February 10^th, 2004 (12:00am) - Konami Digital Entertainment – America today announced it has shipped Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 for the Game Boy Advance to retail outlets nationwide. The official videogame for the 2004 Yu-Gi-Oh! videogame tournament, and the sequel to last year’s popular Worldwide Edition Tournament game, Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 delivers the ultimate card battling game with more cards, more decks and more tactical strategies.

Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 features over 1000 cards, the ability to create three different dueling decks, and more than 25 popular characters from the hit animated TV series and comic book. Utilizing updated rules from the top-selling Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 captures the excitement of the game as players bring their real-life card battling strategies to the world of videogames. As a bonus for the card collecting fanatics, Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 comes packed with three limited edition Yu-Gi-Oh! cards: Fairy King Truesdale, Kinetic Soldier, and Slate Warrior.

Players can begin training now for the card battling tournament taking place this summer. The U.S. finals event will commence in late summer with the winners moving on to battle the best in Europe and Japan. More details about the 2004 world tournament will follow soon.
Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 is rated E for Everyone and is available at an SRP of $34.99.

To learn more about the Yu-Gi-Oh! games, please visit: http://www.konami.com/usa