[The Sinclair Spectrum]

Philip Kendall - Overrated games

By a combination of the visitor votes from World of Spectrum and the magazine scores supplied by SPOT*ON, we can do a little comparision to work out which programs were apparently overrated (or underrated) by the magazines compared to how they are considered now.

This leads to the most overrated programs of all time being: (average of magazine scores vs WoS score)

1. Destrux (9.00 vs 3.09)
2. Out Run Europa (8.00 vs 3.00)
3. Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (9.00 vs 4.89)
4. Zaxxan (7.00 vs 3.00)
5. Blue Thunder (7.50 vs 3.62)
6. Super Mutt (8.00 vs 4.14)
7. Renegade III: The Final Chapter (7.67 vs 4.05)
8. Bowls (8.00 vs 4.40)
9. Road Toad (7.00 vs 3.50)
10. Ruby Runabout (6.00 vs 2.60)
11. Uchi Mata (5.67 vs 2.38)
12. Pit-Fighter (6.33 vs 3.06)
13. Steg (9.00 vs 5.75)
14. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (8.50 vs 5.29)
15. Defendar (6.00 vs 2.83)
16. Red Heat (7.67 vs 4.50)
17. Running Man, The (8.00 vs 4.85)
18. High Noon (9.00 vs 5.89)
19. Manchester United (7.50 vs 4.44)
20. Pi-Eyed (6.33 vs 3.33)

whereas the most underrated games are:

1. SuperCom (2.00 vs 7.86)
2. Battlecars (3.50 vs 8.20)
3. Treble Champions (3.00 vs 7.70)
4. Hundra (3.00 vs 7.68)
5. Werewolves of London (3.00 vs 7.56)
6. First Past the Post (3.00 vs 7.33)
7. Las Vegas (4.00 vs 8.25)
8. Conquest (4.00 vs 8.22)
9. Grand Prix Manager (1.00 vs 5.20)
10. Air Traffic Control (3.00 vs 7.18)
11. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (4.00 vs 8.17)
12. Football Director (4.33 vs 8.38)
13. Pheenix (4.50 vs 8.43)
14. Wilfred the Hairy, Olaf the Hungry (1.50 vs 5.33)
15. Colony (4.50 vs 8.22)
16. Wizard's Warriors, The (3.00 vs 6.64)
17. Viking Raiders (4.50 vs 8.10)
18. Loads of Midnight (4.00 vs 7.59)
19. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (3.00 vs 6.55)
20. Kane (4.00 vs 7.50)