Ranked by user rating, best first. Data from the
RAWG API, fetched 2026-09-16T22:11.
189 games
(of 1,131 in 2002)platform: pcgenre: arcade
PC 2002
562,545 games all-time on RAWG
PC games, or personal computer games, started with the video game crash of 1983. PC games became popular after the development of the microprocessor and microcomputer. Some of the first PC games were Bertie the Brain, OXO and Spacewar!
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As the 3D graphics accelerators became faster and CPU power improved, PC games became more realistic and more accessible to produce. The PC market sales rocketed in the 80s when IBM computers and sound cards were generated. The platform involves different peripherals, gaming hardware, and software. These are mouse and keyboard; gamepads and motion controllers aren't obligatory, but still popularly accepted. Better hardware improves the game's accuracy; it usually lets the players use more NPCs than equivalents on other platforms. With the platform, the players can perform every sort of game. For example, shooters are easy to play due to the mouse controllers. However, the main reason for the PC games popularity is their lower prices and the backward compatibility with older titles, which leaves much to be desired on cosoles.
RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected
6 or more user votes. Below that it
returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote
breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five
“exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.
Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which
recovers 127
of the 189 games here that would
otherwise read as unrated. The rest have
no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or
unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there
is nothing to retrieve.
Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is
weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk
toward this set's mean of 3.86 in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so
a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where
it exists —
7 of these games have
one.
22
ranked (6+ votes)127
provisional (1–5 votes)40
never rated1,537 votes counted3.86 mean of ranked
Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw
mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward
this set's mean of 3.86 in proportion to how
few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight
where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45
— the raw figure is shown under each score, and
sorting
by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.
Bars show how the votes split —
Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip.
A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a
breakdown RAWG suppresses.
1Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 423 Oct 2002 · Beenox, Vicarious Visions, Neversoft · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Classic Macintosh4.18 4.25 raw149MC 91
2Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets5 Nov 2002 · Eurocom, KnowWonder, EA UK, Griptonite, Argonaut · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Classic Macintosh4.07 4.11 raw398MC 74
3Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 230 Sep 2002 · Electronic Arts Black Box, Electronic Arts Seattle, Electronic Arts Bellevue · PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube3.98 4.00 raw282MC 81
4Metal Slug 426 Mar 2002 · Code Mystics · PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Wii, Neo Geo3.96 4.05 raw55—
90Drome Racers20 Nov 2002 · small, Möbius Entertainment, Attention to Detail, LEGO Interactive · PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance3.87 ~4.00 raw5—