Yu-Gi-Oh History Background:

Meet Yugi, and his best buds, Joey, Tristan, and Téa. They share a love for the newest game that's sweeping the nation: Duel Monsters!

Duel Monsters is a card battling game in which players pit different mystical creatures against one another in wild, magical duels! Packed with awesome monsters and mighty spell cards, Yugi and his friends are totally obsessed with the game.

But there's more to this card game than meets the eye!

Legend has it five thousand years ago, ancient Egyptian Pharaohs used to play a magical game very similar to Duel Monsters. This ancient game involved magical ceremonies, which were used to foresee the future and ultimately, decide one's destiny. They called it the Shadow Game, and the main difference back then was that the monsters were all real! With so many magical spells and ferocious creatures on the earth, it wasn't long before the game got out of hand and threatened to destroy the entire world! Fortunately, a brave Pharaoh stepped in and averted this cataclysm with the help of seven powerful magical totems called Millennium Items.  They were the Millennium Puzzle, Millennium Eye, Millennium Ring, Millennium Rod, Millennium Key,  Millennium Necklace and Millennium Scales,.

Now, in present times, the game has been revived in the form of playing cards called Duel Monster's.

Meanwhile, Yugi's grandfather gives Yugi an old Egyptian puzzle that no one can solve, but when Yugi finally pieces the puzzle together, his life is forever changed. The puzzle instills Yugi  with incredible powers, and ultimately creates his alter ego, Yami Yugi!

Soon after, the mysterious creator of the Duel Monsters card game, Maximillion Pegasus, kidnaps Yugi's grandfather and Yugi is drawn into a Duel Monster's competition that Pegasus arranged. Now Yugi must duel his way through a tournament and defeat Pegasus in order to save his grandfather.

After Yugi defeats Pegasus and rescues his grandfather he returns to his home in Domino City.  Even before he can relax after Duelist Kingdom his grandfather's challenged by Rebecca Hawkins who thinks that Soloman Motou's stolen her grandfather's card the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and challenges him to a duel for rightful ownership for the card.  Yugi, won't let his grandfather duel after getting out of the hospital and instead says he'll take his grandfather's place and duel her instead.  In the end Rebbeca learns a valuable lesson in friendship and becomes great friends with Yugi and the others.  Things continue to get worse as the Big Five who had originally under Pegasus's control tries yet again to gain control of Kaiba Corp from Seto Kaiba, and traps him in his own virtual game that they messed up.  Mokuba, goes and with the help of Yugi, Joey, and Mia they rescue Kaiba, but in the end it's Yugi and Kaiba's combination that defeats the Final Five.  Soon after Yugi suddenly is tricked by a fortune hunter who steels the Millennium Puzzle for him and demands that they duel for the Millennium Puzzle, without the spirit Yugi must duel alone.  As the duel continues Yugi figures out that it's Bandit Keith, but in reality it's Marik who's controlling him through the power of his Millennium Rod.  In the end Bakura saves the day, but in reality it was only Yami Bakura who saved the day so as to put a part of his spirit so that he can forever be close to the Millennium Puzzle.

Soon Ishizu Ishtar arrives in Domino to show off the Pharoah's Tablets.  Inviting Seto Kaiba to a private invite she shows the tablet's to kaiba and the depictions show him an ancient priest fighting against the pharoah who looks like Yugi his rival.  She talks about the three egyptian god cards and how that the Rare Hunters under there leader stole two of them, but only one was saved Obelisk the Tormentor and gives it to Kaiba.  In this that's how Battle City started.......................

In the beginning round Yugi defeated the Rare Hunter, who had taken Joey's Red Eyes Black Dragon.  Joey beats Espa Roba who cheated with the use of his brothers help telling him what cards his opponent had.  Yugi in turns defeats Arkana who says he's the best Dark Magician user and in the end it's Yugi who triumphs yet again.  Joey then battles Weevil Underwood, and though it looked like he was about to lose Joey defeats him and wins two locator cards and his Insect Queen.  Yugi then battles The Silent One(Mime) who holds the second Egyptian God Card Slyfer the Sky Dragon.  In the end Marik can't win for Yugi uses Marik's Slime Defender to defeat him and gain the Egyptian God Card Slyfer the Sky Dragon for himself.  While the duel had commenced Marik under the disguise of Namu helps Bakura to Joey, Tea and Soloman and Soloman takes Bakura to the hospital, however Marik's Rare Hunter's come and kidnapped  them. Yugi tries to go after them, but is stopped by Umbra and Lumus, in the end Yugi and Kaiba double duel them and defeat them.  With Mokuba's help they find Joey and Tea under Marik's control.  Yugi ends up dueling Joey, giving him the Millennium Puzzle and ends up winning.  Thus starts the Battle City Finals..............

In the first round of the Battle City Finals, Yugi duels with the Evil Spirit of the Millennium Ring, and with the help of Slyfer the Sky Dragon wins.  He then runs into Shadi who explains who the Egyptian God Cards came to pass.


OBelisk The Tormentor:  Slyfer The Sky Dragon:   Winged Dragon of Ra

Soon Joey is battling Marik/Odion and now it looks like he's about to be eliminated from the Battle City Finals. Odion tries to summon The Winged Dragon of Ra, but the real God Dragon is angered by Odion's attempt to play a fake card so it send lightening to strike Odion and Joey. Odion almost rises, but collapeses and Joey finally gets up. Odion points to the real Master Marik, the one everyone knew as Namu. Soon however the darkness hidden inside Marik arrises and Yami Marik is born, telling that the battle for the Pharoah's powers start now.

In the third Battle City Finals Match it's between Mia Valentine and the real Yami Marik. At first it looks like Mia's winning easily. However Yami Marik, quickly transfers them all to the Shadow Realm, where now Mia being hit hard. She's lost the ability to see her friend Tea and so who's next that she'll lose the ability to see. Will she win, or will her mind be sent into the Shadow Realm? Mia ended up getting Marik's Egyptian God Card The Winged Dragon of Ra, but Marik turned it around and was going to attack Mia with it. Joey jumped into the fray trying to save Mia and both were about to be finished when Yami came up putting himself in front of them and taking Ra's attack for them. Yami was knocked out, Joey was paralyzed by Marik and Marik put Mia's mind into the Shadow Realm.

The Fourth Battle City Tournament Battle was Seto Kaiba againt's Ishizu Ishtar, who was late for the duel with Seto in the first place. Using the power of her Millennium Neclace Ishizu told Kaiba that his disbelief int the cards would be his undoing. It showed her that Obelisk would be his downfall. Marik's Millennium Rod suddenly blazed and Kaiba started seeing pictures of the past and saw his Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Summoning it to the field he defeated Ishizu. Later Ishizu told Yugi and the gang that Marik was once an innocent boy, but Joey will here non of it and he and Yugi won't stop until Marik is finished.

In the last part Yami Marik was about to get rid of Odion once and for all, but Yami Bakura and the real Marik decided to interfere for the last time together. Soon they dueled in a Shadow Game. Whenever the duelist lost lifepoints part of his body despaired. So far Yami Bakura was losing, but he was able to get the Winged Dragon of Ra and summon it to the field. However when Yami Bakura destroyed it, Yami Marik summoned it with Monster Reborn and attacked Yami Bakura with Instant Attack. Meanwhile Yugi and Tea are looking all over for Bakura after Tea noticed that he was gone. They then go up to the top of the blimp and see the Fog representing the Shadow Realm. Yami wants Tea to leave, but Tea refuses to leave and stays instead. Yami's to late as Yami Marik takes the Millennium Ring, and Yami leaves. Tea however is taken over by the real Marik and he goes and tells Ishizu that he needs her help. Yami Bakura however wasn't destroyed he's still got a part of his spirit inside the Millennium Puzzle.

In the morning the gang is awaken to problems on the Air Ship. They run to the control room where Kaiba, Mokuba and Kaiba's two goons are trying to get control of the ship. Without success. Suddenly the view screen shows a small boy with green hair and he tells that Kaiba and the other duelist have to come with him. The ship is being led to a new underwater ship and when they get out everything would chance from there. Noah as he was named tells them to walk down the hall. Five voices emerge. Gansley(Deep Sea Worrier), Crump(Penguin), Johnson(Judgeman), Nezbitt(Machine King) , Lector(Jinzo). Soon everyone is transferred to the Virtual World, and with the Deck Master ability with this if there Deck Master is destroyed then they lose the duel and the big five member that defeats them gets to take over there body into the real world. Thus YU-GI-OH: ENTER THE SHADOW REALM starts.

In the first duel it Yugi(Deck Master: Kariboh) -VS.- Gansley(Deep Sea Warrior). Yugi and Gansley both fight back and fourth until Yugi finally gets the headway and using Rainbow Arch and Swift Gaia to attack Deep Sea Worrier directly to defeat him. Yugi then goes through a doorway hoping it will lead to Tea and the others. Seto and Mokuba are reliving there memories and it starts with the orphanage they grew up in and then to Gozabora and the adoption.

In the second duel it's Tea(Dark Magician Girl) -VS.- Crump(Penguin King). Tea is getting beat badly and it looks like she's about to be defeated. Dark Magician Girl's Special Effect let's her summon any Dark Magician from any nearby duelist. Yugi's pounding on the ice trying to get to her so his Dark Magician is summoned. Tea wins. Soon Yugi and Tea are reunited and the two of them go in search of the others. Seto and Mokuba are seeing more memories and this is when Gozabora tells Seto that he can't have any more toys until he studies better. Mokuba puts Seto's Duel Monster Cards into a book and Seto said that one day he'd really have the Blue-Eyes White Dragon for a Duel Monster's Card.

In the third duel it's Joey(Flame Swordsman) -VS.- Johnson(Judgeman). Flame Swordsman's special ability gives Joey the ability to add points from Flame Swordman's attack point to increase his monsters attack points. In the beginning Joey looks like he'll win easily, but then Johnson turns it around and now Joey's in trouble. Yugi and Tea find there way to Joey and the three are reunited. Then Seto and Mokuba go to a beach and see a TV, inside they watch as Joey's dueling Johnson. Johnson however also starts to cheat, but Noah sees this and is about to end the duel, when Joey says not to that he can still beat him. Noah says fine, though he thinks that Joey will lose the duel. Joey overcomes the odds and beats Johnson.

In the fourth duel it's Duke(Armed Ninja) Tristan( Serenity(Goddess With The Third Eye) -VS.- Nezbitt(Machine King). Duke, Serenity, and Tristan are losing big time and Nezbitt wants to beat Serenity first. In a desperate move Tristan sacrifices his Deck Master to save Serenity. Tristan loses and falls below. Serenity falls apart as we speak. Just then Joey, Yugi and Tea find them and Yugi tells them they've got to use the card Tristan left on the field. Combining Tristan's card, Serenity uses her Deck Master's special ability Fusion to make Saint Joan which destroys Perfect Machine King(Nezbitt). Nezbitt however decides to take Tristan's body for the time being. At the end of all this a monkey wakes up and it ends up being Tristan.

Nezbitt in the form of Tristan follows Seto and Mokuba and say's, "Hello Seto Kaiba." Mokuba turns and thinks it Tristan, but then Nezbitt jumps down with a metal poll and attacks Kaiba. Seto cannot believe this and tries to stop Seto. Just then Yugi and the others' reunited with Kaiba appear. Nezbett then steels a motorcycle and kidnaps Mokuba. Seto also takes a motorcycle and follows. However Noah takes Mokuba from Nezbitt. Seto's then challenged to a duel with Lector(Jinzo). It takes a few minutes, but Seto recognizes the duelist he's about to duel against. Seto's in a tight spot, especially when Lector activates Satalight Cannon, and every turn Satalight Cannon's attack points go up by 1000. Seto then summons his Blue-Eyes White Dragon to destroy Satalight Cannon which in turn defeats Lector. Now the Big 5 are gone, but Mokuba's still missing.

We open up with Seto going after his brother, and telling Yugi and the others it's family business and to leave it to him to find Mokuba. Yugi and Tea run off to follow Seto. Joey and Duke say no way, but Serenity says otherwise, they run, but the tunnel disappears leaving the three of them and Monkey Tristan, who they think is Noah's spy alone. Soon 4 of the Big 5 show up and instead of dueling they will take Joey, Duke and Serenity's bodies by force. Escaping away in a truck they tri to lose the four suits. As all of this is happening Yugi and Tea are running around an old mansion(Gozaboro's Mansion), looking for the baby that's crying. Seto's talking to Noah, and finds out Mokuba wants to stay with Noah, then leave with Seto. Yugi finds a picture of Noah and some other guy(gosoboro). Seto's about to watch another clip when Yugi and Tea show up, Yugi gives Seto the picture, but Seto says it's not possible, that it's a trick to mess up his mind. Just then the Noah in the clip says, "Yes, Father." Tea, Yugi and Seto are shocked and in disbelief. Noah says that there long lost Stepbrothers. Just then an alarm starts and the picture show Joey, Serenity and Duke being chased by the four suits. Noah leaves and takes care of the four suits. Yugi, Tea and Seto leave and finds them. They find out that Noah hasn't aged in nearly over 6 years.

Noah opens up the new part tells the Big 5 to defeat Yugi in a duel and then they'll have there own bodies. Seto says that he's going by himself, Tea says he can't leave that Mokuba's their friend and they want to help. Seto says worry about him instead. It's Nezbitt in Tristan's body. The Big 5 challenge Yugi to a duel, in which he accepts. Joey says not way, that there a team and ends up dueling with Yugi as well. Gansley(Deep Sea Warrior) starts off first. Then Crump starts and Yugi plays Card Destruction to get rid of Ledgendary Ocean(Atlantis Card). Yugi then plays Koribo. Seto meanwhile walks up to the top of stairs and overseas his Kaiba Land and gasps as how Noah knows this and wonders, "Who is this kid?" Saturday continues the series. Yugi and Joey are still dueling the Big 5 and Johnson has now taken over and ready to destroy them both, well acually Joey. Using Judgeman's special ability he destroy's all of the monsters on Yugi and Joey's feild, plus costing them to lose 1000 lifepoints in the process leaving them both with 3000 lifepoints. He then sends Heritic Angel to attack Joey's lifepoints, then uses Catapult Turtle to sent Angel at Joey to lower his lifepoint counter to 300 Lifepoints. Joey's turn comes and summon's Rocket Worrior and using Flame Swordsman's ability he raises Rocket Worriors attack power to 2500 so that he can attack and destroy Catapult Turtle. Johnson then uses a magic card to sacrifice Rocket Worrior for his Machine King. Yugi's turn's next and he summons Rock Spirit by taking his Buster Blader out of play. He then sacrifices Rock Spirit for Death Volstargaf and to end his turn he lays down Mirror Force. Johnson's trying to decide to either attack or not attack for Yugi's bluff. He decides to bluff which costs him his Machine King. Volstargaf's special effect that every time a magic card is played Volstargaf get's a 200 power up bonus and it destroy's Machine King. It also causes 500 more lifepoints dropping the Big 5's lifepoints down to 6400. Yugi finished the duel by attacking with Dark Magician Knight to destroy Beserk Dragon that the Big 5 had ont the field. Soon after the Big 5 tried to take the gangs bodies forcefully, but Noa came in again and told them cheeting again and got rid of them and put them into their own spots in the Virtual World of Noa's. Robot Tristan leads the gang to where Seto and Noa are battling for the right of Kaiba Corp. Noa tricks Kaiba and uses Mokuba for a shild, knowing that Seto would never attack to hurt his brother. Blue-Eyes White Dragon helps, but Shinito comes and destroys it. Seto and Mokuba are turned to stone. Yami takes over and demands that Noa duel him, because he'll continue where Kaiba left off. Noa excepts, but will Yugi come to regret this decision and put all of his freinds in danger of staying in the Virtual reality World Forever?

Yamii starts off the battle and put his Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts in defence mode and ends his turn. Noah uses Shinato's special effect to destroy Yami's monster so that both of them don't have monsters on the feild. Yami draws yet again and plays Cyber Jar which destroys all monsters on the feild including Shinato, but before Noa loses Shinato, though, he "unbinds" himself from Shinato by using its final effect: Noa can recall Shinato back to the Deckmaster position if it is going to be destroyed, but he can never summon Shinato again. Noah's had about enough of Yami's friends cheering him on and decides to turn Duke Devlin into stone, and that he will turn everyone to stone with every turn he takes. Yami puts his Kurriboh in defence mode, but Noah plays Yamata Dragon to destroy Yami's Kurriboh and probably ending the duel.

Yami plays a magic card that prevents him from losing lifepoints. Noah's inraged and decideds yet to turn Tristan the Monkey into stone as well. Joey's angry and starts to say stuff, but Noah threatens to turn Joey's sister Serenity into stone on his next turn. Yugi is able to get both Dark Magician Girl and Dark Magician onto the field, then he uses his Dark Magic Ritual to summon The Magician of Black Chaos onto the field. Yami's about to lower Noah's attack points almost down to zero, when Noah plays a trap causing Dark Magician Girl to come to his side of the feild and be destroyed by the attack made by Yami, causing Yami to lose lifepoints in the process and Noah to gain the lifepoints that Yugi lost. It's looking grim for Yami and then Joey and then Tea are turned to stone, causing Yami to lose faith in the duel thinking he cann't win any more. Yugi shows up then and tells him it's not true, that everyone's with him, and shows Yami a new room he's never seen before, it's the room of Resent Memories. Yugi shows Yami that everyone's there including Seto and Mokuba, who tell them not to give up and not to let Noah win. Yami then plays Card of Sanctity causing both players to draw 6 cards from their deck. Joey, Tea, Tristan, Serenity, Duke, and Seto each give him a card and Yami tells Noah that he has no next turn. Yami then plays Monster Reborn to summon Seto's Blue-Eyes White Dragon that Noah had destroyed ealier in the duel. Yami then plays Polermization to fuze three blue eyes into Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon to destroy Noah's Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi. Yami then plays Defuse to defuse the Ultimate Dragon and dirrectly attacks Noah with all three Blue-Eyes White Dragon's ending the game.

Yami's won and everyone is turned back to normal including Seto and Mokuba. Yami, tells Noah that his mind is so destorted from being traped in the computer for 6 years. Noah knows this and decides to take over Yami's body, but something happens. First the Millennium Items fly by, the image of yami as Pharaoh, then Yami's able to see where there bodies are, and he demands to Noah what he has done to them. Then a flash of light comes, preventing Noah from taking over Yami's body. Soon the sky darkens and a new voice appears, who could it be? It's Gozaburo Kaiba and he's the one who's been behind this whole thing. Gozaburo goes aheand tells everyone that he's going to make sure that everyone in the real world becomes virtual. Seto says that it will never happen and demands Gozaburo to come back after he leaves. Noah leads them to a cave then tells them that to go through a door to get to the real world. It's a lie and everyone sees flashbacks of Battle City, then their all in the square, wondering where Mokuba, Seto and Noah have gone. Noah takes over Mokuba's body and enters the real world.

Noah reprograms the computer so that the satalite will fire on the Main Computer and destroy everyone in the Virtual World. Seto goes to Kaiba Corporation and demands that Gozaburo let them all go. Gozaburo challenges Seto to a Duel Monster's match, for the rematch of him losing Chess to him. Meanwhile Yugi and the others are battleing monsters sent out by Gozaburo. Soon they destroy the monters. Meanwhile at the duel Gozaburo ends up summoning Exodia Necross, and it's effects are it can't be destroyed by magic, trap, spell, monster, and it also gains 1000 points when it attacks a monster, making it invinsible. Seto can't believe it's Exodia, he still hates it and remembers that Yugi defeated him with it in his first duel with Yugi. Noah's about to leave on the helicopter when he thinks that what he has done is wrong and goes to reverse what he did, but Yami Marik destroyed the computers and he can't fix it. Noah then runs to where the Life Pods are and tells everyone that the satalite' s about to attack and destroy the Main Computer and everyone that's in it. Everyone is left in shock. Noah then tells them that he's sorry for what's he's done and he helps Tea, Serenity, and Tristan to get out of the Virtual World first. Joey and Duke stay behind to help Yugi take care of the monsters attacking them. Then Duke and Joey leave, leaving Yugi behind to stay behind and at Noah's request goes in search of Seto and get him out, before they are lost forever. Seto meanwhile finds a way through Dark Necros and destroys it winning the duel. However Gozabora transforms himself into a giant red creature and is about to take over Seto's body, when Yugi uses the controls to move Seto out of the way. Trusting Noah, they escape through another back door, make by Noah. There, Yugi, Seto, and Mokuba leave the underwater ship behind. After the explosion, Gozabora swallows the ship thinking he's won, but Seto had the blimp build into a flying ship underneath and they escape unscratched. Gozabora's been defeated finally. Now the final four duelists, Yugi Motou, Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, and Yami Marik get ready for the continuation of the Battle City Finals and who will battle who, and win the unltimate King of Games and #1 Duelist In the World Standings. Can Yugi defeat Yami Marik and help Yami regain his memories, or will Yami Marik gain his freedom, and drain Yami of his powers and become the new Pharoah? Find out in the Battle Royal Part 1 This Saturday!!!!

How will Yugi do it? Will the help of his friends, his belief in the heart of the cards, and the mysterious power of his magical Millennium Puzzle be enough?

Giant monsters! Powerful magic! And ancient Egyptian legends! Yu-Gi-Oh! King of Games! is one action packed adventure series that holds all the cards! It's your move.