Yea so there is a “season” before what was eventually dubbed and released to the wider world. In the earlier season they are still in school, we get introduced to characters like Joey and Tristan (I think his name is Tristan) and they start out as bullies of Yugi. The card game also doesn’t exist in the form we see later and there is a lot of dice involved I think. I randomly came across that season and watched it without knowing it even existed years ago so I could be wrong about some things. It was weird…but it did give context to certain things that as a kid watching the original dubbed season I either didn’t understand or just didn’t pay attention to.