Spore might be one of the highest-profile disappointments in all of PC gaming, but it's also a game I have a huge soft spot for. It was the first game I ever begged my parents to preorder for me (for my birthday at the ripe age of 8), and I adored it endlessly back when I had no concept of what anyone else expected it to be. These days, I find myself longing instead for the evolution sim Spore promised to be rather than the minigame mishmash it ended up as, but maybe all I need is a set of fresh eyes. Lucky me, there's at least one newcomer to the game somewhere out there.
That's right: Spore is still moving units, er, unit, according to videogame industry analyst Mat Piscatella. As he shared in a post on Bluesky, Spore is one of nine games (and the only PC game) to sell a single physical copy in October, alongside Backyard Baseball for the PS2 and Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360.
