10 Most Profitable Video Games of All Time

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1. Tetris

Number of copies sold: 495 million

Russians gave the world vodka and the current U.S President. In addition, they gave us Tetris, the number one in our list of  most profitable video games of all time, with 495 million copies sold since it was released in 1984. The game is available on almost every platform imaginable and it can even be played on an oscilloscope, where it can be accessed as an Easter egg. Tetris was the first entertainment software exported from the USSR to the U.S, but its developer, Alexei Pajitnov, was only able to start collecting royalties in 1996.

In this way, due to its simplicity and the nostalgic sentiment it spurs in players, Tetris remains to the most profitable video game of all time based on the number of units sold and it’s unlikely that its impressive number of 495 million copies sold will be beaten any time soon, despite (or maybe due to) the fact that the game hasn’t changed in decades.

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