Wow, you look at that list and you realize just how impressive GTA and Sims sales really are... Every other game all the way down to 20 either received a boost from bundle sales or multiple versions counted in the same total (Nintendogs, Pokemon).

We don't count them...Those are stand-alone game sales for WoW and The Sims...

The console versions of the Sims included some content from expansion packs, but other than that those are entirely standalone sales for WoW and The Sims.

I believe the 9.5M sales for Starcraft includes the expansion pack, however, so it isn't listed.

At least one of the Medal of Honor games should probably be up around 9-10M, but recently most of the MoH data disappeared from the database.

Rocketpig: GT3, Pokemon Yellow and NSMB never had "forced" bundles, only have 1 version and are in the top 20.

G3 sold many of its copies in the PS2 bundle when it released. It wasn't "forced", but it enjoyed many bundle sales.

I didn't realize that about Pokemon Yellow.

I wasn't counting NSMB, which is why I stopped at 20. Maybe I didn't make that clear. 

Some other things: why aren't we counting Pokémon Yellow to the sales of Red/Blue/Green? The changes were only minor, and nothing substantial was added to the gameplay.
And what about the other incarnations of Tetris? How do we tell if a version is a remake of the original or an entirely new Tetris?

Does anyone have any comment on Yellow/Crystal/Emerald sales? Are those legitimately the same games as the ones before? Like basically a "special edition" with a fairly limited amount of new content? I always assumed they changed things up at least a little bit more than the ones that came out concurrently.

As for Tetris, the "original" Tetris for GB and NES, plus the color remake for GBC are essentially the same game, but most of the other versions add a bunch of new playmodes.

I'd say that Yellow/Crystal/Emerald are different then the other 2 versions. Yellow made you start off with Pikachu, and made you keep it out at all times, which was totally different. Crystal added the Battle Tower (I think) which has been a mainstay since, as well as the Suicune storyline. Emerald is essentially the same, the only thing was that both Teams were enemies (I don't see that as big a difference).

So I would say no to Yellow/Crystal and a maybe to Emerald.

From what I can see, Pokemon Yellow was available as a bundle with Game Boy Color (WTF?) in North America, but almost a year after GBC had launched, so it wasn't "forced."

A few bundles I'm not clear about, if anyone happens to know about them:

1. Was Donkey Kong bundled in with all 6M ColecoVision systems sold? If so, it gets pretty close to 9M units adding in the NES version, NES bundle with DK Jr. and GBA Famicom Mini version.

2. What's the story on Tetris and Super Mario Land? Both were bundled at some point, and I thought both were launch games, so how did that work? This won't affect the list, I'm just interested.

I sort of thought they were more than "special editions" just based on the fact that Nintendo reports them seperately, while they report Nintendogs: Dalmation and Friends together with the many other versions.

Boy, it's been awhile but I know that Tetris was bundled with the GB for a long time beginning with the GB launch. I think it was later supplanted by Super Mario Land when it released.

Can anyone confirm this?

Nicely done, must have taken a while to do that.