2300AD - A suggestion

[TrippyHippy]

That's the print run, but graph it by year:

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Traveller was no longer the best selling rulesset. Twilight: 2000 overtook Traveller in 1985-6. Remember, this is all materials, including supplements etc.

Well, the claim was that Twilight: 2000 was GDW’s biggest selling game. It clearly wasn’t over time and the chart doesn’t include the data following 1986 - Mega Traveller was released in 1987 as a replacement new edition of Traveller and, I’d imagine at least would have overtaken Twilight: 2000 sales again. Classic Traveller probably wasn’t producing much new stuff in 1985 and 1986 to sell.

Either way, Twilight 2000 in no way replicated the overall success of Traveller, even when it was first released. GDW as a whole had declining sales from the late 80s onwards.