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Most popular video games
Recently, video games have gained the legal protections of any other art form due to an official ruling by the supreme court<ref>http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/tech/supreme.court.video.game.art_1_sale-of-violent-video-video-games-hansel-and-gretel?_s=PM:TECH</ref>, ruling that video games are as protected as any other art form by the [[First Amendment]]. Video games are fully capable of communicating moral and social views through tropes universal in other mediums, such as characters, dialog, and symbolism, in addition to it's unique characteristic, interactivity. A Smithsonian exhibit on art in video games is planned for 2012.
Recently, video games have gained the legal protections of any other art form due to an official ruling by the supreme court<ref>http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/tech/supreme.court.video.game.art_1_sale-of-violent-video-video-games-hansel-and-gretel?_s=PM:TECH</ref>, ruling that video games are as protected as any other art form by the [[First Amendment]]. Video games are fully capable of communicating moral and social views through tropes universal in other mediums, such as characters, dialog, and symbolism, in addition to it's unique characteristic, interactivity. A Smithsonian exhibit on art in video games is planned for 2012.
==Most popular video games==
{| class="wikitable"
!Game!!platform!!Sold
|-
|Wii Sports||[[Wii]]||76.76 million
|-
|Super Mario Bros.||[[NES]]||40.24 million
|-
|Tetris||[[Gameboy|GB]]||35 million
|-
|Mario Kart Wii||Wii||28.23 million
|-
|Wii Sports Resort||Wii||27.68 million
|-
|Wii Play||Wii||27.38 million
|-
|New Super Mario Bros.||[[Gameboy Advance|GBA]]||26.88 million
|-
|Pokémon Red, and Blue||GB||23.64 million
|-
|Nintendogs All versions||GBA||23.26 million
|-
|Pokémon Gold and Silver||GB||23 million
|-
|Wii Fit||Wii||22.61 million
|-
|New Super Mario Bros. Wii||Wii||21.94 million
|-
|Mario Kart DS||GBA||21.04 million
|-
|Super Mario World||[[SNES]]||20.60 million
|-
|Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!||GBA||18.72 million
|-
|Wii Fit Plus||Wii||18.49 million
|-
|Super Mario Land||GB||18.06 million
|-
|Super Mario Bros. 3||NES||18 million
|-
|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl||GBA||17.39 million
|-
|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas||[[Playstation 2|PS2]]||17.33 million
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|The Sims||[[PC]]||16 million
|-
|Sonic the Hedgehog||[[Sega]]||15 million
|}
==See Also==
==See Also==