Golden Age of Arcade Video Games - List of Best-selling Arcade Games

List of Best-selling Arcade Games

Main article: List of highest-grossing arcade games See also: List of best-selling video games

For arcade games, success was usually judged by either the number of arcade hardware units sold to operators, or the amount of revenue generated, from the number of coins (such as quarters or 100 yen coins) inserted into machines, and/or the hardware sales (with arcade hardware prices often ranging from $1000 to $4000). This list only includes arcade games that have sold more than 10,000 hardware units.

  • Pac-Man (400,000)
  • Space Invaders (360,000)
  • Donkey Kong (132,000)
  • Asteroids (100,000)
  • Defender (60,000)
  • Centipede (55,988)
  • Galaxian (40,000 in the US)
  • Donkey Kong Jr. (30,000 in the US)
  • Mr. Do! (30,000 in the US)
  • Tempest (29,000)
  • Q*bert (25,000)
  • Robotron: 2084 (23,000)
  • Dig Dug (22,228 in the US)
  • Pole Position (21,000 in the US)
  • Popeye (20,000 in the US)
  • Missile Command (20,000)
  • Jungle Hunt (18,000 in the US)
  • Dragon's Lair (16,000)
  • Battlezone (15,122)
  • Stargate (15,000)
  • Star Wars (12,695)
  • Space Duel (12,038)

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