
In case you missed it, earlier this year Konami announced the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection for the Nintendo Switch.
At the start of this month, it also launched a new social media account for this collection and other Yu-Gi-Oh! themed 'retro games'. Now in another update, Konami has revealed more of the games coming to the new collection. The latest game announcements for this collection include the following titles:
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Game Boy, 1998)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories (Game Boy / Game Boy Color, 1999)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories (Game Boy Color, 2000)
They'll be joining the previously announced games Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists (Game Boy Color, 2000) and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 (Game Boy Advance, 2001).

A physical release will also include a pack-in bonus featuring one of two random cards. This includes either the Harpie's Feather Duster or the Alternative Art version of Harpie's Feather Duster.
This game will arrive this year on the Nintendo Switch, with a local release also previously confirmed.
Would you be interested in this retro game collection? Let us know in the comments.
[source konami.com]
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Never been a Yu-Gi-Oh fan (just never got into it, really), but a collection of GBC games? I must have it.
Could be good, the early stuff is more appealing to me as I bought one of the recent games and didn't know what was going on at all. Hadn't played the card game in 20 years and seems like they just kept adding more and more rules.
Are these gonna have English versions too or no?
@SillyG And GBA by the looks of it.
However, if you could not get into YGO before, well it sounds like some of the included games won't even be translated, so good luck with that. XD
Never played the card game, but I've always liked the Latin American dub of the 4Kids version of the anime. One day I may get into the games at least.
How did I just now hear about this? I have seen people speed run the older games and they always looked fun to play, this is definitely something I’m getting.
I hope theyre all translated/localised. It would be pretty cool to get the Stairway to the Destined Duel in place of Duel Monsters 6 as well.
It says "and more" so The Sacred Cards is probably coming too. I wonder if we'll see any console games like Forbidden Memories, Duelists of the Roses or Falsebound Kingdom.
I'm guessing no games from later systems then...was hoping for Duelist of the Roses...
@kevinm360 According to the Amazon listing for the game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 will only be available in Japanese. My theory is Konami will be including Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel and since it's a modified version of the the aforementioned, they probably see no need to translate it.
Apparently it's been confirmed only the GB/Color/Advanced games will be featured which they do have 12 GBA games alone to make up more than 10 games to be included as they stated. It is a shame because would love to see Forgotten Memories, Duelist of the Roses, and Falsebound Kingdom in one convenient package.
@Porky I saw that too about DM6. My first thought was that Amazon may just be mistaken as that isn't specified anywhere official other than their listing.
But on second thought, your analysis makes complete sense. If they include WW:SDD as a separate game then they have no need to translate Duel Monsters 6 and would keep it in Japanese.
I hope what youre thinking happens and that we also get the rest in English. I'll be playing lots of Yu-Gi-Oh on the Switch it seems.
@Joeynator3000 If this does even decently I'm sure they'll make a collection for the weirder games later on. These collections are easy to sell hard to screw up, and Konami likes easy money.
I recently got into the game. I missed out on Forbidden memories and Duelist of the Roses so I hope those are included.
I hope that one Dungeon Dice Monsters game is included too. I remember playing that one back in the day on early games of emulation, but now I'd like to own it properly through this.
@anoyonmus I didn't think it would but the bottom of the article says local release confirmed so you'd hope they'd be in English.
My inner 10-year-old is kind of geeking out about this. I hope the price is right because I am stoked.
lol cash grab
meets patent renewal
to attack them pirat3s
I both oped and expected tha they would release the previous games.
I wonder about any inter-game connections in the international version.
For the unaware, the very earliest games in this series actually predate the OCG, and as such take the basic rules of the card game set out in the manga (which were themselves pretty loose until the irl game codified them) in a totally different direction. I sure hope the individual games are actually localised...
When they first announced it I didn't realize they would reveal more games later, love to hear that's the case (and also glad that it's getting released also outside of Japan) as there are a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh games even just on Game Boy, Color and Advance and the more become available on Switch the better!
@HammerGalladeBro Though I have nostalgia for the 4kids cast, the LATAM cast is absolute perfection.
I remember having Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters on GBA as one of my two first GBA games as a kid alongside Pokémon Ruby. Definitely spent more time on Pokémon, but Dungeon Dice Monsters was still pretty neat. I wonder if its included in this collection
C’mon Konami, give us Donkey Kong 94 already!
DK was never the same after you turned him into a spiky haired Egyptian anime boy/man/god/thing.
Poured a huge amount of hours into the DS releases. I think I may only ever have played one Advance iteration.
If they include World Wide Edition, I’ll be playing the heck out of this, that was one of my favorite GBA games.
I'm sure these games will be pretty difficult to play if they aren't localized for international release.
I just have one question, "Do you believe in the Heart of the Cards?"
LOL, back in the day I watched the dubbed anime but stopped at the second season when that kid took Yugi's Blue Eyes and threw them in creek.
I do hope they do localize the games as I would jump right on it if they release them international. If not then I will just wait for a fan translation for the steam version before buying them.
Shoot, more games that could have been added to Nintendo Switch Online.
@fpcreator2000 do you mean Exodia over the edge of the ship?
There were only four Blue Eyes cards and Kaiba has three. The fourth belonged to Yugi's grandpa but was torn by Kaiba because he was being a Heel.
This can only mean the GBA games will get a physical sometime in the future as well. Definitely going to get this for the special card inside!
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