By the Numbers: Best-Selling Classics

Super Mario Bros. moved ~40.2M copies; Tetris on Game Boy sold ~35M; Pac-Man conquered the arcade.

The top 3

  1. Super Mario Bros.: ~40.2M: For decades the best-selling single game ever, largely on the back of NES bundling worldwide.
  2. Tetris (Game Boy): ~35M: The pack-in puzzle that sold the handheld — one of the best-selling games of all time on a single platform.
  3. Pac-Man: Arcade King: Guinness-recognized as the most successful coin-operated arcade game — roughly 400,000 cabinets and billions in quarters.

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