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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time

“Eager to hear about your adventures” – TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

In the early 2000s, games based on specific movies were becoming a much less regular presence at the top of the charts, with a couple of serial exceptions….

“Commitment to tiberium undying” – Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature” said Brian Eno in the mid-’90s, somewhere around the time…

“Grimsby, England” – Resistance: Fall of Man

In March 2007, the PS3 made it to the UK. Even with an eye-watering retail price of £425, it was an immediate success. 165,000 PS3s sold outdid any…

“It’s a competitive world” – Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is Rockstar’s second Grand Theft Auto game to go from a PSP game to a better-selling budget PS2 game. In many ways…

“Use extreme prejudice, understood” – Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

It was apparent by the beginning of 2007 that the Xbox 360, with its premium online gaming, its HD graphics and its early run clear of competition, was…

“New and exciting ways to kill a man” – Final Fantasy XII

In 2001, Final Fantasy IX arrived in the UK as one of the final popular PS1 exclusives and did so as a love letter to the past of…

“You are now at depth level 3” – Battlestations: Midway

There was a moment about forty minutes into the tutorial of war strategy game Battlestations: Midway — about forty minutes into the tutorial — when it was teaching…

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Not for the first time, the game at the top of the UK charts for the week ending 20 January 2007 was not a game at all. Like…

“Colonization appeared to be successful” – Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

The idea of defeating video game enemies and having them drop health boosts for you goes back a long way. Specifically providing those health boosts in the form…

“Torn our world apart” – Gears of War

At the start of Gears of War, your main character Marcus Fenix gets busted out of prison to join a desperate war against the invasion of the Locust…