Woot has restocked the physical edition of Yu-Gi Oh Early Days Collection for $32 (was $50). This Nintendo Switch deal has already sold out once, so fans may want to snag this one sooner rather than later. You can make your purchase with your Amazon account and Prime members get free shipping. Amazon and Walmart also have deals on the recently released retro compilation, but the prices aren’t quite as low.
The Early Days Collection launched on February 27 exclusively for Nintendo Switch and PC. It comes with 14 Game Boy, GBC, and GBA games that originally released from 1998 to 2003. The Switch-exclusive physical edition also comes with a Secret Rare Yu-Gi-Oh trading card. Though you’ll miss out on the free card, you can get a Steam key for $39 (was $50) at Green Man Gaming.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection for Nintendo Switch
$32 at Woot / $39 at Amazon / $34 at Walmart
Each launch-edition physical copy includes one of two Quarter Century Secret Rare Harpie’s Feather Duster cards.
Here’s the full list of games, all of which originally released on Game Boy (GB), Game Boy Color (GBC), or Game Boy Advance (GBA). Five of the 14 games in the Early Days Collection were previously only available in Japan.
- Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters (1998, GB) – New
- Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 2: Dark Duel Stories (1999, GBC) – New
- Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Capsule GB (2000, GBC) – New
- Yu-Gi-Oh Dark Duel Stories (2000, GBC)
- Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists (2000, GBC) – New
- Yu-Gi-Oh Dungeon Dice Monsters (2001, GBA)
- Yu-Gi-Oh The Eternal Duelist Soul (2001, GBA)
- Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2 (2001, GBA) – New
- Yu-Gi-Oh The Sacred Cards (2002, GBA)
- Yu-Gi-Oh Reshef of Destruction (2003, GBA)
- Yu-Gi Oh Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel (2003, GBA)
Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters was the franchise’s first big hit and the only entry to release on original Game Boy. The series really hit its stride on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance in the early 2000s. Remarkably, all 14 games were released within a five-year window from 1998 to 2003.
Even more remarkably, that’s not even all of the Yu-Gi-Oh games that released during that time. The Early Days Collection contains the first 14 Yu-Gi-Oh handheld games, but Konami also developed several console for PlayStation, GameCube, and PlayStation 2 in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
If you’re looking forward to the Early Days Collection, you can bide the time with a couple of recent Yu-Gi-Oh anime Blu-ray releases. The original Yu-Gi-Oh movie received a steelbook edition last September, and Amazon has it marked down from $30 to $22.49. In December, Yu-Gi-Oh Bonds Beyond Time also received the steelbook treatment. Amazon has an even better deal on this one, as you can grab the $30 release for only $19.50.