Games That Have Been Released on the Most Platforms

The other day, in the GB Discord, someone noticed that Oddworld New 'n' Tasty has come out on quite a few consoles, with a whopping ten platforms to its name (actually twelve, but at the time the page was missing the game's mobile ports.) This began a short discussion between myself, disruptivenoise, and niflhe wondering what game holds the highest number of release platforms.

After a "quick" stroll through the most noteworthy franchises in gaming, the highest selling games of all time, obscure platform libraries, and any other possible contenders which came to mind, we had assembled a seemingly accurate list of just under 100 games which had at least 13 releases (chosen semi-arbitrarily, as it seemed like a good cut-off point looking at the titles we had assembled at that point.)

Below is that list, in order from least to most releases, alongside a statistic of platforms-per-year-since-release and any thoughts about the game and it's ports which come to mind.

Note: this number is going specifically by GB wiki specifications, including what the wiki considers a platform and separating games where the wiki considers them two different titles. That said, if this list happens to be missing anything, feel free to bring it up.

List items

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  1. Contra

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  0.382 P/Y

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  2. Final Fantasy VI

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  0.481 P/Y

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  3. Minecraft: Story Mode

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  2.167 P/Y

  Even being a more recent game, this is a pretty ridiculous P/Y ratio, especially for a game that was... fine. If anything, I almost feel like it's low-balling a bit. I could easily see labeling the game's Netflix release as a Browser port. This was also originally the most recently released game to grace this list.

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  4. Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  0.813 P/Y

  Apparently this came out on the Ouya. Y'all remember the Ouya?

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  5. Shovel Knight

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  1.857 P/Y

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  6. Sonic the Hedgehog

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  0.433 P/Y

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  7. Steins;Gate

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  1.083 P/Y

  Not many visual novels on this list. Tragic.

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  8. The Walking Dead

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  1.444 P/Y

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  9. The Walking Dead: Season Two

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  1.625 P/Y

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  10. The Wolf Among Us

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  1.625 P/Y

  I suppose 13 platforms was the sweet spot for TellTale Games.

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  11. Trivial Pursuit

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  0.371 P/Y

  I would never have expected a Trivial Pursuit game to make this list. That said, it's also one of the lowest P/Y statistics in the entire list. Guess that doesn't help.

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  12. Whispering Willows

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  1.857 P/Y

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  13. Wolfenstein 3D

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  0.448 P/Y

  I had a really rough (unofficial) Ti-84 port of this game that got me through most of my physics class. It would crash my entire calculator randomly, but even shitty Wolfenstein 3D is still pretty fun Wolfenstein 3D.

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  14. Xeno Crisis

  13 Platforms - Tied for 87th place

  6.5 P/Y

  In a surprise entry, Xeno Crisis hits the scene with the new most recent release date on this list, as well as an earth-shattering 6.5 platforms/year. I almost have a hard time believing it.

  Guess you have to hand it to the tried-and-true gimmick of releasing backports of new games.

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  15. Bomberman

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.368 P/Y

  Putting the art in boxart.

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  16. Corpse Party

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.56 P/Y

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  17. Defender

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.35 P/Y

  The lowest P/Y of the entire list.

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  18. Duke Nukem 3D

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.56 P/Y

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  19. FIFA 12

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  1.4 P/Y

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  20. Final Fantasy II

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.424 P/Y

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  21. Gauntlet

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.389 P/Y

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  22. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.824 P/Y

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  23. Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.438 P/Y

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  24. Metal Slug 2: Super Vehicle - 001/II

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.609 P/Y

  If there were a game that deserved to be released on every single platform, this game would be in the running no questions asked.

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  25. Moon Patrol

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.359 P/Y

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  26. Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.378 P/Y

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  27. Puyo Puyo

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.467 P/Y

  This one too.

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  28. Rainbow Islands

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.412 P/Y

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  29. Resident Evil 4

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.875 P/Y

  This game is among those with a reputation for getting released on every platform under the sun, which makes it interesting that it's actually pretty low down the list with a middling P/Y stat to boot. The other game infamous for that, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, doesn't even make the list, although it's releases/year nearly hits a 1.0.

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  30. Rush'n Attack

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.389 P/Y

  My sixth grade teacher showed us this game one day when we were learning about the Cold War.

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  31. Samurai Shodown II

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.519 P/Y

  NEO-GEO games form a large portion of this neighborhood of the list.

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  32. Shinobi

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.412 P/Y

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  33. Solomon's Key

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.4 P/Y

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  34. Zork III: The Dungeon Master

  14 Platforms - Tied for 67th place

  0.359 P/Y

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  35. Donkey Kong Jr.

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.385 P/Y

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  36. Earthworm Jim

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.556 P/Y

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  37. FIFA Soccer 13

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  1.667 P/Y

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  38. Final Fantasy

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.441 P/Y

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  39. Front Line

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.385 P/Y

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  40. The King of Fighters '95

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.577 P/Y

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  41. The King of Fighters '97

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.625 P/Y

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  42. Myst

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.536 P/Y

  This game has come out on a ton of platforms, been rereleased a ton of times, and yet... I have never heard a single positive word about any of it's ports. I've tried finding a decent and available port of this game on a few occasions, only to be stopped every time when a few reviews like "Such a classic!" are followed by a dozen reviews like "This port ruins everything great about this game what the hell!". Weird.

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  43. Neo Turf Masters

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.6 P/Y

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  44. OutRun

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.429 P/Y

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  45. Pac-Land

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.405 P/Y

  Pac-Man had some real strange semi-spin-offs for a while there.

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  46. Pac-Mania

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.441 P/Y

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  47. Plants vs. Zombies

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  1.25 P/Y

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  48. Puyo Puyo 2

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.556 P/Y

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  49. Sonic the Hedgehog 2

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.517 P/Y

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  50. Yie Ar Kung-Fu

  15 Platforms - Tied for 51st place

  0.417 P/Y

  I don't think I had heard of this game until two days ago.

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  51. Garou: Mark of the Wolves

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.727 P/Y

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  52. J.B. Harold Murder Club

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.457 P/Y

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  53. LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  2.286 P/Y

  The original highest P/Y statistic in this list, although it originally missed being the newest by a single year.

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  54. Mario Bros.

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.421 P/Y

  This one is mildly surprising, both for how overshadowed this game is by Super Mario Bros. and everything the franchise became, but also because every other Nintendo classic barely saw release outside of modern Nintendo consoles.

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  55. Pooyan

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.41 P/Y

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  56. Q*Bert

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.41 P/Y

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  57. Renegade

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.457 P/Y

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  58. Retro City Rampage

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  1.778 P/Y

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  59. Space Ace

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.432 P/Y

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  60. The Amazing Spider-Man

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  1.778 P/Y

  Another surprising entry, although being a licensed game releasing right in-between two console generations, it's not exactly a stretch as to how that happened.

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  61. The Last Blade

  16 Platforms - Tied for 40th place

  0.667 P/Y

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  62. Angry Birds: Star Wars

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  1.889 P/Y

  Somehow this one eclipses the original Angry Birds, which didn't even make the cut.

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  63. Bomb Jack

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  0.447 P/Y

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  64. Double Dragon II: The Revenge

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  0.515 P/Y

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  65. FIFA 14

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  2.125 P/Y

  The last game to officially release on PS2.

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  66. Mappy

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  0.447 P/Y

  Yo that mouse is a cop.

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  67. Rayman

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  0.654 P/Y

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  68. Super Cobra

  17 Platforms - Tied for 33rd place

  0.425 P/Y

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  69. 1942

  18 Platforms - Tied for 29th place

  0.486 P/Y

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  70. Doom

  18 Platforms - Tied for 29th place

  0.643 P/Y

  Another game that's come out on a lot of platforms but had some heavily varying port quality over the years. Some of the weird less-than-faithful ports are genuinely pretty great though, especially the PSX one.

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  71. Elevator Action

  18 Platforms - Tied for 29th place

  0.474 P/Y

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  72. Final Fight

  18 Platforms - Tied for 29th place

  0.563 P/Y

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  73. BurgerTime

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.487 P/Y

  Entering the top 20 in style.

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  74. Centipede

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.475 P/Y

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  75. Fatal Fury Special

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.679 P/Y

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  76. Gradius

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.528 P/Y

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  77. James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.633 P/Y

  Another game I had not heard of until two days ago.

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  78. Metal Slug 3

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.905 P/Y

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  79. Monopoly

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.576 P/Y

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  80. Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

  19 Platforms - Tied for 21st place

  0.463 P/Y

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  81. Galaga

  20 Platforms - Tied for 18th place

  0.5 P/Y

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  82. Paperboy

  20 Platforms - Tied for 18th place

  0.556 P/Y

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  83. Terraria

  20 Platforms - Tied for 18th place

  2.0 P/Y

  Another surprisingly recent one, but definitely one of the first games that comes to mind when thinking of indie games that have released on a ton of platforms.

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  84. Donkey Kong

  21 Platforms - Tied for 15th place

  0.525 P/Y

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  85. Minecraft

  21 Platforms - Tied for 15th place

  1.75 P/Y (Going by 2009 EA release date)

  Another famous example, and another one that totally deserves it.

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  86. Out of This World

  21 Platforms - Tied for 15th place

  0.7 P/Y

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  87. Space Harrier

  22 Platforms - Tied for 13th place

  0.611 P/Y

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  88. Space Invaders

  22 Platforms - Tied for 13th place

  0.512 P/Y

  The oldest game on this list, but not a poor P/Y either.

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  89. Bubble Bobble

  23 Platforms - Tied for 7th place

  0.657 P/Y

  An interesting bump here, with a decent number of games on 23 platforms.

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  90. Double Dragon

  23 Platforms - Tied for 7th place

  0.676 P/Y

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  91. Galaxian

  23 Platforms - Tied for 7th place

  0.548 P/Y

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  92. Prince of Persia

  23 Platforms - Tied for 7th place

  0.719 P/Y

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  93. R-Type

  23 Platforms - Tied for 7th place

  0.676 P/Y

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  94. Xevious

  23 Platforms - Tied for 7th place

  0.605 P/Y

  Completely missed this one at first, somehow.

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  95. Dragon's Lair

  27 Platforms - Tied for 5th place

  0.711 P/Y

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  96. Ms. Pac-Man

  27 Platforms - Tied for 5th place

  0.692 P/Y

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  97. Dig Dug

  29 Platforms - 4th place

  0.7444 P/Y

  These last four have no ties, and are also almost certainly the four you think they are.

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  98. Frogger

  30 Platforms - 3rd place

  0.75 P/Y

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  99. Tetris

  35 Platforms - 2nd place

  0.946 P/Y

  One of the most timeless games ever made, and a pretty decent P/Y to match. I initially assumed this would be the #1, and it comes pretty close all things considered.

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  100. Pac-Man

  39 Platforms - 1st Place

  0.951 P/Y

  But, of course, it was always going to be Pac-Man, wasn't it?