BKK2 on 27 May 2008
Clearly UK charts, which should be from Gallup as they used to do the UK charts prior to Chart-Track.
But, as Dorian Block, Director of Chart Track, the independent company that officially monitors and compiles all videogame sales data across the U.K., explains, the videogame Christmas No. 1 is far from a recent invention: "The first ever videogame Christmas number was, technically, 'Commando' published by Elite on the Spectrum and Commodore 64, in 1985. This was the first year that a videogame chart was ever compiled by a company called Gallup. Chart Track was formed in March 1996 after a management buy-out from Gallup. The current Chart Track directors all worked at Gallup and have decades of experience in the music, video and games markets, in terms of retail tracking."
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However, Gallup didn't start compiling UK charts until 1985, so I'm not sure where they get the July 1984 chart from.
Anyway, thanks for those konnichiwa.
@Square07
I have tons of UK magazines and even a few EGMs from the early 90's back in the UK. Unfortunately I'm not planning on visiting there anytime soon, so you'll have to be very patient until I can post those.
