The Most Successful Video Game Of All Time?

[jamotto]

Well, if you want to ignore solitaire then Mario is the most successful video game franchise followed by Pokemon and The Sims.

[ojdon]

Mario must have sold a fair few, but I would go for Sonic 1 at the time of it's release, the Megadrive was popular and most of them came with Sonic 1. Sonic 1 has probally be ported so many times, more than Mario, finally the Video Game Industry was having a boom around the time the Mega Drive came out if IIRC.

[Shadowblind]

Mario must have sold a fair few, but I would go for Sonic 1 at the time of it's release, the Megadrive was popular and most of them came with Sonic 1. Sonic 1 has probally be ported so many times, more than Mario, finally the Video Game Industry was having a boom around the time the Mega Drive came out if IIRC.

If we are talking most successful series per game, its Halo or GTA.

[____anders____]

You have good taste my friend

i agree
i have the rockbox firmware on my sandisk sansa, and of course i have doom 1, 2, plutonia and TNT on it
and the best of all is that it runs in fullspeed

i think that game (doom 1) is ONE of the most popular game ever, but not as popular as SMB

i have every super mario game ever made on my wii they just rule

[kojiro7]

Mario and sonic
And maybe street fighter

[devdj]

well to me pong and space invaders beat solitaire hands down

[Joe88]

solitare was only made to teach people how to use a mouse when the first computer mouse's were introduced

since people used to work in command prompt and basically had no GUI

[Shadowblind]

i agree
i have the rockbox firmware on my sandisk sansa, and of course i have doom 1, 2, plutonia and TNT on it
and the best of all is that it runs in fullspeed

i think that game (doom 1) is ONE of the most popular game ever, but not as popular as SMB

i have every super mario game ever made on my wii they just rule

True. Doom literally started an extremely successful genre as well like Super mario did. Doom was more successful then many know simply because it wasn't tracked until it was a commercial game. For a long time it was freeware.

Doom 1 was the first game I ever played, and it will always be my favorite.

[alanparker05]

Has anyone got the official manufacturers sales figures for all these series of games so we can find the truth

[Veskgar]

I'd base the most successful game on how the franchise has stood up over the years and constantly improved and reinvented itself. So to me, Super Mario Bros. would be the most successful game.

Solitaire? I freaking hate solitaire and I stare and wonder at people who can sit and play it over and over and over and over. Seems like such a boring game and waste of time IMO.