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This is a list of video games that multiple video game journalists or magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here are included on at least six separate "best/greatest of all time" lists from different publications (inclusive of all time periods, platforms, and genres), as chosen by their editorial staffs.
Computer Gaming World, founded in 1981, stated in 1987 that it was the only survivor of 18 color magazines for computer games in 1984. [ 8 ] Meanwhile, in Japan, the first magazines entirely dedicated to video games began appearing from 1982, beginning with ASCII 's LOGiN , followed by several SoftBank publications and Kadokawa Shoten 's Comptiq .
Each game in the list had a retrospective article, a full-page illustration, and a sidebar listing readers' comments. In addition, the volume contained reprints of the magazine's previous "Top 100" lists from 2000 (issue 80) and 2003 (issue 128). [54] The top 10 of Edge Presents The 100 Best Videogames were: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honoring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry. First presented in 2004 following the restructuring of the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards, the awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and are thus commonly referred to as the BAFTA Games Awards.
The best-selling single platform game is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales solely for the Wii console. Among these best-selling video games on this list, over half of them were developed or published by Nintendo; four Nintendo titles were published with their affiliate, The Pokémon Company.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [1] [2] Out of the 59 largest video game companies, 14 are located in the United States, 11 in Japan, and 7 in South Korea. Warner Bros. Games, Annapurna Interactive and Valve Corporation are not included in this
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For best-selling individual video games, see the list of best-selling video games. The sales figures given below also do not include arcade video game sales, which can be found at the list of highest-grossing arcade games. The Mario franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time, with over 879 million units sold worldwide.