Why Is This Yu-Gi-Oh! Game So Popular? - (Forbidden Memories)

Why Is THIS Game So POPULAR? - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories #yugioh #forbiddenmemories

Today we're taking a look at a Playstation 1 classic that has taken Yu-Gi-Oh! fans all over the world by storm and, for some reason, still continues to be massively popular today.
Also, huge thanks to @Jon_Oh for inspiring this video and sorry for stealing your name idea!

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00:00 - Intro
02:55 - Past Appeal
08:30 - Modern Appeal
11:16 - Mods
14:06 - Outro

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[Din-Oh]

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00:00 - Intro
02:55 - Past Appeal
08:30 - Modern Appeal
11:16 - Mods
14:06 - Outro

[KryselITG]

Ah yes, Twin Headed Thunder Dragon: The Game

[ThaRixer]

Thanks for the shoutout, i actually just did a race of this game yesterday and managed to finish in 7 hours ^^

[MaikoGabrielKinzelEngelke]

Before the bootleg cards became popular here, this game was the only access to the card game similar to the anime, and the fusion mechanic was certainly really nice and appealing. After the cards appeared, I remember having tried to understand the rules by reading the English manual (before I properly learned English), and became the only one who understood the rules... Everybody else just assumed Forbidden Memories rules(and some of the anime rules such as no tribute summoning), and the duels became boring because all they did was fill their decks with strong monsters not knowing they couldn't be summoned without tributes.

[Xeogran]

Because the 3D models and animated battles are awesome and hold up to this day.
A lot of people who looked for a Yu-Gi-Oh game were amazed by the 3D display of sheer amount of monsters and it's remembered fondly.
The Egyptian atmosphere through all of the game is also very unique. It's a very mysterious feeling, that no other game has really replicated for me even now.

[jonathanplooij]

7:48 i remember doing more than 70 duels to get 1 meteor black dragon. Then i traded it on a different memory card, made a copy of that memory card and traded back multiple times.

[solrac]

There's another reason for that success: the soundtrack of this game is simply amazing. I only wish that Duelist of the Roses could receive such care with mods from the community, another amazing game. And i'm from Brazil huehuebr

[mistaken_stranger]

I remember getting this game when I was like 5 years old for Christmas. Maybe it's pure nostalgia but I still love the simplicity of the game. Yeah it essentially became a race to get a meteor black dragon or even a twin headed thunder dragon but there is something exciting about it.that I can't just put my finger on.

[gabbagundam]

I loved this game, it broke me on so many levels that I cant help but loving it.
The fact it was set in the mysterious past of yugioh helped it a lot.

[alexanderklassen]

Great video! This game is pure nostalgia. The cryptic and seemingly unbeatable nature of the game is what makes it so alluring to revisit after so many years.

[PopeDuwang]

I’m so happy to hear others that Love Capsule Monster Coliseum. Truly an Underrated Game imo. To hear you may tackle this game in the future makes me very happy.

[PhillyFaithful]

1. Nostalgic PS1 graphics
2. Incredible soundtrack
3. Original gameplay with an interesting twist on the regular card game
4. Very difficult to beat
5. RNG grinds

[HopUpOutDaBed]

I would say one other aspect for its popularity is that it's unique. If you want to play around with this game's mechanics you HAVE to play this specific game (or a mod). Whereas if I want to play with regular yugioh mechanics there's a huge catalogue to choose from so the fanbase for any individual game is smaller.

[phiefer]

The reason this game is so popular is because it was so terrible in the best possible way.

Also, the timing that it came out, while the real card game was out, it was still in its infancy. Part of the charm of the manga and early anime (both season 0 and main anime) were intriguingly vague about how the card game worked. The rules were always a little fuzzy, how things worked seemed to change all the time. I think this is part of what made fans so interested in it being made into a real card game in the first place. It had just the right mix of rules structure and utter nonsense to make people want to know more about it.

And FM held a lot of the same charm. It was almost like a fleshed out fan-theory both about how the card game worked and about the plot of the anime itself (since the end of the manga hadn't been written yet, the early games such as this one really just made one up), including the use of character designs with completely different names and personalities. The game literally pretended to answer the types of questions that everyone had about Yugioh in those early days like it was that kid down the street whose dad worked at Konami.

Finally, the way it hooks you early on with a fusion mechanic that is intuitive but non-transparent, before just shutting you down with the massive difficulty jump at the end both serve to make the game memorable and but taunting.

[NoLuckJustSkill]

I respect you for referencing Jon_Oh. Nice Video bro

[Teizhcial]

hell everyone seems to forget that there are 3D models and animations for every monster card in the game too

[dman]

I had SO MUCH fun with this game when I was a child-teen, I spent so many hour son this game, and the first (of many) time I beat it... it felt glorious. It's so true that, this game without internet, had such a magical feeling in it by discovering os many of it's mechanics. Good times

[PikaLink]

4:55 Finally someone non-English who related to me. I grew up in Denmark where games rarely get translated. I still remember having to guess my way through Pokémon Red as a 6-7 year old, because what the hell was a "vine whip" and a "thundershock" and a "bubblebeam"? Granted I was a fast learner and the show being in Danish helped, but still. I remember me and my classmates in school having a hell of a time just figuring out how to get past the sleeping man in Viridian City because no one could understand what you needed to do to get rid of him.

[karlangas]

i watched this video while farming a mod of FM :D
the last memories, with effects and crazy broken enemies.
good vid pal

[Hmty]

Your channel is going to grow just fine, this was an excellent video!

For some reason, I've been witnessing a lot of new Yu-Gi-Oh videos and it seems the interest for it is having a new wave of interest among the mainstream public.

I may try to play this game soon, since I never had a PSX myself and used to play the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh games quite a lot...

By the way, I really like your guitar collection! 🤘