[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 2.93)
3. Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (9.00 vs 4.29)
4. Uchi Mata (5.67 vs 1.62)
5. Blue Thunder (7.50 vs 3.62)
6. Super Mutt (8.00 vs 4.14)
7. Punchy (9.00 vs 5.18)
8. Steg (9.00 vs 5.29)
9. Road Toad (7.00 vs 3.40)
10. Renegade III: The Final Chapter (7.67 vs 4.08)
11. Rasterscan (7.50 vs 4.12)
12. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (8.50 vs 5.17)
13. SAS: Operation Thunderflash!! (6.00 vs 2.67)
14. House Jack Built, The (7.00 vs 3.78)
15. Dungeon Dare (5.50 vs 2.29)
16. High Noon (9.00 vs 5.83)
17. Ballblazer (8.00 vs 4.86)
18. Jack and the Beanstalk (6.00 vs 2.91)
19. View to a Kill - The Computer Game, A (8.00 vs 4.94)
20. Red Heat (7.67 vs 4.64)

whereas the most underrated games are:

1. SuperCom (2.00 vs 7.58)
2. Air Traffic Control (3.00 vs 7.88)
3. Battlecars (3.50 vs 8.20)
4. Hundra (3.00 vs 7.56)
5. Conquest (4.00 vs 8.42)
6. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (4.00 vs 8.35)
7. Werewolves of London (3.00 vs 7.27)
8. Las Vegas (4.00 vs 8.25)
9. Pheenix (4.50 vs 8.71)
10. Grand Prix Manager (1.00 vs 5.20)
11. First Past the Post (3.00 vs 7.20)
12. Treble Champions (3.00 vs 7.12)
13. Test Master (4.00 vs 8.00)
14. Football Director (4.33 vs 8.31)
15. Kane (4.00 vs 7.88)
16. Colony (4.50 vs 8.26)
17. White Heat (2.00 vs 5.67)
18. Wizard's Warriors, The (3.00 vs 6.62)
19. Loads of Midnight (4.00 vs 7.59)
20. Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge (3.00 vs 6.50)