Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection

CGMagazineJordan Biordi

8.5/10

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection is an incredibly robust collection that is sure to please long-time fans, but may be a bit too archaic for some newcomers.

WayTooManyGamesLeo Faria

8/10

When I was 10 years old, Yu-Gi-Oh was my life. For a brief moment in my life, I was addicted to it. I’d get a booster pack every weekend, I’d take my deck to school, I’d duel my friends during recess. The anime would air twice a day on Nickelodeon, and I wouldn’t miss a single episode. Finally, I consumed Yu-Gi-Oh videogames like a crack addict. Be it the ultra-dated but charming Dark Duel Stories to the absolutely amazing Dungeon Dice Monsters, if it had Yugi’s terrible haircut on ...

GamerBravesRalph

7/10

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection offers players a comprehensive journey through the formative years of one of gaming’s most enduring card battle franchises. Our Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection review explores how the collection balances nostalgic preservation with modern accessibility, examines its strengths and limitations, and evaluates whether it successfully captures an important chapter in gaming history. Bringing together 14 titles from 1998 through 2004, this compilation focuses e...

Game RantAmber Warnock-Estrada

7/10

The Early Days Collection has two major appeals going for it, which also serve as the two main lenses by which it can be judged. On the one hand, there is the matter of how well it succeeds as a collection as a whole. On the other hand, there's the more obvious question of whether the games inside are any fun at all.

SiliconeraCody Perez

7/10

Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION is packed with classic Yu-Gi-Oh! games from the very early days of Dueling — bursting with retro RPGs and strategic card games with beloved anime characters!

COGConnectedRhett Waselenchuk

60/100

It’s clear that Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection will only appeal to a tiny, very niche audience. It just so happens that I fall into that group. Poor choice of included games, an almost disrespectful lack of multiplayer, and no effort put into modernizing mechanics doesn’t exactly make for an enjoyable, user-friendly experience. Despite all of this, I’ve still had fun with it. It’s not great, but damnit, I kinda, sorta, like it.

Worth PlayingCody Medellin

5.5/10

Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection is a new digital title in development, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! has come a long way in the years since these titles, both as a card game to play (many might argue that it’s too complex now) and as something to adapt to video games. This collection is a lot of nostalgic fun to remember the simpler times, but is also important to understand just how limited these games are. It would be like if EA put together a retro compilation of its FIFA football games. Sure, you’d have a rush of nostalgic delight loading up the GBA game that you spent months playing back in the day, but it would only take one or two matches to realise that nostalgia has a h…

Hardcore Gamer Chris Penwell

Yu-Gi-Oh has been a staple in many people's lives for years now, and it's back again, but this time leaning on some of those earlier years with a collection of some of the first games. For better or for worse, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection mostly leaves the games untouched. This means that you'll need to draw each card automatically to your hand in earlier entries and deal with some unattractive UI decisions that can leave some scratching their heads. For example, the Game Boy titles in this collection irritate my brain as you can't set your monsters into defense mode and have to leave t...

TheGamerJoe Parlock

This collection of early Yu-Gi-Oh! games is a few cards short of a deck.

Lords of GamingChris Jones

Unscored

When it comes to trying to capitalize on the nostalgia of its fans the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection tries hard. Here is my review for it.

VGChartzEvan Norris

Unscored

Memory cards.The Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game is a big deal. Alongside Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, it’s one of [...]