Step into a new world, a realm of magic, monsters and destiny, where time is just an illusion and where your heart is always right. The person who had saved Yugi was the Pharaoh, who had been waiting for Yugi to put the puzzle together.
5000 years ago, in the times of Pharaohs and wars that lasted more than a lifetimes. One Pharaoh found a way to stop the impeding evil from annihilating the world, as we know it. He was young, and was only on the throne for no more than a week, when his kingdom was threatened by this evil. He had to make a great sacrifice to insure the future of mankind, and doing so, lost himself to a world of no light and no recollection, of what he had, or who he was. He only knew one thing; he had died, and was waiting, waiting for someone to save him. It was never to happen, for when he was released from his golden prison, the evil he locked away with himself, would be released too. This evil was called the Shadow Games and his golden prison is called the millennium puzzle, where his spirit resides. He was awaiting someone to put the broken puzzle back together, so that he might live again, if only as a spirit. That someone was Yugi. When Yugi moved to his grandfather's house, above his game shop, he had no friends in this town called Domino City. He spent all his time trying to figure out this puzzle. Given this puzzle by his grandfather who had retrieved it in an Ancient Egyptian tomb of a Pharaoh, he planned to do what on man had ever achieved before him, to put the broken puzzle back together. The locals, who had helped Yugi's grandfather find the tomb, called it 'The Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh'. There was no name written anywhere in the tomb, and this on it's own was puzzling. Normally when a Pharaoh was entombed, there was as many as five names carved into the walls of his tomb, but this tomb had none, not one.
Four and a half years had passed from the time when Yugi had put together the puzzle. Yugi and a few of his new friends were on their way to an island off Domino city, Battle city, where a local dueling tournament was being held. Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba corp., automatically entered Yugi, as the reigning duel monsters champion.