Highest-grossing arcade games The year's highest-grossing game worldwide was
Street Fighter II, which alone accounted for an estimated 60% of the global
arcade game market, according to
Coinslot magazine. The following table lists the year's top-grossing arcade games in Japan, the United Kingdom, United States, and worldwide.
Japan The following titles were the top ten highest-grossing
arcade games of 1992 in Japan, according to
Gamest,
Game Machine and
Famicom Tsūshin (
Famitsu) magazines.
United States In the United States, the following titles were the highest-grossing arcade video games of 1992.
Australia On Australia's
Timezone monthly arcade charts published in the June 1992 issue of
Leisure Line magazine,
Capcom's
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition was the top-grossing
arcade conversion kit and
Konami's
X-Men was the top-grossing dedicated
arcade cabinet.
Best-selling home systems Best-selling home video games Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and
Street Fighter II each sold units worldwide in 1992, In the United Kingdom, the following titles were the top-selling home video games of each month in 1992.
United States In the United States, the following titles were the top three best-selling home video games of 1992. The following titles were the best-selling home video games of each month for
video game consoles (
home consoles and
handheld consoles) in 1992. The following titles were the top-selling
personal computer games on the monthly PC Research charts in 1992, as reported by
Electronic Games magazine. ==Events==