Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection Launching February 2025, Adds Three GBA Titles

Shadow Realm? I’m sending you to Tampa, Florida!

Surprising that a collection of mostly GBA games got delayed, but still looking forward to it.

Oh boy, this is becoming a better bang for your buck with each announcement... why do you tempt me so!? Haha!!

A good looking list of games so far. Still waiting for Dungeon Dice Monsters! If that one gets added I'll get this collection sooner rather than later.

I’m definitely looking forward to this! If my brother gets it, I’m stealing his Switch so I can play!

Already own the gba games except reshef.

So many more implies there's at least 4 more games in the collection... wonder which? Stairway, Tournament 2004 + 2005 + 2006, Duel Academy seems like the most likely group of games, with DDM / Destiny Board Traveler as wild cards. But I can't entirely count out the Tag Force games, or any of the DS titles either?

These are the ones with oddball game rules, as the TCG wasn't finalized yet, right?

Are they even translated?

@SmaggTheSmug The earlier ones are; Expert 2/The Eternal Duelist Soul follow the OCG rules much more closely, while the two subsequent games deliberately deviate from the official rules to adapt the Battle City rules from the anime more closely.

I might actually get this. I have the game guide for Reshef of Destruction, but I don't have the game itself. So I'll finally be able to put that game guide to good use, after all these years.

As much as I love the chaotic mind games of modern YuGiOh (albeit through master duel), it would be an interesting history lesson to see what the old game balance was like before you had to approach the game like chess.

@MirrorFate2 Not much to translate, gameplay wise, when they could just use the current card translations. I imagine it was a pretty swift job on that front.

Hoping on a English physical. Adding duelist of the roses and the false bound kingdom would be cool. The GX Tag Force series on psp would be awesome too. Anyways gonna replay sacred cards and reshef first.

YEEEESSS! The Sacred Cards is included I'm so happy. I'll have to get this now.

It's been my personal experience that Reshef of Destruction is an extremely buggy game,I hope they at least fix that before adding it.

Hmm. Only Yu-Gi-Oh! game I ever remember playing is one on the Gamecube. My son had it back then when it came out and I remember watching that first anime that came out on US TV.

Neat. I think I played Eternal Duelist back in the day. Beat the snot out of the Bug character over and over again, with the same deck...Funny what'll keep a kid occupied.

@link3710 They could potentially include a few console games, nothing in the marketing is saying that they won't. I'd kill to see Duelist of the Roses in here; that one on its own would be enough to get me to buy this, and I'm already considering it.

@alexybubble I mean it's possible, but Konami has a working (and very good) DS emulator via M2 (The recent Castlevania collection), whereas PS2 / GCN are notoriously difficult to emulate in comparison.

Tag Force is middle ground, since they don't have a PSP emulator for Switch (afaik), but it's nowhere near as hard to make one.

It really depends what the budget on this game is.

....Guessing it's gonna be all gameboy games, then....sighs
Oh well. :/

@Hyena Physical release was confirmed a while back via the announcement of its pack-in promo card (QCSR Harpie's Feather Duster, if you're curious)

I have never played a Yu-Gi-Oh in my life (well once when I was younger I tried with a friend, but it was too annoying so I quit), but the way Konami is drip-feeding information about this game is even making me a little bit intrigued by it. It seems like it's going to be another good collection from them!

Sacred Cards was probably the earliest Yugioh game I'd ever played (and I was always desperate for more card shenanigans back then) so it would be fun to experience it again after so many years.

Egyptian god card Yugioh era is intensely nostalgic to me, so it sucks those GBA games probably won't be put on NSO.

Im guessing they'll still add Stairway to the Destined Duel, Dungeon Dice Monsters and Destiny Board Traveler to complete the OG GBA games

Although doubtful, imagine they added in sixth gen console games like Forbidden Memories, Falsebound Kingdom, Duelists of the Roses and Dawn of Destiny

@Ulysses I agree it sucks we wont see these games on NSO, but it sounds like the best way to experience them will be getting this collection on physical cartridge

@Hyena which region are you? We're getting a physical in the UK/Europe. Its up for pre order on Amazon.

@kevinm360 Europe, I'll check it out on Amazon Thx.
@YaGirlSkyByte Thx, awesome they still add the cards too the game as well.

If all these games are on cart, this will be a fantastic collection and I'm buying it day 1.

@B_Lindz fr. Modern Yugioh is just not as fun. I prefer the older ways (I still like XYZ and Synchro summoning methods but Pendulum and LINK summoning I hate the most).

So I kinda am excited for this collection.