Highest-Grossing Arcade Games of All Time
About This Dataset
Highest-Grossing Arcade Games of All Time
Coin-operated arcade games earned their money a quarter at a time, and the biggest hits took in sums that still dwarf most modern releases. Figures are estimated lifetime gross revenue adjusted to 2025 dollars; titles whose published figure covers only cabinet sales are excluded.
Analysis
Pac-Man (1980) leads with an estimated $20.0 billion in inflation-adjusted revenue, ahead of Space Invaders on $18.8 billion. The median release year here is 1991, and 5 of the 10 titles predate 1990. Pac-Man alone earned more than the bottom 7 games on this chart combined ($17.4 billion). All figures are estimates published by the source rather than audited accounts.
Source:
Wikipedia - Arcade video game
Key Findings
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Pac-Man (1980) leads in Estimated gross revenue, inflation-adjusted (US$ millions) with 20,000.
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Average Estimated gross revenue, inflation-adjusted (US$ millions): 6,875 · median: 3,215.
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Gap: Pac-Man (1980) is 17.2× larger than Mortal Kombat II (1993).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - Arcade video game
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Estimated gross revenue, inflation-adjusted (US$ millions)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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