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2 questions about Australia
It's a long shot that anyone will have more information, but maybe a poor lost soul will see my message in a decade. Or not.


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 * Does anyone have some insight on an entity called the "Australian Computer Entertainment Review"? Apparently they tracked sales of games in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, but I'm not sure of the exact years. I can only find two mentions of them. The first mention is in various issues of PC PowerPlay. I was gonna start to archive their chart listings, but then I realized each one they posted is weekly, and not monthly, so it's not too helpful. The other mention is a blurb from a review of the SpaceOrb 360. Surprisingly, their distributor's website is still online, '90s HTML and all.


 * I'm quite interested on who this entity is, and the ultimate goal is to find their chart archives, but I don't even know if they were a proper company. This is how they compiled the charts apparently: "The ACER best selling charts are carefully compiled from a sample panel of retailers selected across Australia including mass merchants, department stores, specialty software stores, and independent outlets. Retailers surveyed include Myer Grace Bros, David Jones and John Martins, K Mart, Target, Big W, World 4 Kids, Harvey Norman, Blockbuster, Brashes, Video Games Heaven, and Games Wizards." Hell, that's eleven different retailers. I looked up a few '90s websites for some of them, but no mention of ACER.


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 * Did Australia have any other charting entities? It seems that Interactive Games and Entertainment Association runs a modern day chart, but they formed back in 2002, and I can't find anything prior to that.

Ultimately, I'm just hopeful that we can start to compile some other charts other than the US. There's a reliable entity within the UK which can be logged at some point, but other countries are harder to figure out. Xanarki (talk) 22:04, 29 November 2022 (UTC)