Aaa-- I think for most people, it kinda is! If you're not all tangled up in Duel Monsters and the Items, things are pretty normal!

Though Duel Monsters is pretty big now, thanks to Kaiba-kun. He made this really amazing holographic technology so that when people played, you could actually see the Duel Monsters projected there as if they were real! So when he rented all of Domino City to make it Battle City, everybody got to see the duels as if they were real!