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I hear a lot of adults STILL talking about Pokemon. Pokemon is on the ground and dying, making its last futile struggle to get back onto the popularity chain. When Pokemon fell, a small TV show card game called Yu-Gi-Oh seized the opportunity to come overseas to America. Apparently it was a good investment. All us American kids really loved it. Yu-Gi-Oh is a TV show about Yugi, a teenage kid with a lot of hair who puts together an ancient puzzle and unlocks a freaky alter ego. He has a bunch of friends. They are Joey, Tristan, Tea, Duke, and Kaiba. Kaiba used to be his enemy and is still a big jerk, but somehow they became friends. Tristan and Duke have always been his friends, but they are both really big jerks also. Joey is okay, but he talks with a bad Brooklyn accent. And Tea doesn’t talk much at all but her socks are too tall. Yugi goes and plays enemies at a card game called Duel Monsters, which turned into an actual trading card game. And, I congratulate it for doing so. The basis of the card game is this: two people have decks of Yu-Gi-Oh cards and sit down to play. Each player starts with 8000 life points and five cards in their hands. At the beginning of each turn the player whose turn it is draws a card. They can play one monster a turn (with a maximum of five monsters on the field at a time) and as many magic cards as they want (as long as they only have five magic cards on the field at a time). Monsters are creatures you use to attack with or to defend your life points with. Magic cards are used to help your monsters or your self or to hurt your opponent. When your life points go to zero… then Hasta La Vista, Baby! After it gave birth to the card game, the TV show pretty much went down the dumps. Yugi enters multiple duelist leagues, and he always has to call upon his alter ego to win. I don’t find him much of hero because of this. Calling upon an ancient Pharaoh every time almost seems like cheating. Overall, Yu-Gi-Oh is a great card game with a cheesy TV show. It seems it might be going down a little bit too. And, who knows what fad will come next. Generation Z rates it: B |
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