Duel Monsters (formerly Magic and Wizards) is the name given to the card game played in the various Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series.
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The first actual Duel Monsters card game to be released was Yu-Gi-Oh! Bandai's Official Card Game, released by Bandai in September 1998. While popular, only three booster packs were released before the license to produce a card game was sold to Konami. This game was never released outside Japan.
The video games Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule Breed & Battle and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters by Konami included Duel Monsters promotional cards, which are not a part of Konami's later version of Duel Monsters (see below).
The current version of Duel Monsters is Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game (OCG). This uses far more complex rules which were introduced in later parts of the manga and anime. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game (TCG) is identical in structure and rules to the official card game, but until 2009 it was manufactured by Upper Deck Entertainment under Konami's direction. Both versions mostly contain the same cards, but there have been cards exclusive to the OCG and TCG, and most cards (such as booster packs and starter/structure decks) are first released in the OCG.
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