Yu-Gi-Oh!
It's from 1999, before you were born.
- Maker
- Konami
- Type
- Trading card game
- Debuted
- 1999
- Note
- 'It's time to d-d-d-duel!'
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About
As of 2026, it's 27 years old.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game launched in 1999, leaping from a hit manga and anime into one of the best-selling card games in history. Built around summoning monsters, casting spell and trap cards, and whittling your opponent's Life Points to zero, it became the early-2000s schoolyard rival to Pokémon, complete with its own catchphrase: 'it's time to duel!'
The game's deep, ever-expanding mechanics and the chase for rare cards (a tournament-banned Blue-Eyes here, a holographic Dark Magician there) fueled both serious competitive play and a lot of confiscated decks. It holds a Guinness record as the best-selling trading card game ever.
Strategic, anime-fueled, and record-breaking, Yu-Gi-Oh! is the dueling card game that turned 'summoning monsters' into a global schoolyard obsession.
