[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 2.11)
2. Out Run Europa (8.00 vs 2.83)
3. Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (9.00 vs 4.39)
4. Uchi Mata (5.67 vs 1.41)
5. Blue Thunder (7.50 vs 3.29)
6. House Jack Built, The (7.00 vs 3.00)
7. Super Mutt (8.00 vs 4.14)
8. Adventures of St. Bernard, The (6.33 vs 2.50)
9. Punchy (9.00 vs 5.18)
10. SAS: Operation Thunderflash!! (6.00 vs 2.29)
11. Steg (9.00 vs 5.29)
12. Dungeon Dare (5.50 vs 1.80)
13. Nicotine Nightmare (6.00 vs 2.36)
14. Rasterscan (7.50 vs 3.86)
15. Jack and the Beanstalk (6.00 vs 2.39)
16. High Noon (9.00 vs 5.47)
17. Barreldrop (6.00 vs 2.57)
18. Ballblazer (8.00 vs 4.60)
19. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (8.50 vs 5.17)
20. Renegade III: The Final Chapter (7.67 vs 4.34)

whereas the most underrated games are:

1. SuperCom (2.00 vs 7.45)
2. Air Traffic Control (3.00 vs 7.80)
3. Treble Champions (3.00 vs 7.71)
4. Battlecars (3.50 vs 8.14)
5. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (4.00 vs 8.50)
6. Smash Out! (3.00 vs 7.36)
7. Football Director (4.33 vs 8.63)
8. Las Vegas (4.00 vs 8.25)
9. First Past the Post (3.00 vs 7.20)
10. Grand Prix Manager (1.00 vs 5.20)
11. Conquest (4.00 vs 8.17)
12. Loads of Midnight (4.00 vs 8.08)
13. Werewolves of London (3.00 vs 7.07)
14. Pheenix (4.50 vs 8.57)
15. Viking Raiders (4.50 vs 8.53)
16. Hundra (3.00 vs 7.00)
17. Test Master (4.00 vs 8.00)
18. Colony (4.50 vs 8.44)
19. Sky Ranger (5.00 vs 8.89)
20. On the Bench (4.67 vs 8.50)