History
In the manga and anime, Dungeon Dice Monsters is created by Duke Devlin.
He created this game on Dsl Hobby at sunrise mall In the manga, Otogi creates the game under pressure from his father, Mr. Crown. Mr. Crown lost to a Shadow Game against Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto in the English anime). Mr. Crown wants Otogi to avenge the defeat and harm Yugi Mutou, Sugoroku's grandson, and take his Millennium Puzzle.
In the anime, he idolizes Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the Japanese versions) and strives to create a game just as great as Duel Monsters. To that end, Duke started to develop Dungeon Dice Monsters, spending all his free time perfecting the game's statistics, strategies, rules, etc. He emails the specifications to Pegasus, who challenged him to a match of the game at Duelist Kingdom. Using the Millennium Eye to read his mind and thus, easily master the game, Pegasus defeats the creator. However, he was impressed with the game and agreed to market it after the Duellist Kingdom tournament he was hosting. This is shortly before Yugi Mutou arrives at Duelist Kingdom.
Upon being defeated, Pegasus goes into hiding, and the contract to market Dungeon Dice Monsters is never signed. Thus, the game does very poorly, and the only shop selling it is the one the creator himself owns. The creator blames his failure on Yugi. In the English anime, he believes that he cheated to beat Pegasus, crushing his spirit. In the Japanese versions, Otogi does not accuse Yugi of cheating to win.
In both the anime and the manga, Otogi cons Yugi into a match by dueling his friend Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English anime) and forcing him to wear a dog costume in the anime (while in the manga, Otogi just calls Jonouchi a dog). Yugi challenges Otogi for Jonouchi's freedom, and thus the game begins (in the manga, Yugi initially beats Otogi in a standard card game, but is later forced to play DDM with Otogi when his father takes Yugi's Millennium Puzzle).
Yugi does poorly early on, obviously having little clue on how to play the game. However, he makes a comeback and defeats Otogi. Otogi admits defeat. In the manga, his father's game shop burns down to the ground when his father goes crazy trying to put together the Millennium Puzzle that he smashed. (This conclusion is adapted into a different episode of the anime where Yugi duels against a brainwashed Bandit Keith, controlled by Marik.)
In the anime, shortly after the match, he receives another email from Industrial Illusions, telling him they will sign the contract to market Dungeon Dice Monsters worldwide. It is later mentioned that he travels briefly to the U.S. to market the product, but later returns to Japan.
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