There would be a rank and point value for all 20 games on each list, as well as a number of months for the top three. In Nintendo Power in the 1980s and early 1990s, there were game rankings in (almost) every issue.

So now that I’m armed with better info, it’s time to delve back into this topic.įirst up, some context.

Because of the comments section on that Nintendo Power article, I was able to find more information about the Top 20 scoring system. Thankfully, these readers are incredible. So when Retrovolve readers get frustrated that I gave up before getting to the bottom of something, that’s because their expectations for this site are really high - as they should be. And when I wanted to learn more about an arcade game called Wiz, I jumped into an incredibly deep rabbit hole and learned a tremendous amount of information about the arcade cabinet manufacturing scene. After that, I spent almost a year chasing down a particularly hard-to-find issue of PSExtreme magazine. When I wanted to know more about Bubsy 3D‘s infamous review scores, for example, I personally reached out to Michael Berlyn, creator of Bubsy, and we talked for more than an hour. Retrovolve isn’t a site that stops when it hits dead ends. This is mainly due to the fact that Retrovolve’s Nintendo Power collection is not as complete as I’d like it to be.Įven so, those readers were right to complain. Why did I stop at this dead end instead of doubling back and trying to find more sources of information? The truth is that I looked everywhere I could think of, and I still came up empty. I hit a wall.Īnd then some readers complained. I was able to show reader surveys, which was one of the sources for these numbers, but I wasn’t able to get any deeper than that. A while back, I wrote an article called “ How Did Nintendo Power’s Top 20 Scoring System Work?” That article explored the Top 20 games lists that were featured in Nintendo Power magazine and attempted to find out how the scoring system was tallied.

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