/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9891174
>The original rescued the entire gaming industry and the remake was a novelty at best.

about 28+ million of those copies were NES pack-in games that most likely came with Duck Hunt, or alternatively the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt/ World Class Track meet cartridges. It was a launch title in the Westren markets and most people bought got the game with their NES console. The stand alone Mario Bros. 1 sold considerably less. Super Mario All-Stars came out 2-3 years after SNES/ SF launched and was initially offered as a free mail-in game. I think it had something to do with all the complaints that the SNES could not play cartridges, so Nintendo offered this as some sort of compromise. It was later packaged with the Mario Super Set and Super Mario World.

>>9891443
>I refuse to believe it sold that much.

Tetris sold 8 million copies on the NES. Tetris & Dr. Mario was bound to sell well. people love puzzle games. Tetris & Dr. Mario was awesome.