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Popularity isn\u2019t a sign of good quality. Some of the\nbest-selling games and some of the best games ever bombed at retail aren\u2019t\nworth the storage space they take up in your hard drive. However, popularity\noffers a glimpse of what our culture values about the world we live in nowadays\nand the culture that has arisen around videogames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you check out the list of online casinos in\nNew Jersey<\/a>, here are the best-selling videogame franchises of\nall time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Lego<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original\nrelease<\/strong>: 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number\nof releases<\/strong>: 71<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies\nsold:<\/strong> over 100 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lego videogames go far back than the pop culture\nparodies that started with Lego Star Wars. The first licensed Lego videogame\ndated back to 1995 and was only available for Sega\u2019s educational console for\nkids, the Pico. Since then, 70 more games have been released with the Lego\nlicense or name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Mario Kart<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original\nrelease:<\/strong> 1992<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number\nof releases<\/strong>: Nine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies\nsold:<\/strong> over 137 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nintendo\u2019s kart racer has one of the highest per-unit\nsales totals. Sonic has been huge for years but has sold fewer copies than\nMario Kart \u2013 despite having more than three times as many games in his\nfranchise. When considered as a franchise, and not a section of the larger\nMario world, it\u2019s the firm\u2019s third best-selling game, behind Pokemon and Super\nMario platformers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Tetris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original\nrelease:<\/strong> 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number\nof releases:<\/strong> 60<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies\nsold:<\/strong> over 170 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may have been released in 60 different presentations over the years, but there\u2019s only one Tetris. It\u2019s less a franchise or videogame series than games like chess \u2013 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\u2019ll find different viewpoints, different shapes, and even different rules, so they\u2019re not the same game. And as Tetris 99 and Tetris’s effects have shown in the last two years, there\u2019re still opportunities to innovate within Alexey Pajitnov\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. The Sims<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original\nrelease<\/strong>: 2000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number\nof releases:<\/strong> 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies\nsold<\/strong>:\n200 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Wright\u2019s real-life simulator has seen a multitude\nof spinoffs and expansions and has been conveyed to almost every piece of\nhardware that could play it. It still has four main installments in nearly two\ndecades, though, meaning its per-game sales are high. The Sims has been a\ndistinctive phenomenon since day one, and even though some longtime fans have\ndifficulties with the newest version it\u2019s hard to see the series come to an\nend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. FIFA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original\nrelease:<\/strong> 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number\nof releases:<\/strong> 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copies\nsold:<\/strong> over 260 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest game not only in football but of all sports, FIFA ruled the sales charts throughout the world every year. It\u2019s also one of the very last games released for older systems \u2013 it was coming for the PS3 and Xbox 360 as recently as 2018 \u2013 four years after their successor was released. FIFA 14 had a PlayStation 2 version, 13 years after that console was first released. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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