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Collectible card game Yu-Gi-Oh! becomes major retail success.

Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)

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Byline: Erika D. Smith

Feb. 6--What's there to do on a Saturday?

Drew Wolverton and Jonah Hartswick already have that figured out:

Meet up with some friends at Game Trader in Cuyahoga Falls. Talk a little trash. And play a few hands of the wildy popular collectible card game Yu-Gi-Oh!

"It's mostly like a strategy game," 12-year-old Drew explained after a match. "It's to get the brain to think. It uses equations --"

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