ThePhleo | 2,179 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) EDIT: CHANGED THE TOPIC NAME. This list is just officially the Top 50 games sold in the last 90 days.... I did it for N64 now too. I wanted to highlight where my flaws are in my NES data and well, let's just say there are some interesting results in the raw N64 data. Anyway, here is the unbiased most popular N64 games. I only included the top 50 for this list. Rank Title Sold in 90 Days 1 Super Mario 64 2510 2 GoldenEye 007 2147 3 Mario Kart 64 1946 4 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1472 5 Donkey Kong 64 1292 6 Star Fox 64 1193 7 Super Smash Bros. 1146 8 Pokémon Stadium 979 9 Diddy Kong Racing 852 10 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 791 11 Banjo-Kazooie 693 12 Perfect Dark 658 13 Pokémon Snap 644 14 Yoshi's Story 499 15 Mario Party 486 16 Star Wars Episode I: Racer 466 17 Wave Race 64 465 18 Mario Party 2 448 19 Pokémon Stadium 2 427 20 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 425 21 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire 417 22 Conker's Bad Fur Day 403 23 Paper Mario 387 24 Cruis'n USA 372 25 Mario Party 3 362 26 Turok 2: Seeds of Evil 362 27 Banjo-Tooie 360 28 World Is Not Enough, The 358 29 Mario Tennis 326 30 Doom 64 317 31 1080° Snowboarding 312 32 Turok: Dinosaur Hunter 310 33 NFL Blitz 309 34 Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards 294 35 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 287 36 WCW/nWo Revenge 282 37 WWF No Mercy 282 38 NFL Blitz 2000 269 39 Mario Golf 267 40 South Park 253 41 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 230 42 Jet Force Gemini 229 43 Disney Pixar's Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! 225 44 Castlevania 213 45 Quest 64 206 46 Mortal Kombat Trilogy 202 47 Hey You, Pikachu! 201 48 Pilotwings 64 201 49 Gauntlet Legends 200 50 WWF WrestleMania 2000 196 Also, in the spirit of last thread, here's the top 25 most available N64 games on ebay Rank Title Available 1 Star Wars Episode I: Racer 1343 2 Donkey Kong 64 1188 3 Super Mario 64 1068 4 Star Fox 64 1002 5 Mario Kart 64 880 6 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 870 7 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire 857 8 Pokémon Snap 855 9 Perfect Dark 827 10 Turok 2: Seeds of Evil 794 11 Diddy Kong Racing 783 12 WCW/nWo Revenge 728 13 Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside 654 14 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 647 15 NFL Quarterback Club 98 639 16 WCW vs. nWo: World Tour 638 17 Wave Race 64 635 18 Pokémon Stadium 615 19 GoldenEye 007 611 20 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 592 21 Yoshi's Story 587 22 Banjo-Kazooie 578 23 Madden NFL 99 575 24 1080° Snowboarding 553 25 Mission Impossible 535 Edited December 15, 2022 by ThePhleo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,084 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 That's funny: I only own four N64 games, and it's the top four on this list. This console's library is so strange for having such incredible AAA all-time greats at the top, followed by mountains and mountains of crap! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,179 Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: That's funny: I only own four N64 games, and it's the top four on this list. This console's library is so strange for having such incredible AAA all-time greats at the top, followed by mountains and mountains of crap! That's pretty funny, and yeah there's a clear drop in popularity from #13 to #14 percentage wise. I'd expect the killer apps to have a huge dropoff, but not something so polarizing as 13 to 14. Crunching the numbers, it's a 22.52% drop between 13 and 14....that's HUGE considering there are no more major drops after that. Sold Title Dropoff 2510 Super Mario 64 2147 GoldenEye 007 14.46% 1946 Mario Kart 64 9.36% 1472 Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 24.36% 1292 Donkey Kong 64 12.23% 1193 Star Fox 64 7.66% 1146 Super Smash Bros. 3.94% 979 Pokémon Stadium 14.57% 852 Diddy Kong Racing 12.97% 791 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 7.16% 693 Banjo-Kazooie 12.39% 658 Perfect Dark 5.05% 644 Pokémon Snap 2.13% 499 Yoshi's Story 22.52% 486 Mario Party 2.61% 466 Star Wars Episode I: Racer 4.12% 465 Wave Race 64 0.21% 448 Mario Party 2 3.66% 427 Pokémon Stadium 2 4.69% Edited November 30, 2022 by ThePhleo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,547 Editorials Team · Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Neat data! So it's the most sought-after games, intersected with perception of how "fairly" each game is priced, right? If high demand drives prices up, that lowers demand. For example this chart doesn't line up exactly with most popular ROM downloads on... a certain website. Most Purchased doesn't necessarily mean Most Popular, it's just one measure of popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,328 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Yoshi's Story beating every Mario Party is the biggest shocker on that list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,179 Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Splain said: Neat data! So it's the most sought-after games, intersected with perception of how "fairly" each game is priced, right? If high demand drives prices up, that lowers demand. For example this chart doesn't line up exactly with most popular ROM downloads on... a certain website. Most Purchased doesn't necessarily mean Most Popular, it's just one measure of popularity. Oooh, I didn't think of ROM site data. But, maybe ROM sites that publicly post that kind of stuff have a feedback loop? I dunno. I know this data is *SOMETHING* good, I'm just not entirely sure what it exactly reflects. Some deep diving needs to, and can be done with it for sure. Edited November 30, 2022 by ThePhleo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,179 Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 17 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: Yoshi's Story beating every Mario Party is the biggest shocker on that list. Mario Party 1 unfortunately might be a little bit higher. Because of the filters I have to exclude any mentions of Mario Party 2 and 3, or ALL mentions of 2 and 3. So if someone sells "Mario Party 1, 2, and 3" in a bundle then it gets cut out of the search results. Also, if someone searched for "Mario Party 1 and Zelda Ocarina of Time 2 game bundle" then it gets cut out too.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360collector | 289 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Dr. Morbis said: That's funny: I only own four N64 games, and it's the top four on this list. This console's library is so strange for having such incredible AAA all-time greats at the top, followed by mountains and mountains of crap! Dont disrespect the best system ever like that 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,547 Editorials Team · Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, 360collector said: Dont disrespect the best system ever like that Aren't you a 360 collector? How's your N64 collection?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,084 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, 360collector said: Dont disrespect the best system ever like that Quest 64 is the 45th best seller in the above data out of a library of 300... Think about THAT!!! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,328 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: Quest 64 is the 45th best seller in the above data out of a library of 300... Think about THAT!!! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360collector | 289 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: Sealed game "collector" Videogame "investor" spotted. Opinion ignored, go shill some wata games 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360collector | 289 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 19 minutes ago, Splain said: Aren't you a 360 collector? How's your N64 collection?? Yeah I just like to defend the n64 since I love it haha probably past 250 now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodysGameRoom | 2,008 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I went through and counted the games I thought were objectively good in the library. Out of 296 (NA) I counted around 60-65 games that I could objectively call good. Granted, I haven't played others that also could be good. But I figured that's around 20% good games, 80% unknown or bad games. Kinda crazy to think about it that way. Only my opinion of course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,818 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I wonder how many of those numbers are conflated by bootlegging. I could be wrong, but this seems like the most bootlegged system out there. Maybe the GBC/A has more bootleg games, but I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,547 Editorials Team · Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said: I went through and counted the games I thought were objectively good in the library. Out of 296 (NA) I counted around 60-65 games that I could objectively call good. Granted, I haven't played others that also could be good. But I figured that's around 20% good games, 80% unknown or bad games. Kinda crazy to think about it that way. Only my opinion of course. As much as I unironically like and play N64 games, I have to say this is actually pretty fair, lol. My number is a little higher, but I was expecting you to say something like there's only 5 good games like everyone else. 17 minutes ago, RH said: I wonder how many of those numbers are conflated by bootlegging. I could be wrong, but this seems like the most bootlegged system out there. Maybe the GBC/A has more bootleg games, but I'm not sure. Oh definitely. But I'd say the bootlegs have made the numbers closer to the theoretical "true" popularity ranks. If every game was nice and cheap, what would everyone buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeevan | 8,882 Events Helper · Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 this is sales data? kuz it might not be like the best games......just that people bought it. Anyway, anyone looking for a good "hidden" gem, play buck bumble! Edit: Oh, you are welcome for this, and i rate this game higher than all but like 5 of those maybe @Reed Rothchild will get me to rate these someday.....its a lot of damn work to go through these games though...... Spoiler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWunderful | 2,926 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Did you guys check to make sure this was ok with Port? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,179 Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, RH said: I wonder how many of those numbers are conflated by bootlegging. I could be wrong, but this seems like the most bootlegged system out there. Maybe the GBC/A has more bootleg games, but I'm not sure. I tried to eliminate as much as that as possible. If you look at the raw data you can see I removed repros, labels, custom cases, etc. from search results 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny | 37 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, 360collector said: Sealed game "collector" Videogame "investor" spotted. Opinion ignored, go shill some wata games I've read some strange things in this this thread but this is the wildest take ever 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,919 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Interesting stats but ultimately missing so many great games, most likely due to them either been scarce on ebay or really expensive now. I'd say there is at least 100-120 good to great games on the N64 and probably another 30 or so passable games that would be fun to play for an hour or two but nothing I'd commit to. That's a pretty good percentage considering the library is just shy of 300 in the US. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,179 Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 @Brickman yeah it’s missing a couple goodies which is why I’m considering retitling this. I think it’s more of a “eff your collectors and gamers opinion…this is what the general public, and therefor the world thinks is what matters” list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360collector | 289 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 34 minutes ago, Johnny said: I've read some strange things in this this thread but this is the wildest take ever Things can get pretty wild when the N64 is disrespected 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,084 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, 360collector said: Things can get pretty wild when the N64 is disrespected But we haven't heard what peg thinks about all this yet. Don't worry guys, I got this: OH, @peg...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,690 Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 5 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said: That's funny: I only own four N64 games, and it's the top four on this list. This console's library is so strange for having such incredible AAA all-time greats at the top, followed by mountains and mountains of crap! I’ve never been more conflicted over a console than the N64. It’s got some of my most beloved gaming memories and favorite games but after that it just drops off and I do not have much reverence for the library as a whole. I love the system, but I dislike the library at the same time. It’s so weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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