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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards

In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards, it's just as important to play your cards right as it is to get the right cards. This unique RPG gives you cards as weapons against the tough competition. You'll battle in a…

4 July 2002

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards is a card & board game developed by Konami, released 4 July 2002 on Game Boy Advance.

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What Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards is

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards is a card & board game game developed by Konami and released in 2002. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game starts when the player and his two friends, Yugi Muto and Joey Wheeler are preparing for the Battle City tournament of the card game, Duel Monsters. In order to win the tournament, the player must obtain six Locator Cards which are received after beating certain characters in Duel Monsters. After all of the locators are obtained, the player is entered into the finals. However, a mysterious person named Marik has a gang of card thieves, known as the Ghouls, which he is using to obtain the three Egyptian God cards to bring the world to darkness. Marik's Rare Hunters eventually take over the whole city. Even the owner of the card shop works for Marik and tries to kill the player…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards is the 15th of 91 entries we hold in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. It arrived 10 months after Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses. The next entry was Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom in 2002.

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What it launched against

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards launched on 4 July 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine and SoulCalibur II.

Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine, SoulCalibur II.

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When did Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards come out?
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards was released on 4 July 2002 for Game Boy Advance.

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