The 4 best SAM Coupé games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 38 review scores of 24 SAM Coupé games; 4 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

No SAM Coupé game with 3 reviews or more has reached 90: here are the best 4.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Defenders of the Earth	SAM	1990	82.2
2	Impatience	SAM	1992	81.3
3	Batz 'n' Balls	SAM	1992	72.5
4	Splat!	SAM	1992	67.7

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

2 SAM Coupé games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
	Prince of Persia	SAM	1991	95
	Astroball	SAM		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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