Super Chart Island
A British history of popular video games told one sales chart #1 at a time
- Created by Iain Mew
- Located in United Kingdom
- January 2025
- Free
Recent posts
October 19, 2026
So far in 2026, out of sixteen games released this year which have reached #1 in UK sales charts, five have been some form of remake, remaster or repackage, from Star Fox to Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 . The games of the ‘90s and ‘00s are a regular source of material for new…
October 12, 2026
11 years before the release of Starwing / Star Fox , and 44 years before Argonaut Games signed up to an arms dealer’s retrogaming side project , Argonaut was formed in 1982 by Jez San. Jez (short for Jeremy) San grew up in north west London. When he was 12 years old his father, who handily ran an…
October 5, 2026
In Kevin Toms’s Software Star , released on his Addictive Games label in 1985, you run a games publisher. You name new games, decide how to promote them (including whether to lead with Hype or Honesty) and watch their chart performance against your rivals. Those rivals are all obviously named in…
