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:

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Top 10 best-selling Atari 2600 games of all time

Earlier today I stumbled upon this viral marketing flash game for Ubisoft’s 2003 masterpiece “Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time“.

Viral ads are usually fun for all of 30 seconds, but this one is different. It’s a mini-game in which you must guide our hero to stop the evil Vizier from releasing the Sands of Time.

The best thing, however, is that the game takes the form of the original Prince of Persia game!

There’s an eight minute time limit in which to accomplish your task, so you’d better haul some ass if you’re to succeed.

So you see, this viral ad is 16 times more fun than your average ad! Unfortunately I’ve always been cack at the old style Prince of Persia games, so I can’t tell you much about the game. In fact it took an earth-shattering two minutes and twenty six seconds before I was cloven in twain:

Never mind… Surely you can do better…

Regular service to resume shortly. And that includes swearing.

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Prince of Persia – Flash Sands of Time

They don’t make them like this anymore…

I’m amazed at how text-heavy some of them are… It’s not like now where you get a pretty picture that will never be in the game, they were far more representative of the product that was being sold… And you could read a bunch of marketing flimflam too!

Check out more adverts at Toy Adz.

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Retro game print ads

Games commercials were never like this… Were they?

Listen Cory & Brandon… If you’re going to rap about The Legend of Zelda, follow James Kochalka’s lead:

Well The Legend of Zelda, It is the best,
Those Moblins put you to the test.
Open up a treasure chest.
And you have to save the Princess.

Your ass must be crazy…

And yes, your parents probably do hook it the funk up for you… You’re too busy being a textbook geek and a terrible actor to do it yourselves…

Dear readers… Thousands of words will no doubt pour out of my fingertips about this commercial at some point, but right now I’m too tired… Maybe tomorrow… But while I’m here I just want to ask:

What the hell is this?

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“Whoa, Nice Graphics…”

Sometimes I secretly wish my house would blow up almost every time I hear the Mario theme… Let’s hope that Cory and Brandon’s frozen, whithered cadavers are yet to re-enter our atmosphere… Stupid hair… I’ve got a Zapper you fool, they’re not that awesome!

Although the noise that the trigger makes as it springs back brings back fond memories… But let’s see you use that thing until the score counter on Duck Hunt goes all the way back to six zeros…

Idiots… Curse you Cory, and curse you Brandon…

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What’s it like to play the NES?

I just spotted these somewhat weird Sonic Adventure commercials on Digg.

We catch up with our intrepid hero and his friends (represented with plush toys which I’m sure were trying to be sold at the same time) aboard a plane. Sonic jumps out of the plane and, get this, impales his head upon a spear.

Really.

The other one is just as strange. The shocking sights you are about to see may astound you. If you’re squeamish you might not want to watch. Especially if you don’t like seeing toy hedgehogs being eaten by a crocodile. It’s ok. I looked away too.

Sonikku!

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Sonikku!

You’ve got to check this out.

Bill from Progressive Boink has posted a hilarious article featuring an old Nintendo catalogue from the 1990. Do yourself a favor and go and read it.

…These little conversation starters are filled with lithium batteries and a terrible resolve. Break them out at your next get-together and watch the party fire up like the final spark of life in a dying man’s eyes.

You’ll understand why I’m having a hard time writing about it once you do. Make sure you read all the captions, you’ll be missing out if you skim it. I particularly enjoyed the caption underneath the main photo on page 17. If you can only check out one page of this thing make it that one.

Not wanting to incur the wrath of fanboys the world over I’ll say this: don’t worry… We’re laughing with them.
Get into the world of Nintendo – Via Digg.

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Get into the world of Nintendo