We're now roughly a month out from the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection on the Switch and Konami has this week released an "official trailer" showcasing what this new bundle has to offer.
Once again, it will include 14 games - starting with the original Game Boy generation and following on with Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance era titles. This latest trailer not only offers a look at this library but also introduces some new features including online play.
For starters, you'll be able to play Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of the Great Duelists! online and Konami says "additional titles will support online play after release".
Apart from this, you'll also have the ability to unlock hidden characters, cards, and "more". And to top it off, players will be able to rewind, fast forward, or reset the Duel, and you can "explore the original box art and manuals with the Digital Gallery".
Here's the full list of games included in this collection:
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (1998 / Game Boy)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories (1999 / Game Boy, Game Boy Color)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB (2000 / Game Boy Color)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories (2000 Japan, 2002 United States, 2003 Europe / Game Boy Color)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelist (2000 / Game Boy Color / Includes Online Battles Support)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters (2001 Japan, 2003 United States, 2003 Europe / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul (2001 Japan, 2002 United States, 2003 Europe / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 6, Expert 2 (2001 / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards (2002 Japan, 2003 United States, 2004 Europe / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (2003 Japan, 2004 United States and Europe / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel (2003 / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 (2004 / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler (2004 Japan and United States, 2005 Europe / Game Boy Advance)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005 (2004 Japan, 2005 United States and Europe / Game Boy Advance)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection arrives digitally and physical for Switch on 27th February 2025. Will you be getting it? Let us know in the comments.
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Ooh, nice new features (glad to hear online play will eventually be added also for other games), looking forward to playing my discounted physical copy of this as soon as it arrives and I have the time for it even more than I already was!
I'm only worried about untranslated games. There is hardly a game genre more reliant in text comprehension than TCG/CCG.
Going by the trailer, they got even the GB and GBC games in english but there was an odd GBA game all in japanese. I hope it's only that
This has been known for a good while through the eshop listing.
@Bobb I wouldn't bother worrying. Assuming it's a 1:1 conversion, all of the cards featured in these games already have a real world translation/localization. So it's just a linguistic portjob.
My real concern is content authenticity, since back in the day, the guys who wee running the card game thought it would be a smart idea to market a game aimed at teens to 6 year olds... Ya know where I'm going with this.
@Bobb Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 6, Expert 2 was not translated because Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel IS the translated version.
@syrupdash thank you very much. I didn't know that
The biggest thing I’m waiting to know is if Sacred Cards in this compilation is based off the original GBA release or the double-pack-with-Reshef re-release. This matters because the original Sacred Cards used all the Japanese card art in its English release, but the double-pack release went back and retroactively replaced all of that artwork with the heavily censored US art versions (blood removed, cleavage covered up, religious icons censored or removed, etc). While Reshef used the censored art in both its original release and the double-pack, the retroactive censoring of Sacred Cards always sat badly with me - which is why I still have my original GBA Sacred Cards version cartridge still, because Sacred Cards remains very much my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh game ever (not saying it’s the best of them, just my personal favorite - feels like a self-insert written competently for a change lol).
I’m still very interested in the overall collection for Dark Duel Stories and Eternal Duelist and Dungeon Dice Monsters, but which version of Sacred Cards they end up using (and, if they use the censored one, does it turn out that they also go back and retroactively censor other games?) would ultimately say a lot about whether I have interest in the overall collection as a digital future-proof pickup versus just watching for the original cartridges.
They delayed the game once and it still is unfinished?
I'm looking forward to this.
I think I only owned Eternal Duelist Soul.
But admittedly only deep dove into highly addictive deck building yugioh games in the DS era and later the now NS1 era.
Can’t wait to say I’m gonna try everything out, then just play the heck out of Stairway over and over again. 😎
Sounds like a good collection.
Though I thought, wasn't the very first Yu-Gi-Oh game a PS1 tactical RPG, no cards?
I heard the card theme was not in the original comic design. That is about the extent of my YGO knowledge.
At the very least, id be interested in replaying World Wide Edition - good variety of cards and presentation. The others are a bonus to me.
@KingMike The manga at first was about games in general and only at a certain point Duel Monsters became the focus - in fact, there's an anime series before the "first" international one that covers that part of the manga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_(1998_TV_series))... it's unsurprising that it has never been released outside of Japan officially also considering that the manga in general and especially that part and so the corresponding anime series is brutal and so it would've been a nightmare to censor!
Super cool these games are coming to switch, I always thought Yu-Gi-Oh! Was cooler then Pokemon as a kid, I hope Konami continues to do more of these collections on switch as they are fantastic. (Now bring over the Beyblade DS Games for switch XD)
I just want the QCR Harpie's Feather Duster (the one that's sweeping a card art)
Eternal Duelist Soul was always my favorite yugioh game on the GBA. Unfortunately, the game used a battery and has since dried up.
I like Yu-Gi-Oh (the old one, I hate the newer modern ones). I might get this at a sale (50 seems too much, this seems worth like 20 max) AND if it performs well on Switch.
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