The 3 best MSX games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 594 review scores of 373 MSX games; 49 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Sorcery	MSX	1985	98.3
2	The Worm in Paradise	MSX	1985	94.5
3	Red Moon	MSX	1985	92

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

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

Game	Platform	Year	Score
Lazy Jones	MSX	1985	100
10th Frame	MSX	1987	100
Alpharoid	MSX	1986	100
Aramo	MSX	1986	100
B.C. II: Grog's Revenge	MSX	1985	100
Bounder	MSX	1986	100
Bubbler	MSX	1987	100
City Connection	MSX	1986	100
Colony	MSX	1987	100
Colossus Chess 4	MSX	1986	100
Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu	MSX	1987	100
Dynamite Dan	MSX	1986	100
Eggerland 2: Meikyuu Shinwa	MSX	1986	100
Head Over Heels	MSX	1987	100
Hopper	MSX	1985	100
Krakout	MSX	1987	100
Livingstone, I Presume?	MSX	1986	100
Number Painter	MSX	1985	100
R-Type	MSX	1988	100
Shogi Expert	MSX	1985	100
Starquake	MSX	1985	100
Supermaze	MSX	1984	100
The Bulge	MSX	1985	100
Thing Bounces Back	MSX	1987	100
Time and Magik: The Trilogy	MSX	1988	100
Timetrax	MSX	1986	100
Alien 8	MSX	1985	91.5
Confused?	MSX	1986	91.5
Knight Lore	MSX	1985	91.5
Elite	MSX	1987	90
Auf Wiedersehen Monty	MSX	1987	90
Avenger: The Way of the Tiger	MSX	1986	90
Le Mans	MSX	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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