Top selling video game franchises

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:26 am

According to Forbes:

1. Super Mario Brothers: debuted 1983, 185 million copies sold worldwide.
2. Pokemon: 1995, 106.
3. Final Fantasy: 1987, 68.
4. The Sims: 2000, 58.
5. Lineage: 1998, 57.
6. Madden Football: 1989, 51.
7. Grand Theft Auto: 1998, 50.
8. Donkey Kong: 1981, 48.
9. The Legend of Zelda: 1986, 47.
10. Gran Turismo: 1998, 45.
11. Sonic the Hedgehog: 1991, 44.
12. Dragon Warrior / Dragon Quest: 1986, 40.
13. Age Of Empires: 1997, 20.
14. Warcraft: 1994, 19.
15. Diablo: 1996, 17.
16. Halo: 2001, 14.5.

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:29 am

To bad Madden Football sucks money balls. Besides listening to that dimwit spout off the obvious play after play... you have to hold down 4 buttoms, move both toggles and lick your own nuts at the same time to kick the fucking ball.

Fuck Madden Football... even though I do play it every now and then because fucking EA sports fucked everyone over and sued for sole rights to use NFL stadium and player names and now it's the only 'real' football game you can buy. and won.

Griever · Post by **Griever** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:33 am

Who the fuck calls the analog sticks "toggles"?

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:36 am

Someone who has a life outside the living room. You should try it some time... you go out and lose your virginity... after you lose about 50 pounds and rid yourself of those unsightly pimples.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:20 pm

I think being alone for so long has made you a bitter man. Grow up?

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:21 pm

Supermario Bros is kind of an unfair statistic considering it came bundled with the 8 Bit Nintendo.

Griever · Post by **Griever** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:22 pm

I'm 5'10" 170, no pimples, lost my virginity at age 17 and go fishing and play sports regularly.

Just because I know the correct name for something doesn't mean I'm a nerd.

So do you still call a remote control a "clicker" or a television the "tube"?

PS: The Bills suck, and J.P. Losman is a fag and has a hard-on for Brett Farve.

Proof:

http://rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... 1/ARCHIVE5

"I got the opportunity to go down there and play some golf and I said, 'Yeah, I'll play golf with Brett Favre,'" Losman said. "He invited me to the house to go pick him up, so I went to the house, and there he was with his tight little shorts, no shirt, his little red hat, and he was doing some farming or something, and he was covered in dirt. It was awesome, man. It was good to see that."

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:23 pm

I called it the clicker the other night

Griever · Post by **Griever** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:27 pm

You're a chick, you get a free pass when it comes to electronics.

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:50 pm

Ginzburgh wrote:Supermario Bros is kind of an unfair statistic considering it came bundled with the 8 Bit Nintendo.

Yeah, I wondered if prepackaged marios were included in that statistic.

Even so, I'd imagine it could still be number 1: mario bro's, super mario bro's, mario 2,3 , super mario world, yoshi's island, mario rpg, mario 64, bunch of gamcube crab, mario golf, mario party, game boy mario games, ect... there's a shitload. Even more counting wario games and such.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:54 pm

Pokemon rocks, I bought red version for my gameboy.

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:04 pm

Yeah, I wondered if prepackaged marios were included in that statistic.

Even so, I'd imagine it could still be number 1: mario bro's, super mario bro's, mario 2,3 , super mario world, yoshi's island, mario rpg, mario 64, bunch of gamcube crab, mario golf, mario party, game boy mario games, ect... there's a shitload. Even more counting wario games and such.

Oh, I thought they were just referring to the first super mario bros.

Insanityfair · Post by **Insanityfair** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:08 pm

Griever wrote:You're a chick, you get a free pass when it comes to electronics.

sweet!

Post by **Tossica** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:14 pm

I'm surprised Tetris and Pac Man aren't in there somewhere...

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:27 pm

Anything after original tetris didn't sell much and Pacman is only 3 or 4 games deep, the latter 2 games not being very popular like the original and Ms. Pacman. The games on the list either have more than 5 sequels, multiple spinoff games, were prepackaged with the system, are mmo, or have some kind of an online multiplayer aspect to them or are just exceptional in general.

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:39 pm

Pokemon rocks. XD

I've started watching the show on VHS recently, ccc~ :hiphop:

Post by **Tossica** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:49 pm

Tetris in one form or another has been released on just about every gaming platform since the late 80's. It has to have sold many, many millions of copies.

Juls · Post by **Juls** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:42 pm

Mario rocks :p

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:51 am

Tossica wrote:Tetris in one form or another has been released on just about every gaming platform since the late 80's. It has to have sold many, many millions of copies.

i don't think people actually pay for tetris though

everyone has always just downloaded it for free, especially back when it was originally popular on the pc/commodore 64(and by downloaded, i mean copy'd the floppy from a friend using fast hack'em)

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:13 pm

From everything I can find, Tetris has sold somewhere over 50million copies worldwide.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:43 pm

Tetris is a generic term and not a franchise is what it is I think. Like, I can make a version of tetris, you can make a version of tetris and it'd all be unrelated just the same game.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:44 pm

eh?

tetris is a specific game

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:12 pm

Yeah, it's a trademarked name by some russian dude although it has been ripped off many, many times.