KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, INC.’s Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Is One for the Record Books

with more than 22 Billion Cards Sold Around the World

             

Global Sensation Created In 1999 Enters Guinness World Records^TM

And Named Best Selling Trading Card Game of All Time!

 

El Segundo, CA (August 7, 2009) – One trading card game stands out as the leader and has been named as the best selling of all time, the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME from global gaming powerhouse Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME reached this lofty achievement in April 2009 as sales exceeded 22,587,728,173 cards and proudly entered the Guinness World Records™ on July 7^th, 2009.

“We are amazed and humbled by the overwhelmingly positive response that Duelists from every corner of the world have had toward the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME,” commented Kazumi Kitaue, Chairman and CEO of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “We are excited to announce today at the 7^th annual Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME World Championship in Tokyo that we have become the best-selling trading card game in history with sales exceeding 22 Billion cards since the card game’s inception in 1999.”

 

The Yu-Gi-Oh! storyline and characters were created by Kazuki Takahashi and was featured in weekly issues of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1996 to 2004. Due to its worldwide appeal, Yu-Gi-Oh! and its characters have been depicted in animated series, trading card and video games, plush toys and figurines.

 

The Yu-Gi Oh! 5D’s animated series can be seen in the United States Saturday mornings on The CW 4Kids Network and now Monday through Saturday on Cartoon Network.