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Thanks to this site: http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret.html
Samples:
First few are biweekly.
Dec '89: Dragon Ball 3
May '90: Final Fantasy III debut! Dragon Quest IV, Megami Tensei II
page 2: Phantasy Star III's debut, After Burner II, Ninja Gaiden II? Also Fire Emblem's debut
USA chart for the same week:
Super Famicom launch week:
edit: added page 2
USA chart, same issue:
Issue before magazine goes weekly?
Jun 91 Seiken Densetsu debut, SMW, SimCity, SML
Edit: page 2 added. Favorites, most wanted, USA
2nd week of Nov 92:
Super Mario Land 2, DQV, Shin Megami Tensei, Super Mario USA, Paladin's Quest debut
Same week, USA chart now includes Sega. The other charts are voted favorites and most wanted
More have been uploaded here: http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/sp_top30.html
The site owner seems to have most if not all issues from 1986 through 1992!!! Whoa goldmine!
I'm hoping he can post the TOP30 for each issue from the start of the SFC era onward, it would be great to see 16-bit era play out each week in Japan with all our classics being released. This is something of interest of mine, seeing the sales data from this era. Finding this site owner could be a Godsend who's sitting on a goldmine. Get excited classic sales-age GAF!
Famitsu used a point system until 1996, the formula isn't set in stone but for the early charts multiplying by 30 should be safe, I found using works for rough estimating:
<1991 x30
1991 x18?
1992 x12
1993 x12
>1993 x4.35
Keep in mind this will be adjusted when more info comes forward.
It's interesting that each issue also included WEEKLY USA chart, having weekly NES era USA sales charts imagine that (or any weekly USA charts lol)...
edit: translation requests welcome.
Samples:
First few are biweekly.
Dec '89: Dragon Ball 3
May '90: Final Fantasy III debut! Dragon Quest IV, Megami Tensei II
page 2: Phantasy Star III's debut, After Burner II, Ninja Gaiden II? Also Fire Emblem's debut
USA chart for the same week:
Super Famicom launch week:
edit: added page 2
USA chart, same issue:
Issue before magazine goes weekly?
Jun 91 Seiken Densetsu debut, SMW, SimCity, SML
Edit: page 2 added. Favorites, most wanted, USA
2nd week of Nov 92:
Super Mario Land 2, DQV, Shin Megami Tensei, Super Mario USA, Paladin's Quest debut
Same week, USA chart now includes Sega. The other charts are voted favorites and most wanted
More have been uploaded here: http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/sp_top30.html
The site owner seems to have most if not all issues from 1986 through 1992!!! Whoa goldmine!
I'm hoping he can post the TOP30 for each issue from the start of the SFC era onward, it would be great to see 16-bit era play out each week in Japan with all our classics being released. This is something of interest of mine, seeing the sales data from this era. Finding this site owner could be a Godsend who's sitting on a goldmine. Get excited classic sales-age GAF!
Famitsu used a point system until 1996, the formula isn't set in stone but for the early charts multiplying by 30 should be safe, I found using works for rough estimating:
<1991 x30
1991 x18?
1992 x12
1993 x12
>1993 x4.35
Keep in mind this will be adjusted when more info comes forward.
It's interesting that each issue also included WEEKLY USA chart, having weekly NES era USA sales charts imagine that (or any weekly USA charts lol)...
edit: translation requests welcome.
