Konami Announces Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic Collection For Switch, Launching This Year

Now taking bets on the date when we inevitably learn that physical copies will require a download. I can handle your Suikoden wagers as well.

@CANOEberry I would prefer if Limited Run handled the physical distribution of this game.

@Daimando I think that would require these games to have English versions, but you do realise that the download only version Europe is getting for the new Contra game is still distributed through LRG's owners Freemode as a contract job, right? Konami are the one of the Six Daimo most in-bed with LRG, because they have a contract that gives them carte-blanch access to port all their old games to the Carbon Engine. so long as Freemode works out all the legal work on stuff like Felix. That's WHY you have stuff like the Sparkster and Felix collections happening at all.

...but then that raises the question: who's doing this? The same guys who did Castlevania Advance Collection? Cause that wasn't LRG, I don't think it was Digital Eclipse, and it CERTAINLY wasn't Konami themselves.

I'm not a Yugioh fan, but I do like how Konami is bringing us collections of their old games. I'm still hoping for collections of Goemon, Twinbee, and Parodius.

Not that I care about Konami but really hope that they don't do a half-boiled effort...

Switch 2 or what version???? Don't go GBA we need Switch 2 version.

Even if Konami hasn't been making any new games these days, it's still nice to see that they're keen on keeping their old games alive and available.

Hoping for Duelist of the Roses or at least the Tag games

@Zeebor15 advance collection was done by M2 I believe. They did the original Contra and Castlevania collections and the SNES emulation for Dracula X in advance is exactly the same as those titles.

@EarthboundBenjy Granted it’s not on Switch (at least not Switch 1), but Konami has suddenly shown an interest in “new” games — i.e., complete reimagining of classics that make for semi-new experiences — with Silent Hill 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. There are a bunch of recent and coming Silent Hill projects too.

I love these classic game collections and am hoping/wondering if they sell well enough to motivate Konami to remake the classics. Then if those sell well enough (I imagine they will) we might even get new IP games and new sequels.

@Servbot_EJ And a Tiny Toons collection

@HammerKirby Gracias, muchaco

@EvenStephen7 Konami actually made 2 new IP, and licensed port costs on two more in the past 5 years. Skelattack and Crimesight (a live service game by the remains of the Castlevania team that is now... no longer a thing) for the former, and Bail or Jail and Super Crazy Rhytym Castle in the latter. They also have the upcoming CYGNI: All Guns Blazing, though that is PC only for some reason right now.

Konami's been busy as ever. They're just very very VERY bad at advertising anything that's not Yu-Gi-Oh

These are the ones with the crazy Forbidden Memory style rules aren't they? I don't think they properly made the games rules into a videogame til the Yugioh Worldwide edition games.

This gives me some hope that Tag Force will be release on Switch as well

Just 2 games? Seems abit lacking.

@NCChris They're doing the whole "We'll announce future titles later!" drip feed thing.

Its an interesting choice for sure and one Konami can milk for multiple collections.

Translation will be the issue. They are just GBC/GBA games so far but that still means translating every monster/card name and character in accordance to the English dub of the anime and game.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Which probably means no, because since it's Game Boy, there's going to be more technical issues (ROM and/or screen space).

Though as one can tell just from the numbers of these games, Konami made A LOT of Yu-Gi-Oh! games even back then.
Funny to see that the first Yu-Gi-Oh! game, I think on PlayStation, was a tactical RPG or something. The little I know is that, I've heard, the franchise wasn't even originally about cards but a card game just came up and then that was its new direction.

I never really got into the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG, but the Dungeon Dice Monsters was amazing. I know that marketing that was a nightmare because of the many toys and generally unprofitable nature of it, but I wish they’d reboot that as a modern console game cause the Gameboy Game was fire.

Their DS game were so addictive to me and so was Legacy of the Duelist. I poured countless hours into them perfecting my decks and trying to 100% the games. This will probably be downloaded by me if ir comes over here. Too tempting

Aww, no Reshef of Destruction? I never played that game, but I have the game guide for it, so I've always wanted to play it.

Rules have changed so much for the game since then. It’ll be a major shock to many to learn there was a time you could draw turn one if you went first and fusion was actually a valid strategy.

Please bring the GBA and DS games!
Yu-gi-oh,GX,5D's 😉

I think I only ever completed World Champs 2004 on the GBA. Then, as with most CCGs, the cards and mechanics just ran away with themselves and I couldn't be arsed keeping up.

Magic was the same. I had a belting blue-white 4th Edition deck (Orlando Magic) and a half-decent red-white one (Sunderland 'Til You Die), but when Fifth Edition happened it just skyrocketed from there.

Really hope we get this over here. If not I may just have to download it using my Japanese account and understand barely anything with my awful Japanese skills.

Worldwide edition on gba would have been nice

My nostalgia is strong with this one!

Please add the Sacred Cards from GBA to that collection. I love that game even though the battle system is basically rps.

compilation of ROMs from handhelds systems where data is measured in megabytes

@RupeeClock You are correct, of course, but I've seen astounding amounts of bloat even in Hamster's Arcade Archives Releases. So yeah, I'm being pretty sarcastic, but I think Konami merits this kind of cynicism. As for Limited Run... well, better them than no physical copy, I suppose.

They release this and I will buy it

The price will make or break it. Please don't pull and Nintendo with this, Konami.

@Servbot_EJ I wish Parodius and Twinbee could get the same love that Cotton has gotten. Imagine well done remakes of Parodius and Twinbee. They'd be awesome Switch games! I'd love to have the arcade and home ports also though.

@HammerKirby Yeah, M2 did the GBA Castlevania collection.

@120frames-please agreed! Konami always did a great job with shmups in those days and a Twinbee/Parodius Rebirth would be fantastic. I wouldn't ask for much, just that the games have the fun and imagination of the originals, as well as the amazing soundtrack.

Why say 4 and 6 will be included and some others that will be announced? I don't know diddly about Yu-Gi-Oh, but my guess would be 1, 2, 3, and 5.

Wow I do like me some of the older Yu-Gi-Oh games but not on GBC or GBA, I hope we get the GameCube and PS1 Yu-Gi-Oh games on there too especially The Falsebound Kingdom and Forbidden Memories.

Hopefully it's just a matter of time before we get a Goemon Collection. Parodius, Twinbee, Gradius and Bomberman would also be ripe for the collection treatment at this point.

Not much of a collection.

@Edd-O There's already a good Gradius collection on Switch, but I'm ready for volume 2! And I'm more than ready for a Parodius collection. And Bomberman, there are so many great old bomberman games that are still fun to play.

@120frames-please Do you mean Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics? It's got Gradius I & II on it but that's it.

There was an excellent Gradius Collection on the PSP with the arcade versions of I, II, III, IV, & Gradius Gaiden which had previously been tied to the Japanese PS1. They could add the NES version of Gradius I, the PC Engine version of Gradius II, the SNES version of Gradius III, and maybe even Gradius V on the PS2 and Gradius Rebirth from the Wii judging by what Konami did with the Contra and Castlevania collections.

If they made an English version of Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule Breed & Battle, it might slightly pique my interest.

And I'd hope they'd keep Kaiba's green hair & stuff if they did.

Now watch as they stay in Japan only like the Medabots collection.

@Edd-O Yep, that one. I guess I lump Gradius and Life Force together, so that collection feels like more than 2 Gradius games to me. I'd like to have all those games you mentioned on Switch. I sometimes play the psp collections on Deck, used to have 2 of them physically, and still have the gradius collection digitally on Vita (but don't have the system anymore...).

@AlexSora89 Medabots isn't even made by Konami and not as popular as Yu-Gi-Oh.

Parodius Collection next plz kthx.

@JohnnyMind I was not aware that Reshef of Destruction was a sequel. Again, I never played it. In all honesty, I only have two Yu-Gi-Oh! video games: Kaiba the Revenge for the PC, and Duel Links for iOS. And I didn't get far in either.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Oh I see, okay thanks.
I really hope Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories is in it, loved that game just for the soundtrack.

@Serpenterror
Eeyup, but the game reminded me of that collection.
Which is also why I wanted to bring it up, as Medabots AX made me a platform fighter fan before Smash came along.