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I hope you can help me and find some additional sales data for (very) old video games, it's very interesting. We have a lot of data from ~ 1996 till today, but the time from the early 70's till the early 90's is completely unexplored. ^^

 

That's all data I have in the moment:

 

System Title                      Units
Release
Publisher        
Comment









A2600 Pac-Man 7.000.000
1981
Atari
till 09/06/2006
COLV Donkey Kong 6.000.000
1982



A2600 Pitfall! 4.000.000
1982
Activision

A2600 Missile Command 2.500.000
1981
Atari

INT Las Vegas Poker & Black Jack 2.000.000
1979
Mattel
Pack-in
A2600 Demon Attack 2.000.000
1982
Imagic

A2600 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1.500.000
1982
Atari

INT MLB Baseball  1.085.700
1980
Mattel

INT NFL Football  1.000.000
1979
Mattel

INT Astrosmash 1.000.000
1981
Mattel
Free bonus
INT Space Armada  1.000.000
1981
Mattel

INT Space Battle  1.000.000
1979
Mattel

A2600 Adventure 1.000.000
1978
Atari

A2600 Atlantis 1.000.000
1982
Imagic

A2600 Cosmic Ark 1.000.000
1982
Imagic

A2600 Kaboom! 1.000.000
1981
Activision

A2600 Megamania 1.000.000
1982
Activision

A2600 River Raid 1.000.000
1982
Activision

A2600 Space Invaders 1.000.000
1978
Atari

A2600 Yars' Revenge 1.000.000
1981
Atari

INT Star Strike 800.000
1981
Mattel

INT Armor Battle  700.000
1979
Mattel

INT Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 700.000
1982
Mattel
From the BSRs website 
INT Auto Racing  575.000
1979
Mattel

INT Night Stalker  550.000
1982
Mattel

INT Triple Action  500.000
1981
Mattel

INT Sea Battle  500.000
1980
Mattel

INT NBA Basketball  500.000
1980
Mattel

INT Boxing  500.000
1980
Mattel

INT Space Hawk  500.000
1981
Mattel

INT US Ski Team Skiing  450.000
1980
Mattel

INT SNAFU  400.000
1981
Mattel

INT PBA Bowling  400.000
1981
Mattel

Multi   Zork I 378.987
1980
Infocom

INT PGA Golf  375.000
1980
Mattel

INT Tennis  350.000
1980
Mattel

INT Frog Bog  350.000
1982
Mattel

INT NHL Hockey  325.000
1980
Mattel

INT Bomb Squad 300.000
1982
Mattel
Voice game / From the BSRs website 
INT Sub Hunt  300.000
1982
Mattel

INT NASL Soccer  300.000
1979
Mattel

INT B-17 Bomber 300.000
1982
Mattel
Voice game
INT Space Spartans 300.000
1982
Mattel / Sears
Voice game
Multi Hitchhiker's 254.249
1984
Infocom

INT Utopia  250.000
1981
Mattel

INT Horse Racing  250.000
1979
Mattel

Multi Zork III 173.204
1981
Infocom

INT Backgammon  150.000
1979
Mattel

Multi Deadline 140.719
1982
Infocom

Multi Zork III 129.232
1982
Infocom

INT Checkers  125.000
1979
Mattel

INT Shark! Shark!  100.000
1982
Mattel

INT Reversi  100.000
1981
Mattel

INT Las Vegas Roulette  100.000
1979
Mattel

INT Vectron  100.000
1982
Mattel

INT Sharp Shot  100.000
1982
Mattel

Multi Suspended 99.556
1983
Infocom

Multi Starcross 90.315
1982
Infocom

INT Tron: Solar Sailer 90.000
1982
Mattel
Voice game / From the BSRs website 
A2600 Custer's Revenge 80.000
1982
Mystique

Multi  Cutthroats 75.963
1984
Infocom

INT Royal Dealer 75.000
1982
Mattel
The lowest sales of any pre-crash release Mattel game
Multi Wishbringer 73.074
1985
Infocom

Multi Witness 72.765
1983
Infocom

Multi  Enchanter 71.812
1983
Infocom

Multi    Planetfall 70.312
1983
Infocom

Multi    Leather Goddesses 53.543
1986
Infocom

Multi    Suspect 47.456
1984
Infocom

Multi    Sorcerer 41.952
1984
Infocom

Multi  Infidel 41.602
1983
Infocom

Multi    Seastalker 39.420
1984
Infocom

Multi    Trinity 35.159
1986
Infocom

Multi    Spellbreaker 29.881
1985
Infocom

Multi    Mind Forever 28.093
1985
Infocom

Multi   Moonmist 24.777
1986
Infocom

Multi   Ballyhoo 23.912
1985
Infocom

Multi    Fooblitzky 8.225
1986
Infocom

Multi   Enchanter Trilogy 4.500
1986
Infocom

Multi    Zork Trilogy 3.270
1986
Infocom



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Nice work, will post if I come across anymore.



I'll sticky this if more info starts rolling in to the thread...



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This is good stuff. Is it harder to find info on the Colecovision?



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TheSource said:

I'll sticky this if more info starts rolling in to the thread...

Cool, thx. :)

 

I'll see what I can find today. ^^



Wow... ET only managed to sell 1.5 million... even with all the negative hype that came later on I was still expecting it to sell more then that :?



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hunter_alien said:
Wow... ET only managed to sell 1.5 million... even with all the negative hype that came later on I was still expecting it to sell more then that :?

Lots of copies were returned due to it being so unbelievably crap. Shame we can't do the same with crap games nowadays ... lol.