KONAMI Event Coverage and Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME
KONAMI Event Coverage at G2E
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Featuring top-ranked games like Dragon’s Law Fortune and Stuffed Coins, plus brand extensions and fresh iterations for stacked and portrait-screen machines.
Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME
Yugi’s adventures began serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1996, and quickly grew to be one of the most popular card games on the planet. Its success led to the creation of an anime, a video game and a huge line of toys, all of which have spawned many spin-offs in their own right.
With over 35 billion cards sold worldwide, Yu-Gi-Oh! is the most-popular trading card game in history. But what exactly is it? It’s a game where players pit monsters against each other in a battle of wits and might, using the numbers on their cards to summon more powerful creatures, or use spells and traps to destroy them.
While most card games are pretty simple in concept, Yu-Gi-Oh! has a lot of different cards with many complex abilities. This can make the game a bit more intimidating for new players, but for those willing to dig in, they’ll find themselves knee deep in monsters, spells, and good old-fashioned duels.
One of the most interesting aspects of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game is how it interacts with the anime and manga. The cartoon’s dark tone limited its appeal to a younger audience, and it was decided to make the show more child friendly in order to compete with Pokemon’s massive popularity. This meant that the cards used by characters in the Duel Monsters anime would no longer resemble their real life counterparts, with cards only displaying their name, background illustration, level/rank and ATK/DEF points.
While these changes made the show less authentic, they did allow for the creation of some unique cards that could only be played in the cartoon or anime. These cards, however, are only released at certain times and often take years to make their way into the real-life TCG ecosystem. This is due to the fact that the OCG and TCG are run as completely separate ecosystems, with the OCG releases first and then slowly trickling down to the TCG over time.
Dragon’s Law Fortune
The K2V platform’s robust processing power makes it an ideal host for Konami’s popular line-up of player-favorite Certified Original titles. At G2E, players will have the opportunity to try out a curated collection of these games in special-edition SeleXion Classic packs that include China Shores, Roman Tribune, Ancient Dragon, Money Blast, and Rawhide.
Konami’s newest game for its KP3+ platform, Dragon’s Law Fortune, takes the brand’s popular Dragons theme in a new direction, while leveraging the proven mechanics of its predecessors. The game offers an engaging mix of Action Stacked Symbols, a powerful Feature Drop, and a Mystery Wilds feature that adds bonus multipliers to the existing symbols stacks.
In a market that’s already crowded with Asian-inspired video slots, Dragon’s Law Fortune offers a unique twist with its symbol-driven progressive jackpot chance and cross-machine animation effects involving the beloved long-tailed dragon character flying down to scatter bonus symbols within a highlighted reel frame. The series debuts with two compatible base game options: Dragon’s Law Fortune Pots(tm) and Dragon’s Law Fortune Bags(tm).
Proven Konami content for iGaming, HHR, and VLT was also on display, including the latest addition to its popular All Aboard(tm) multi-game suite for large screen DIMENSION 75C(tm), Lion Frenzy(tm). This exciting new title features a diverse mix of bonus events, including a wheel-based progressive jackpot, a picking game featuring upgrades, random multipliers, re-spins, and free games. This eye-catching game is available with a variety of denominations and line sections, making it the perfect solution for players looking to maximize value from their gaming investment.
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