Top 10 best-selling Atari 2600 games of all time

You’d be amazed, especially if you don’t already know. Here’s the list of Best-Selling Atari 2600 video games of all time:

Topping the list is Pac-Man with a whopping seven million cartridges sold, followed by Pitfall! with four million and Missile Command with 2.5 million.

Other Atari 2600 games that made it to the million copies-sold list are Demon Attack with two million, (BIG GASP!) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with 1.5 million, and Adventure, Atlantis, Cosmic Ark, Kaboom!, Megamania, River Raid, and Space Invaders with one million copies each.

Yeah, it’s weird seeing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial up there with certified Atari 2600 hits like Space Invaders, but that’s what the figures say. Hmmm, come to think of it, the fact that the botched version of Pac-Man out-sold all other Atari 2600 games. The two video games are quite fortunate to have tie-ins—E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial with the movie of the same name, and Pac-Man with the highly successful arcade game that gave birth to dozens of ports.

Aside from Pac-Man, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and Missile Command, I honestly can’t remember playing the other games in the list.

Here’s a video review of the best-selling Atari 2600 video game by Ray from NewGenGamers: