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Channel Surfing: Worldwide Virtual Console/WiiWare Sales Chart, 11-9-

By Keith Jackson 24th Nov 2008
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Two weeks for the price of one this time around. We have the WiiWare debuts of Strong Bad 3 in the Americas, with Brain Challenge and Space Invaders Get Even in PAL. For VC, we have Earthworm Jim, C

Methodology
W/E October 12th, 2008
W/E October 19th, 2008
W/E October 26th, 2008

100k+ sales	250k+ sales	500k+ sales	1M+ sales
50M+ points	100M+ points	250M+ points	500M+ points

Little glitch in the Matrix last week, as an interruption in the data collection prevented the weekly charts from getting generated. To make up for it, this week we present to you the sales for the two weeks from October 27th to November 9th, 2008.

TW	LW	WiiWare Games	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	1	Tetris Party	Hudson	29,600	66,800	$813,100
2	2	My Aquarium	Hudson	23,500	188,900	$1,046,300
3	4	Bomberman Blast	Hudson	18,200	100,000	$1,109,300
4	3	Mega Man 9	Capcom	17,700	206,800	$2,153,500
5	7	My Pokemon Ranch	Nintendo	17,200	457,900	$4,837,000
6	6	World of Goo	2D Boy	14,000	44,000	$660,000
7	5	The Incredible Maze	Digital Leisure, Inc.	12,200	24,400	$138,600
8	9	TV Show King	Gameloft	11,900	272,100	$3,187,700
9	10	Defend Your Castle	XGen Studios	10,200	254,800	$1,352,800
10	11	Wild West Guns	Gameloft	10,100	113,200	$1,285,500
11	8	Midnight Bowling	Gameloft	10,000	44,300	$408,600
12	12	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King	Square Enix	9,500	401,000	$6,514,200
13	13	Dr. Mario Online Rx	Nintendo	8,600	276,300	$2,941,100
14	16	Midnight Pool	Gameloft	7,300	49,500	$464,800
15	NE	Strong Bad Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands	Telltale Games	7,000	7,000	$70,000
16	14	LostWinds	Frontier	6,900	268,100	$3,092,500
17	NR	Alien Crush Returns	Hudson	6,900	9,900	$85,800
18	NR	Space Invaders Get Even	Taito	6,800	18,600	$103,100
19	NR	Brain Challenge	Big Blue Bubble	6,500	8,500	$103,700
20	18	Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner	Telltale Games	3,600	75,200	$780,200

TW	LW	Americas WiiWare Games	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	1	Tetris Party	Hudson	17,000	37,000	$444,000
2	2	World of Goo	2D Boy	14,000	44,000	$660,000
3	3	My Aquarium	Hudson	12,000	76,000	$380,000
4	4	Mega Man 9	Capcom	8,000	98,000	$980,000
5	NE	Strong Bad Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands	Telltale Games	7,000	7,000	$70,000
6	8	Dr. Mario Online Rx	Nintendo	6,000	156,000	$1,560,000
7	9	Defend Your Castle	XGen Studios	5,800	198,900	$994,500
8	5	The Incredible Maze	Digital Leisure, Inc.	5,600	12,600	$63,000
9	6	Bomberman Blast	Hudson	5,300	31,300	$313,000
10	7	Midnight Bowling	Gameloft	5,200	20,000	$160,000

TW	LW	PAL WiiWare Games	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	2	My Aquarium	Hudson	9,100	69,000	345,000 €
2	1	Tetris Party	Hudson	8,200	16,200	194,400 €
3	4	Bomberman Blast	Hudson	7,200	36,400	364,000 €
4	5	TV Show King	Gameloft	6,700	164,300	1,643,000 €
5	3	The Incredible Maze	Digital Leisure	6,600	11,800	59,000 €
6	NE	Brain Challenge	Big Blue Bubble	6,500	6,500	65,000 €
7	NE	Space Invaders Get Even	TAITO	6,300	6,300	31,500 €
8	7	Midnight Pool	Gameloft	6,300	30,500	244,000 €
9	10	Wild West Guns	Gameloft	5,400	53,600	536,000 €
10	12	My Pokemon Ranch	Nintendo	5,100	76,400	764,000 €

TW	LW	Japan WiiWare Games	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	5	Everybody's Pokemon Ranch	Pokemon	7,100	208,200	208,200,000 ¥
2	3	Bomberman Blast	Hudson	5,700	32,300	32,300,000 ¥
3	1	Rockman 9: Resurrection of Ambition!!	Capcom	5,000	84,600	84,600,000 ¥
4	2	Tetris Party	Hudson	4,400	13,600	16,320,000 ¥
5	14	Simple Series Vol. 1: The Block Kuzushi Neo	D3Publisher	3,200	4,100	2,050,000 ¥
6	6	Darts Wii	Alpha Unit	3,200	9,100	4,550,000 ¥
7	9	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As a King	Square Enix	2,700	147,800	221,700,000 ¥
8	4	Family Air Hockey	Arc System Works	2,500	5,800	2,900,000 ¥
9	8	Blue Oasis (My Aquarium)	Hudson	2,400	43,900	21,950,000 ¥
10	7	Gradius Rebirth	Konami	2,200	41,100	41,100,000 ¥

Tetris Party, My Aquarium, Bomberman Blast, and Mega Man 9 continue their lockdown of the top 4 worldwide
Bottom fourth of the worldwide chart has the new releases of the last two weeks in the Americas and in PAL that managed to chart.
Bomberman Blast goes bronze worldwide, while Defend Your Castle hits the silver mark worldwide.

TW	LW	Virtual Console Games	Platform	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	1	Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	Nintendo	38,000	1,394,800	$7,534,000
2	2	Super Mario Bros.	NES	Nintendo	33,900	1,512,100	$8,069,700
3	4	Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo	21,500	1,079,100	$9,330,300
4	5	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars	SNES	Nintendo	21,200	220,100	$1,984,100
5	NR	Earthworm Jim	GEN	Sega	20,000	31,700	$286,800
6	6	Super Mario 64	N64	Nintendo	15,400	948,400	$10,320,300
7	8	Sonic the Hedgehog	MS	Sega	14,500	95,800	$529,000
8	7	Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the	N64	Nintendo	14,100	688,100	$7,650,600
9	9	Super Mario Bros. 2	NES	Nintendo	12,800	456,700	$2,448,900
10	10	Mario Kart 64	N64	Nintendo	12,600	1,115,700	$12,066,200
11	3	Secret of Mana	SNES	Square Enix	12,400	66,300	$534,700
12	11	Legend of Zelda, the	NES	Nintendo	11,300	563,100	$2,953,700
13	13	Donkey Kong Country	SNES	Nintendo	9,800	499,700	$4,325,700
14	15	Pac-Man	NES	Namco Bandai	9,800	292,200	$1,639,100
15	18	Kirby's Adventure	NES	Nintendo	9,800	568,900	$3,040,600
16	16	Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the	SNES	Nintendo	9,700	526,700	$4,619,700
17	19	Paper Mario	N64	Nintendo	9,200	607,300	$6,635,200
18	12	Mega Man 2	NES	Capcom	9,100	130,500	$725,300
19	14	Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream	NES	Nintendo	8,800	324,300	$1,625,800
20	17	SMB: The Lost Levels	NES	Nintendo	8,400	361,500	$2,153,800

TW	LW	Americas Virtual Console Games	Platform	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	1	Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	Nintendo	23,100	852,500	$4,262,500
2	2	Super Mario Bros.	NES	Nintendo	19,500	843,500	$4,217,500
3	NE	Earthworm Jim	GEN	Sega	17,000	17,000	$136,000
4	4	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars	SNES	Nintendo	15,000	132,300	$1,058,400
5	5	Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo	12,700	599,200	$4,793,600
6	3	Secret of Mana	SNES	Square Enix	10,000	40,000	$320,000
7	7	Super Mario Bros. 2	NES	Nintendo	9,000	334,800	$1,674,000
8	6	Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream	NES	Nintendo	8,800	320,300	$1,601,500
9	8	Legend of Zelda, the	NES	Nintendo	8,400	403,800	$2,019,000
10	10	Super Mario 64	N64	Nintendo	7,800	509,600	$5,096,000

TW	LW	PAL Virtual Console Games	Platform	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	1	Super Mario Bros. 3	NES	Nintendo	11,900	385,800	1,929,000 €
2	2	Super Mario Bros.	NES	Nintendo	9,100	337,100	1,685,500 €
3	3	Sonic the Hedgehog	MS	Sega	8,000	35,400	177,000 €
4	4	Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo	7,100	295,800	2,366,400 €
5	5	Super Mario 64	N64	Nintendo	6,800	285,400	2,854,000 €
6	NE	Castlevania III	NES	Konami	6,300	6,300	31,500 €
7	6	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	N64	Nintendo	5,700	177,900	1,779,000 €
8	9	Mario Kart 64	N64	Nintendo	5,300	303,700	3,037,000 €
9	8	Alex Kidd in Miracle World	MS	Sega	5,100	--	--
10	7	Super Mario RPG	SNES	Nintendo	4,900	50,700	456,300 €

TW	LW	Japan Virtual Console Games	Platform	Publisher	2 Wks	Total	Revenue
1	1	Super Mario Bros	NES	Nintendo	5,300	331,500	165,750,000¥
2	3	Super Mario Bros 3	NES	Nintendo	3,000	156,500	78,250,000 ¥
3	NE	Rockman 3	NES	Capcom	2,700	2,700	1,350,000 ¥
4	4	Seiken Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana)	SNES	Square Enix	2,400	26,300	21,040,000 ¥
5	2	Super Donkey Kong 3: Mysterious Island	SNES	Nintendo	1,900	4,900	3,920,000 ¥
6	8	Castlevania 2	NES	Konami	1,800	2,600	1,300,000 ¥
7	6	Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo	1,700	184,100	147,280,000 ¥
8	7	Puyo Puyo 2	GEN	Sega	1,400	113,900	68,340,000 ¥
9	10	Super Mario Bros 2	NES	Nintendo	1,400	109,700	54,850,000 ¥
10	5	Rockman 2: The Mystery of Dr. Wily	NES	Capcom	1,400	22,000	11,000,000 ¥

Earthworm Jim is the only new release to chart worldwide, though Castlevania III and Mega Man 3 showed up in the PAL and Japan charts, respectively.
Other than these, it's still the Super Mario show at the top of the charts, with not much changed elsewhere.
Secret of Mana has fallen off a bit in the Americas, bringing its worldwide ranking down as well.

Keith Jackson
kjackson@vgchartz.com