At Least 50 Million Copies
| Franchise name | Original release date | Sales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madden NFL | 1988 | 99 million | |
| Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. The game is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known color commentator for NBC Sports and formerly a Super Bowl-winning head coach during the 1970s with the Oakland Raiders. | |||
| Sonic the Hedgehog | June 23, 1991 | 85.13 million | |
| The Sonic the Hedgehog (ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ, Sonikku za Hejjihoggu?) series is a franchise of video games released by Sega starring and named after its mascot character Sonic, created by game designer Yuji Naka and character designer Naoto Ohshima. With time, it has expanded into several animated television series, manga and comic books. | |||
| Mario Kart | August 27, 1992 | 80.08 million | |
| Mario Kart is a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed by Nintendo as a series of spin-offs from their trademark Super Mario series of platformer adventure-style video games. | |||
| Winning Eleven / Pro Evolution Soccer | 2001 | 77.06 million | |
| Pro Evolution Soccer (officially abbreviated as PES and known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven in Japan) is a series of association football video games developed and published by Konami. The series has been produced under the guidance of Shingo "Seabass" Takatsuka. | |||
| The Legend of Zelda | February 21, 1986 | 68.13 million | |
| The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説, Zeruda no Densetsu?) is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, developed and published by Nintendo. | |||
| Gran Turismo | December 23, 1997 | 68.08 million | |
| Gran Turismo (グランツーリスモ, Guran Tsūrisumo?, Italian for "Grand Tourer" or "Grand Touring", abbreviated GT) is a series of racing video games produced by Kazunori Yamauchi for the Sony PlayStation gaming systems by Polyphony Digital. | |||
| Tom Clancy | August 21, 1998 | 63 million | |
| Includes sales from Tom Clancy–sponsored games made by Ubisoft, including Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell. | |||
| Dragon Quest | May 27, 1986 | 61 million | |
| Dragon Quest (ドラゴンクエスト, Doragon Kuesuto?), published as Dragon Warrior in North America until the 2005 release of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, is a series of role-playing video games created by Yuji Horii, with character design by manga artist Akira Toriyama and currently published by Square Enix. | |||
| Resident Evil | March 22, 1996 | 55.2 million | |
| Resident Evil (known in Japan as Biohazard (バイオハザード, Baiohazādo?)) is a media franchise consisting of a survival horror video games series, comic books, novelizations, four Hollywood motion pictures, and a variety of collectibles, including action figures, strategy guides and publications, created by Shinji Mikami and developed by Capcom. | |||
| Donkey Kong | July 9, 1981 | 53.994 million | |
| Donkey Kong (ドンキーコング, Donkī Kongu?) is a video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto when he was assigned by Nintendo to build a game that would appeal more to Americans on the arcade hardware of Radar Scope, a game that had been released to test audiences with poor results. The arcade hit Donkey Kong led to the creation of both the Mario and Donkey Kong franchises. | |||
| Halo | November 15, 2001 | 50.55 million | |
| Halo is a science fiction video game series created by Bungie Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios which was later adapted to eight novels, several comic series, a graphic novel, numerous action figures and an anime series. After Bungie Studios' departure from Microsoft, 343 Industries took control of the franchise. | |||
| Battlefield | September 10, 2002 | 50 million | |
| The Battlefield franchise is a series of video games developed by Digital Illusions CE, and published by Electronic Arts. The games feature a focus on large maps and vehicle warfare over traditional first person shooters, including robust online capabilities. | |||
| Bejeweled | May 30, 2001 | 50 million | |
| Bejeweled is a puzzle game first developed as a browser game by PopCap Games in 2001. A sequel to this game, Bejeweled 2, was released by PopCap Games in 2004. | |||
| Lego | 1997 | 50 million | |
| The Lego franchise includes many different games, including original games such as Lego Island, Lego Racers and Lego Rock Raiders, as well as several different licensed properties like Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Lego Batman: The Video Game, and Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4. | |||
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The worst of all the Multitude
Did something for the Common Good.
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Employ’d a Million of the Poor,
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