Oh no, it has finally happened. The legendary NES packed in Super Mario Bros video game which once held the title as the Best Selling Game of All Time for so many years has finally been bumped off the top by none other than the game that introduced us all to the wiggle-waggle concept, turned senior citizens into gamers, hooked your girlfriend to the TV longer than you, allowed grandma to give you the ass-whopping in bowling, and changed the way we play games forever, Wii Sports.

If we all go by the ever so trustworthy VGChartz, Wii Sports has over taken Super Mario Bros by selling a grand total of 40.52 million copies, while Super Mario Bros has only sold a pathetic 40.24 million copies. Of course, the fact that both of these games came packaged in with the console (at least in the US it does) had nothing to do with it “selling” so much. In which case, one of those Pokemon games would actually be the highest selling game of all time. A fella on N4G mentioned that had Sony packaged a game with the PS2, whatever game it may be would have more than double the “sales” that were made by Wii Sports. Sucks they didn’t think of that, huh?

Oh yah, incidently the Top 10 best selling games of all time happened to be dominated by Nintendo. Guess they’re doing something right?

1. Wii Sports, Wii - 40.52
2. Super Mario Bros, NES - 40.24
3. Pokemon Red / Green / Blue, GameBoy - 31.38
4. Tetris, GameBoy - 30.26
5. Duck Hunt, NES - 28.31
6. Pokemon Gold / Silver, GameBoy - 23.11
7. Nintendogs, DS - 21.37
8. Super Mario World, SNES - 20.61
9. Wii Play, Wii - 19.68
10. Super Mario Land, GameBoy - 18.14

Happy 4th!

Man, I can’t believe it, E3 is coming soon! I am looking forward to some major stuff from Ninty. Perhaps even a new project from Retro? Everyone has been talking about something for a while now. Let’s just hope it happens!

How is it going guys? Well, lately i have been writing for 411 mania, and it has been a lot of fun. I try to keep up with the news here too, but sometimes it’s tough to try keeping up with two sites. What I end up doing is writing news there, and using this site as more of a blog for personal thoughts on the game industry and its happenings.

Updates may not happen here as often as they used to, but lately it has gotten a bit lonely here, because when we started the site was 4 people. Lately it has just been me. I don’t run the site, but I am considering asking the owner if he wants to go with some more general tech news.

This week I have already finished Ninja Gaiden DS and Insecticide. Soon I will be posting my reviews on 411. Expect me to post a link as soon as I can.

So what’s going on?

Yeah, I am still alive and well. Have been working at my local EB for a few weeks. It’s a great bunch I work with, but the bummer is that it has actually made video games into *gulp* a job. Oh well, better than most things I can be doing right now, and it’s only temporary.

Aside from that, not a lot is going on, been playing Brawl of course. Picked up Professor Layton (VERY fun game actually) and I think Professor Layton should win the nice guy award. Caught up with some Link to the Past (haven’t played that in a while) and am looking forward to Insecticide and Ninja Gaiden DS. This is why I need to limit the games I buy. I rarely finish them, because I tend to get caught up playing other newer games everytime something comes out. I HAVE to finish all these games one day.

What else…oh yeah, been reading “The Ultimate History of Video Games” really great book so far, but I really have to say that “Power Up” did a little more to feed the hungry fanboy in me. After that is “Game Over”, it is said to have a really great detailed history on Nintendo. In fact, the book is sitting here at my desk as I type this up. Oh, and the Guinness Book Gamers Edition. Yeah, I read a lot.

Games you all need to check out:

Professor Layton

Insecticide

Ninja Gaiden DS

I am assuming anyone reading this has already purchased Brawl. If you haven’t go out and get it, now.

Oh, and while in Austin, I picked up King of Kong and the Super Mario Bros. movie.  YAY me.

I have been following this blog for the last two days (that’s about as long as it’s been around) and I figured I would post the link for it here:
http://blogs.ign.com/Renegade_Jools 

For anyone who doesn’t know, Moon (also known as Project M) is a DS game in development by Renegade Kid, the guys who made Dementium.  These guys really know how to push the little system and I am always looking forward to their work.

Up so far, is an explanation of the game, and a level map update.  Take a look!

How many of you have been brawling it up?

Glad that Brawl came around just in time for my birthday this year.

Also check out Insecticide, it looks like a great detective style action/mystery that sort of combines platforming action with Ace Attorney type gameplay.

Insecticide, I will be checking this game out tomorrow.