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Captain Smoker · May 6, 2008

Hy, I´ve compiled some data for old video game / arcade systems and their software, if you have more data, just post it. ^^

Hardware:

Code:

[B]Release	System		        Units			        Comment[/B]

1988	Sega Mega Drive		30.000.000			till end of 1997 games
1977	Atari 2600		30.000.000			numbers till end of 2004 / discontinued 1992
1982	C64			17.000.000 - 22.000.000		discontinued April 1994	
1986	Sega Master System	13.000.000		
1985	Atari ST		6.000.000			till end of 1994 games / discontinued 1993
1980	Intellivision		3.000.000			discontinued 1991
1987	TurboGrafx-16		2.500.000              		numbers for the USA
1993	3DO			2.000.000			
1977	Color TV Game 6		1.000.000		
1978	Color TV Game 15	1.000.000		
1995	Virtual Boy		770.000				discontinued 1996		
1991	Philips CD-i		570.000	
1993	Atari Jaguar		500.000				till 05/15/2005		
1978	Space Invaders		350.000		
1972	Magnavox Odyssey	340.000				discontinued 1975
?	Pac-Man			293.822				numbers from 1980 to 1987	
1994	Sega 32X		200.000		
?	Ms. Pac-Man		115.000			
?	Asteroids		100.000		
?	Pong*  			100.000		
?	Street Fighter II	60.000			
1981	Donkey Kong		60.000		
?	Defender		55.000		
1980	Centipede		50.000		
1979	Galaxian		50.000		
1995	Apple Pippen		42.000				discontinued 1997
?	Mr Do!			30.000		
?	Donkey Kong Jr.		30.000				First arcade game sold as a conversion kit only
?	Popeye			20.000		
?	Q*Bert			20.000	
?	Dragon's Lair		16.000				8.000 in 1984	
?	Atari Breakout		15.000		
?	Midway Sea Wolf		10.000		
1972	Pong			8.000 - 10.000		
?	Pong (Midway)		9.000		
?	Donkey Kong 3		5.000		
?	Sea Wolf 2		2.000		
?	Radarscope		1.000				only USA - numbers
?	Death Race		1.000		
?	Shark Attack		990

* Home Television Version

Software:

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[B]System	Title             	        Units		Rel.	Publisher        	Comment[/B]

A2600	Pac-Man				7.000.000	1981	Atari			till 09/06/2006
COLV	Donkey Kong			6.000.000	1982			
A2600	Pitfall!			4.000.000	1982	Activision			
A2600	Missile Command			2.500.000	1981	Atari			
INT	Las Vegas Poker & Black Jack	2.000.000	1979	Mattel			Pack-in
A2600	Demon Attack			2.000.000	1982	Imagic			
A2600	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1.500.000	1982	Atari			
INT	MLB Baseball 			1.085.700	1980	Mattel			
INT	NFL Football 			1.000.000	1979	Mattel				
INT	Astrosmash			1.000.000	1981	Mattel			Free bonus
INT	Space Armada 			1.000.000	1981 	Mattel				
INT	Space Battle 			1.000.000	1979	Mattel		
A2600	Adventure			1.000.000	1978	Atari			
A2600	Atlantis			1.000.000	1982	Imagic			
A2600	Cosmic Ark			1.000.000	1982	Imagic			
A2600	Kaboom!				1.000.000	1981	Activision			
A2600	Megamania			1.000.000	1982	Activision			
A2600	River Raid			1.000.000	1982	Activision			
A2600	Space Invaders			1.000.000	1978	Atari			
A2600	Yars' Revenge			1.000.000	1981	Atari			
INT	Star Strike			800.000		1981	Mattel			
INT	Armor Battle 			700.000		1979	Mattel		
INT	Advanced Dungeons & Dragons	700.000		1982	Mattel			From the BSRs website 
INT	Auto Racing 			575.000		1979	Mattel			
INT	Night Stalker 			550.000		1982	Mattel		
INT	Triple Action 			500.000		1981	Mattel			
INT	Sea Battle 			500.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	NBA Basketball 			500.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	Boxing 				500.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	Space Hawk 			500.000		1981	Mattel			
INT	US Ski Team Skiing 		450.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	SNAFU 				400.000		1981	Mattel			
INT	PBA Bowling 			400.000		1981	Mattel
Multi   Zork I            	        378.987         1980	Infocom				
INT	PGA Golf 			375.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	Tennis 				350.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	Frog Bog 			350.000		1982	Mattel			
INT	NHL Hockey 			325.000		1980	Mattel			
INT	Bomb Squad			300.000		1982	Mattel			Voice game / From the BSRs website 
INT	Sub Hunt 			300.000		1982	Mattel			
INT	NASL Soccer 			300.000		1979	Mattel			
INT	B-17 Bomber			300.000		1982	Mattel			Voice game
INT	Space Spartans			300.000		1982	Mattel / Sears		Voice game
Multi   Hitchhiker's      	        254.249        	1984	Infocom
INT	Utopia 				250.000		1981	Mattel			
INT	Horse Racing 			250.000		1979	Mattel	
Multi   Zork II           	        173.204        	1981	Infocom		
INT	Backgammon 			150.000		1979	Mattel
Multi   Deadline          	        140.719         1982	Infocom	
Multi   Zork III          	        129.232        	1982	Infocom		
INT	Checkers 			125.000		1979	Mattel			
INT	Shark! Shark! 			100.000		1982	Mattel			
INT	Reversi 			100.000		1981	Mattel			
INT	Las Vegas Roulette 		100.000		1979	Mattel			
INT	Vectron 			100.000		1982	Mattel			
INT	Sharp Shot 			100.000		1982	Mattel
Multi   Suspended         	        99.556         	1983	Infocom
Multi   Starcross         	        90.315         	1982	Infocom				
INT	Tron: Solar Sailer		90.000		1982	Mattel			Voice game / From the BSRs website 
A2600	Custer's Revenge		80.000		1982	Mystique			
Multi   Cutthroats        	        75.963         	1984	Infocom
INT	Royal Dealer			75.000		1982	Mattel			The lowest sales of any pre-crash release Mattel game
Multi   Wishbringer       	        73.074         	1985	Infocom
Multi   Witness           	        72.765         	1983	Infocom
Multi   Encharter         	        71.812         	1983	Infocom
Multi   Planetfall        	        70.312         	1983	Infocom
Multi   Leather Goddesses 	        53.543         	1986	Infocom
Multi   Suspect           	        47.456         	1984	Infocom
Multi   Sorcerer          	        41.952         	1984	Infocom
Multi   Infidel           	        41.602         	1983	Infocom
Multi   Seastalker        	        39.420         	1984	Infocom
Multi   Trinity           	        35.159         	1986	Infocom
Multi   Spellbreaker      	        29.881         	1985	Infocom
Multi   Mind Forever      	        28.093         	1985	Infocom
Multi   Moonmist          	        24.777         	1986	Infocom
Multi   Ballyhoo          	        23.912         	1985	Infocom
Multi   Fooblitzky        	        8.225          	1986	Infocom
Multi   Enchanter Trilogy   	        4.500          	1986	Infocom
Multi   Zork Trilogy       	        3.270          	1986	Infocom

39x Mattel = 18.500.700
6x Atari = 14.000.000
4x Activision = 7.000.000
3x Imagic = 4.000.000
25x Infocom = 2.011.978
1x Mystique = 80.000

tanod · May 6, 2008

Nice compilation. Formatting needs a little work.

However, I don't remember the Atari Jaguar coming out in 1972.

Captain Smoker · May 6, 2008

tanod said:
Nice compilation.

However, I don't remember the Atari Jaguar coming out in 1972.

?

There´s no date under "Release".

It launched 1993.

jarrod · May 6, 2008

MD/Genesis only shipped something like 29.5m iirc... though that figure's only for SEGA and doesn't include variants (ie: X'eye, CDX, Lasteractive MD, Nomad, Megajet, etc) or licensed models (Tec Toy, Majesco, JVC, Aiwa, etc). More likely I'd guess MD/Genesis moved well over 35m units total counting all those, maybe over 40m possibly.

Also, PCE sold through ~3.5m units in Japan alone... your Turbo figures are definitely short unless you're talking just USA?

Captain Smoker · May 6, 2008

jarrod said:
MD/Genesis only shipped something like 29.5m iirc... though that figure's only for SEGA and doesn't include variants (ie: X'eye, CDX, Lasteractive MD, Nomad, Megajet, etc) or licensed models (Tec Toy, Majesco, JVC, Aiwa, etc). More likely I'd guess MD/Genesis moved well over 35m units total counting all those, maybe over 40m possibly.

Also, PCE sold through ~3.5m units in Japan alone... your Turbo figures are definitely short unless you're talking just USA?

Yes, these are just US - figures for the TurboGrafx, didn´t find any worldwide numbers.

JoshuaJSlone · May 6, 2008

1995 Virtual Boy 770.000 discontinued 1996

*looks at Virtual Boy*
You're one in a million, kid.

besada · May 6, 2008

Had no idea my Pong set was so rare.

jarrod · May 6, 2008

Captain Smoker said:
Yes, these are just US - figures for the TurboGrafx, didn´t find any worldwide numbers.

Is VB US only too? I thought it shipped 2m or something ww?

Captain Smoker · May 6, 2008

jarrod said:
Is VB US only too? I thought it shipped 2m or something ww?

I´ve the VB numbers from this article:

5. Virtual Boy

Not quite a portable, definitely not a handheld, Nintendo released the Virtual Boy a few months after Sega's Saturn in the summer of 1995 (a bad time for hardware launches). Priced at a pricey $180 dollars, the red monochrome system was met with a lukewarm reception despite its pseudo-3D graphics and continued price drops. Nintendo rushed the Virtual Boy to market in light of longer-than-expected N64 delays resulting in a poor selection of games and third-party support. Hence, only 770,000 units were ever sold, and the Virtual Boy was discontinued after just one year. It would be Nintendo's only commercial hardware flop but at the additional expense of losing the creator of the venerable Game Boy line and Metroid franchise. That man Gunpei Yokoi who also designed the Virtual Boy, was kindly asked to leave after the debacle.

Key games: None, really

source: http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/domestic/games/features/111823.shtml

It doesn´t mention the USA.

tanod · May 6, 2008

Captain Smoker said:
?

There´s no date under "Release".

It launched 1993.

The way you had it set up looked like you only put the year once and then everything between that and the next year was the same year.

Captain Smoker · Sep 22, 2008

Update [I know, very late

]

I've added 25 Infocom games + the release years and the Publisher for every title.

TheExodu5 · Sep 22, 2008

Where are NES, SNES, and Genesis?

CrunchinJelly · Sep 22, 2008

Wow, Philips CD-i was a monster.

Yeah, I had one.

TheExodu5 said:
Where are NES, SNES, and Genesis?

Mega Drive is right at the top.

batbeg · Sep 22, 2008

TheExodu5 said:
Where are NES, SNES, and Genesis?

Under Mega Drive.

M3d10n · Sep 22, 2008

TheExodu5 said:
Where are NES, SNES, and Genesis?

NES and SNES absent, but the Genesis is right there as Mega Drive.

TheExodu5 · Sep 22, 2008

cjelly said:
Mega Drive is right at the top.

I never knew the Genesis was called Mega Drive. I suck. D;

Ranger X · Sep 22, 2008

Wow. You could really see games stop selling in 1983-84 there. Crash indeed.

Phife Dawg · Sep 22, 2008

1994 Sega 32X 200.000

I was one of them. Man I was such a Sega fanboy back in the days

.

Zuhzuhzombie!! · Sep 22, 2008

IIRC, near the time of the Jaguar's death, Atari had a press conference that gave a number of units sold well under 500k.

Jokeropia · Sep 22, 2008

It's kinda funny how E.T should've been a success - I mean it's not like 1.5 million copies sold is a bad number - the problem was that they shipped over twice that amount.

TheExodu5 said:
Where are NES, SNES, and Genesis?

NES: 61.910.000
SNES: 49.100.000

jvm · Sep 24, 2008

Hey, Cap'n Smoker, are you perhaps Orochimaru on V G C h a r t z? I only ask because the same data for game sales that's in your OP just showed up on their forums, without citing your post. Not unheard of, mind you, but kinda stinky if that's someone copying your listing without crediting you for putting it together.

link

PC Gaijin · Sep 24, 2008

What are your sources? For example, your Jaguar figures are wildly exaggerated. Atari had sold 125k Jaguars by the end of 1995, and they had 100k units in inventory according to their own SEC filings. So Jaguar LTD had to have been under 250k tops.

DDayton · Sep 24, 2008

I'm finding it hard to believe the Atari 2600/VCS and the Sega Master System sold the same number of units.

jvm · Sep 24, 2008

DavidDayton said:
I'm finding it hard to believe the Atari 2600/VCS and the Sega Master System sold the same number of units.

Depends on the success outside of the US. The SMS was getting support for soooooo long in places like South America, that it's almost believable.

itxaka · Sep 24, 2008

mmmh.

Has Lucasarts ever released any info on his classic adventure games?

Mar · Sep 24, 2008

Where did you get your C64 numbers from? I'm not going to argue them because I don't know the number. But it was a huge fucktonne of units. It is still to this day the computer that has sold the most units world wide.

abstract alien · Sep 24, 2008

TheExodu5 said:
I never knew the Genesis was called Mega Drive. I suck. D;

Learn something new everyday.

Nice thread, I eat this kind of stuff up.

Psychotext · Sep 24, 2008

Master System sold far less than I would have expected.

yurinka · Sep 24, 2008

Psychotext said:
Master System sold far less than I would have expected.

Both Master System and Mega Drive / Genesis numbers are worldwide sales. Almost all the other systems show aproximated US only sales, or random sales.
Looks like VG Chartz stuff, so don't believe it so much.

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