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Elementary
and middle school kids in Japan are going wild over a
cartoon called Yu-Gi-Oh!, which is serialized in a comic
book magazine for boys. It's the story of an ordinary
high-school boy named Yugi Muto who loves games. Yugi
acquires a special power that turns him into a completely
different, powerful persona, and in this form he defeats
the bad guys by beating them in card games. Based on this
series a GameBoy software, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, has
been made. It's a game in which you fight the wizards
and other rivals that appear before you using cards that
give the player special powers and characteristics. The
software went on sale in December 1998, and it sold an
amazing 1 million copies within the first week.
Here's
how to play the game. You choose five cards from the set
in your hands and lay them out with the face down. Then,
you and your opponent--either another person or the computer--both
turn over one card at a time. There are 350 kinds of cards,
and by using the various offensive powers, defensive powers,
and other characteristics of your cards skillfully, you
can take away the opponent's life points.
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