Best-Selling Video Games of All Time (1985-2026)

From Super Mario Bros. in 1985 to Minecraft passing 400 million copies — forty years of video game history in eight minutes. This bar chart race tracks total copies sold for the best-selling games of all time, month by month. Watch Super Mario Bros. rule the 80s and 90s, Pokémon take over, Wii Sports explode in 2009, and Minecraft and GTA V leave everyone behind. Chapters: 0:00 1985 — Super Mario Bros. starts it all 0:22 1989 — Tetris arrives on Game Boy 1:03 1996 — Pokémon Red & Blue 1:48 2001 — Pokémon takes the lead 2:57 2006 — Wii Sports launches 3:34 2009 — Wii Sports takes #1, Minecraft goes on sale 4:41 2013 — GTA V 5:14 2015 — Minecraft takes the crown 5:58 2018 — Red Dead Redemption 2 6:19 2020 — Animal Crossing: New Horizons 7:14 2023 — Minecraft hits 300 million 7:54 2026 — 400 million Featured: Minecraft, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, Wii Sports, Mario Kart 8, PUBG, Terraria, The Witcher 3, Skyrim, Super Mario Bros., Human: Fall Flat, Animal Crossing, Pokémon, Tetris, The Sims, Stardew Valley, Overwatch, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and more. About the data: final sales figures come from publicly reported numbers. Monthly values between reported milestones are estimated, so individual numbers are approximate. Tetris is counted as the Game Boy version only — counting every version including mobile, Tetris would pass 500 million. Music: Snake on the Beach, Invisible, Statement – NEFFEX Which game did you expect to win? Let me know in the comments! #gaming #barchartrace #minecraft #gta5 #videogames