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Talk:King's Knight

message: According to Wikipedia:What is a good article?, this article is somewhat brief and concise, but is rational in regards to the source material and its time of creation. It fullfils numerous guidelines raised in the policy, such as it has compelling prose, and is readily comprehensible to a non-specialist reader, being well written, and adhered to a neutral point of view. The image gallery is still a gray area amoung some contributors, although I believe it is nelligiable to the source content and is presented in a plausible manner. The game may be too obsure to attain featured article status, though. -ZeroTalk 15:41, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Article 

message: I delisted the GA for several reasons
# Images need fair use rationale, and several especially the small character images looks like it's only used for decereation and violates WP:FU.
# Few refs, one of them from the Instruction Manual which is not a valid source
# Nothing on crtiticsm of the game
Jaranda wat's sup 03:12, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delisted GA 

message: This game is by Square. It's credited to Square in all associated materials and Square is the "developer" when IGN and MobyGames break out the "developer" field. If we didn't always break things into binaries, "Square" would be listed as the author. Credits to Workss/Bits as the dev are all original research. The closest we get to proof of their association is the mention of "Workss" on the title screen of the game—"(c) 1986 Square Programmed by Workss"—but that's just as much work for hire as giving them full "developer" credits. (The 1989 title screen doesn't even mention Workss.) Any instances I can find of Workss's involvement in the project appear to be citogenesis from this very article. I say we're safer sticking with IGN and making a note that Workss was mentioned as the programmers on the title screen, because that's all we've got... but that still makes it a "Square" game. czar 20:31, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Developer
Talk:King's Quest III

message: The Reception section states that "... the player has to work under time pressure, as certain activities like casting spells can only be done when the wizard is asleep or not home (this wasn't so bad as the game actually paused when typing or preparing the spells)." I'm pretty sure this is not true. Typing commands did pause the game in Sierra's newer SCI engine, but not in the old AGI engine, which was used in KQ3. 62.78.230.2 (talk) 18:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception 
Talk:2006 London local elections

message: Where do the predictions for holds come from?  There's a fariyl significant chance, e.g., of Tower Hamlets moving into NOC.  Camden is less likely but also possible (all three big parties are moving resources in there from outside at present).
Is it even appropriate for wikipedia to list predictions like this in advance, given that they are by their nature, highly subjective?  Gerry Lynch 12:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Predictions+

message: This is just tooooo complex to represent accurately and we are dependent on very subjective sources (the vote-2006 boards are the most useful but hardly impartial)
My assessment (and I'd rate my judgement as a bit higher than the average Guardian hack on these matters) would be:
SAFE
* Safe Lab: Barking, Ealing, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham
* Safe Con: Bromley, Enfield, Kensington, Redbridge, Wandsworth, Westminster
* Safe LD: Islington, Sutton
* Safe for the ruling LD/Lab coalition, no chance of an one party win: Waltham Forest
IN AND OUT OF NOC
* LD/Con coalition, LD looking for outright win, Lab looking to regain control: Lambeth (the better prospect for Labour but I'd say less than 50:50 chance), Southwark (the better prospect for the LDs to win outright, with the Greens not nominating in East Dulwich I'd say better than 50:50)
* Lab at risk of losing to NOC: Lewisham (just about possible), Hounslow (possible), Tower Hamlets (less than 50:50), Camden (more than 50:50), Brent (almost certain)
* Con at risk of losing to NOC: Barnet (events, dear boy)
* Possible Con gain from NOC: Harrow (very difficult to call given what happened with LD nominations in 2002), Havering (very likely as Residents' Assoc collapse), Hillingdon (more than 50:50 but Labour also entertain very outside hopes of breaking back)
STRAIGHT PARTY SWAPS
* Con at risk of losing to LD: Richmond (less than 50:50)
* LD at risk of losing to Con: Kingston (less than 50:50 but may go NOC if Labour can hold on in Norbiton)
* Lab at risk of losing to Con: Bexley (almost certain), Hammersmith (more likely than not), Croydon (difficult to predict), Merton (less than 50:50)
* Lab at risk of losing to LD: Haringey (very outside possibility, if Greens/Respect pick up a few seats may go NOC)
...not that easy to represent in an article that also meets Wikipedia's quality control standards!!!  So why not just drop it.  Or have a wikipinion website!  Gerry Lynch 17:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Just too complex
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Rainmakers

message: Atheists_of_Silicon_Valley Is another "club" on Wiki...there are others if you search.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.205.82.189 (talk • contribs) 12:04, 6 April 2006
:*They have 10,000 hits on google. While that doesn't guarantee that they're noteable, its as much proof as I have do go on. pm_shef 15:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

message: :CommentJust because they're no exact standard specifically for clubs doesn't mean that every organization should be kept... --Rory096 14:58, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment "Organizations" and "clubs" are not equal.  If this club is considered to be not notable enough, then what is the standard for club inclusion on Wikipedia?  Google search results?  Club achievements?  The league in which they compete?  These are very abstract. - Nate Hanson 15:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Answer That's why we have the AfD consensus process, so that the community can weigh in. pm_shef 15:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Question That is not an answer.  What is the standard?  If there is no standard, the article must stay.  Rory has already admitted that this article has an assertion of notability--and then said it didn't.  You have to have one argument and stick with it.  Is it that it doesn't come up high in Google?  Then do we need to search every Wikipedia article to see their Google PageRank?  Is it their achievements (which Rory noted as notability)?  Then we would need to make sure ever club or group listed on Wikipedia had done better than 1st in their respective competitions.  What's the standard? - Nate Hanson 15:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

text: *Comment Uhhhh no. That's not how it works. Just because there is no criteria doesn't mean that we keep everything. The AfD process is here to get the opinions of the articles' noteability and whether or not it is in fact encyclopedic. Simply because you feel it's noteable doesn't mean it actually is, it's up to the community to decide and IMO, having one person win 4 national championships doesn't make the club noteable. pm_shef 15:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Comment - We're sorry you don't like the answer, but an answer it is nonetheless; we judge such things by the criteria we find sound, whether or not there are specific hoops through which to jump.  That's why we work by consensus.  RGTraynor 15:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment. It ASSERTS notability, and so it isn't eligible for speedy deletion, but it still isn't notable enough for Wikipedia. --Rory096 15:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion moved from voting page
Talk:Mind Walker

message: ==Untitled==
I heard Mind Walker was great at task switching within the Amiga OS, but other games would crash/cause problems. Is this true that it is an anomaly in this respect? 24.76.167.34 (talk) 22:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Task Switching

message: I heard Mind Walker was great at task switching within the Amiga OS, but other games would crash/cause problems. Is this true that it is an anomaly in this respect? 24.76.167.34 (talk) 22:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna

message: I think the game should be listed as being a PC-Booter, not DOS.
Considering #5 is listed as booter, as are 1,2 and 3, it seems odd that this one is different, and well, it's not! ;)
I have bootable disk images of all of them, and none of them use DOS.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.42.141.191 (talk) 03:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hi, would it be worth mentioning that Trebor and Werdna are Robert and Andrew written backwards? --Kjoonlee 01:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trebor and Werdna 

message: As mentioned, "Adding three numbers modulo 9000" is, while close, not quite the copy protection method used. What it actually is is that three numbers are added, and then 9000 is continually subtracted from the sum until a 4-digit number is arrived at. The crucial difference between that and "modulo 9000" is that 9000-9999 would theoretically be valid answers in the former (And indeed, there's at least one combination that leads to a 9XXX answer).
Of course, the larger problem here is that I'm pretty sure this would constitute "original research" by Wikipedia standards. Nonetheless, I took the half-measure of removing the "modulo 9000" portion on grounds of being unsourced. Emptyeye2112 (talk) 17:30, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy Protection Method
Talk:The Sacred Armour of Antiriad

message: I have removed this section from the text due to its inappropriate tone:
The game is very similar to Psygnosis Shadow Of The Beastwith the platform, puzzle and flying shoot-'em-up elements. More similarities arise when you consider the graphics for the time were very good and it's more than likely that this game had some sort of influence on Psygnosis when making their Beastly masterpiece 3 years later in 1989.
2fort5r (talk) 17:52, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unencyclopedic
Talk:List of business newspapers

message: I've used the lay outs like that used in the list of newspapers (i've actually copy pasted it), i'm trying to get a list of all the business, finance etc. related papers on this page. I haven't come across anything on the same lines on wiki, so lets see how this works out. Lamuk69 (talk) 12:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Idea behind this list

message: 6 million copies of The Economic Times sold every day are quite too many: see the article and you will see they are only 400.000!  While The Hindu is not a business-focused newspaper. Lele giannoni (talk) 18:33, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: The Economic Times+The Hindu
Talk:Solaris (video game)

message: "Most other 2600 games were developed in the course of merely a couple of weeks."
I'm pretty sure this isn't correct, as wasn't one of the main problems with 'ET' the short development time, which wasn't standard practice? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.101.90.125 (talk • contribs) 10:40, 17 September 2006  (UTC)
: Sounds pretty baseless, and I've removed it as such until someone can cite a reliable source for such a bold remark.  Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:16, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "The game was programmed by Douglas Neubauer, who owns the copyright to the game and the Solaris trademark."
I thought Sun Microsystems owned the Solaris trademark for computer game programs. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 19:15, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trademark 

message: Added a link to a text-rendering of the game's manual, and also updated the play section accordingly. 87.68.31.236 (talk) 15:33, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revamp 
Talk:Spindizzy

message: From the Gameplay section in the article:
:The player controls GERALD which can take the form of an upturned pyramid, gyroscope and ball (the player can transform between the three to vary the physical characteristics of GERALD) around a series of linked isometric screens.
Are there really differences between the physical characteristics; e.g. does one of the forms accelerate faster or bounce higher than the others?  In the English instructions posted at World of Spectrum (see Spindizzy (video game)#External links), the ability to change the shape is listed under "EYE STRAIN" and there is no hint that it would affect gameplay.  85.23.215.211 (talk) 07:33, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I remember, there is no difference in operation between the shapes. It's worth noting that near the start, there is a screen with 2 bad-guy drones (that zap your time). Changing your own form also changes both these bad-guys forms in sequence also. This probably confirms there is no operational change, though of course all of this is subject to confirmation in any way to begin with! MrZoolook (talk) 18:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physical characteristics of the different forms of GERALD? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 23:15, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 8 May 2023
Talk:Sqoon

message: I always wanted this game, but could never find it.  I tried it on a emulator and found it hindered by terrible collision detection and habitually dropping fuel tanks beyond the reach of the submarine.  Given the shakiness of the emulator to begin with, in which I did very poorly at games I've beaten dozens of times, I was wondering if this is a problem with real versions of the game.  It would have been a good one if it weren't for its faults. --Scottandrewhutchins 21:06, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Anyone have this?

message: The message in Japanese posted on the page is interesting.  It has a couple typos in it and is missing all the long vowels, but it's readable as a somewhat old fashioned, classical sounding Japanese.  It says, SOS..The ototo-ians have invaded, and the ocean surface is rapidly rising, Attack them Sqoon, for peace on the ocean floor!
In particular, I think seri is a classical verb from of suru.  The rest is not particularly old but it has a kind of jidaigeki feel to it, or historical drama.
I think the name sqoon comes from the Japanese word Sukuu, meaning to save or rescue so it becomes a kind of pun.  Perhaps ototo comes from younger brother but I'm just guessing.  It's also close to the sound ottotto "oops!" or ottosei (fur seals) Any of these could have been puns in the mind of the creators. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.123.124 (talk) 06:19, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  President's Message
Talk:Super Sprint

message: I removed the part about Niall Cunningham and drinking "goons" of cider because if you're going to put something dumb at least make it funny. The fact it's not encyclopedic or relevant and was technically a vandalism is purely a coincidence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.195.119.38 (talk) 04:34, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

message: Simple and easy to create? Not high-tech? That definitely sounds like a bias to me. Though the game may appear to be simple to some people, others might tell you that it's not easy to make such a game.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.241.23 (talk) 02:47, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible NPOV issue in the Legacy section
Talk:Tennis (1984 video game)

message: The Game Boy article is clearly duplicating information already included in the main (video game) article, hence my merge suggestion. - ThomasHarte 14:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The article classifies this game as part of the Mario Tennis series, which I do not think it should be because Mario plays a small non-playable role, and was the game ever marketed as a Mario game. I can understand it being somewhat of a predecessor to that series, but to fully say it's part of the same series is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. 
The "Mario sports games" Navbox lists it as part of the Mario Tennis series, but the article for List of Mario sports games does not, stating "(w)hile Mario appeared in several tennis games preceding it, he first starred as a player in the Virtual Boy game Mario's Tennis..." 
I feel as though this should discussed, and a consensus should be reached. - RandomNumbersGuy (talk) 07:48, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mario Tennis series?
Talk:The Goonies (MSX video game)

message: This is really just a "cut down" version of The Goonies (video game) that was released in Japan by Konami in 1986 for the Famicom (*), PC-88 and Sharp X1 platforms. It seems silly to have two separate articles for what is effectively ("spiritually") the same game. Bumm13 (talk) 04:56, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest merging with [[The Goonies (video game)]] article
Talk:The Incredible Shrinking Fireman

message: This article reads like an instruction leaflet. Is that where it was copied from? 109.154.114.113 (talk) 15:12, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio?
Talk:Trinity (video game)

message: What does the Mercury symbol refer to? Mercury is a messenger god. 
Technically Uranus would've been the proper symbol in the case of a weapon detonated in space (in keeping with the scheme), rather than Mercury.
However, Mercury was the symbol used, so what could the interpretation be?
71.214.233.202 07:09, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Mercury is fast.  The anti-missile satellite travels very fast in its orbit.  Jkp1187 (talk) 20:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Symbol 

message: The bugs list is still at web.archive.org though.  I'm not sure what WP does in this case, just change the link to web.archive.org?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.138.184.254 (talk) 04:52, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ideally the original site just moved and we'd follow.  But failing that, Archive.org is a reasonable fallback. — Alan De Smet | Talk 04:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  hometown.aol.com is now defunct
Talk:Turbo Esprit

message: Give it a rest man. When a location is named onscreen, then no further reference is required. There are screenshots and videos all over the place, with the town maps and menus, this is beyond dispute. When a place is fictitious (such as Gamesborough) then it is not linked, but when it's a real place, and is unambiguous (like Romford) then it is linked. Turbo Esprit contains both real and fictional places. Do we really need to explain at Chequered Flag (video game) that Silverstone is really Silverstone? Do we need a source for that too? I thought not. So if you think it's all some big coincidence that a British company would name a town, with a name that just so happens to be one of the biggest and most crime-ridden towns in Britain, and they would not realise, then that's up to you, but leave the article alone.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.191.160.108 (talk) 12:30, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not taking a stance here but I'd like to say that 1. You go a little too far to call Halsteadk's edits vandalism, and 2. Do not edit war, take it to the talk page sooner or contact the user on his own talk page. Conversations are difficult to have when people are reverting edits all of the time and are talking just through edit summaries. Thanks, TheStickMan[✆Talk] 18:41, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: 86.191, my edits are *not* WP:VANDALISM, and I have already pointed out to you that there are 4 places called Wellington in the UK alone. Link Romford if it makes you happy and think it is even slightly useful to readers to go to an article about a place that happens to share the same name, I've got better things to do with my life. Halsteadk (talk) 12:31, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism from Halsteadk
Talk:Vampire Killer

message: Which are the "certain sources" that show the release date as September 22 1986? The release date is printed as September 26 on the game's manual. You can see it here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bombman (talk • contribs) 11:03, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release Date 

message: Commenters on a YouTube video of this game say that the MSX version began development first, as the original, earliest Castlevania game, but that the Famicom version was released first, owing to its more streamlined nature.  This would be an interesting addition to the article if anyone can corroborate. Renfield (talk) 20:03, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  original castlevania game? 

message: Most sources (even in Japanese) say that Vampire Killer was released in Japan on October 30, 1986, but someone at YouTube told me that according to Castlevania Wiki, Vampire Killer was actually released in Japan on February 1986. He told me that "Castlevania Wiki IS a source. Just because it can be edited doesn't mean it's wrongly edited by a troll every 5 minutes. And, if there's wrong info, it's usually corrected within a week. This has been up there for a while now."  Unlike Wikipedia, Castlevania Wiki and other Wikia-supported wiki farms don't include citations. Parrothead1983 (talk) 07:50, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese release date 

message: Might be interesting to mention that among its unique features seems to be an absence of any of the familiar sub-weapons. Meaning like the name says you play the entire game with just the vampire killer whip (with upgrades.) Anyway I've only seen a playthrough on Youtube, and that seems to be the case. I hesitate to add this without having played the game in question--184.63.132.236 (talk) 23:01, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absence of sub-weapons? 
Talk:Xenon (video game)

message: The Killer List of Videogames (KLOV) has an entry for this game, here:
*
But looking at it, it looks like a screenshot from the home version of the game.  It says it was a Europe-only release, and no members of the arcade preservation society own the game.  I think this is a case of someone mistakenly thinking that the KLOV lists home video games (which it doesn't).  What does everyone else say?  I don't want to add a link to the KLOV entry unless it really was released in arcades, even if only in Europe. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 11:53, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Arcade release?

message: This section seems to be out of place in this article. Should be taken to shikadi.net Deltasim (talk) 17:17, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Bugs