User:Elemantal samurai

First Time
the oldest memory i have of yu-gi-oh is when i was about 7 years old and i was watching the first season on WB 11. form then on I've had a love for playing yu-gi-oh and watching the shows.the first deck i remember ever having was yugi's starter deck filled with old cards that you don't hear about often like Feral Imp and Curse of Dragon, i was even subjected to the fake yu-gi-oh cards and even at a young age i was able to tell the difference.the good thing about growing up in new york city is that almost everyone in your school played or at least had yu-gi-oh cards. however, my family was constantly moving so it was hard to find people that still played. in middle school only a few of my friends played yu-gi-oh and I'm grateful to know them well enough to know that they still play.however, the real challenge was when i went to high school and virtually no one played yu-gi-oh. i began to sway from yu-gi-oh and started to read manga and watch anime (by this time yu-gi-oh GX had just ended and yu-gi-oh 5d's hadn't started yet) until one fateful day that one of my friends in school bought his issue of shounen jump to school and it had the card Chimeratech Fortress Dragon in it. at that moment i proclaimed that i still played yu-gi-oh and that i was the best my friends however didn't take lightly to my statement and said that they could still beat me. ultimately i can say that i brought yu-gi-oh to my high school and today there are 10 of my friends in high school that still play.