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http://www.superplay.se
Some interesting info here. Apparently, all of these lists were compiled by a Swedish magazine called Superplay which recently celebrated their 100th issue.
"World best selling game franchises:
1. Super Mario (160 million)
2. Pokemon (85 million)
3. Final Fantasy (50 million)
4. Legend of Zelda (43 million)
5. Dragon Quest (34 million)
6. Tetris (32 million)
7. Gran Turismo (30 million)
8. Sonic (29 million)
9. GTA (28 million)
10. Street Fighter (27 million)
Worlds best selling game machines:
1. Game Boy (120 million)
2. Playstation (100 million)
3. PS2 (73 million)
4. NES (64 million)
5. GBA (52 million)
6. Super NES (49 million)
7. Nintendo 64 (30 million)
8. Atari 2600 (26 million)
9. Mega drive (genesis, 23 million)
10. Gamecube (15 million)
11. Commandore 64 (15 million)
12. Xbox (14 million)
13. Amiga (13 million)
14. Master System (10 million)
15. Saturn (10 million)
5 worst accessories:
1. Activator Ring (Mega drive)
2. Rumble Vest (Multi)
3. Finger Dance pad (Playstation)
4. The glove (multi)
5. Pyramat (multi)
5 coolest accessories that lacked usefulness:
1. ROB (nes)
2. The Sega 3D glassed (master system)
3. Robot Arm (C64)
4. Power Glove (nes)
5. VMU (dreamcast)
Biggest commitment on the worst hardware:
1. Virtual Boy
2. N-Gage, first edition
3. CD-I
4. 32X
5. C64 GS
Best compelations with the original music from the 8-bit games:
1. Dracula Best
2. Famicom Music Vol2
3. Project Galway
4. All sounds of Final Fantasy I & II
5. Metal Gear / Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Music collection.
Most entertaining Super Mario levels:
1. Rainbow ride (Mario 64)
2. Funky (Super Mario World)
3. 5-3 (SMB3)
4. Bowser in the sky (Mario 64)
5. 8-Super Tank (SMB3)
6. Awesome (super Mario World)
7. Lethal Lava land (Mario 64)
8. 8-1 (Smb3)
9. Outrageous (Super Mario World')
10. 7-7 (smb3)
11. Cool Cool mountain (mario 64)
12. Valley of bowser 3 (super mario world)
13. 8-4 (smb2)
14. 6-8 (smb3)
15. Bianco Hills (sms)
16. Chocolate secret (super mario world)
17. 8-1 (smb3)
18. 8-2 (smb)
19. 8-Fortress (smb3)
20. 7-1 (smb)
Best weapon combos in Halo:
1. Shotgun +pistol
2. rocket launcher + assualt rifle
3. Sniper rifle+ shotgun
Most respectful moves in Street Fighter II:
1. Play a full round with Chun-li without touching the ground
2. Jump through a fireball with dragon punch
3. Succeed with a spinning piledriver
4. Catch and throw the opponents in the air
5. settle a match with an easy blow
Most classic quotes:
1. "Thank you mario but our princess is in another castle" (toad in smb)
2. "I am like you, I have no name" (ninja in Metal Gear solid)
3. "Go up up, the mountain ahead" (The legend of Zelda)
4. "Hi, I am selling these fine lether jackets" (maincharacther in the most LucasArts adventues)
5. "The last metroid is in captivity. The Galaxy is at peace" (Super Metroid)
6. My sweet little magic user..! Uweee, he, he! With this slave Crown I'll practiclly OWN you!!" (kefka in FF6)
7. "Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!" (chop-chop Master onion in PaRappa the rapper)
8. "Bring it on! (marines in starcraft)
9. "Go Home and be my family man" (Guile in SFII)
10. "Stay awhile, stay forever!" (the welcome in Impossible mission)
Most useless abilities in a game:
1. Honk in Blast corps
2. Take out the goalie in NHL 2004
3. Use Sonics airshield in Sonic 3
4. Spray your own tag in HL.
5. Grab your crotch in Moonwalker
5 biggest problems in Japanese RPGs:
1. Talking vegetables
2. 14 year olds that should save the world.
3. ???
4. !!!
5. ...
Coolest bosses:
1. Kefka (ff6)
2. Ridley (Metroid)
3. Death (Castelvania)
4. Dark Force (Phantasy star)
5. Dobkertops (R-type)
6. Sephiroth (ff7)
7. Ganon (Zelda)
8. Psycho Mantis (MGS)
9. Sagat (Street Fighter)
10. Medusa (Castlevania, Kid icarus, Phantasy Star)
Best dressed:
1. lulu (FF10)
2. Alucard (SotN)
3. Ulala (Space Channel 5)
4. Dante (Devil May cry 2)
5. Paine (FF10-2)
Worst dressed:
1. Mika (Street Fighter Alpha)
2. Blinx (Blinx)
3. Tingle (Zelda)
4. Leblanc (FF10-2)
5. Cooper (Grabbed by the ghoulies)
Star Producers weakest moments:
1. Hideo Kojima - Penguin Adventure
2. Yuji Naka - Great Basketball
3. Yoshio Sakamoto - Gumshoe
4. Hironobu Sakaguschi - World Runner
5. Shigeru Miyamoto - Popeye
10 sequels we want to see:
1. Super Mario Bros 5
2. Final Fantasy VI-2
3. Phantasy Star V
4. Nighst 2
5. Wonderboy IV
6. Punch Out 3
7. Elite online
8. Shenmue III
9. Shadowrun 2
10. Sega Rally 3
10 sequels we wish we had never seen:
1. Castlevania 64
2. Syndicate wars
3. Contra: Legacy of war
4. Legend of Mana
5. Deus Ex: Invisible war
6. Alex Kidd in High-Tech world
7. Turrican 3
8. Theme Park World
9. Last Ninja 3
10. Snake's revenge
Best button combos in gamehistory:
1. up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, B, A
2. Run stop /Restore
3. Control/Amiga/Amiga
4. Right, down, down, right, right, blow button
5. Ctrl/alt/del
Worst excuses when you have lost in a game:
1. "I have never really like this game anyway"
2. "You had the best controler"
3. "You cheated"
4. "Beginners luck"
5. "I didn't compete"
The most important translations for new game forum users:
1. "Lacks soul" = Not developed in Japan"
2. "Too short" = Under 40 hours
3. "Spoiler" = For me prior unknown info
4. "A friend has lost his/her cd-key = I think its ok to steal other people's creation
5. "Pal is unplayable" = I need to have the best, and I cannot watch a movie without THX.
5 most underrated linear platform games:
1. Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (ps2)
2. Magical Hat (Mega drive)
3. Pschyo fox (master system)
4. Alex Kidd in Miracle world (master system)
5. Bubba n Stix (Amiga 500)
5 minigames that steal the show:
1. Monkey Target (Super monkey ball)
2. Choccobo-breeding (FF7)
3. Pazaak (Knights of the old republic)
4. dart (shenmue)
5. Fishing (Zelda OoT)
--------------- SPOILER ----------------
Most memorable endings:
1. Ico - an ending worthy this masterpiece
2. Metroid - Samus Aran was a Woman.
3. Half-life - Because you really don't get to know anything its what makes it so memorable.
4. Metal Gear Solid - Revolver Ocelots conversation with the unknown commissioner is a classic. The reply: Good-bye"
5. Another World - So beatutiful; so poetric. Lester Knight Chaykin never returned to his own world, but was deadly injured buried in the sky on a back on a redwinged dragon.
6. Command & Conquer - Pushing the button as a terrorist to blow up the white house was frightning.
7. Monkey island 2 - Legendary. Mysterious endings that still are discussed by the fans. Are Monkey island I and II nothing but an imaginative boy's daydreams on a theme park?
8. Street Fighter II - You are not a true SFer until you know what happens when you finnish the game on the highest difficulty setting without losing a single round.
9. Legacy of Kain - The ending is near, you only have to decide Nosgoths destiny. Savior or destoryer, hero or tyrant. A difficult and interesting choice.
10. Zelda II - "You saved Hyrule and you are a real hero. Thanks a million. Push start to replay""
http://www.superplay.se
Some interesting info here. Apparently, all of these lists were compiled by a Swedish magazine called Superplay which recently celebrated their 100th issue.
"World best selling game franchises:
1. Super Mario (160 million)
2. Pokemon (85 million)
3. Final Fantasy (50 million)
4. Legend of Zelda (43 million)
5. Dragon Quest (34 million)
6. Tetris (32 million)
7. Gran Turismo (30 million)
8. Sonic (29 million)
9. GTA (28 million)
10. Street Fighter (27 million)
Worlds best selling game machines:
1. Game Boy (120 million)
2. Playstation (100 million)
3. PS2 (73 million)
4. NES (64 million)
5. GBA (52 million)
6. Super NES (49 million)
7. Nintendo 64 (30 million)
8. Atari 2600 (26 million)
9. Mega drive (genesis, 23 million)
10. Gamecube (15 million)
11. Commandore 64 (15 million)
12. Xbox (14 million)
13. Amiga (13 million)
14. Master System (10 million)
15. Saturn (10 million)
5 worst accessories:
1. Activator Ring (Mega drive)
2. Rumble Vest (Multi)
3. Finger Dance pad (Playstation)
4. The glove (multi)
5. Pyramat (multi)
5 coolest accessories that lacked usefulness:
1. ROB (nes)
2. The Sega 3D glassed (master system)
3. Robot Arm (C64)
4. Power Glove (nes)
5. VMU (dreamcast)
Biggest commitment on the worst hardware:
1. Virtual Boy
2. N-Gage, first edition
3. CD-I
4. 32X
5. C64 GS
Best compelations with the original music from the 8-bit games:
1. Dracula Best
2. Famicom Music Vol2
3. Project Galway
4. All sounds of Final Fantasy I & II
5. Metal Gear / Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Music collection.
Most entertaining Super Mario levels:
1. Rainbow ride (Mario 64)
2. Funky (Super Mario World)
3. 5-3 (SMB3)
4. Bowser in the sky (Mario 64)
5. 8-Super Tank (SMB3)
6. Awesome (super Mario World)
7. Lethal Lava land (Mario 64)
8. 8-1 (Smb3)
9. Outrageous (Super Mario World')
10. 7-7 (smb3)
11. Cool Cool mountain (mario 64)
12. Valley of bowser 3 (super mario world)
13. 8-4 (smb2)
14. 6-8 (smb3)
15. Bianco Hills (sms)
16. Chocolate secret (super mario world)
17. 8-1 (smb3)
18. 8-2 (smb)
19. 8-Fortress (smb3)
20. 7-1 (smb)
Best weapon combos in Halo:
1. Shotgun +pistol
2. rocket launcher + assualt rifle
3. Sniper rifle+ shotgun
Most respectful moves in Street Fighter II:
1. Play a full round with Chun-li without touching the ground
2. Jump through a fireball with dragon punch
3. Succeed with a spinning piledriver
4. Catch and throw the opponents in the air
5. settle a match with an easy blow
Most classic quotes:
1. "Thank you mario but our princess is in another castle" (toad in smb)
2. "I am like you, I have no name" (ninja in Metal Gear solid)
3. "Go up up, the mountain ahead" (The legend of Zelda)
4. "Hi, I am selling these fine lether jackets" (maincharacther in the most LucasArts adventues)
5. "The last metroid is in captivity. The Galaxy is at peace" (Super Metroid)
6. My sweet little magic user..! Uweee, he, he! With this slave Crown I'll practiclly OWN you!!" (kefka in FF6)
7. "Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!" (chop-chop Master onion in PaRappa the rapper)
8. "Bring it on! (marines in starcraft)
9. "Go Home and be my family man" (Guile in SFII)
10. "Stay awhile, stay forever!" (the welcome in Impossible mission)
Most useless abilities in a game:
1. Honk in Blast corps
2. Take out the goalie in NHL 2004
3. Use Sonics airshield in Sonic 3
4. Spray your own tag in HL.
5. Grab your crotch in Moonwalker
5 biggest problems in Japanese RPGs:
1. Talking vegetables
2. 14 year olds that should save the world.
3. ???
4. !!!
5. ...
Coolest bosses:
1. Kefka (ff6)
2. Ridley (Metroid)
3. Death (Castelvania)
4. Dark Force (Phantasy star)
5. Dobkertops (R-type)
6. Sephiroth (ff7)
7. Ganon (Zelda)
8. Psycho Mantis (MGS)
9. Sagat (Street Fighter)
10. Medusa (Castlevania, Kid icarus, Phantasy Star)
Best dressed:
1. lulu (FF10)
2. Alucard (SotN)
3. Ulala (Space Channel 5)
4. Dante (Devil May cry 2)
5. Paine (FF10-2)
Worst dressed:
1. Mika (Street Fighter Alpha)
2. Blinx (Blinx)
3. Tingle (Zelda)
4. Leblanc (FF10-2)
5. Cooper (Grabbed by the ghoulies)
Star Producers weakest moments:
1. Hideo Kojima - Penguin Adventure
2. Yuji Naka - Great Basketball
3. Yoshio Sakamoto - Gumshoe
4. Hironobu Sakaguschi - World Runner
5. Shigeru Miyamoto - Popeye
10 sequels we want to see:
1. Super Mario Bros 5
2. Final Fantasy VI-2
3. Phantasy Star V
4. Nighst 2
5. Wonderboy IV
6. Punch Out 3
7. Elite online
8. Shenmue III
9. Shadowrun 2
10. Sega Rally 3
10 sequels we wish we had never seen:
1. Castlevania 64
2. Syndicate wars
3. Contra: Legacy of war
4. Legend of Mana
5. Deus Ex: Invisible war
6. Alex Kidd in High-Tech world
7. Turrican 3
8. Theme Park World
9. Last Ninja 3
10. Snake's revenge
Best button combos in gamehistory:
1. up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, B, A
2. Run stop /Restore
3. Control/Amiga/Amiga
4. Right, down, down, right, right, blow button
5. Ctrl/alt/del
Worst excuses when you have lost in a game:
1. "I have never really like this game anyway"
2. "You had the best controler"
3. "You cheated"
4. "Beginners luck"
5. "I didn't compete"
The most important translations for new game forum users:
1. "Lacks soul" = Not developed in Japan"
2. "Too short" = Under 40 hours
3. "Spoiler" = For me prior unknown info
4. "A friend has lost his/her cd-key = I think its ok to steal other people's creation
5. "Pal is unplayable" = I need to have the best, and I cannot watch a movie without THX.
5 most underrated linear platform games:
1. Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (ps2)
2. Magical Hat (Mega drive)
3. Pschyo fox (master system)
4. Alex Kidd in Miracle world (master system)
5. Bubba n Stix (Amiga 500)
5 minigames that steal the show:
1. Monkey Target (Super monkey ball)
2. Choccobo-breeding (FF7)
3. Pazaak (Knights of the old republic)
4. dart (shenmue)
5. Fishing (Zelda OoT)
--------------- SPOILER ----------------
Most memorable endings:
1. Ico - an ending worthy this masterpiece
2. Metroid - Samus Aran was a Woman.
3. Half-life - Because you really don't get to know anything its what makes it so memorable.
4. Metal Gear Solid - Revolver Ocelots conversation with the unknown commissioner is a classic. The reply: Good-bye"
5. Another World - So beatutiful; so poetric. Lester Knight Chaykin never returned to his own world, but was deadly injured buried in the sky on a back on a redwinged dragon.
6. Command & Conquer - Pushing the button as a terrorist to blow up the white house was frightning.
7. Monkey island 2 - Legendary. Mysterious endings that still are discussed by the fans. Are Monkey island I and II nothing but an imaginative boy's daydreams on a theme park?
8. Street Fighter II - You are not a true SFer until you know what happens when you finnish the game on the highest difficulty setting without losing a single round.
9. Legacy of Kain - The ending is near, you only have to decide Nosgoths destiny. Savior or destoryer, hero or tyrant. A difficult and interesting choice.
10. Zelda II - "You saved Hyrule and you are a real hero. Thanks a million. Push start to replay""
