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Nobody actually buys Minesweeper, so I don't think it counts as a bestselling game.
Having said this, the claims about the bestselling game of all time upthread sound wrong to me. The first game that came to mind, Wikipedia says this about it:
which handily beats Minecraft.
I stated that all disputes would be resolved by Wikipedia, and here is Wikipedia's verdict on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games
Why not this list?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games
Well the question did say computer game ...
Which is different from PC games.
The question in the survey is:
"computer game" != "PC game"
"computer game" == "PC game"
"video game" != "PC game"
Not in my usage of these terms, but YMMV, of course.
The contention that "'computer games', as defined by Wikipedia" is "PC games" is, of course, true.
However, did you deliberately intend that people who knew with high confidence Tetris was (by far) the best-selling game played on computers (as computers are defined by Wikipedia) would get caught by not knowing that Wikipedia redirects "computer game" to "PC game" rather than to "video game"?