Amiga games number of copies sold

[LaserBack]

hi

I'm looking for info about Amiga games marketing in the past
how many copies sold famous titles
which was the game more successfully ect
comparison sales with PC games or atari ST games
is there any info?

thanks

[fishy_fiz]

I cant help you here, but Id be interested to find out as well. The only thing I remember in regards to amiga software sales was reading in an issue of C+VG (Computer And Video Games magazine) years ago, and them making mention of Worms (or maybe Directors Cut, cant recall) for the Amiga being the biggest selling game over the Christmas period. They specifically mentioned it as this was when the Amiga had been "dying" for some time already and it was unexpected.

[bloodline]

hi

I'm looking for info about Amiga games marketing in the past
how many copies sold famous titles
which was the game more successfully ect
comparison sales with PC games or atari ST games
is there any info?

thanks

Companies didn't really give any indication of sales back in the day, and none of the Amiga software companies are either still around or would retain 20 year old sales data... Gallup used to keep track of games sales for their charts. That would be your first port of call, good luck

[ajlwalker]

I seem to recall that Lemmings sold 500,000 copies.

I believe some of the footie management games, SWOS etc sold 100,000+ copies, but most sold in the tens of thousands or lower.

[LaserBack]

I seem to recall that Lemmings sold 500,000 copies.

I believe some of the footie management games, SWOS etc sold 100,000+ copies, but most sold in the tens of thousands or lower.

500.000 copies ?
are u talking about the amiga version?

[LaserBack]

I cant help you here, but Id be interested to find out as well. The only thing I remember in regards to amiga software sales was reading in an issue of C+VG (Computer And Video Games magazine) years ago, and them making mention of Worms (or maybe Directors Cut, cant recall) for the Amiga being the biggest selling game over the Christmas period. They specifically mentioned it as this was when the Amiga had been "dying" for some time already and it was unexpected.

according to the article on wikipedia worms DC sold 5000 copies worldwide
I don't know if that is a big number or low number
ALien breed 3d2 also sold 5000 copies

btw, don't know where wikipedia'users get that info

[runequester]

I imagine some of this stuff may be in old magazine articles, or maybe advertisement on game boxes. I'd be interested in seeing though.

[Daff]

Foundation was sold around 3000 copies (until 1999). Genetic Species was about the same.

I heard 30.000 copies for Turrican II.

[djnick]

I heard Capital Punishment beat'em'up game sold ~16000 copies [if true] during 1997.
In comparsion: UberRacer [3D driving game for iPhone] is sold ~ million copies DoodleJump game [I heard it was made by some guy from Croatia] is one of best selling titles, and I heard last year he got over 2 million copies. Lots of money, if you ask me

[Franko]

Dunno about official games sales figure but up the Barras in Glasgow on a Sunday you could get all the latest and any old games that were ever written for the Amiga (or any other computer). The guys selling them sold them in their thousands especially back in the 90s and in some cases made hundreds of thousands of pounds from them...

Seem it was still going on as late as 2005 as this article from the Daily Record Newspaper shows when one guy was caught & fined nearly £500,000... :eek:

Barras Pirate fined 500K...

[runequester]

I heard Capital Punishment beat'em'up game sold ~16000 copies [if true] during 1997.
In comparsion: UberRacer [3D driving game for iPhone] is sold ~ million copies DoodleJump game [I heard it was made by some guy from Croatia] is one of best selling titles, and I heard last year he got over 2 million copies. Lots of money, if you ask me

yeah, the internet does wonders for stuff like that

[TheBilgeRat]

I heard Capital Punishment beat'em'up game sold ~16000 copies [if true] during 1997.
In comparsion: UberRacer [3D driving game for iPhone] is sold ~ million copies DoodleJump game [I heard it was made by some guy from Croatia] is one of best selling titles, and I heard last year he got over 2 million copies. Lots of money, if you ask me

sure, but its all about exposure.

remember when it was big for an album to sell gold?  Now its expected to do that.  its just the market for the product got huge.

[Rob]

I remember reading that Shadow Of The Third Moon sold around 750 copies.

[runequester]

Id wager that sales in the hundreds, maybe a few thousand at best would be the norm in the post Commodore era.
At the height of amiga games (89-93 or so) I'd guess high thousands to low tens of thousands for better games.

[Lando]

I remember reading an article on 'Digitiser' (teletext, written by Violet Berlin) back in '94 or so about the Gallup games chart and the top Amiga title had sold 173 copies iirc (one hundred and seventy three) that week.  Towards the bottom end of the chart titles had barely managed to scrape double figures.  I was quite shocked at the time, but by '94 the Amiga was already a corpse.