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News   Special Edition Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Cards
- Posted By Michael Loewer, 03.18.2002

Konami of America today unveiled a set of three limited edition collectible cards for the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game that will be exclusively bundled with Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories for Nintendo Game Boy Color, slated to ship nationwide tomorrow. The game will include a set of holographic, silver foil embossed cards that will only be available with the initial release of the game and will not be available anywhere else. Subsequent shipments of the Game Boy Color title will include a completely different 3-card set from the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories will include official Trading Card Game cards exclusively created as a bundle with the first shipment of the game. The beautifully designed, embossed holographic cards give players three powerful monsters from Yu-Gi-Oh!; Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Exodia the Forbidden One, and Dark Magician. Future shipments of the Game Boy Color game will include a different set of cards.

The release of Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories (as well as Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories for the Sony PlayStation, also shipping tomorrow) represents the long-awaited debut of the mega-popular games to the US. The Yu-Gi-Oh! game series has already sold more than 7.5 million units in Japan and has seen massive, Pokemon-like success as a licensed property; amassing staggering figures that include more than 3.5 billion cards, 23 million comic books and an excess of $2 billion generated in merchandise sales.

The franchise premiered in the US in Fall 2001 as an animated TV series broadcast on KidsWB. Entering its second season this fall, the show, Yu-Gi-Oh! King of Games, currently ranks #1 in its Saturday morning timeslot. Furthering the support of Yu-Gi-Oh! in the US, leading card manufacturer, Upper Deck introduced the collectible card game in March 2002. As demand for the franchise continues to grow, Konami is releasing these two highly anticipated video games and plans to launch a second generation of Yu-Gi-Oh! games later this year.

The success of Yu-Gi-Oh! in Japan rivals that of the most popular franchises ever to originate overseas before making the jump to the US, said Dennis Lee, Product Manager for Konami of America. The series weaves an intriguing story filled with mystery and riddles that immerses players in a magical world. The video games bring the Yu-Gi-Oh! world to life.

Both Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories for Nintendo Game Boy Color and Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories for Sony PlayStation are slated to ship on March 19, 2002 at an SRP of $29.99.


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