You know how everyone has their own story as to how they got into Yu-Gi-Oh? Well, I figured since I had some downtime, I'd take some time to tell you how i got into yugioh...
I first heard about yugioh from TV around 2000-2001 during my seventh grade year in Junior High School in Marysville, KS...during this time, I had played Pokemon and DragonballZ card games (why pokemon? i don't know...just needed something to do perhaps XD) I was around 14 years old when I acquire my first yu-gi-oh card that i have kept to this very day (Blue-Eyes White Dragon) and I thought to myself "Hey...if I like card games so much and since everyone seems to be into yugioh, why not me?" So I decided that I would save up my allowance each week for Yu-Gi-Oh cards...even though I had fallen behind in collecting (I think it was up to Dark Beginning 2 or Dark Revelations 1), I managed to gain some good cards from starter decks and many of my friends were kind enough to trade for cards...my first card trade was b/w me and a friend of mine who is no longer into yugioh...he traded me a blue-eyes white dragon for my Sanga of the Thunder...that was my second blue-eyes...as time wore on and as i got older, i became fascinated by the game itself. I always wondered what a duel looked like. However, my friends were only collectors, so i had to spend time watching yugioh episodes from the 4th series of the original yugioh on up to the final season of it to get the hang of the dueling process...i got rulebook after rulebook after each update...by the time I turned 15, my collection had gone from small to a good size (3 big binders (1 for monsters, 1 for spells, and 1 for traps)). Along the way, i picked up some duels for training and even did Ante Duels (Duels where you put cards up for grabs and winner takes all) I acquired my 3rd blue-eyes with that tactic, and even gained some cards that i currently use to this day (Mirror Force, Swords of Revealing Light, etc.) I eventually became what my family called "obsessed with yugioh" because all i talked about was yugioh and how i wanted to be the best...i had a hard time getting to Wal-Mart to buy cards every week, considering i needed my mom or dad to bring me there until i got my own vehicle. Yu-Gi-Oh had become a major part of my life...
What really got me into the game was my first duel. I got schooled easily by one of my classmates who had been dueling for years. That loss lit a fire in me and provided me the motivation and one goal: Duel against anyone and everyone who is into yugioh and dueling. I wanted to prove that even a newbie duelist can take out experienced duelists with enough effort. I picked up on the rules quickly and adapted to the Ban List that updated every 6 months. I even participated in some local tourneys. A close friend of mine had me take his place in a tournament back home and I wound up winning the tourney (even though i think it was a fluke...I learned 2 things from that tournament:
1. never give in, even if the odds are stacked...and
2. believe in your skills and yourself and you will go far in the world of dueling
After that tournament I participated in numerous duels and tournaments to sharpen my skills as a duelist...I improved very quickly, up to the point where i challenged my friend who cleaned my clock and giving him a major run for his money before i finally lost. I kept at it, making decks and working on strategies for 'em...my most successful deck from then was probably a mix of drags and spellcasters together running Blue-Eyes Ultimate with Dark Paladin...as time passed, my collection grew to the point that I could not hold them in a normal bookbag XD (yeah, i used up all my allowance every week on cards
but it's fun)
I eventually stopped dueling when i turned 17 at the behest of my family to focus on school, but i kept collecting to honor my attachment to yugioh...when i graduated high school, i tried to pick back up where i left off, but once again was shot down by my family saying it's a kids game...so after so much time arguing, they agreed to just let me collect yugioh cards as long as i didn't go to tournaments...I was happy that i got to collect, but i just didn't feel the same without dueling in my life...don't get me wrong, school is important...however, school to me was lame...i got bored easily, topics go at a slow pace when i like it at a fast pace...
When i moved down here to Birmingham, AL, i met 2 classmates and a few residents who were into yugioh, so after my parents left for Kansas, I secretly picked back up the pieces, bringing all of my Yugioh cards with me to Birmingham, and dueling all of those into yugioh...I won some and I lost some...however, it felt great just to finally do what I had wanted to do for so long...living my passion for yugioh by dueling AND collecting. I even had more resources to gain more cards. At first, i didn't know how to get to those places, but finally got the hang of the transportation system, and it was no problem from there. Last year, I was known for having the biggest Yugioh collection of all my friends: 9 binders full (3 for monsters, 1 for normal and continuous spells, 1 for equip, field, quickplay, and ritual spells, 2 for normal traps, 1 for continuous and counter traps, and one for forbidden and special cards) Now, my friends and others into yugioh come to me for help for yugioh and trading cards...reliving my passion for yugioh also helped me do well in classes b/c i didn't have that empty feeling...I never felt so happy as I did when i got back into it...
When it all comes down to it, I feel that what inspired me to get into yugioh is how the game was made and how creative you can be with making decks, strategies, etc. What really got me further into it was the fact that there were millions of people who must be good at dueling and I hoped that someday, i'll be just as good as them...now that i am a part of Dark Armed Dragon Academy, i feel i can make the blazing passion burn brighter than ever by dueling those from all over the world thru KCVDS...
I have had great experiences with Yugioh, making new friends, meeting new people, and even learning more about myself...I really hope that I can do even better in the future (become part of Obelisk Blue or Ra Yellow, or even become like my friend Kiryu111: King of Games...even though i'd have to topple him first and earn that title thru persistence, resilience, victories, and accepting losses...taking all of that in stride of the ultimate goal of becoming the KoG is what is, what has been, and what will always be pushing me farther and making me claw further up that steep mountain (dueling others) until i stand at the top (earn the title of KoG)
well that's about enough of my experiences and what got me into yugioh...hope you didn't get bored of this article and hope to get some opinions
Peace out
I first heard about yugioh from TV around 2000-2001 during my seventh grade year in Junior High School in Marysville, KS...during this time, I had played Pokemon and DragonballZ card games (why pokemon? i don't know...just needed something to do perhaps XD) I was around 14 years old when I acquire my first yu-gi-oh card that i have kept to this very day (Blue-Eyes White Dragon) and I thought to myself "Hey...if I like card games so much and since everyone seems to be into yugioh, why not me?" So I decided that I would save up my allowance each week for Yu-Gi-Oh cards...even though I had fallen behind in collecting (I think it was up to Dark Beginning 2 or Dark Revelations 1), I managed to gain some good cards from starter decks and many of my friends were kind enough to trade for cards...my first card trade was b/w me and a friend of mine who is no longer into yugioh...he traded me a blue-eyes white dragon for my Sanga of the Thunder...that was my second blue-eyes...as time wore on and as i got older, i became fascinated by the game itself. I always wondered what a duel looked like. However, my friends were only collectors, so i had to spend time watching yugioh episodes from the 4th series of the original yugioh on up to the final season of it to get the hang of the dueling process...i got rulebook after rulebook after each update...by the time I turned 15, my collection had gone from small to a good size (3 big binders (1 for monsters, 1 for spells, and 1 for traps)). Along the way, i picked up some duels for training and even did Ante Duels (Duels where you put cards up for grabs and winner takes all) I acquired my 3rd blue-eyes with that tactic, and even gained some cards that i currently use to this day (Mirror Force, Swords of Revealing Light, etc.) I eventually became what my family called "obsessed with yugioh" because all i talked about was yugioh and how i wanted to be the best...i had a hard time getting to Wal-Mart to buy cards every week, considering i needed my mom or dad to bring me there until i got my own vehicle. Yu-Gi-Oh had become a major part of my life...
What really got me into the game was my first duel. I got schooled easily by one of my classmates who had been dueling for years. That loss lit a fire in me and provided me the motivation and one goal: Duel against anyone and everyone who is into yugioh and dueling. I wanted to prove that even a newbie duelist can take out experienced duelists with enough effort. I picked up on the rules quickly and adapted to the Ban List that updated every 6 months. I even participated in some local tourneys. A close friend of mine had me take his place in a tournament back home and I wound up winning the tourney (even though i think it was a fluke...I learned 2 things from that tournament:
1. never give in, even if the odds are stacked...and
2. believe in your skills and yourself and you will go far in the world of dueling
After that tournament I participated in numerous duels and tournaments to sharpen my skills as a duelist...I improved very quickly, up to the point where i challenged my friend who cleaned my clock and giving him a major run for his money before i finally lost. I kept at it, making decks and working on strategies for 'em...my most successful deck from then was probably a mix of drags and spellcasters together running Blue-Eyes Ultimate with Dark Paladin...as time passed, my collection grew to the point that I could not hold them in a normal bookbag XD (yeah, i used up all my allowance every week on cards
but it's fun)I eventually stopped dueling when i turned 17 at the behest of my family to focus on school, but i kept collecting to honor my attachment to yugioh...when i graduated high school, i tried to pick back up where i left off, but once again was shot down by my family saying it's a kids game...so after so much time arguing, they agreed to just let me collect yugioh cards as long as i didn't go to tournaments...I was happy that i got to collect, but i just didn't feel the same without dueling in my life...don't get me wrong, school is important...however, school to me was lame...i got bored easily, topics go at a slow pace when i like it at a fast pace...
When i moved down here to Birmingham, AL, i met 2 classmates and a few residents who were into yugioh, so after my parents left for Kansas, I secretly picked back up the pieces, bringing all of my Yugioh cards with me to Birmingham, and dueling all of those into yugioh...I won some and I lost some...however, it felt great just to finally do what I had wanted to do for so long...living my passion for yugioh by dueling AND collecting. I even had more resources to gain more cards. At first, i didn't know how to get to those places, but finally got the hang of the transportation system, and it was no problem from there. Last year, I was known for having the biggest Yugioh collection of all my friends: 9 binders full (3 for monsters, 1 for normal and continuous spells, 1 for equip, field, quickplay, and ritual spells, 2 for normal traps, 1 for continuous and counter traps, and one for forbidden and special cards) Now, my friends and others into yugioh come to me for help for yugioh and trading cards...reliving my passion for yugioh also helped me do well in classes b/c i didn't have that empty feeling...I never felt so happy as I did when i got back into it...
When it all comes down to it, I feel that what inspired me to get into yugioh is how the game was made and how creative you can be with making decks, strategies, etc. What really got me further into it was the fact that there were millions of people who must be good at dueling and I hoped that someday, i'll be just as good as them...now that i am a part of Dark Armed Dragon Academy, i feel i can make the blazing passion burn brighter than ever by dueling those from all over the world thru KCVDS...
I have had great experiences with Yugioh, making new friends, meeting new people, and even learning more about myself...I really hope that I can do even better in the future (become part of Obelisk Blue or Ra Yellow, or even become like my friend Kiryu111: King of Games...even though i'd have to topple him first and earn that title thru persistence, resilience, victories, and accepting losses...taking all of that in stride of the ultimate goal of becoming the KoG is what is, what has been, and what will always be pushing me farther and making me claw further up that steep mountain (dueling others) until i stand at the top (earn the title of KoG)
well that's about enough of my experiences and what got me into yugioh...hope you didn't get bored of this article and hope to get some opinions
Peace out
