The 10 best Game Boy games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 2,667 review scores of 697 Game Boy games; 385 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Pokémon Blue Version	GB	1996	94.8
2	Pokémon Red Version	GB	1996	94.8
3	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening	GB	1993	93.8
4	Battle Arena Toshinden	GB	1996	92.3
5	Prince of Persia	GB	1992	91.4
6	Donkey Kong Land 2	GB	1996	90.7
7	Super Mario Land	GB	1989	90.7
8	Mr. Nutz	GB	1994	90.3
9	Final Fantasy Adventure	GB	1991	90.2
10	Donkey Kong Land III	GB	1997	90.2

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

5 Game Boy games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition	GB	1998	100
Adventures of Lolo	GB	1994	97.5
Tetris Attack	GB	1996	97
Worms	GB	1995	90
Arcade Classic 3: Galaga & Galaxian	GB	1995	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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