Popularity isn’t a sign of good quality. Some of the best-selling games and some of the best games ever bombed at retail aren’t worth the storage space they take up in your hard drive. However, popularity offers a glimpse of what our culture values about the world we live in nowadays and the culture that has arisen around videogames.

Before you check out the list of online casinos in New Jersey, here are the best-selling videogame franchises of all time.

1. Lego

Original release: 1995

Number of releases: 71

Copies sold: over 100 million

Lego videogames go far back than the pop culture parodies that started with Lego Star Wars. The first licensed Lego videogame dated back to 1995 and was only available for Sega’s educational console for kids, the Pico. Since then, 70 more games have been released with the Lego license or name.

2. Mario Kart

Original release: 1992

Number of releases: Nine

Copies sold: over 137 million

Nintendo’s kart racer has one of the highest per-unit sales totals. Sonic has been huge for years but has sold fewer copies than Mario Kart – despite having more than three times as many games in his franchise. When considered as a franchise, and not a section of the larger Mario world, it’s the firm’s third best-selling game, behind Pokemon and Super Mario platformers.

3. Tetris

Original release: 1984

Number of releases: 60

Copies sold: over 170 million

It may have been released in 60 different presentations over the years, but there’s only one Tetris. It’s less a franchise or videogame series than games like chess – something so fundamental and singular that it feels bizarre to view it the same way as, say, Grand Theft Auto. Nevertheless, across these dozen of Tetris releases, you’ll find different viewpoints, different shapes, and even different rules, so they’re not the same game. And as Tetris 99 and Tetris’s effects have shown in the last two years, there’re still opportunities to innovate within Alexey Pajitnov’s masterpiece.

4. The Sims

Original release: 2000

Number of releases: 12

Copies sold: 200 million

Will Wright’s real-life simulator has seen a multitude of spinoffs and expansions and has been conveyed to almost every piece of hardware that could play it. It still has four main installments in nearly two decades, though, meaning its per-game sales are high. The Sims has been a distinctive phenomenon since day one, and even though some longtime fans have difficulties with the newest version it’s hard to see the series come to an end.

5. FIFA

Original release: 1993

Number of releases: 20

Copies sold: over 260 million

The biggest game not only in football but of all sports, FIFA ruled the sales charts throughout the world every year. It’s also one of the very last games released for older systems – it was coming for the PS3 and Xbox 360 as recently as 2018 – four years after their successor was released. FIFA 14 had a PlayStation 2 version, 13 years after that console was first released. It’s published every year on every system in every market around the world, and that level of availability is another reason why FIFA is among the best-selling games of all time.