History of Yu-Gi-Oh!

       The Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters National Tournament (遊戯王デュエルモンスターズ 全国大会 Yugiō Dyueru Monsutāzu zenkoku taikai ) was the first major tournament held by Konami in Ginza, Tokyo from February 1 to February 21, 1999. Instead of using the physical card game, this tournament was based off of the Game Boy game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and its rules.     Information on the tourney's details are somewhat scarce. We don't know the names of the winners, most of how the tournament ran, and other bits of knowledge that gives a more comprehensive look at what happened. This is true for most of the OCG during this and the Old School period. But with what we do have, we can infer something of an outline, even if it isn't fully accurate. Recent years have allowed this to be possible for this tournament as well. So have this tin badge and peer through the mists of time with me.

                      COVER MONSTER: BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON (not in Core Booster)        Volume 1, or Vol.1 , was the first ever CORE BOOSTER in the history of Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! CCG. As the beginning point, you would be surprised to learn that the OCG's beginnings aren't that different from the TCG's in the sense of how limited things were. In fact, the OCG's start was even more limited than what the TCG had. At least the TCG had its rules immediately; Vol.1 only had the cards and little else if Japanese sources are to be believed.      Regardless, this Core Booster played an important role in preparing the foundations of the first Yu-Gi-Oh! Standard Deck and hinted towards how the first OCG format would play.  (There will be a tl;dr for this below.)      Above is the card types in Vol.1. A running theme of Series 1 cards is that the vast majority of monst...