in mind, Weekly Shonen Jump is confirmed by the current chief editor himself Hiroyuki Nakano, to mainly target that said demographic as stated in his interview back in late 2019. And he is still confirming this in multiple interviews. This matters cuz Yugioh was published in that exact magazine and all spin-offs were published in the sister magazine V-Jump. And if you have watched the original Japanese version of the anime or read the original manga, it has swearing, violence and extreme dark moments. And sexual content, though on a teen rated level. But still, something you can’t overlook. So the series was definitely not marketed a kids in Japan. And the OCG wasn’t trying to market to kids at all. Not under the teen range. No offense to you man, I enjoy your videos, but I have researched the OCG deeply for years and the evidence is just way too indisputable. That’s all.

Totally wild! Glad you learned something!

And by widely available of course you mean a 350 dollar short printed card to about 1 in every 50 boxes :D

@@MultiJudgmentdragon lol, yeah. The notion that GLD1 CCV was affordable is revisionist. It was about as much as a PTDN DAD or LODT JD. Still better than a multi-thousand dollar SJC prize card that teams would internally trade each other.

@@derrosenkavalier8890 I passed on 2 crush cards pulled in my locals as I didnt wanna rip off that much and couldnt afford that trade value, a nasty weasel part of the main elitist team there picked them both up from kids 1 for a prime material dragon the other for a promo ha des and jinzo and they used both of them for their own team to crush at locals and bigger events, somehow I dont miss that locals or any of those guys .....

@@MultiJudgmentdragon Yeah, stuff like this is why I've always been way more of a collector than player. I love spectating the metagame and learning about its history, but the actual IRL meta is garbage.

Thank you! Not sure when that'll happen, but I'm sure eventually lol

Thank you thank you!

In someways yes, in other ways we got lucky lol

The general design has remained the same, but yes there has been small updates since

Gravekeeper's are great! That's why I did a Side History video on them!

@@JanjoZone Oh yeah! That was my exposure to your stuff! I remember that one! I'll need to give it a rewatch! Series 4... oh boy, good luck! I mean, at the very least, we're now doing Unified Release, so the history isn't AS hard, but with the OCG/TCG release gaps and all the other tomfoolery, it's gonna get weird.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! Yeah it was wild!

On my Patreon right now! Can't miss it!

It's a rarity lol

Thank you!

Glad to get one out for you all!

It's definitely distinct!

@JanjoZone Also looking at the old OCG stuff really makes me wish there was a more unified release for the game back then. My how the game would have changed so much.

Thank you!

Thank you! The arrangements of FM tracks were just remastered versions on KZfaq!

​@@JanjoZoneThanks a bunch!

Sure is!

Very cool looking!

A true bargain bin!

Hey it's you!

You can't shake Yugioh away!

🤫

It has arrived!

Fantastic card!

Who knows!

I used to see the marquee monsters in some old commercials, I think I remembered XYZ Dragon Cannon.

33 1/3%!

We still need plenty more imported!

Probably Goat

@@JanjoZone I meant within OCG Series 3. Are there any particularly diverse or balanced ones within this series in your opinion?

@@Mindaugas-vq3vc To throw in my 2 cents, I like the format created right after the release of Struggle of Chaos, it essentially has the same options as Worldwide Championship Edition but with the addition of Warrior and Fiend as semi-viable typed decks, and predates stuff like Temple of the Kings, Exchange of the Spirit and ofc Yata from the following set, Mythological Age.

@@GoldStorm07 I really like this take. We in the TCG don't realize just how lucky we were that we didn't have to deal with Temple of the Kings or Exchange of the Spirit.