Guinness names Top 50 Videogame Series @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on May 06, 2010

News: You'll never guess who the "Master" of the list is.

The Gamer's Edition of the Guinness World Records book has compiled a list of the Top 50 Videogame Series and the Halo series came out on top.

How could this happen, you ask? Well, instead of measuring sales figures or review scores or even asking a variety of video game experts to weigh in, the people at Guinness went straight to gaming community. They posted a poll on their website last year during the eight-month period of January through August and over 13,000 gamers responded.

Normally, a poll like this voted on by gamers would pretty much be non-news, but the Guinness list is so strange it almost has to be examined.

Some of the weirdness includes the abnormally high ranking of the Guitar Hero series (#4) and the abnormally low ranking for the Mario Kart series (#47). There's also the baffling inclusion of Lego Batman, which has only had one game, and thus, is not a "series."

The full list can be found right here. Read it and weep...

1. Halo
2. Call of Duty
3. The Legend of Zelda
4. Guitar Hero
5. Metal Gear
6. Super Mario Bros.
7. World of Warcraft
8. Gears of War
9. Super Smash Bros.
10. Grand Theft Auto
11. Pok?mon
12. Resident Evil
13. Fallout
14. Half-Life
15. Sonic the Hedgehog
16. Counter-Strike
17. Runescape
18. FIFA
19. Kingdom Hearts
20. Final Fantasy
21. Pac-Man
22. Madden NFL
23. The Sims
24. Tomb Raider
25. WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw
26. Rock Band
27. LittleBigPlanet
28. Saints Row
29. The Elder Scrolls
30. God of War
31. GoldenEye 007
32. BioShock
33. KillZone
34. Skate
35. Left 4 Dead
36. Need For Speed
37. Chrono Trigger
38. Gran Turismo
39. StarCraft
40. Ratchet & Clank
41. Pong
42. Tom Clancy's
43. Star Wars: Battlefront
44. Battlefield
45. Diablo
46. Lego Batman
47. Mario Kart
48. Burnout
49. Crash Bandicoot
50. Pro Evolution Soccer