Tekken certified by Guinness World Records as longest-lasting 3D fighter & video game with longest-lasting story

Today the Guinness World Records office of Japan announced that the Tekken series holds two world records that will be included in their newly released book Guinness World Records 2018. Tekken is certified as being the “longest-lasting 3D fighting video game series,” which is 21 years and 179 days. As well, it is certified as being “video game with the longest-lasting story” (20 years and 99 days).

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Tekken first became available to arcades in December 1994.  Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, which is the latest version of the arcade version, launched in July 2016. And as you should well know, the home version of Tekken 7 just released on June 2, 2017.

Guinness World Records 2018 became available today, August 31, 2017, and releases in Japanese on September 7, 2017.

Congrats to the Tekken Team!

Source: 4Gamer, YellowMotion

Zee the CEO

Aziz Peregrino-Brimah aka Zee the CEO | Founder / Editor-in-chief of TekkenGamer | Gaming has been a passion of Zee's since the early days of Atari and ColecoVision. His first experience with Tekken was in the early 90's, and it was Tekken 3 that sealed the deal. True story... As a teenager Zee once received his Winn-Dixie paycheck and spent it all at the arcade the same day. Needless to say, his mother wasn't pleased.