The All-Time Best Games on Every Platform
Below, find a collection of the highest-scoring games exclusive* to every platform, ranging from current-gen consoles all the way back to the Sega Genesis system. (Note that for the oldest consoles not available on Metacritic, games are ranked by scores assigned by our sister site GameRankings.)
* In the year of their original release. (Some of these games may have been reissued for other platforms at a later date.)
Nintendo 64
Nintendo, 1998
In the history of Metacritic, only one game has ever achieved a score of 99: this fifth Legend of Zelda release, which was the first to appear on the Nintendo 64 (as well as the first to feature 3D graphics). Ocarina of Time routinely appears on (if not at the very top of) every all-time best games list, and seems to resurface on each new Nintendo platform (including the 3DS, where a 3D remake is the highest-scoring release to date).
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| #2 | 97 | 2000 | |
| #3 | 96 | 1997 | |
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