The Real Arcade Top 10 List 2005 Year in Review

[James C. Smith]

Now that the final week of 2005 is over we can look at the list of the top 50 games of 2005 for Real Arcade. This list is based solely on the number of weeks each game appeared in the top 10. You get similar but slightly different result is you rank them based on the “score” where you get more point be being closer to the number 1 spot in the list. You can do that yourself here (http://www.game-sales-charts.com/cms/index.php?option=com_dbquery&Itemid=33&task=PrepareQuery&qid=9)

2005 Real Arcade
1 Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
2 Diner Dash
3 Luxor
4 Aloha Solitaire
5 Mah Jong Quest
6 Tumblebugs
7 Big Kahuna Reef
7 Magic Ball 2
9 Zuma Deluxe
10 Wheel of Fortune
11 Jewel Quest
12 Bricks of Atlantis
12 Chuzzle Deluxe
12 Gem Shop
12 I SPY Spooky Mansion Deluxe
16 Cosmic Bugs
16 Snowy - Treasure Hunter
18 Casino Island To Go
18 Fiber Twig 2
18 Fortune Tiles Gold
18 Granny in Paradise
18 Mahjong Garden To Go
18 Rebound Lost Worlds - Recharged
18 Water Bugs
25 Adventure Inlay
25 Chainz 2 - Relinked
25 Magic Vines
25 Mah Jong Adventures
25 Mah Jong Medley
25 Phlinx To Go
25 Rainbow Web
25 Turtle Odyssey
25 Twistingo
25 Word Slinger
35 Ancient SuDoKu
35 Atlantis
35 Bewitched
35 Charm Tale
35 Chicken Attack
35 Magic Ball 2 New Worlds
35 Mah Jong The Endless Journey
35 Mahjong Jade Expedition
35 Puzzle Solitaire
35 Tradewinds 2
45 Aloha TriPeaks
45 Charm Solitaire
45 Luxor - Amun Rising
45 Pizza Frenzy
45 Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament™
45 Reader's Digest Super Word Power
45 Super Jigsaw Lighthouses
45 Wild West Wendy

(Repeated numbers mean the games were tied)

See more details in the: Top Games Chart (http://www.game-sales-charts.com/cms/index.php?option=com_dbquery&Itemid=33&task=PrepareQuery&qid=9) (be sure to change the start date to 2005 if you only want to see results based on 2005 as I am doing here)

[James C. Smith]

It is also fun to look at which companies had the most appearances in the Real Arcade top 10. Companies are ranked based on how many times one of their games appered in the top 10 list. A company gets credit for any game it developed, published, or distributed to Real. For example, both Play First and gameLab get credit for Diner Dash’s 30 appearances. If it wasn’t for Diner Dash, neither company would be in the top half of the list.

2005 Real Arcade
1 GameHouse
2 PopCap
3 MumboJumbo
4 PlayFirst
5 Alawar Entertainment
6 gameLab
7 iWin
8 Pogo
9 Reflexive Entertainment
10 Sony Pictures Digital
11 Puzzle Lab
11 Wildfire Studios
13 Dream Dale
13 Retro64
15 Arcade Lab
15 Sandlot Games
15 ToyBox Games
18 Big Fish Games
18 Tik Games
20 HipSoft
20 Raptisoft
20 Scholastic
23 AliasWorlds
24 AlwaysNeat
24 Realore Studios
24 Skunk Studios
24 Sprout Games
24 Sugar Games
29 Dekovir
29 DivoGames
29 Electrotank
29 Funkitron
29 FunPause
29 Inertia Software
29 Intenium
29 Newrosoft
29 Oberon
38 Mystery Studio
39 Crystal Squid
39 FreshGames
39 Large Animal Games
39 U-Click/Playtonium
43 Flying Bear Entertainment
43 Gulny Games
43 Rionix
43 Zylom
47 Bantam City Games
47 e-Funsoft
47 Evil Genius Games
47 Game Gekko
47 Grab
47 Intermix Media
47 KatGames
47 Mind Control Software
47 Nurium Games
47 Total Eclipse

(Repeated numbers mean the companies were tied)

It is interesting to note that this is a complete list of every company that had a game in Real’s top 10 in 2005. I was originally going to just list the top 40 or 50 companies but it turns out there are only 56 companies that played a role in one of the games in Real’s top 10 in 2005.

In 2005 there were 96 different games listed in Real top 10 and they were all made or published by one or two of 56 different companies.

See more detail in the: Top Companies Chart (http://www.game-sales-charts.com/cms/index.php?option=com_dbquery&Itemid=33&task=PrepareQuery&qid=30) (be sure to change the start date to 2005 if you only want to see results based on 2005 as I am doing here) This post only includes 2 columns of data (no tables on vBulletin :( ) The actual chart on game-sales-charts.com lists other columns so that you can see which games the companies played a role in and how many weeks there were in the top 10. Plus, the games and companies are all clickable links to more data.

[James C. Smith]

It would be interesting to see how this would look if we focused only on developers and didn’t give any credit to copies for only publishing a game. I’ll have to work on that.

[Sirrus]

Very interesting to see this summarized...

Thanks James!

[Raptisoft]

Do you know how angry it makes me that Chuzzle and Gem shop are tied at #12?

I'll be back, I have to go take this out on my dogs.

[Savant]

And they say cloning doesn't hurt anyone. Think of the puppies!

[Grey Alien]

great list thanks. Match 3 at the top of course, although to be fair it's a sequal of the original (and much better too).

[vechey]

Is it easy to do the list of just developers? So a company only gets credit if they developed it?