The 10 best BBC Micro games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 1,040 review scores of 603 BBC Micro games; 124 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Killer Gorilla	BBC	1983	98.3
2	Repton 3	BBC	1986	98.3
3	Frak!	BBC	1984	96.7
4	Revs	BBC	1985	96
5	Transistor's Revenge	BBC	1984	95
6	Fire Track	BBC	1987	93.3
7	Elite	BBC	1984	93
8	Project Thesius: Rick Hanson 2	BBC	1986	91.7
9	The Sentinel	BBC	1986	91.2
10	The Worm in Paradise	BBC	1985	90.8

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

70 BBC Micro games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
3D Bomb Alley	BBC	1983	100
Aces High	BBC	1984	100
Alien Break-In	BBC	1983	100
Arkanoid	BBC	1987	100
Box Of Treasures	BBC	1985	100
Computer Kensington	BBC	1984	100
Confuzion	BBC	1985	100
Crazy Painter	BBC	1983	100
Croaker	BBC	1983	100
Escape from Enthar Seven	BBC	1985	100
Exile	BBC	1988	100
Forbidden Fruit	BBC	1984	100
Galactic Commander	BBC	1982	100
Go	BBC	1984	100
Kayleth	BBC	1987	100
Mined Out	BBC	1983	100
Monaco	BBC	1983	100
Pipeline	BBC	1988	100
Scapeghost	BBC	1989	100
Shuttle Simulator	BBC	1984	100
Spy vs. Spy	BBC	1987	100
The Lost Crystal	BBC	1987	100
U.I.M.	BBC	1989	100
White Knight	BBC	1983	100
The Hunt: Search for Shauna	BBC	1987	95
Knight Lore	BBC	1985	92.5
Mineshaft	BBC	1984	90
Myorem	BBC	1986	90
Planetoid	BBC	1982	90
Space Pilot	BBC	1984	90
Strike Force Harrier	BBC	1985	90
3D Pool	BBC	1989	90
American Suds	BBC	1988	90
Anarchy Zone	BBC	1988	90
Bismarck: Death of a Battleship	BBC	1988	90
Black Queen	BBC	1987	90
Bone Cruncher	BBC	1987	90
Boulder Dash	BBC	1988	90
Bridge Mentor II	BBC	1986	90
Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games	BBC	1989	90
Bug Eyes II: Starman To The Rescue	BBC	1986	90
Castle Blackstar	BBC	1984	90
Crazee Rider	BBC	1987	90
Gnome Ranger	BBC	1987	90
Hex	BBC	1988	90
Holed Out	BBC	1989	90
Icarus	BBC	1988	90
Indoor Sports	BBC	1988	90
Kingdom of Hamil	BBC	1983	90
Last Ninja 2: Back With a Vengeance	BBC	1989	90
Monopoly	BBC	1986	90
Pipe Mania	BBC	1990	90
Puppet Man	BBC	1987	90
Quest	BBC	1988	90
Repton Infinity	BBC	1989	90
Return to Doom	BBC	1988	90
Rocket Raid	BBC	1983	90
Star Drifter	BBC	1986	90
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	BBC	1988	90
Stormcycle	BBC	1989	90
Tank Attack	BBC	1989	90
Tapper	BBC	1985	90
Tetris	BBC	1988	90
The Golden Figurine	BBC	1988	90
The Last Ninja	BBC	1988	90
The Life of Repton	BBC	1987	90
Uridium	BBC	1987	90
Warehouse	BBC	1987	90
White Magic	BBC	1989	90
Winter Olympiad '88	BBC	1988	90

How the ranking works

The scores are the ones magazines gave when the games came out, all converted to a 0–100 scale. Only one review per magazine counts for a game: the most recent.
A game's score is half the average, half the median of its magazine reviews. A title opens the game's page on uvlist.net; a score opens the report with every review behind it.
A game needs at least 3 magazine reviews to be ranked. With equal scores, the game with more reviews comes first.
Metacritic already sums up many reviews, so it is never mixed with the magazines: it is used only for games with fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score.
Each list shows every game with a score of 90 or more. Games with fewer than 3 reviews and no Metacritic score are shown apart: their score is promising, but rests on one or two opinions.

The lists are rebuilt each time reviews are added. To filter by genre, year, magazine or publisher, explore all the scores in the report.

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