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And here I thought the most popular game of all time was Soccer or Super Mario Bros 3
by morissette 7mo ago
And here I thought the most popular game of all time was Soccer or Super Mario Bros 3
- 6510 7mo agoQuality is the same thing as popularity. That is why mcdonalds has 12 Michelin stars.
- bee_rider 7mo agoI think they meant videogame, ruling out soccer. It looks like the Super Mario Bros series has a good showing, but it is the first one. I bet 3 falls into an unlucky valley where the game-playing population was not quite as large as it is now, but it isn’t early enough to get the extreme nostalgia of the first one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam... Of course this assumes sales=popularity, but the latter is too hard to measure.
- bartread 7mo agoI dunno: I think SMB 3 gets plenty of plaudits and is widely agreed to be the best SMB on the NES. Frankly, all three of the NES games hold up well even today, but 3 is for me the pinnacle even though very late in the life of the console, particularly in North America and Europe. This wouldn’t have helped sales with the SNES about to drop but it nevertheless was very successful. Absolutely one of the greats.