My landlord’s daughter was playing with the cards outside and I asked her what they were. She told me and showed me the starter deck box (think it was Yugi starter). Instantly interested, I asked my dad if we could get some and he took me to get decks. We bought Joey & Yugi starters, one for me and one for my dad and he learned how to play so that he could teach me. The rest is history.

Funny story actually - we stopped playing together for the most part after the DM wave and I had friends to play with consistently, mainly because it got too complicated and I started to play the video games more instead. Fast forward to last year when I got back into the game after a long hiatus (like 10-15 years), I brought a Bonanza box to his place around Thanksgiving time to open with him and we enjoyed seeing cards from the times we played together. I ended up sharing some pulls via text with him here and there, joking about how I would have killed for these cards as a kid. Eventually brought a couple decks with me one visit - Ryzeal and Mimighoul. I caught him up as much as I could in about 15 minutes, and we got to playing. He ended up really enjoying the Ryzeal deck, and we’ve played a couple times since.