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Yu-Gi-Oh! Applies for Guinness World Record
Date: 7/21/2006
15.8 billion cards sold


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With Yu-Gi-Oh! card sales topping 15.8 billion, Konami has contacted Guinness and applied for a card game sales world record. There is currently no Guinness record in the category.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! card game was first released in 1999. Since then, the game has been released in 45 countries.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is believed to have set another record in 1998, when 17.5 million copies of its video game were sold.
Source: Anime News Network