Highest-Grossing Arcade Game Franchises
About This Dataset
Highest-Grossing Arcade Game Franchises
Grouping arcade earnings by franchise rather than by single game shows which properties, including their sequels and updates, took the most money out of arcades. Figures are estimated lifetime gross revenue adjusted to 2025 dollars.
Analysis
Pac-Man leads the franchises with an estimated $20.0 billion, followed by Space Invaders on $18.8 billion. The top three franchises together account for $51.4 billion of the $61.4 billion on this chart - 84% of it. Franchise totals sit close to their lead game's total for most entries here, which tells you the arcade era rarely built long sequel chains: the original usually did most of the earning.
Source:
Wikipedia - Arcade video game
Key Findings
🏆
Pac-Man leads in Estimated gross revenue, inflation-adjusted (US$ millions) with 20,000.
📊
Average Estimated gross revenue, inflation-adjusted (US$ millions): 6,136 · median: 1,865.
↔️
Gap: Pac-Man is 38.8× larger than Love and Berry.
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
Related Charts
More statistics on similar topics
Related
All Time
20,000
Pac-Man (1980)
View Chart
1 hour ago