VGChartz, the website which provides free data on video game sales and has a mixed reputation, released a feature on the best-selling Atari 2600 games.
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/250871/the-best-selling-atari-2600-games-of-all-time/
It is interesting for several reasons. It has a lower system sales base (27+M) than virtually every other source.
It also has some sales figures which do not make sense -- like 820,000 for Custers' Revenge, 630,000 for X-Man, and 470,000 for Karate (the Froggo/Ultravision title).
By way of comparison, it lists 460,000 for Circus Atari. I don't know about you, but I have not found 2x as many Custers as I have Circus Ataris.
There is also a "complete" sales list: http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/31/atari-2600/
Personally, I think VGChartz does OK on modern historical data which can be verified with corporate reports. I think the weekly numbers need to be taken with a large grain of salt but they are the only data available for free and are probably better on hardware than software (and better on bigger sellers than niche titles). But these Atari 2600 numbers just seem out of what to me.(Many in the Top 10 are in a different order than IGN's from 2008 http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/08/26/top-10-best-selling-atari-2600-games or data on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Atari_2600
Mike from Morgantown
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/250871/the-best-selling-atari-2600-games-of-all-time/
It is interesting for several reasons. It has a lower system sales base (27+M) than virtually every other source.
It also has some sales figures which do not make sense -- like 820,000 for Custers' Revenge, 630,000 for X-Man, and 470,000 for Karate (the Froggo/Ultravision title).
By way of comparison, it lists 460,000 for Circus Atari. I don't know about you, but I have not found 2x as many Custers as I have Circus Ataris.
There is also a "complete" sales list: http://www.vgchartz.com/platform/31/atari-2600/
Personally, I think VGChartz does OK on modern historical data which can be verified with corporate reports. I think the weekly numbers need to be taken with a large grain of salt but they are the only data available for free and are probably better on hardware than software (and better on bigger sellers than niche titles). But these Atari 2600 numbers just seem out of what to me.(Many in the Top 10 are in a different order than IGN's from 2008 http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/08/26/top-10-best-selling-atari-2600-games or data on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Atari_2600
Mike from Morgantown