The 5 best ColecoVision games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 141 review scores of 74 ColecoVision games; 19 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Venture	ColecoVision	1982	97.8
2	Rocky Super Action Boxing	ColecoVision	1983	97.5
3	Slither	ColecoVision	1984	91.7
4	Lady Bug	ColecoVision	1982	91.1
5	Miner 2049er	ColecoVision	1983	91.1

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

17 ColecoVision games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
BC's Quest for Tires	ColecoVision	1983	100
Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park	ColecoVision	1984	100
Donkey Kong	ColecoVision	1982	100
Donkey Kong Jr.	ColecoVision	1983	100
Popeye	ColecoVision	1983	100
Q*bert	ColecoVision	1983	100
Wing War	ColecoVision	1983	100
Decathlon	ColecoVision	1983	100
Escape from the Mindmaster	ColecoVision	1990	100
Frogger	ColecoVision	1983	100
Jumpman Junior	ColecoVision	1984	100
Moonsweeper	ColecoVision	1984	100
Pitfall!	ColecoVision	1983	100
Antarctic Adventure	ColecoVision	1984	91.5
Fathom	ColecoVision	1983	91.5
War Games	ColecoVision	1984	91.5
Tutankham	ColecoVision	1984	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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