Back مبارزة الوحوش Arabic Ю-Ги-О! (игра с карти) Bulgarian Yu-Gi-Oh!-Sammelkartenspiel German Yu-Gi-Oh! (juego de cartas) Spanish Yu-Gi-Oh! (keräilykorttipeli) Finnish Yu-Gi-Oh! (jeu de cartes à collectionner) French יו-גי-הו! (משחק) HE Yu-Gi-Oh! (kártyajáték) Hungarian Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game ID Yu-Gi-Oh! (gioco di carte) Italian
 Backside of an English-language Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game card. | |
| Other names | Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Japan and SEA: Konami North America and Europe: Upper Deck (2002−2008) Konami (2008−present) South Korea: Daewon China: Shanghai Windo Entertainment |
| Publication | 4 February 1999 |
| Genres | Collectible card game |
| Players | 2 (1 vs. 1)[1] |
| Age range | OCG: 12 and up (1999−2015) 9 and up (2015−present) TCG: 6 and up |
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game[a] is a collectible card game developed and published by Konami. Initially introduced in Kazuki Takahashi's iconic manga as a parody of Magic the Gathering during the manga's "variety tabletop horror" era as Magic & Wizards, the fictional game eventually evolved into Duel Monsters, which appears in portions of the manga franchise and is the central plot device throughout its various anime adaptations and spinoff series after it's introduction.[2] From there, after streamlining Takahashi's otherwise hyper-dramatized fictional ruleset, Duel Monsters was treated as a basis for the real life Yu-Gi-Oh! card game.
The trading card game was launched by Konami in 1999 in Japan and March 2002 in North America.[3] It was named the top selling trading card game in the world by Guinness World Records on July 7, 2009, having sold over 22 billion cards worldwide.[4] As of March 31, 2011, Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. Japan sold 25.2 billion cards globally since 1999.[5] As of January 2021[update], the game is estimated to have sold about 35 billion cards worldwide.[6][7] Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel, a faster and simplified version of the game, was launched worldwide in January 2019. Another faster-paced variation, Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel, launched in Japan in April 2020.
- ^ "Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME". yugioh-card.com. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ^ Kaufeld, John; Smith, Jeremy (2006). Trading Card Games For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 123–139. ISBN 0470044071.
- ^ Miller, John Jackson (2003), Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist & Price Guide, Second Edition, pp. 667–671.
- ^ "Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Sales Set New World Record". Konami.jp. August 7, 2009. Archived from the original on August 10, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ^ "Best-selling trading card game". Guinness World Records. March 31, 2011. Archived from the original on December 27, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ^ "「ワンピース」でも「鬼滅」でもなく…史上最も稼いだ意外なジャンプ作品". Livedoor News (in Japanese). Livedoor. January 29, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
- ^ "『鬼滅の刃』は『ジャンプ』史上最も稼いだマンガではない！ 売り上げ1兆円作品とは（週刊女性PRIME）". Yahoo! News (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. January 29, 2021. p. 2. Archived from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
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