Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (video game)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Kanji	遊戯王（ユウギオウ）デュエルモンスターズ
Romaji	Yugiō Dyuerumonsutāzu
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Platform(s)	Game Boy
Release date(s)	December 16, 1998
Genre(s)	Card game
Related Galleries	Card gallery
Promotional Cards	Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters promotional cards

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is the second Yu-Gi-Oh! video game, following Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed and Battle. It is the first game in the Duel Monsters series and the only game released for the Game Boy. It was published in Japan by Konami on December 16, 1998.

Duels

The player must defeat each character in a stage five times to advance to the next stage. A character that has been defeated five times can be Dueled additional times for more cards. Here are the list of characters that a player may duel against:

Opponents	Stage image	Opponent image
Stage 1
Yugi Muto Tristan Taylor Joey Wheeler Ryou Bakura
Stage 2
Weevil Underwood Mai Valentine Rex Raptor Mako Tsunami Seto Kaiba Mokuba Kaiba Puppeteer PaniK Bandit Keith		Seto Kaiba
Stage 3
Simon Muran
Stage 4
Maximillion Pegasus
Stage 5
Yami Yugi

Obtaining cards

Starter Deck

The player starts the game with a 40-card Starter Deck which includes 33 Monster Cards, selected randomly from a pool of 100 monsters, as well as seven Magic Cards, which are always the same.

Starter Deck

Monster Cards 005. Ryu-kishin 008. Mushroom Man 009. Shadow Specter 024. Skull Servant 029. Mountain Warrior 045. Oscillo Hero #2 048. Sangan 058. Kuriboh 075. Man-eating Plant 101. Wings of Wicked Fl 102. Mask of Darkness 105. Tomozaurus 107. Kageningen 123. Dark Plant 129. Nemuriko 130. Weather Control 134. Mystical Capture C 139. B.eye Silv. Zombie 140. Toad Master 142. Flame Manipulator 143. Chronolord 144. Wind Djinn 145. Phantom Thief 147. Monster Egg 148. Sinister Shadow 152. The Melting Red Sh 154. Fire Reaper 155. Larvas 157. Firegrass 158. Man Eater 159. Dig Beak 160. M-warrior #1 161. M-warrior #2 167. Ancient Jar 173. Dark Prisoner 174. Hurricail 176. Fire Eye 177. Monsturtle 179. Phantom Dewan 180. Arlownay 181. Dark Shade 182. Masked Clown 183. Lucky Trinket 184. Genin 185. Eyearmor 187. Gate Deeg 188. Synchar 189. Fusionist 190. Akakieisu 191. LaLa Li-oon 192. Key Mace 193. Turtle Tiger 194. Terra the Terrible 195. Doron 196. Arma Knight 197. Mech Mole Zombie 198. Happy Lover 199. Penguin Knight 200. Petit Dragon 202. Air Marmot of Nefa 203. Phantom Ghost 205. Dorover 206. Twin Long Rods#1 207. Droll Bird 208. Petit Angel 209. Winged Cleaver 210. Hinotama Soul 211. Kaminarikozou 212. Meotoko 214. B. Flame Kagemusha 215. Flame Ghost 218. Two-mouth Darkrule 222. Midnight Fiend 226. Skull Stalker 227. Hitodenchak 228. Wood Remains 229. Hourglass of Life 232. Madjinn Gunn 237. Haniwa 238. Yashinoki 239. Vishwar Randi 240. The Drdek 242. Candle of Destiny 243. Water Element 244. Dissolverock 245. Meda Bat 247. Root Water 253. Angelwitch 254. Embryonic Beast 261. Wicked Mirror 268. Sectarian of Secre 271. Megirus Light 276. Ray & Temperature 279. King Fog 282. Mystical Sheep #2 285. Serpent Marauder 289. Change Slime 292. Psychic Kappa 298. Wicked Dragon with 300. Kurama Magic Cards 337. Raigeki 338. Mooyan Curry 339. Red Medicine 343. Sparks ×2 344. Hinotama 350. Dark-piercing Ligh

Opponent drops

When an opponent is defeated, the played is given a card.

Each opponent has a different list of cards the player can get for beating them, with each card on the list having an assigned probability of obtaining randomly it. See Joey Wheeler (Duel Monsters 1)#Random drops for example.

Each opponent also has a list of cards the player is guaranteed to obtain after defeating a number of times in multiples of ten, up to 100. See Joey Wheeler (Duel Monsters 1)#Milestone drops for example.

Link battle rewards

By taking part in a number of battles, using the Game Link Cable, the following cards can be obtained.

#	Card	Number of battles
015	Flame Swordsman	20
026	Battle Ox	30
329	Dragon Capture Jar	40
004	Baby Dragon	50
051	Armored Lizard	60
340	Goblin's Secret Re	70
316	Electro-whip	80
011	Sword Arm of Drago	90
349	Spellbinding Circl	100
016	Time Wizard	110
090	Gyakutenno Megami	120
066	Kojikocy	130
052	Hercules Beetle	140
346	Ookazi	150
317	Cyber Shield	160
079	Megazowler	170
073	Kairyu-shin	180
022	Summoned Skull	190
347	Tremendous Fire	200

Trading

Cards can be traded from other games using the Game Link Cable.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters can connect with other copies of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, as well as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories and the Japanese edition of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters III: Dark Duel Stories.

Fusion Summon

The Extra Deck does not exist in this game. Fusion Summons can be performed in Duels by trying to Summon a monster from the hand on top of a monster on the field. Often the same monster can be Summoned, using various different Fusion Material.

By summoning a monster this way, the player only gets the monster for the duration of the Duel.

Link Cable Fusion

A Fusion can be performed using the Game Link Cable, while connecting to either a second copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters or Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters III: Dark Duel Stories. This requires the two Fusion Material Monsters, as well as #289 "Change Slime".

The player gets to keep the card permanently, if they conduct a Fusion using this method.

Fusion Monster		Material 1		Material 2
037	Gaia the Dragon Ch	038	Gaia The Fierce Kn	039	Curse of Dragon
069	Thousand Dragon	004	Baby Dragon	016	Time Wizard
092	Rabid Horseman	026	Battle Ox	091	Mystic Horseman
056	Larvae Moth	123	Dark Plant	278	Petit Moth
		157	Firegrass
		274	Green Phantom King
		273	Ancient Tree of En
		008	Mushroom Man
		075	Man-eating Plant
		158	Man Eater
		238	Yashinoki
		180	Arlownay
072	Cocoon of Evolutio	123	Dark Plant	056	Larvae Moth
		157	Firegrass
		274	Green Phantom King
		273	Ancient Tree of En
		008	Mushroom Man
		075	Man-eating Plant
		158	Man Eater
		238	Yashinoki
		180	Arlownay
057	Great Moth	072	Cocoon of Evolutio	072	Cocoon of Evolutio
067	Perfectly Ultimate	057	Great Moth	072	Cocoon of Evolutio
217	B. Skull Dragon	022	Summoned Skull	082	Red-eyes B. Dragon

Passwords

The first screen of the password feature.

Nine cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters have passwords. These passwords use kana instead of numbers or letters, and each one is the name of a staff member who worked on the game, or who worked on the manga series at Shueisha at the time. This was probably done because Duel Monsters was released before the first OCG set, Vol.1, though it is not known why so few of the cards in Duel Monsters have passwords, especially since at least nine individuals are listed in the credits, but only six of them had passwords, and since Duel Monsters includes 15 secret monsters, but only nine of them can be unlocked with a password.

#	Card	Password	Rōmaji	Notes
351	Yaranzo	ヘイシヨシヒサ	heishiyoshihisa	Heishi Yoshihisa was a long-time editor for Weekly Shōnen Jump.
352	Kanan the Swordmis	ハシモトカナコ	hashimotokanako	Kanako Hashimoto was the Director of Graphics for Duel Monsters.
353	Takriminos	チダタクリ	chidatakuri	Takuri Chida was a programmer for Duel Monsters.
354	Stuffed Animal	キタウエカズミ	kitauekazumi	Kazumi Kitaue was the Executive Producer for Duel Monsters.
355	Megasonic Eye	シモムラサトシ	shimomurasatoshi	Satoshi Shimomura was the Producer for Duel Monsters.
358	Seiyaryu	トリシマカズヒコ	torishimakazuhiko	Kazuhiko Torishima was the editor-in-chief for Weekly Shōnen Jump.
359	Three-legged Zombi	タカハシトシマサ	takahashitoshimasa	Takahashi Toshimasa was an editor for Weekly Shōnen Jump.
361	Flying Penguin	ヤマダノブヒロ	yamadanobuhiro	Yamada Nobuhiro was the Director of Game Design for Duel Monsters.
363	Fairy's Gift	タカハシカズキ	takahashikazuki	Kazuki Takahashi is the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and was credited with Original Monster Design in Duel Monsters.

Other

Title screen

The following cards cannot be obtained by any of the above methods, apart from trading with another game.

• 204. Mabarrel
• 356. Super War-lion
• 357. Yamadron
• 360. Zera The Mant
• 362. Millennium Shield
• 364. Black Luster Soldi
• 365. Fiend's Mirror

Gameplay

See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards and Gallery of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters features 365 cards, with the last 15 cards being secret. The basic rules differ greatly from the OCG, and are generally simpler.

• There are 315 Normal Monsters (from number 001 to 300, and from 351 to 365) and 50 Spell Cards (from number 301 to 350) in the game; these are the only types of cards featured. None of the cards are Forbidden or Limited.
• While there are no Fusion Monsters (and thus no Fusion Deck), fusions can be performed by trying to summon a monster from the hand on top of a monster on the field (e.g. "Ansatsu" + "Darkfire Dragon" = "Flame Swordsman").
• 

  "B.eye White Dragon"
  Monsters only have an ATK, DEF, Type, and description. Levels, Attributes, and Alignments are not featured in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, and monsters can be summoned without tributing.
• There is no Deck Cost and no limit to the number of copies of one card which can be in a Deck, but the Deck must contain exactly 40 cards and the player can only have one Deck at a time. There is no Side Deck.
• Each Duelist's hand consists of five cards.
• Each turn has the same layout:
  1. The turn player draws a card.
  2. The turn player must play one card from their hand. If their hand is empty, the Duel ends and the Duelist with higher Life Points wins. Only one card can be played from the hand each turn.
  3. The turn player must attack with or switch to Defense Position each monster on their side of the field.
  4. The turn ends.
• The player always goes first in a Duel, but does not draw a card and cannot attack on the first turn.
• 

  Battle screen showing "Sangan" attacking "Ancient Jar".
  Attacking works the same as it does in the OCG and TCG.
  • If the attack target is in Attack Position:
    • If the monsters have different ATK, the monster with the lowest ATK is destroyed and its controller takes battle damage equal to the difference.
    • If the monsters have equal ATK, both monsters are destroyed and neither Duelist takes battle damage.
  • If the attack target is in Defense Position:
    • If the attack target's DEF is greater than the attacker's ATK, neither monster is destroyed and the attacking monster's controller takes battle damage equal to the difference.
    • If the attack target's DEF is lower than the attacker's ATK, the attack target is destroyed and its controller does not take battle damage.
    • If the attack target's DEF equals the attacker's ATK, neither monster is destroyed and neither Duelist takes battle damage.
  • If the opponent has no monsters, the turn player can attack the opponent directly. In this case, the opponent takes battle damage equal to the attacking monster's ATK.
• The player receives a card after every win or draw. Milestone drops are also awarded after every 10 wins against each opponent, up to 100 wins per opponent.

Promotional cards

Main article: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters promotional cards

Each copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters came with three cards randomly selected from the following set of ten cards:

• "B. Skull Dragon"
• "Castle of Dark Illusions"
• "Dark Magician"
• "Hitotsu-Me Giant"
• "Mirror Force"
• "Monster Reborn"
• "Red-Eyes B. Dragon"
• "Ryu-Kishin"
• "Summoned Skull"
• "Swords of Revealing Light"

The cards in this promotional set were from Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, a set of 21 cards that also included the Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule: Breed and Battle promotional cards and the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters meeting experience card. All of these cards were printed as Holofoil Rares and are Illegal because they predate the OCG and use a completely different card design.

Game guides

Main articles: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Perfect Master BOOK and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Perfect Master BOOK Volume 2

Two game guides for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters were published in Japan by Shueisha: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Perfect Master BOOK, published on December 21, 1998, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Perfect Master BOOK Volume 2, published in January 1999. Neither guide included any bundled promotional cards.

Gallery

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  Back of game box.

External links

• The Cutting Room Floor page
• Data Crystal page