Battle Box

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A Duel taking place in an octagonal Battle Box

A Battle Box (バトルボックス Batoru Bokkusu) or Virtual Simulator Box (バーチャル・シミュレーターボックス Bācharu Shimyurētā Bokkusu, see also: name variations) is a clear box that surrounds a table and two chairs used to create holographic projections while playing games in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.

The walls of the box project monsters as a three-dimensional image. The box was designed specifically for Duel Monsters, but was also used for Capsule Monster Chess. In the case of the former, the monsters were projected onto a life-size version of the gameboard below the Battle Box.

Battle Boxes were jointly developed by Industrial Illusions and KaibaCorp.[1]

History

Inception

Seto Kaiba came up with the idea of Battle Boxes as a means of recreating the experience of realistic monsters he was exposed to in his Shadow Game of Duel Monsters with Dark Yugi.[2]

Though his company, KaibaCorp, Kaiba made a proposal to develop the Battle Boxes, which was sent to Industrial Illusions, the company that produces Duel Monsters. Kaiba was a guest at a televised Duel between Bandit Keith and the Industrial Illusions president, Maximillion J. Pegasus, at New York Duel Stadium. Pegasus took a moment to sit with Kaiba to inform him that he had read the proposal, thought it was a great idea and love for the two companies to work together to make the Battle Boxes a reality.[3]

Death-T

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A monster being brought to life inside a Battle Box

Kaiba had Battle Boxes installed at Kaiba Land for his Death-T event.[2] At least three were installed; the Arena[4], Second Arena,[5] and Dome Duel Arena.[4] The boxes were programmed to be able to expose the loser of games to a virtual reality recreation of the "Experience of Death" Penalty Game, where they would be attacked by lifelike projections of monsters. Kaiba tested the Penalty Game on human subjects and found that it drove the average person insane after ten minutes.[2]

Sugoroku Mutou was forced to come to Kaiba Land, under the threat of his grandson, Yugi, being killed otherwise. For the opening act of Death-T, Sugoroku had to face Kaiba in Duel Monsters in the first Arena. The realistic graphics proved taxing on Sugoroku, but he put up a fight, finally losing when his single "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" was outnumbered by Kaiba's three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons". Sugoroku was then subjected to the "Experience of Death", with Yugi agreeing to face Death-T being the only condition Kaiba would agree to stop the simulation for.[2]

Death T-4 took place in the Second Arena, where Yugi used the Battle Box to face Mokuba Kaiba in Capsule Monster Chess. The Battle Box was suspended over a giant gameboard which reflected the game Yugi and Mokuba were playing with the monsters projected onto it.[5] Mokuba lost the game and despite being Seto Kaiba's younger brother was also subjected to the "Experience of Death" inside the Battle Box, until Dark Yugi saved him by pulling him out of the Battle Box.[4]

Death T-5 took place in the Dome Duel Arena, which unlike the other Battle Boxes was encased in a dome rather than a cube. It was used to project Duel Monsters cards similar to the first arena,[4] but was not used to create a Penalty Game as Dark Yugi instead inflicted the "Mind Crush" Penalty Game on Kaiba.[6]

Japanese National Championship

The final of the Japanese National Duel Monsters Championship took place in an octagon-shaped Battle Box in the center of a stadium. The Battle Box effectively had six walls for projecting the holograms, as two sides of the octagon were entranceways.[1]

Duelist Kingdom

Projections of cards on the field, made up of different terrains, in a Battle Box

A number of Battle Boxes were installed throughout the Duelist Kingdom island for the Duelist Kingdom tournament. The table in each Battle Box contained a landscape on the playing field, which reflected the landscape 40 meters in all directions of the Battle Box. This allowed monsters to benefit from the type of terrain their card was placed in.[7]

The Battle Boxes on the island, included but was not limited to:

# Terrains Duels
5 Mai Kujaku VS Generic Duelist[8]
7 Generic Duelist VS Generic Duelist[8]
15 80% Forest, 20% Wasteland Dark Yugi VS Insector Haga[7]
? 40% Mountain, 40% Grassland, 20% Wasteland Katsuya Jonouchi VS Mai Kujaku[8]
? 50% Ocean, 50% Wasteland Dark Yugi VS Ryota Kajiki[9]
? Mostly Grassland, some Wasteland, small bit of Forest
(No Field Power Sources were demonstrated) 		Dark Yugi VS Mokuba Kaiba[10]
Dark Yugi VS Ventriloquist of the Dead[11]
? Mai Kujaku VS Generic Duelist[12]
? 50% Wasteland, 50% Grassland Katsuya Jonouchi VS Dinosaur Ryuzaki[12]
? Forest, Grassland
(No Field Power Sources were demonstrated as the Duels took place at night.) 		Mai Kujaku VS Player Killer of Darkness[13]
Dark Yugi VS Player Killer of Darkness[14]
? 100% Graveyard Katsuya Jonouchi VS Ghost Kozuka[15]

A similar item, called a Duel Table (決闘（デュエル）テーブル Dyueru Tēburu), was used for Duels with the Meikyû Brothers.[16] Unlike the Battle Boxes, it was not surrounded by clear walls, but was still capable of creating projections of monsters. Its field did not have any special terrains, but was designed with a specialized grid, intended for the Labyrinth field, as it was expected the brothers would play "Labyrinth Wall.[17]

A final Duel Arena, or Duel Field (型闘戯場（デュエル·フィールド） Dyueru Fīrudo) in the Japanese version, was set up in Pegasus Castle, which was used for the championship portion of the tournament and Pegasus' Duel with Seto Kaiba. It also did not have clear walls surrounding the table, but was capable of projecting monsters.[18] It was situated on the ground floor, but could be elevated upwards where it would connect with bridges, from where Pegasus would come to meet his opponents.[19]

  • Battle Box

  • Duel Table

  • Duel Arena

Names

The following names have been used for this item:

English Japanese translated Japanese Romaji
Virtual Simulation Box Virtual Simulator Box バーチャル・シミュレーターボックス Bācharu Shimyurētā Bokkusu [2][1]
Simulator Box Simulator Box シミュレーターボックス Shimyurētā Bokkusu [20]
Duel Box Battle Box バトルボックス Batoru Bokkusu [4][8][11]
Battle Box [21][10][11][22]

In other media

The NAS anime replaced Battle Boxes with Dueling Arenas. However Battle Boxes made a later appearance as Zigfried's Duel System.

References

  1. ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 60 (Duelist Duel 1): "Challenge!!"
  2. ↑ a b c d e Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 27: "Project Start!"
  3. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 87 (Duelist Duel 28): "The Terror of Pegasus!"
  4. ↑ a b c d e Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 36: "Battle Beyond Hope"
  5. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 34: "Arena #2"
  6. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 40: "A Piece of His Heart"
  7. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 65 (Duelist Duel 6): "Let the Duel Begin!"
  8. ↑ a b c d Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 69 (Duelist Duel 10): "The Siren"
  9. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 71 (Duelist Duel 12): "The Scourge of the Sea"
  10. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 73 (Duelist Duel 14): "The Thief"
  11. ↑ a b c Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 74 (Duelist Duel 15): "Messenger From Hell"
  12. ↑ a b Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 77 (Duelist Duel 18): "On My Own"
  13. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 80 (Duelist Duel 21): "The Night Intruder"
  14. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 81 (Duelist Duel 22): "The Invisible Cards"
  15. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 89 (Duelist Duel 30): "Duel Without End"
  16. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 92 (Duelist Duel 33): "Enter the Labyrinth!"
  17. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 93 (Duelist Duel 34): "Deathtrap Dungeon!"
  18. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 107 (Duelist Duel 48): "To the Castle!"
  19. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 124 (Duelist Duel 65): "Its Time!"
  20. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 28: "Arena #1"
  21. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 55: "Millennium Enemy 6: The Traps of Zorc Castle"
  22. ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 81 (Duelist Duel 22): "The Invisible Cards"
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