>>99949168Well the manga was about games in general, but then duel monsters showed up and the readers became obsessed with it, so the manga focused entirely on it from then on and in the anime. Before that however, Yugi was a goddam monster, like a ghost rider that used games instead of hellfire. Whenever yugi or his friends would be wronged even slightly, that night the spirit of the millennium puzzle would posses him and go hunt down the people who did it, challenging them to games he would make up on the spot based on whatever slight they had made against Yugi. If you played these games and lost (which you always did) he would put you in a penalty game, which was usually a horrifying illusion of some fucked up ironic punishment that you're now trapped in forever.
No mater the game, Yugi would always find a way to win. Either through actually impressive intellect, like the time he was being held at gunpoint point blank and he casually walked Tea and himself out of a hostage situation using only his thumb.
Or through cheating. Like, blatantly cheating. To the point that in one chapter he challenged a guy to "Roll the lowest number on this six sided die", rolled a 6, and still won because he managed to make the guy roll a 7
