Lil Sister

Do Massive Games Determine A Classic?

Here’s a bit of fun for ya!. We’re going to take a whirlwind tour of the top selling games in each Genre. No starcraft 2 books or AoE’s, only the classics!

Let’ go…

Fighting…

Out of all the classic fighting games out there; Tekken, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat,  which do you think is the top selling fighting game of all time? That’s right it’s Super Smash Bros Brawl with 9.40m sales.

Puzzle…

Well as there’s no Super Mario Bros Rubiks Cube on the Wii (yet!) there’s only one champion here~) there’s only one winner}~{) there’s only one champion here}~) there’s only one winner}. Those little Tetriminoes! The original Tetris sold 35m on the GB.

Racing…

There’s a few big players here, but for me it has to be Gran Turismo. It must be. It’s gotta be! Well it’s not. Nope guess what? It’s Martio Kart, but Mario Kart on the Wii which has sold 24 million copies. Doh.

Sports…

Ok this is a big one!!! What will it be Fifa, Pro Evolution soccer, Madden NFL, A Tennis game, or perhaps a WWE game? No, it’s nintendo all the way. It’s sold a whopping sixty-seven million games.

Platform…

The classics. The games that kicked off console gaming. Sonic and Tails or Mario and Luigi? Or could it be Tamanian Devil? No, Sonic or Mario? There can be only one that wins this. And those Super Mario Brothers win it with 40m copies sold.

First Person Shooter…

Another classic genre full of Duke Nukems and Dooms! Niether of these potential 1st person shoot em up stars are champion here however. Halo Three grabs this with 8m sells.

Role-playing…

Again some massive titles here. Final Fanatasy being the one that springs to my mind. Once again it’s Nintendo with Pokemon Red and Blue selling 20m copies. No sign of the Starcraft 2 Mouse  for guessing that then!

Third Person-shooter. The best was always was the original. The Playstation maker that become a hollywood pin-up. The first Tomb Raider. It her sister TombRaider II that sold the most, selling 8 million.

Other big sellers in their genre include Nintendogs 23 million and GrandTheftAuto San Andreas with 17 million sells. So what we learn from this is Nintendo really know how to hammer home the big sales! And who knows maybe one day we’ll see the big online games such as Starcraft 2 book and World of Warcraft up there with these hulks.

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