Good friend of 61 Frames Per Second and Screengrab blogger Scott Von Doviak did an ugly thing the other day. You see, Scott’s slowly making his way through IMDb’s Bottom 100 list, subjecting himself to the worst of the absolute worst in movies on a regular basis. My heart goes out to the guy every time his endeavor crosses paths with videogames. No one should be forced to choke down multiple Uwe Boll movies in a single year. They cause dementia. And gout. The ugly thing he most recently did was watch Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie. Now, I’m not sure how many of you out there are familiar with Yu-Gi-Oh! I’ve seen the show a couple of times. As far as I could tell it was about some kid from a new wave band holding out trading cards, screaming what they did at a mod, and then watching some monsters pose. Up until today, my understanding was that it was a cartoon/card game/videogame/underpants franchise created by a marketing department to steal money scraps from the Pokémon table, but it turns out it actually started as a comic by Kazuki Takahashi. I also knew that there were a number of videogames based on the series, but now I know that there just about forty games. Forty!
Which brings me to my question: what in the hell is up with card-based videogames?
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