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Sega Genesis, along with its controller
This is a list ofSega Genesis / Mega Drivevideo games that have sold or shipped at least one million copies, sorted in order of copies sold. The best-selling title isSonic the Hedgehog, first released in North America on June 23, 1991. Due to being bundled with the console, it sold 15 million copies. The second best-selling game is its sequel, 1992'sSonic the Hedgehog 2, with more than 7.55 million copies sold.
^"Review: Sonic Jam". Sega Saturn Magazine. No. 22. August 1997. p. 68. ISSN 1360-9424.
^"Saturday Night".Saturday Night. Vol. 111, no. 1–5. Consolidated Press Limited. 1996. p. 92.Archived from the original on 2023-02-07. Retrieved2023-02-07.Sonic 2 has sold5-million copies in North America alone.
^"Video game sales scale greater heights".Screen Digest. Screen Digest Limited: 271. 1992.Archived from the original on 2023-02-07. Retrieved2023-02-07.Initial orders forSonic The Hedgehog 2 game from Sega suggest it will become best-selling European title to date. First orders from UK, France, Germany, Spain and Austria totalled 1.5m units—0.75m in UK alone, worth £25m at retail.
^"Sonic CD Slips Up"(PDF).Sega Force. No. 16 (April 1993). 4 March 1993. p. 12.Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved7 February 2023.In other news,Sonic 2's enormous overseas success has surprisinglynot been matched in Japan. (...) Sega officially claims to have sold 400,000 units.
^Kent, Steven L. (2000).The First Quarter: A 25-year History of Video Games. BWD Press. p. 372.ISBN978-0-9704755-0-3.Archived from the original on 2023-01-17. Retrieved2023-02-07.Acclaim sold approximately6.5 millionMortal Kombat cartridges. The Genesis version, which included the original arcade fatality moves, outsold the edited-down Super NES version by nearly three-to-one
^Cifaldi, Frank."Retronauts Episode 91: A Tengen Family Reunion".Frank Cifaldi talks to rebellious NES game developers Franz Lanzinger (Toobin', Ms. Pac-Man), Steve Woita (Super Sprint, Police Academy) and Mark Morris (Hard Drivin', 007: License to Kill) about the old days.1Up.com. Archived fromthe original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved2010-09-27.
^Iwasaki, Eric."Part-time Artist / Western Technologies, Inc. / jun. 1990 - may. 1994".LinkedIn. RetrievedJuly 24, 2024.Company's first dedicated video game artist. Despite working summers-only before Fall 1993, made immediate and significant contributions including pixel-pushed 2D animated sprites appearing within SEGA's million-plus selling X-Men for Genesis. Team's first 3D artist - learned 3D Studio Release 3 on personal time, volunteering rendered elements for Trivial Pursuit titles on SEGA CD and Windows.
^"Masterpiece Album".Development staff interview with Ryouichi Hasegawa.Sega Corporation. Archived from the original on 2008-03-06. Retrieved2010-08-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"Masterpiece Album (English translation)".English translation of the development staff interview with Ryouichi Hasegawa as published by Sega.jp. romhacking.net.Archived from the original on 2016-07-29. Retrieved2010-08-31.
^Horowitz, Ken (2016). "Changing of the Guard".Playing at the Next Level: A History of American Sega Games.McFarland & Company. p. 156.ISBN9780786499946.
