1988 in video games

The year's highest-grossing arcade video games were After Burner and After Burner II in Japan, Double Dragon in the United States, Operation Wolf in the United Kingdom, and RoboCop in Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong and the United States, the following titles were the highest-grossing arcade games of 1988.

The following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 1988 in Japan, according to the annual Family Computer Magazine (Famimaga) charts.

[24] In the United States, the NES Action Set bundled with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt was the best-selling toy of 1988.

[30] The same year, Super Mario Bros. 2 became one of the best-selling cartridges of all time,[31] Super Mario Bros. 2 and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link were the top-selling cartridges during the holiday season,[32] and The Legend of Zelda and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!