Best-Selling Arcade Cabinets of All Time

Source: Wikipedia - Arcade video game

Best-Selling Arcade Cabinets of All Time

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Key Findings

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Space Invaders (1978) leads in Arcade cabinets sold (reported) with 750,000.

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Average Arcade cabinets sold (reported): 204,899 · median: 128,500.

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Gap: Space Invaders (1978) is 16.7× larger than Print Club (Purikura) (1995).

About This Dataset

Best-Selling Arcade Cabinets of All Time

Before a game could earn coins it had to be sold to arcade operators as a physical cabinet. This chart ranks arcade titles by reported hardware units sold; each figure is the total published up to the year the source records, so several are lower bounds rather than final lifetime sales.

Analysis

Space Invaders sold 750,000 cabinets, ahead of Pac-Man on 400,000 - a margin of 350,000 units. Cabinet sales and revenue do not rank the same way: Space Invaders sold the most hardware, but the revenue chart is led by a different title. 7 of the 10 entries here date from before 1990, and the median release year is 1981. Together these ten titles account for 2,048,988 cabinets, and the top two alone make up 56% of that. The ten cabinets come from 9 different publishers, and every figure is the total reported up to the year the source records rather than a final lifetime count.

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10 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

750,000

Space Invaders (1978)

Arcade cabinets sold (reported) · All Time

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Arcade cabinets sold (reported)

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All Time

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia - Arcade video game
Coverage: 10 entities · 10 observations
Measure: Arcade cabinets sold (reported)
Last updated: 10 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

10 records · Arcade cabinets sold (reported) · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Space Invaders (1978)	750,000
🥈	Pac-Man (1980)	400,000
🥉	Street Fighter II (1991)	221,000
4	The King of Fighters '97 (1997)	150,000
5	Donkey Kong (1981)	132,000
6	Ms. Pac-Man (1982)	125,000
7	Asteroids (1979)	100,000
8	Defender (1981)	70,000
9	Centipede (1981)	55,988
10	Print Club (Purikura) (1995)	45,000

Data Sources & References

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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_video_game#Highest-grossing Visit ↗

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