hi all--is there an easy way to download all past monthly NPD data in a text file or something like that?  i have some models i kind of want to test out.

 thanks in advance!

Is it actually 150k per year? How many companies can afford that? You could develop 2 DS games for the same money. 

I'm not sure how to say this but it's illegal to hand out that kind of information. (EG: VG Chartz could get sued probibally for the number of years the data they handed out in bulk like that. so if 10 years was given out, VG Chartz could probibally get sued for 1.5million.

yeah, that's the stuff i want, except i don't want to open pages for like 1000 times and copy and paste everything.

kwaad: well, it's already public data--vgcharts already has made everything accessible. worse case scenario you just do it manually 1000 times. if someone is gonna sue vgcharts, they already have a case. in any case, maybe distributing would be an "official" endorsement.

i can write a script and query against the vgcharts backend--it's just that i don't know how to quite do that. maybe someone can give me a pointer? i usually use perl, just haven't done much with queries.