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MobyGames Database Hits 10,000 Entries
flipkin writes "MobyGames, an IMDb-inspired database of video games, has now surpassed the significant milestone of 10,000 game entries. The stated goal of the site has been to meticulously document and catalog every single game ever made, and while they still have a long way to go, 10k is an impressive start." Apart from this site and the excellent Gamefaqs, what other online game databases do you find handy?
They left out all those games I used to play on my TRS-80 Color Computer! Popcorn! Mega-bug! The Dallas Quest!
Sunlit World Scheme. Weird and different.
Why is there a category for 1900?
Perhaps the 5 in that category should be taken off. 9,995?
(What is with all the 100 year old video game jokes?)
-Sean
checkout www.gamers.com, which has the biggest games database in the world, at over 25000 games. It's also the site for EGM, CGW and other gaming mags.
A search for 'paradroid' came up empty. Perhaps the game / company / person is not in our database, or perhaps there was a typo in the search. The quick search only searches on exact word matching and only searches game titles, company names and people names. Perhaps you should try different search terms, or use the more exhaustive site search page.
Clearly, there is still work to be done.
PS- If you've never heard of or played Paradroid, do yourself a favour and click on that link and then fire up a Commodore 64 emulator. It will take you a few minutes to get the hang of the game and then, well, the sun will come up or you'll be asked to clear our your cubicle.
To get back on-topic I also consult Megagames regularly for all my patches needs and related add-on software.
GameFAQs gets far more attention, and it's too bad (GameFAQs is great, but MobyGames provides different info and deserves equal attention).
My own contributions to MobyGames are far too few. I shall attempt to do better. :)
but the World of Spectrum has 10,677 titles just for one computer - the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Those mentioning games that Moby doesn't have can register and submit the game. From the looks of things though, it appears MobyGames isnt interested in Homebrew games.
The Killer List Of Videogame is a nice one for arcade games.
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MODdb a site with all the mods for various games.
although it's obviously trying to accomplish a different goal, i find gamerankings.com a great resource
For game reviews, gamefaqs. The FAQs are great, but it is also a great place for reading user reviews. If I need more reviews, I head to Amazon.
For screenshots/video, I refer to the "biggies": gamespot and ign.
For Game Boy Advance, I go to: gbacentral.
For Dance Dance Revolution: DDRFreak
However, my favorite site at the moment is for the ol' Atari 2600: Atari Age
AtariAge is amazing: screenshots of almost every Atari 2600 game, very active forums, store that sells cartridges for new "homebrews", etc.
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jason
THe existence of efforts like mobygames and IMDB never stop surprising me. Looking at the purpose of such efforts, one finds either
A) Marketing of new games, that reach an established gamer community thru linking the developers earlier efforts,
B) Archiving of an existing culture for posterity.
One can of course see A as a viable and possible truth, even though it doesn't seem to plausible without an accompaning conspiracy theory. B, though, isn't quite enough as an explanation for all the effort people put in collecting information on title, both for IMDB and mobygames, and others, of course.
The answer rather lies in
C) is the best game ever made, and everyone must know about it
And that's the interesting part. This part of us that cries out for the need of affirmation "There must be someone else who's seen " or just plain differentiation "Well HERE's a title NOONE's heard of - makes ME different".
So it's an interesting conflict of interests, trying to gather all information from all the sources of game information into one. For the people running those sources, it means cutting off their means of differentiality, becoming one of many others, rather than just one.
Why is IMDB so big? So widely-used? Because it's so damn good. Why is it so good? You tell me. In the meantime, I'm putting my hopes to mobygames.
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That said, I have to admit that even MobyGames is far from perfect. All content is user-submitted, and there are numerous mistakes, especially when it comes to release dates and publishers.
You've got to be kidding me. I guess this guy forgot the Ultima series was started on an Apple.
Let's not forget about the Killer List Of Videogames. It's got a ton of info on arcade games, including lots of great case photos. Also try Digital Press. One of the best videogame collector's sites around, with a ton of system lists and a very active forum. Definitely worth checking out.
My video game review site has 7950 games. It's not really an informational site, just user reviews. However, MobyGames doesn't even have Atari 8-bit, Fairfield Channel F or Vectrex.
Definitely the #1 spot for me to look up an assortment of reviews and IMDB style voting. Very intuitive search engine and an overall great site to spend some time on.
Methinks the database still needs more data. :-)
what i really want to find is a site that will show all ratings for a platform in one big chart. None seem to have this. I need it to quickly find the best games for a given platform, and save clicking into the reviews for every single game. Out of frustration I wrote some perl scripts with wget that spider gamespot and gamefaqs and extract the ratings, but I rather not have to do this.
Another good one is All Game Guide. It mostly covers technical facts and history, but a good portion of their games are accompanied by reviews.
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another great compendium of game reviews is gamerankings.com. website and magazine reviews for almost all modern games are included, with lotsa nice features for comparing titles, genres, etc.