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The year's best-selling
video game console was the
PlayStation for the third year in a row. The year's most critically acclaimed title was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which remains
Metacritic's highest-scoring game of all time. The year's best-selling home video game worldwide was Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/
Pikachu for the
Game Boy, while the year's highest-grossing
arcade game in Japan was Tekken 3.
28–30 – The fourth annual
E3 is held in
Atlanta, Georgia.[3] Following the show, the inaugural
Game Critics Awards was held with winners being titled Best of E3.
The following video game releases in 1998 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving
Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40.[30]
The following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games (
console games or
computer games) of 1998 in Japan, the United States, and Germany.
Best-selling home video games in Japan, United States and Germany
^Kent, Steven L. (2001). The Ultimate History of Video Games: The Story Behind the Craze that Touched our Lives and Changed the World. Roseville, California:
Prima Publishing. pp. 563–564.
ISBN0-7615-3643-4.
^"週刊ファミ通クロスレビュープラチナ殿堂入りソフト一覧" [Weekly Famitsu Cross Review Platinum Hall of Fame Software List]. Geimin (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
^
ab小川 (Ogawa), 純生 (Sumio) (December 14, 2010).
"テレビゲーム機の変遷 —ファミコン、スーパーファミコン、プレステ、プレステ2、Wiiまで—" [Recent Developments in Video Game Technology in Japan — Famicom, Super Famicom, Play Station, Play Station 2 and Wii —] (PDF). 経営論集 (Keiei Ronshū) (in Japanese) (77) (published March 2011): 1–17 (2).
ISSN0286-6439. Archived from
the original(PDF) on July 25, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2021 – via Toyo University Academic Information Repository (
Toyo University).
^
abKohler, Chris (October 21, 2016).
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life.
Courier Dover Publications. p. 234.
ISBN978-0-486-80149-0. The Game Boy titles Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue were released on September 27, 1998. They became the fastest-selling Game Boy titles ever, selling a combined 200,000 copies in the first two weeks of their availability. By the end of 1998 they had sold four million units in the US alone across three versions. In Japan, across four versions the game had sold nearly 12 million copies.
^"Spyro the Dragon". Insomniac Games website.
Archived from the original on June 3, 2004. Retrieved February 24, 2019. Release Date: September 10, 1998
^Evenson, Laura (October 27, 1998).
"Fleshing Out an Idea". San Francisco Chronicle.
Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
^Mullen, Micheal (October 26, 1998).
"Fallout 2 Ships". GameSpot. Archived from
the original on June 10, 2000. Retrieved November 13, 2019. "Fallout 2 for Windows 95/98 should show up on retailers' shelves nationwide on Thursday, October 29."
^Mullen, Micheal (December 18, 1998).
"Playback: Week in Review". GameSpot. Archived from
the original on June 13, 2000. Retrieved September 20, 2019. "Starcraft fans have been waiting - and not so patiently - for Blizzard's first expansion pack Brood War[s]. Well, Blizzard announced that the title is on its way to stores nationwide (and we actually received box copies Friday morning to prove it)."
This article may misquote or misrepresent many of its sources. Please see the
cleanup page for more information. Editors: please remove this warning only after the diffs listed [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Jagged 85/{{{subpage}}}|here]] have been checked for accuracy.(August 2022)
The year's best-selling
video game console was the
PlayStation for the third year in a row. The year's most critically acclaimed title was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which remains
Metacritic's highest-scoring game of all time. The year's best-selling home video game worldwide was Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/
Pikachu for the
Game Boy, while the year's highest-grossing
arcade game in Japan was Tekken 3.
28–30 – The fourth annual
E3 is held in
Atlanta, Georgia.[3] Following the show, the inaugural
Game Critics Awards was held with winners being titled Best of E3.
The following video game releases in 1998 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving
Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40.[30]
The following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games (
console games or
computer games) of 1998 in Japan, the United States, and Germany.
Best-selling home video games in Japan, United States and Germany
^Kent, Steven L. (2001). The Ultimate History of Video Games: The Story Behind the Craze that Touched our Lives and Changed the World. Roseville, California:
Prima Publishing. pp. 563–564.
ISBN0-7615-3643-4.
^"週刊ファミ通クロスレビュープラチナ殿堂入りソフト一覧" [Weekly Famitsu Cross Review Platinum Hall of Fame Software List]. Geimin (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
^
ab小川 (Ogawa), 純生 (Sumio) (December 14, 2010).
"テレビゲーム機の変遷 —ファミコン、スーパーファミコン、プレステ、プレステ2、Wiiまで—" [Recent Developments in Video Game Technology in Japan — Famicom, Super Famicom, Play Station, Play Station 2 and Wii —] (PDF). 経営論集 (Keiei Ronshū) (in Japanese) (77) (published March 2011): 1–17 (2).
ISSN0286-6439. Archived from
the original(PDF) on July 25, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2021 – via Toyo University Academic Information Repository (
Toyo University).
^
abKohler, Chris (October 21, 2016).
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life.
Courier Dover Publications. p. 234.
ISBN978-0-486-80149-0. The Game Boy titles Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue were released on September 27, 1998. They became the fastest-selling Game Boy titles ever, selling a combined 200,000 copies in the first two weeks of their availability. By the end of 1998 they had sold four million units in the US alone across three versions. In Japan, across four versions the game had sold nearly 12 million copies.
^"Spyro the Dragon". Insomniac Games website.
Archived from the original on June 3, 2004. Retrieved February 24, 2019. Release Date: September 10, 1998
^Evenson, Laura (October 27, 1998).
"Fleshing Out an Idea". San Francisco Chronicle.
Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2008.
^Mullen, Micheal (October 26, 1998).
"Fallout 2 Ships". GameSpot. Archived from
the original on June 10, 2000. Retrieved November 13, 2019. "Fallout 2 for Windows 95/98 should show up on retailers' shelves nationwide on Thursday, October 29."
^Mullen, Micheal (December 18, 1998).
"Playback: Week in Review". GameSpot. Archived from
the original on June 13, 2000. Retrieved September 20, 2019. "Starcraft fans have been waiting - and not so patiently - for Blizzard's first expansion pack Brood War[s]. Well, Blizzard announced that the title is on its way to stores nationwide (and we actually received box copies Friday morning to prove it)."