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Any fast way to get the list of the games that have got any review award? Crash, YSinclair and so on...
Thanks in advance...
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Hi [mention]JMRA[/mention] ,

Yes, the scores page lists magazine scores in descending order:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/scores.php
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Thanks Peter:
I meant just the games that have at least one review award. Like this:

Review Awards:
Big K Pick of the Month" at Big K issue #11 - 1985/2 page 15
Crash Smash" at Crash issue #12 - 1985/1 page 16
PCG Game of the Month" at Personal Computer Games issue #14 - 1985/1 page 52

Many games of the list you pointed at don' t have any review award.

Anyway, it can help.

Thanks.
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The home page advanced search has an 'awards' box you should be able to use to filter this.

It won't give awards for all mags together but you can see all Crash Smash, SU Classic etc. individually.

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Yes, I have used that tool, but you can't search for C&VG, Your Spectrum... and other magazines review awards.
I guess I will manage with both resources.
Thanks for your help.
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JMRA wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 5:44 pm Yes, I have used that tool, but you can't search for C&VG, Your Spectrum...
Now you can :)
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Certainly!!!
Thanks Einar for your great work keeping Speccy alive.
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Why searching for C&VG Reviewers Choice gives zero games? :cry:
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JMRA wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:53 pm Why searching for C&VG Reviewers Choice gives zero games? :cry:
Good catch!

The information about these awards came from ZXSR. I just checked and there are no reviews with this award stored there.

I will sort this out with [mention]Vampyre[/mention].
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Thanks again.
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Einar Saukas wrote: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:46 pm
JMRA wrote: Sun Mar 07, 2021 9:53 pm Why searching for C&VG Reviewers Choice gives zero games? :cry:
Good catch!

The information about these awards came from ZXSR. I just checked and there are no reviews with this award stored there.

I will sort this out with @Vampyre.
[mention]Einar Saukas[/mention]
Just checked myself - that doesn't seem right at all (the database, not your comment) - definitely no awards. That would be odd as I see no reason for the lookup record unless I'd found a review associated with it. It'll probably end up being a single title that was allocated it like a couple of TGM awards. Or, possibly the title was given two awards and I picked one as the reviews-to-awards are 1:1, not 1:M.

Needle in a haystack time: Anyone know off the top of their head any title that received the Reviewers Choice award? If not I'll have to go through them.
ZX Spectrum Reviews REST API: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
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This has now been fixed and will be present in the next version of ZXSR. I'm hoping this will be within a few weeks - ZX Computing has been a time-vampire! Over 1,100 reviews so small wonder really.

The offending item was Manic Miner in Issue 23.
ZX Spectrum Reviews REST API: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
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Any chance of searching all Sinclair User Golden and Silver awards? :D
Thanks in advance...
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Done :)
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Wow! You were waiting to me!
If it is so easy, please do the same with other awards not present in the searchin tool...
Thanks Einar. You are great!
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Can someone give an example of this? Let's say I want to select 3 magazines and see the awards, how is this done?
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Hi Einar.
I see you have included Crash House Hits in Awards Searching tool. Thanks.
Could yo do the same with The Games Machine Star Player?
Thanks.
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Hi again Einar:
What about Computer and Video Games Blitz Games?
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Hi. Any chance to include "ZX Computing Monster Hit " at Review Award advanced search tool?
Thanks for your work.
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