Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories is a video game loosely based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series. The storyline takes on a dual setting in Ancient Egypt and current-day Domino City. Players play the…
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories is a card & board game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, released 9 December 1999 on PlayStation. The main story takes about 11.2 hrs to finish.
What Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories is
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories is a card & board game game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and released in 1999. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins in ancient Egypt, with Prince Atem sneaking out of the palace to see his friends, Jono and Teana, at the dueling grounds. While there, they witness a ceremony performed by the mages, which is darker than the ceremonies that they normally perform. After the ceremony, Atem duels one of the priests, named Seto, and defeats him. When Atem returns to the palace, he is quickly sent to bed by Simon Muran, his tutor and advisor. As Simon walks away, he is informed by a guard that the high priest Heishin has invaded the palace, using a strange magic. Muran searches for Heishin. When Muran finds him, Heishin tells Muran that he has found the Dark Power, then uses the Millennium Rod to…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories is the fifth of 91 entries we hold in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. The next entry was Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB in 2000. Its critic score of 59 is 4 points below the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution at 85.
How it was received
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 18% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 13 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 63, across 96 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.2 hrs.
What it launched against
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories launched on 9 December 1999, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version and Quake III Arena. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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