LOVE THIS! Ya know before 1992 when the NES TOP30 was the only chart, NP included SALES NUMBERS under their 'Dealers' Picks' chart! When the numbers are added together they always equal about 35000 but if you can guesstimate the total sales for the month you can use just a simple formula and come up with fairly accurate sales numbers for the NES!! I made a bunch of charts using this method... It's so cool to see monthly sales charts from that era; like we do today from the NPD:
Check out the top 30 from October 1989:
for GAF NP raw x25.3 Proj LTD
[b]Oct-1989[/b] from NP issue JAN/FEB 90
1 NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ultra 6,622 251,000 700,000
2 NES Excitebike Nintendo 638 49,000 857,000
3 NES Marble Madness Rare 1,922 49,000 97,000
4 NES Super Mario Bros. 2 Nintendo 1,734 44,000 3,599,000
5 NES Double Dragon Tradewest 1,458 37,000 449,000
6 NES Zelda II- Adventure of Link Nintendo 1,407 36,000 1,087,000
7 NES Ninja Gaiden Tecmo 1,333 34,000 376,000
8 NES NFL Football LJN 1,254 32,000 46,000
9 NES Tecmo Bowl Tecmo 1,254 32,000 270,000
10 NES Dragon Warrior Nintendo 1,254 32,000 83,000
11 NES Tetris Nintendo 1,192 31,000 New
12 NES Who Framed Roger Rabbit LJN 1,174 30,000 39,000
13 NES Paperboy Mindscape 1,087 28,000 113,000
14 NES Faxanadu Nintendo 958 25,000 93,000
15 NES Jordan vs. Bird: one-on-one Milton Bradley 957 25,000 35,000
16 NES Blades of Steel Konami 944 24,000 293,000
17 NES Wheel of Fortune GameTek 867 22,000 134,000
18 NES John Elway's Quarterback Tradewest 845 22,000 ??
19 NES Adventures of Bayou Billy Konami 817 21,000 58,000
20 NES WrestleMania Acclaim 737 19,000 116,000
21 NES Rampage Data East 715 19,000 212,000
22 NES Bad Dudes Data East 707 18,000 New**
23 NES R.C. Pro-Am Racing Nintendo 694 18,000 510,000
24 NES Pinball Nintendo 693 18,000 383,000
25 NES Contra Konami 673 18,000 466,000
26 NES Major League Baseball LJN 657 17,000 ??
27 NES Donkey Kong Classics Nintendo 647 17,000 184,000
28 NES Jeopardy! GameTek 612 16,000 123,000
29 NES Tecmo Baseball Tecmo 598 16,000 ??
30 NES Ghostbusters Activision 550 14,000 ??
What sucks is in 1992 NP combined the 'Dealers charts', 'Players charts', and 'Pros charts' into one so we no longer get the sales breakdown. Imagine if we had Super NES monthly sales charts!! NP must still have this data...I actually requested those Dealers charts from 1992-1994 via an email but never got a response... :(