The best-selling (old) PC games sorted by release date

It's not easy to compile a list of the best selling PC games of all time. Why? Because the video game market changed dramatically in the past decades and if a game that sold 100000 copies 30 years ago was considered a best seller, it's not the same thing for a game that sold that many copies just a few years ago. This is an (unordered) list of the best selling games according to Wikipedia.

Most popular best selling applications

Zoo Tycoon

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Age of Empires

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert

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StarCraft

Windows XP/98/95Mac1998protected4.3/5 Blizzard Entertainment

StarCraft is a classic RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 1998 for Windows and Macintosh. StarCraft takes the Warcraft experience to a sci-fi setting with an interesting story, three very different races (the militaristic Humans, the alien Zerg and the religious Protoss) and one of the best gameplay ex...
Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings

Windows XP/98/951999protected4.3/5 Ensemble Studios
Roller Coaster Tycoon

Windows XP/98/951999protected4.2/5 Chris Sawyer Productions
SimCity 3000

Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 Maxis
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

Windows XP/98/95Mac2000protected3.9/5 BioWare

Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn is a party-based real-time with pause CRPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe that shares the same gameplay as the sequel: the much acclaimed Baldur's Gate. Shadows of Amn was developed by BioWare and released by Black Isle Studios in 2000 for PC (Windows) and Mac.
Empire Earth

Windows XP/98/952001protected4.3/5 Stainless Steel Studios
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Windows XP/98/9520013.9/5 KnowWonder
Zoo Tycoon

Windows XP/98/9520014.2/5 Blue Fang Games
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Windows XP/98/952002protected4.5/5 Bethesda Softworks

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a critically acclaimed open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. It was released in 2002 and is the third installment in the Elder Scrolls series. The game is set in the fantasy world of Tamriel, on the island of Vvardenfell in the province of Morrowind.The game offers a vast a...