KONAMI is bringing back some old-school classic Yu-Gi-Oh games in a brand-new re-release collection.
As announced by KONAMI, the company will be bringing back some old-school Yu-Gi-Oh games, with the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise turning 25 in 2024, celebrating the anniversary of the long-running franchise with new projects in the works. However, this collection of Yu-Gi-Oh games seems for now to only be Japan-based, the new projects include an anime series based on the card game’s lore, more cards, and updates to already existing games such as Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel.
With KONAMI digging into its past catalogue and bringing back a series of retro games for fans to play, there is a ton to take back on, as KONAMI has made quite the electric library already developed stretching back over the past 25 years.
These include direct simulations, having players dual against the game’s card masters according to lore and arcs, alongside spin-off titles that tackle genres. With an enormous and quite diverse library of games and lore, fans are left nostalgic and hopeful that the company will one day release the comeback classics.
This is not just bound to the iconic card games, as with KONAMI re-introducing its older games to new audiences with other re-re-release collections for IPs such as Castlevania and even iconic games like Felix the Cat, this is now being implemented with their classic card games instead. Along with new updates to already existing games that remain online such as Dual Masters.
The official Yu-Gi-Oh card game Twitter account was where the announcement took place, stating that this new collection will be released for Switch and Steam sometime in 2024. Based on a machine translation, having the collection takes the name of Yu-Gi-Oh: Early Days Collection and will consist of games released during the Yu-Gi-Oh early-ish years of the style of the franchise prior to release.
The first two games revealed in this coming collection are Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of the Great Duelist and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2, which was released on both Game Boy Color and Games Boy Advance. Overall, fans are both nostalgic and excited for the coming collection and will have to wait in anticipation for the coming game. However, the games currently revealed we’re Japan-only Nintendo titles, which made it sound most likely for this iconic collection of Card games might not be localized. However, it still remains to be speculation and until said otherwise by KONAMI, fans will still have to wait with hopeful excitement.
