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Orochimaru on 05 May 2008

Hy, I´ve compiled some LTD figures for old video game systems, have fun, it´s really interesting.

 

I saved this data a long time ago, so I don´t remember the sources [sorry], but´ll add them if I find them again. ^^

 

If you have more data, please post it!. :)

 

First Release   System                       Units                  Comment
                       Sega Mega Drive        30.000.000         till end of 1997 games
                       Atari 2600                  30.000.000         numb. till end of 2004 [source: 2004 Video Game Price Guide]
                       C64                            17.000.000 - 22.000.000
                       Sega Master System  13.000.000
                       Atari ST                       6.000.000           till end of 1994 games
1980               Intellivision                 3.000.000           till end of 1983 / discontinued 1991
                       TurboGrafx-16            2.500.000           only NA - numbers
1977               Color TV Game 6        1.000.000
1978               Color TV Game 15       1.000.000
                       Virtual Boy                  770.000
                       3DO                            700.000
                       Philips CD-i                 570.000
                       Space Invaders          350.000
1972               Magnavox Odyssey    340.000               discontinued 1975
                       Pac-Man [Arcade]        293.822             between 1980 and 1987      

                       Atari Jaguar                250.000

                       Sega 32X                    200.000
                       Ms. Pac-Man               100.000 - 115.000
                       Asteroids                    100.000
                       Pong home tlv. version  100.000
                       Centipede                   50.000
                       Galaxian                      50.000
                       Apple Pippen               42.000                   discontinued 1997
                      Atari Breakout              15.000
                       Midway Sea Wolf         10.000
1972               Pong                            8.000 - 10.000
                       Pong (Midway)           9.000
                       Dragon's Lair             8.000 [1984 figures]



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BKK2 on 05 May 2008

TurboGrafx-16 2.500.000


Those are just NA sales, it sold around 10m WW. Seeing as it never officially released in Europe you can assume ~7.5m in Japan where it was known as the PC Engine. Probably my favourite console.



kingofwale on 05 May 2008

> Apple Pippen 42.000

I'm sorry, but that made me "lol"



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Orochimaru on 05 May 2008
BKK2 said:
TurboGrafx-16 2.500.000


Those are just NA sales, it sold around 10m WW. Seeing as it never officially released in Europe you can assume ~7.5m in Japan where it was known as the PC Engine. Probably my favourite console.

Yes, you´re right I´ve updated the chart. ^^

 

 

I´ve some additional numbers, too:

 

Pac-Man managed 7.000.000 units on the Atari 2600, that´s enormous. ^^

The game Adventure managed 1.000.000 in North America [also Atari 2600]. :D

 

 

Here are the numbers for some Intellevision games [from one thread postet long time ago here]:

Las Vegas Poker & Black Jack 2.000.000 (pack-in)
MLB Baseball 1.000.000
NFL Football 1.000.000
Astrosmash 1.000.000 (free bonus)
Space Armada 1.000.000
Space Battle 1.000.000
Star Strike “nearly” 800.000
Armor Battle 700.000
Auto Racing 575.000
Night Stalker 550.000
Triple Action 500.000
Sea Battle 500.000
NBA Basketball 500.000
Boxing 500.000
Space Hawk 500.000
US Ski Team Skiing 450.000
SNAFU 400.000
PBA Bowling 400.000
PGA Golf 375.000
Tennis 350.000
Frog Bog 350.000
NHL Hockey 325.000
Sub Hunt 300.000
NASL Soccer 300.000
B-17 Bomber 300.000 (voice game)
Space Spartans 300.000 (voice game)
Utopia 250.000
Horse Racing 250.000
Backgammon 150.000
Checkers 125.000
Shark Shark! 100.000
Reversi 100.000
Las Vegas Roulette 100.000
Vectron 100.000
Sharp Shot 100.000
Royal Dealer 75.000 (the lowest sales of any pre-crash release Mattel game)
Sales data has been found for three other games
 

The BSRs website says Advanced Dungeons & Dragons sold 700.000
The BSRs website says that Tron Solar Sailer (voice) sold 90.000
It can be inferred from the BSRs website that Bomb Squad (voice) sold 300.000

 

 

Does anyone has more software sale data [BKK2?], so we can make a nice chart with this old games. :D :D



BKK2 on 05 May 2008

C64 17.000.000 - 22.000.000


I wonder how many of those were the console version.



Probably the most pointless console ever. No keyboard, disc drive, tape deck, etc. Could only play cartridge games, which the computer version could do already.

First cartridge game I ever owned was for Commodore 64:



I still remember the "three blind mice" soundtrack, drove you crazy after a few games.



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BKK2 on 05 May 2008

Amstrad tried something similar around the same time with a console version of their Amstrad computers.



It completely bombed, I don't think it even launched outside of Europe. I remember the games for it used to score terribly too. Even multi-platform games had far lower scores than their Master System counterparts.



mike_intellivision on 05 May 2008

Here is the thread on Intellivision sales
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=16112

I won't repeat the numbers ...because they were all listed.
I will say that 6M is the accepted sales figure -- 3M by Mattel and 3M post crash by INTV Inc.

@BKK2 -- Kewl C64 console version. I had not seen that.

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Orochimaru on 05 May 2008

Yeah, I remember it. xD



Orochimaru on 05 May 2008

@mike:

Do you have some sale figures for other old systems? :)

I´ve just found numbers for Pac-Man and Adventure. :)



BKK2 on 05 May 2008

@BKK2 -- Kewl C64 console version. I had not seen that.


I don't think it launched outside of Europe either.

I don't really have any software sales figures from this era.