| Sullla said: Not a single person has mentioned the game that immediately came to mind when I saw this topic. I think that's a sign of how drastically the franchise has fallen over the years. How about: Mortal Kombat Remember how huge these games were in the early 90s? They were essentially the Grand Theft Auto of the period. Nintendo and Sega fought a bitter, bitter war over who would get the rights to the home console version of the game. (Midway eventually put MK on both platforms.) It was such a big deal, the US Congress even got involved and held hearings on whether the game was too violent for children. The furor is the main reason why we have the ESRB rating system today. Combining the Genesis and SNES sales for Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, the home sales for the two games reached almost 10m copies, in a period where hardly anything topped 2m. This was THE series that all the kids wanted to have. (I think a lot of our posters are too young to remember this period.) And now the franchise is completely dead, the latest version barely cracking 100k worldwide on the Wii. Because the series fell so enormously far, I'd have to pick Mortal Kombat as the most destructive fall. Even the crappy Crash, Spyro, Sonic, and Megaman games still sell several hundred thousand copies... |
Good pick. I remember waiting in line to play Mortal Kombat 2 at the store against others. It was the unspoken rule of the display game that whoever lost went to the back of the line and whoever won kept playing. My Shang Tsung and I played quite a while. ^_^
