The 5 best TI-99/4A games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 194 review scores of 169 TI-99/4A games; 5 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

Only one TI-99/4A game with 3 reviews or more has reached 90: here are the best 5.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Popeye	TI99	1984	94.3
2	Q*bert	TI99	1984	81
3	Parsec	TI99	1982	71
4	Car Wars	TI99	1981	61
5	MunchMan	TI99	1982	56

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

32 TI-99/4A games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
3D Race	TI99	1984	100
Blackbeard's Treasure	TI99	1982	100
Bowls	TI99	1984	100
Braintwisters 2	TI99	1984	100
Demon Attack	TI99	1983	100
Fathom	TI99	1983	100
First And Last	TI99	1985	100
Flip Flap	TI99	1984	100
Global Rescue	TI99	1984	100
Goblin's Revenge	TI99	1985	100
Golf	TI99	1984	100
Hang Glider Pilot	TI99	1984	100
Kippy's Nightmare	TI99	1981	100
Kong	TI99	1983	100
Mania	TI99		100
Microsurgeon	TI99	1983	100
Noteworthy	TI99	1984	100
Planet Destroyer	TI99	1984	100
Shuttle Command	TI99	1984	100
Spy's Demise	TI99	1983	100
Starprobe 99	TI99	1984	100
TEX-Bounce	TI99	1984	100
The Wall	TI99	1984	100
Wallaby	TI99	1984	100
Winging It	TI99	1982	100
Micro Tennis	TI99	1983	97
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom	TI99	1983	90
Moon Mine	TI99	1983	90
Pole Position	TI99	1984	90
Return to Pirate's Isle	TI99	1983	90
Slymoids	TI99	1984	90
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator	TI99	1983	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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