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This is a list of personal computer games (video games for personal computers, including those running Windows, macOS, and Linux) that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales.
In the United States, Super Mario Bros. 3 was the best-selling home video game of 1990. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] The following titles were the best-selling home video games of each month in 1990. Month
The 1990s was the third decade in the industry's history.It was a decade of marked innovation in video gaming. [1] It was a decade of transition from sprite-based graphics to full-fledged 3D graphics [1] and it gave rise to several genres of video games including, but not limited to, the first-person shooter, real-time strategy, survival horror, and MMO. [1]
The year's highest-grossing video game worldwide was Capcom's arcade fighting game Street Fighter II. The year's best-selling system was the Game Boy for the second year in a row, while the year's best-selling home video game was Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, which was also the year's top video game rental in the United States.
Video game publishers Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts managed to enter the list of ten best-selling games every single year with at least one of their games for the last fifteen years in a row. Of the twelve best-selling games released in the last fourteen years, twelve were from Call of Duty franchise and published by Activision Blizzard.
It was the best-selling computer game in the United States for 52 months. [39] [40] Myst sold more than 6.3 million units worldwide by 2000, including more than 4.3 million in the United States; [41] and was the bestselling PC game throughout the 1990s until The Sims exceeded its sales in 2002.
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In 1996, the magazine named it the 30th best game ever, with the editors calling it "the father of real-time strategy games". [38] In 1991 it won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 , [ 30 ] the 1990 Computer Game of the Year in issue 25 of American video game magazine Video Games & Computer Entertainment ...