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*''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' (1 million shipped)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/consumer-products/computing-products-consumer-software/6776557-1.html |title=Millionaire Tops One Million! 1 Million Units of WhoWants to be a Millionaire CD-ROM Shipped in First Four Weeks |date=1999-12-20 |accessdate=2009-01-18 |publisher=[[Business Wire]]}}</ref>
*''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' (1 million shipped)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/consumer-products/computing-products-consumer-software/6776557-1.html |title=Millionaire Tops One Million! 1 Million Units of WhoWants to be a Millionaire CD-ROM Shipped in First Four Weeks |date=1999-12-20 |accessdate=2009-01-18 |publisher=[[Business Wire]]}}</ref>
*''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]]'' ("around 1 million")<ref>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/27/which-witcher-is-the-witcher-2-2-0/</ref>
*''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]]'' ("around 1 million")<ref>http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/27/which-witcher-is-the-witcher-2-2-0/</ref>

==Older computers==
This section lists the sales of video games released for older [[personal computer]] platforms such as the [[Amiga]], [[Apple II]], [[Atari ST]], [[BBC Micro]], [[Commodore 64]], [[FM-7]], [[MSX]], [[NEC PC-8801|NEC PC-88]] & [[NEC PC-9801|PC-98]], and [[Sharp X1]] & [[Sharp X68000|X68000]]. Since the [[Video game industry|computer game industry]] was much smaller when these platforms were active, this list will include games that have sold at least 40,000 copies.

*''[[The Last Ninja]]'' - 2 million<ref>{{cite web|last=Rosenberg|first=Adam|title=Ninjas in Games|url=http://www.ugo.com/games/ninjas-in-games-top-11-the-last-ninja|publisher=[[UGO Networks]]|accessdate=25 December 2011|date=June 4, 2008}}</ref>
*''[[Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu]]'' (PC-88) - 400,000<ref name=Falcom>{{cite web |url=http://www.falcom.co.jp/xanadu_next/xanadu/xanadu.html|title=Xanadu Next home page|accessdate=2008-09-08 }} ([http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.falcom.co.jp%2Fxanadu_next%2Fxanadu%2Fxanadu.html Translation])</ref><ref name="el33tonline_2">{{cite web|last=Hendricks|first=Fayyaad|title=A complete history of role-playing videogames: Part 2|url=http://www.el33tonline.com/past_editorial/2011/12/22/a_complete_history_of_roleplaying_videogames/|publisher=EL33TONLINE|accessdate=25 December 2011|date=22 December 2011}}</ref>
*''[[Lemmings]]'' (Amiga) - 55,000<ref name="lemmings_dailly">{{cite web | url = http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/DMA4_1.htm | title = The Complete History of DMA Design | first = Mike | last = Dailly | author = [[Mike Dailly (game designer)|Mike Dailly]] | year = 2006 | accessdate =20 September 2007}}</ref>
*''[[Temple of Apshai]]'' - 40,000<ref name="el33tonline_2"/>
*''[[Blood Money (video game)|Blood Money]]'' - 40,000<ref name="lemmings_dailly"/>

==See also==
*[[List of best-selling video games]]


==References==
==References==

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This is a list of PC games (including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) that have sold or shipped at least one million copies.

Please note that the sales figures for expansion packs are not used in calculation of the sales figure for the original game (with the exception of Guild Wars). Sales from digital distribution outlets such as Steam are also not taken into account. Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft or Lineage are also not taken into account.

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Older computers

This section lists the sales of video games released for older personal computer platforms such as the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-88 & PC-98, and Sharp X1 & X68000. Since the computer game industry was much smaller when these platforms were active, this list will include games that have sold at least 40,000 copies.

See also

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