Someone Give Me an Example Of a Console Game That Was A Surprise Hit

[QUOTE="XTy"][QUOTE="Son_of_Some"]

Nintendogs, Brain Age and WarioWare. Who disagrees? Let me know.

Son_of_Some

Way to list off the handhelds and reveal your age. Still, those are big FOR Handhelds...

Haha! Reveal my age? What do you suppose my age is? huh?

Still, no one knew nothing about those titles and they sold like hotcakes.

Def. Teen. Just a great guess. You see, the DS is relatively new to my generation, so anyone that would bring it to the table here, when older systems like the PS2, would have to be young.

[QUOTE="Son_of_Some"][QUOTE="XTy"][QUOTE="Son_of_Some"]

Nintendogs, Brain Age and WarioWare. Who disagrees? Let me know.

XTy

Way to list off the handhelds and reveal your age. Still, those are big FOR Handhelds...

Haha! Reveal my age? What do you suppose my age is? huh?

Still, no one knew nothing about those titles and they sold like hotcakes.

Def. Teen. Just a great guess. You see, the DS is relatively new to my generation, so anyone that would bring it to the table here, when older systems like the PS2, would have to be young.

Haha! Damn you got me with the "Def. Teen," but that's going to change in a month. Well since you want older games I could list some games that I was playing as a kid. Street Fighter II was a hit, Pokemon was THE hit, Resident Evil was big at it's time, but Brain Age and Nintendogs still beat them.(except Pokemon) We could just list the Marios, Zeldas and Sonics, but no.

[QUOTE="XTy"][QUOTE="Son_of_Some"][QUOTE="XTy"][QUOTE="Son_of_Some"]

Nintendogs, Brain Age and WarioWare. Who disagrees? Let me know.

Son_of_Some

Way to list off the handhelds and reveal your age. Still, those are big FOR Handhelds...

Haha! Reveal my age? What do you suppose my age is? huh?

Still, no one knew nothing about those titles and they sold like hotcakes.

Def. Teen. Just a great guess. You see, the DS is relatively new to my generation, so anyone that would bring it to the table here, when older systems like the PS2, would have to be young.

Haha! Damn you got me with the "Def. Teen," but that's going to change in a month. Well since you want older games I could list some games that I was playing as a kid. Street Fighter II was a hit, Pokemon was THE hit, Resident Evil was big at it's time, but Brain Age and Nintendogs still beat them.(except Pokemon) We could just list the Marios, Zeldas and Sonics, but no.

lol.

Yeah Poke was huge...and RE too. Heck, tomb raider. Street fighter, heck that was a suprise!

Oh TC, don't forget SOCOM, that ended up big for its day.

[QUOTE="gingerdivid"][QUOTE="Tasman_basic"]guys there was enough Halo hype to float the Titanic.Shazenab

KOTOR. I still remember it's hype although I can't recall whether it was expected to sell well. I realise it is also on PC. :wink:
crazyjames1080

Def. Teen. Just a great guess. You see, the DS is relatively new to my generation, so anyone that would bring it to the table here, when older systems like the PS2, would have to be young.

[QUOTE="shsonline"]Surprise hit meaning it did REALLY well and LOTS of people bought the game, fueling its success. I'm just curious, because I was trying to think back and all the games that were massive hits were either hyped or marketed as such, and people know about them before they came out. Does this really happen that often, or has it actually even happened? Just need some examples, I guess.Dark_Gamer_Kid

Resident Evil murdered that game to me....i remember playin RE at 10, good memories...surprised at beat that game at such a young age 

Everyone in this thread should stop saying Halo.  That game was hyped beyond reason.

I personally haven't played the game for some reason, but God of War.  No one actually knew about the game until it came out, and all my friends think it's the best game on PS2.  If PC were included, Half-Life without a doubt.
psycotictaratua

the orignal halo was not hyped beyond reason :|

Surprise hit meaning it did REALLY well and LOTS of people bought the game, fueling its success. I'm just curious, because I was trying to think back and all the games that were massive hits were either hyped or marketed as such, and people know about them before they came out. Does this really happen that often, or has it actually even happened? Just need some examples, I guess.shsonline

Halo, GeOW, GRAW, PGR2, Dead Rising, Oblivion...

all never before heard of franchises... all million sellers...;)

Uh...Bioware? Lucasarts?
It wasn't excatly a 'suprise' hit.
Planeforger

[QUOTE="Son_of_Some"][QUOTE="XTy"][QUOTE="Son_of_Some"]

Nintendogs, Brain Age and WarioWare. Who disagrees? Let me know.

XTy

Way to list off the handhelds and reveal your age. Still, those are big FOR Handhelds...

Haha! Reveal my age? What do you suppose my age is? huh?

Still, no one knew nothing about those titles and they sold like hotcakes.

Def. Teen. Just a great guess. You see, the DS is relatively new to my generation, so anyone that would bring it to the table here, when older systems like the PS2, would have to be young.

HAH!  Older systerms like PS2?  How old are you.  I'm a young guy and I've been playing since NES!