Yu-gi-oh! original series

Tenth-grader Yugi always had his head in some game--until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharoahs! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evildoers to the Shadow Games...weird games with high stakes and high risks! When Yugi beat his classmate Kaiba at a simple game of "Duel Monsters," he didn't realize that Kaiba was Japan's...

"The diabolical Player Killer, Pegasus's second gaming assassin, challenges Yugi to a Shadow Game! In the shadow of the Castle of Dark Illusions card, an army of lurking monsters hungers to steal Yugi's life points--and if he loses, his actual life! Then the action moves into underground tunnels beneath Duelist Kingdom. There Yugi and Jonoucho must conquer the maze of the Meikyu Brothers in a two-on-two duel. Waiting in the Brothers' deck is the Gate...

"It's Yugi and Kaiba vs. the Rare Hunters in a tag team match atop a 13-story skyscraper. But a fate worse than death awaits Yugi when he finds out Mai and Jonouchi have been possessed by Marik! Brainwashed by the evil mastermind, Jonouchi fights to kill his best friend. Will he succeed?"--Back cover.