The All-Time Best Games on Every Platform
by
Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor
– March 28, 2017
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.)
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90*
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Game Boy
Nintendo, 1993
The first portable release in the Zelda series was originally intended to be a port of A Link to the Past before it evolved into something so different that it doesn't even take place in Hyrule (or, for that matter, include Princess Zelda at all).
| Runners-Up | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | 88* | Pokémon Red / Blue | 1998 |
| #3 | 84* | Motocross Maniacs | 1990 |
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