When I worked retail at Babbages many years ago, often these jock-type dudes would come in, and always say the same damn thing before a new Super Tecmo Bowl game was to come out...
In loud, mumbling, fast dialect,
"YOU GOT TECMO?"
Its an inside joke/saying amongst my circle of friends, and has been ever since.
But all kidding aside, its not Tecmo that was as hot a seller as was the EA Sports stuff. Madden'xx, NHL'xx, etc.... these games were the best selling games throughout the 5 year period I worked there. I'm serious... we sold more EA Sports games than any other genre/brand. WE would get them in by the hundreds while the REAL videogames (we all know what those are, guys) would go on discount in a week.
However these jock dudes would always have the last laugh from us, as their once new, shiny, exaulted Madden/NHL game would depreciate faster than any other game ever, often dropping from $50 to < $5 in one year. And why did these guys favor EA Sports? It was all about STATISTICS. Gameplay was somewhat important, but it was all about following the lives of each real life player in the game, doing the season through the superbowl, etc...
Made me fuckin sick. Well at least I had my RPG's, shooters, and of course my NEO GEO to make things better. God save Japan for pumping out the best software of the otherwise, best time in videogame history, the 16 bit era.