Game Mag Ratings

About Game Mag Ratings

Game Mag Ratings gathers the scores that video game magazines gave to games when they came out: about 150,000 reviews of 50,000 games from 212 magazines and websites, on 117 platforms, for games released from 1969 to 2025. The scores reflect the opinions of their time rather than today's perspectives.

How to use it

• Filter by game name (any title or alternative name), platform, generation (console and handheld generations, computer families), review source (grouped by country), genre, release date, average, median or final score, recomp / source port, developer and publisher.
• Click rows in the tables, or bars and points in the charts, to add them to the selection; click again to remove them. Choices add up.
• Untick a game in the main table to leave it out of the totals, the game number and the charts; tick it again to bring it back.
• The Best games pages list the top 10 games of each system and of each console generation, built from the same scores.
• The final score of a game is half its average, half its median. Hover over a game to see every review behind it.
• Metacritic scores already sum up other reviews, some of them from sources listed here. By default they are only used for games that have fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score; with 3 reviews or more, Metacritic is left out. The Metacritic filter lets you count it like any other review instead, or not at all.
• The Recomp / src port column says yes when a game has a recompilation, decompilation or source port project; the link opens its page on recomp.fyi.
• Undo, redo or reset with the buttons at the top (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y).
• The page address keeps your filters and selections: use Share link to send your view to someone.
• Hover over a game (tap it on a phone) to see each magazine's score, issue and date, and the game's alternative names. Game names link to their page on uvlist.net.

Magazines and websites

Sources from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Germany, Spain, Australia, Italy, Japan and more, including Tilt, Computer & Video Games, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Génération 4, Consoles +, GamesMaster, Aktueller Software Markt, Famitsu, Joystick, Player One, Joypad, Zzap!, Crash, Power Play, The Games Machine, Commodore User, Sinclair User, ACE, Your Sinclair, Amiga Format, Amstrad Action, Amiga Action, Amiga Power, MicroHobby, Metacritic and IGN.

Platforms

Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Windows, MS-DOS, PlayStation 1 to 4, Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, NES, Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Switch, Saturn, Dreamcast, PC Engine, Xbox, Xbox 360, PSP, arcade, BBC Micro and many more.

Data and credits

Data: UVL — uvlist.net and its contributors, adapted, under CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use).

Report design, data model and code: © 2026 neurocontrarian — all rights reserved.

Version 1.13.0 — 2026-11-12