Talk:List of ZX Spectrum games

message: This big list makes no sense.
I will probably delete all red links in a few days so it is a list of spectrum games with a wikipedia page.
TraxPlayer (talk) 23:30, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing red links

message: Forgot about this one.   The graphics seemed pretty nifty for the time (1987) although looking at the screenshots now they don't seem up to much. I've added it to the list (with the earlier version). (Emperor 02:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Aliens

message: What is the criterion for a game having entry into this list? I honestly can't see one which is going to make this list both non-POV and a reasonable length. For example, if we choose "every game released for the Spectrum", we get something over 6,000 entries (World of Spectrum has 6,847 games listed on its archive page) and huge problems with Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Even if we reduce it to "every game reviewed in a major Spectrum magazine", we're at something like 3,000 entries (CRASH had reviews of 2,924 games in its lifetime: see here), which is still pretty much an indiscriminate collection of information in my opinion.
Given all this, I'd starting to feel this list should be deleted, but I'm open to other opinions if a good criterion for entry can be found. Cheers --Pak21 10:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a sortable list, now, though. If it was split up, the sorting wouldn't work. Marasmusine (talk) 23:12, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Yes, it's certainly incomplete. List a game as long as it can be verified with independent, reliable sources (and not just a WoS listing; use the "cite journal" template to reference a contemporary magazine). Of course if the coverage is significant, this might make the game notable enough for an article, too. Marasmusine (talk) 22:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criterion for list inclusion 

message: There were quite a few (more than I remember) and the comic makes them all available online.  I'll be working on this from the 2000 AD end but thought I'd throw in a note and reminder here too. (Emperor 15:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note dropped in to 2000 AD talk page  (Emperor 16:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2000 AD games

message: We may add The Way of the Exploding Fist to the list. That's a Spectrum classic game!--85.144.120.49 (talk) 20:55, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely! One of my favourites. I'll add it. Marasmusine (talk) 21:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: FIST

message: Piranha Games is not our Piranha, which was a label of MacMillan Software. (There appear to be four different software companies with this name--see Piranha (disambiguation)) I've created a redirect to MacMillan at Piranha Games (Macmillan). Not sure if it merits expansion into its own article. 2fort5r (talk) 20:07, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the redirect is fine for now. There's some News/Notes items at WoS - enough for verification, but not significant enough for a seperate article. Marasmusine (talk) 23:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Piranha

message: Were any Infocom games released for the Spectrum? Presumably the 128K model was large enough to handle them. Was there some licensing issue that prevented them from being ported? 2fort5r (talk) 23:33, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't think of any text adventures that were released on both 16 and 8 bit platforms. There wasn't even a Zork port :/ The original Zork's data file (without intepreter, I think?) was 220 Kb, so maybe it was a memory issue. Marasmusine (talk) 09:40, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

text: The H2G2 game you link to is not the Infocom game, no relation at all. 2A00:23C5:FE0B:700:EC18:260A:13CA:8A8A (talk) 14:56, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Infocom

message: Just wanted to pass forward my reasons for my recent bulk of edits.
The list is very imcomplete, there were a large number of commercially released games not included in the list.  One possible reason is that most of them don't have articles, although games like Treasure Island Dizzy, Fantasy World Dizzy and SWIV were omitted, but if the List of Amstrad CPC games and List of Commodore 64 games can have what appears to be a full list of games, so too can this article.
So now I have been working through the archive from 1993 downwards aiming to add in commercially released games, any games released post 1993 I have blatantly ignored as I would prefer this list to contain commercial games rather than Freeware games.
Any objections feel free to respond. Raphie (talk) 14:27, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List expansion 

message: This big list makes no sense. Why not delete all red links so it is a list of spectrum games with a wikipedia page. TraxPlayer (talk) 23:30, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing red links

message: I have marked the claim that Lords of Midnight was licenced from J.R.R. Tolkien as . I certainly have never seen it mentioned on the main game site. It needs validation by reference or removal. 151.231.131.66 (talk) 20:51, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious