Top Selling Video Games

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America topped $21 billion. Listed below are the top selling video games of all time, as of January 2009. 1. Wii Sports Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development Platform: Nintendo Wii Year of Release: 2006 Copies Sold: 41.65 million In every country except Japan, when you buy a Nintendo Wii you get Wii Sports. This accounts for most of the game's now-historic success. Still, if the game (and its platform) weren't good, perhaps some of its 40-million-plus sales might have gone to a rival. Wii Sports includes five separate sports games: tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing. As is characteristic to the Wii, the games are simple to learn and make use of the Wii "remote." Players use the remote to mimic the real life actions required to play the sports. Super Mario Bros. 2. Super Mario Bros. Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System Year of Release: 1985 Copies Sold: 40.24 million Super Mario Bros. is a classic in every sense of the word. Its story has been turned into TV shows, a film, comic books, and more. Even its theme music—composed Koji Kondo—is familiar to non-gamers and has lately been performed by symphonies around the world. While Super Mario Bros.'s original platform, the Nintendo Entertainment System, has long been obsolete, Nintendo has kept the game fresh be releasing sequels, special editions, and spin-offs that span all of Nintendo's subsequent platforms, from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to Game Boy, to the Wii. Pokemon Red, Green and Blue 3. Pokemon Red, Green and Blue Developer: Game Freak Platform: Game Boy Year of Release: 1996 Copies Sold: 31.38 million Before it made the leap to the big and small screen and as an endless array of consumer products, Pokemon was a role-playing video game for Nintendo Game Boy. The three versions listed here are the first three-and best-selling-entries in the Pokemon franchise. At the time of its release, Nintendo didn't have many expectations for Pokemon, as it was coming out on the Game Boy, a platform that was quickly losing popularity. But Pokemon caught on, and managed to extend the life of Game Boy and give Nintendo another money-making franchise. Tetris 4. Tetris Developers: Alexey Pajitnov, Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov Platform: Game Boy Year of Release: 1989 Copies Sold: 30.26 million So simple it's hard to believe it hasn't been around since the dawn of time (or at least the invention of the wheel), Tetris was actually developed in Russia and then purchased by Nintendo. It debuted on Game Boy and has since appeared on pretty much every platform imaginable, including cell phones and graphing calculators. For those living in a cave for the last 20 years, Tetris is a geometric puzzle game in which the player has to arrange falling shapes in the right manner, or else the shapes will begin to pile up. If the pile reaches the top of the screen, the game is over. Duck Hunt 5. Duck Hunt Developer: Nintendo Research and Development 1 Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System Year of Release: 1984 Copies Sold: 28.31 million Any kid who grew up around the Nintendo Entertainment System probably remembers the bright orange "gun" used to play Duck Hunt. That gun set Duck Hunt apart, because you used it—instead of a more traditional controller—to play the game. If you aimed the gun right, you could hit one of the digital ducks flying across the TV screen. In the 1980's, it was miraculous. Although Duck Hunt wasn't immediately praised critically, it was bundled with Nintendo so every gamer got a chance to play it. Now, there are literally hundreds of games that offer a much more advanced (and more violent) "shooting" experience, but Duck Hunt helped bring a hair-trigger to the masses. Pokemon Gold 6. Pokemon Gold and Silver Developer: Game Freak Platform: Game Boy Year of Release: 1999 Copies Sold: 23.11 million We've already covered the first Pokemon-the Red, Green, and Blue editions sitting at No. 3 on the list of all-time top-selling video games. The Gold and Silver versions are extensions of their forebears with some new wrinkles, including an internal clock that tweaked the game play enough to keep it fresh. Nintendogs Dalmatian 7. Nintendogs Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development Platform: Nintendo DS Year of Release: 2005 Copies Sold: 21.60 million Developed for the Nintendo DS handheld platform, Nintendogs takes advantage of the DS's touch screen capability. Gamers can pet, feed, and play with their virtual dogs. The game was originally released in three versions: Dachshund & Friends, Lab & Friends, and Chihuahua & Friends. Due to its popularity, Nintendogs has been re-released twice since '05, and has been spun-off into two sequels. Super Mario World 8. Super Mario World Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development Platform: Super Nintendo En

Public Comments

1. Sounds about right.
2. Those might be the old ones these are the new ones Little big planet Fallout 3 Mass Effect Dead Space Guitar hero world tour NHL 09 Left for dead Rock band 2 So those are the best games out right now.
3. why are the pokemon games put together, but the nintendog ones aren't? they're all the same game with a small variation too, being different dogs.
4. i dont think they should count if you buy the console and get a game with it. eg people buy a Wii because they wont the Wii not Wii Sports. If they count that why not minesweeper or solitare because they wold have sold over at least 300milion because it comes with every microsoft computer you buy. i know super mario bros came with a NES but it was a defining game in that era and was one of the reason that console sold so well, Wii sports hasnt defined anything and people dont buy a Wii just for Wii sports
5. I'm gonna have to say no.