For over two decades, one untouchable truth has hovered above the gaming industry: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the highest-rated video game of all time. Sitting alone at the summit as the only game on Metacritic holding that 99 score felt like an unbeatable world record locked away in the history books. Recalculating History from a Pre-Metacritic EraIn a video breakdown, the YouTube channel Did You Know Gaming, famous for deep-diving into retro gaming history, dropped an unexpected bomb on the industry by claiming that Ocarina of Time’s score is actually mathematically inaccurate. But there are a lot of magazines that weren’t included and scored the game lower,” the video explains. Dive deeper: subscribe to our gaming newsletter Subscribing to the newsletter puts more data-driven gaming investigations in your inbox, offering sourced context on review-score debates, legacy corrections, and the narratives that shape gaming history and community conversation.