{"id":848397,"date":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","slug":"top-20-best-selling-gamecube-games-of-all-time-in-the-u-s-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848397\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 best-selling GameCube games of all time in the U.S. revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GameCube-top-20-best-selling-games.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GameCube-top-20-best-selling-games-656x369.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New data has revealed the top 20 best-selling games of all time in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are unaware, the GameCube just celebrated its 25th anniversary. Circana\u2019s Mat Piscatella honored the occasion by sharing the latest data.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo games make up most of the list, as expected. Super Smash Bros. Melee comes in first, followed by Super Mario Sunshine and Mario Kart: Double Dash in second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For third-party games, you have to go down to #8 for the first one, which is Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. Sonic also shows up with Sonic Heroes at #15.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mvihy4gqqs2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">list<\/a> of the top 20 best-selling GameCube games of all time in the U.S. below. The results are ranked by unit sales.<\/p>\n<p>1. Super Smash Bros. Melee<br \/>2. Super Mario Sunshine<br \/>3. Mario Kart: Double Dash<br \/>4. Zelda: The Wind Waker<br \/>5. Luigi\u2019s Mansion<br \/>6. Animal Crossing<br \/>7. Metroid Prime<br \/>8. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle<br \/>9. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door<br \/>10. Sonic Mega Collection<br \/>11. Pokemon Colosseum<br \/>12. Mario Party 4<br \/>13. Zelda: Twilight Princess<br \/>14. LEGO Star Wars<br \/>15. Sonic Heroes<br \/>16. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader<br \/>17. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour<br \/>18. Super Monkey Ball<br \/>19. Soulcalibur 2<br \/>20. Kirby Air Ride<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering where Resident Evil 4 is, it actually just missed out on top 20. Circana\u2019s data puts it at #21.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of the list? Were you surprised by any of the results? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a list of the top 200 best-selling N64 games of all time in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/top-200-best-selling-n64-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data has revealed the top 20 best-selling games of all time in the United States. For those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[15035,1245,74],"class_list":["post-848397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-charts","tag-sales","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}