While we're used to seeing the latest video game charts, it's easy to forget how they looked roughly twenty years ago. NPD Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella recently shared the best-selling game charts from the mid to late nineties.
In terms of Nintendo charts, he featured the big systems of the time including the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color. Back then, Super Mario 64 and Pokémon Gold and Silver reigned supreme. Take a look below:
To put it in perspective, the original Crash Bandicoot was also the number one game on the first PlayStation and Sonic Adventure was third on the Sega Dreamcast chart.
Did you play any of these chart-toppers back in the day? Tell us in the comments.
[source twitter.com]
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To be honest, from All Nintendo consoles, only N64 that i have never played before.
My Teenhood raised by PS1 & PS2 by DDR , Harvest Moon, Monster Rancher, Bomberman, K-1, etc.
Shocked Banjo Kazooie not in top 10.
Wow, the nostalgia is real. Good times!
Pokemon Pinball outsold Pokemon Crystal? That suggests some insane sales numbers on that game. Hard to believe it only ever got one sequel. It's odd to see licensed titles in lists like this, but the three on here are among the better titles ever released at least.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel was the bomb! Everyone around school would show off their virtual decks.
No Hybrid Heaven? This is obviously fabricated.
Seriously though I loved that game.
"Game Color Games" Sounds like a typical Chinese bootleg console.
What, the Donkey Kong Country GBC port sold better than Zelda: Oracle of Ages (and presumably Seasons was further down the list)?
I mean, GBC did have a rather short life so there was a huge competition but that is a surprise.
"While we're used to seeing the latest video game charts"
Must have missed the September US NPD numbers at NL... 🤔
best selling games of the mid/late 90's ???
Uhhmmm.....are we grasping at straws for something to write about ???
Banjo-Kazooie is the best game of all time.
I've played most of these. I'd love to revisit most of these. Nintendo, make it happen.
Never played Mario 64. Pokemon silver I still own.
I love the 90’s. I collect a lot of 90’s stuff. Am I strange for this?
Played all those games haha, did think banjo whould be in the top 10
Little surprised to see that Oracle of Ages outsold Seasons, and Pokemon Crystal behind Pinball. However seeing Silver outselling Gold, hardly a surprise
Given how well Diddy Kong Racing performed it's really baffling Nintendo never released a proper sequel.
No Superman 64?
I CALL SHENANIGANS!!!
@Mgene15
I do the same. Growing up in that decade, I miss the 90s more as the years go by.
Wow, N64 & GBC were the two consoles I bought with my own money for the first time. I miss them so much. I remember the N64 blew my mind and I was amazed the Game Boy Color could add in colour to old GB games like Pokémon Red. I also remember spending a lot of time on Star Wars Shadows of the Empire on N64, I really hope Star Wars returns to Nintendo consoles. I also hope the Switch gets a new Pokémon Stadium & Pokémon Snap game. Both would be awesome!
@link3710 For example, I played Blue and got pinball. By the time Silver and Gold came out I had grown out of it. My little brother got Silver though. That was his first Pokemon. He is 4 years younger than me.
@Jimez why? Was Silver better some how? My brothet had Silver. He got it because it was his favorite color. Lol. Same reason I got blue over red (green is my favorite). Although Blue was later seen as somehow inferior (Idk how). After hearing that I just assumed the second color was somehow less popular.
Also why on Ages? I wanted Ages a little bit back in the day but it got over shadowed by N64 games for me. I got both of them on 3ds, but I never finished Ages or started Seasons.
Damn well loved my N64, what a console!
I didn't realize that Dark Duel Stories was that popular. I was the only kid who had that game on my school bus to my knowledge.
...Though I did grow up in bum nowhere.
@aznable I enjoyed Hybrid Heaven too. Haven't played a single game like it since.
@Trajan Ages was more puzzle based over Seasons, as for Silver I don't have a clear answer on that one
Mario Kart beat OoT? Yeah right.
@Trajan
Probably because of lugia, the mascot pokemon of the silver version being more popular.
Kind of surprised to not see ocarina higher on that list.
On the other hand, hardly surprised to see super Mario 64 and Pokemon gold and silver at the top, they were legendary games.
Maannn i miss pokemkn trading card game, i wish they made one for nintendo switch
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