/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10510813]

Super Mario Bros sold 4 million in 1986, and by 1990 when it's sequel came out it had sold 19 million
Zelda sold 2 million in 1987, and the sequel came out the following year. Had Zelda II never released, could this have been as big as the original Super Mario Bros?

[Anonymous No.10510841]

>>10510813
No chance in hell. Zelda wasn't on Mario's level until Ocarina of Time. Anyone who says otherwise is a retard and a revisionist.

[Anonymous No.10510847]

>>10510813
The original had sales of 6.5 million lifetime, the sequel sold 4.4 million. So presumably it would have done up to 12 million. So the answer is no, Zelda was never as popular in Japan as Mario for whatever reason

[Anonymous No.10510854]

>>10510847
it was capped by being an FDS game. doesnt matter anyway this is a bot thread that should look up the "bundle" prompt. people didnt buy those mario/duck hunt carts.

[Anonymous No.10510872]

>>10510813
If it was on the NES worldwide instead of the FDS, yes absolutely it would

[Anonymous No.10510884]

What's with the threads about sales figures?

[Anonymous No.10510890]

>>10510841
ALTTP sold as much as Yoshi's Island and SMB2

[Anonymous No.10510894]

>>10510884
I'll never understand it, it's like retards believe they own stock and it's still the 90s. At least it isn't console war

[Anonymous No.10510897]

>>10510890
>cherry picking the shittiest games in the series.

[Anonymous No.10510914]

>>10510813
>>10510841
Even including OoT, Zelda had never been as popular in Japan as it is in North America. Same deal with Metroid. BotW felt extremely Japanese and anime-inspired compared to previous Zelda titles so I’m betting it did better in Japan.

[Anonymous No.10511973]

>>10510813
Anyone who thinks this is better than Zelda II is on crack and a revisionist. No one cared about Zelda 1. Nintendo milked Zelda II way more than it did Zelda 1.

[Anonymous No.10512281]

>>10510914
>so I’m betting it did better in Japan.
https://kotaku.com/poll-here-are-japans-top-100-video-games-of-all-time-1848275437

[Anonymous No.10512403]

>>10510813
>1990 when it's sequel came out
OP's been smoking crack

[Anonymous No.10512524]

>>10510884
Moronic zoomer garbage. People who have no personalities whatsoever can only define themselves by what tribe they adhere to, so they have to make meaningless threads about their consumer product of choice "winning" so they feel like they have some validation for being alive.

[Anonymous No.10512642]

>>10511973
>Nintendo milked Zelda II
>all the games after are modeled after 1
lmao. kek even.

[Anonymous No.10513006]

>>10510841
Zelda 1 is way better than Super Mario Bros.

I don't even understand why that would be a controversial statement.

[Anonymous No.10513008]

>>10512642
OoT was specifically created to recreate AoL style combat gameplay in 3D.

[Anonymous No.10513038]

>>10513008
I don’t think OoT was "specifically created" for that sole reason, anon.

[Anonymous No.10513040]

>>10512524
Oh please, I’m 41 and we were console warring just as hard back in the 90s. We just didn’t have a broader audience like 4chan to shitpost with.

[Anonymous No.10514768]

>>10510841
Cope. Zelda was never on Mario's level. Nothing is on Mario's level.

[Anonymous No.10516096]

>>10510841
I actually agree with this.
While I definitely remember Zelda from vidya magazines and the section in SMB super show cartoon, the average person wouldn't know know it, while Mario was vox populi.
I still remember around 1997 when I frequented an anime club, there was this girl showing her drawing portfolio and one of her drawings was Link (ALTTP), and she asked if anyone knew who it was, I was the only one who did.

[Anonymous No.10516139]

>>10514768
Solid reading comprehension, anon.

[Anonymous No.10516149]

>>10516139
>>10514768
Mario is the poster child for retards.