Talk:Jones in the Fast Lane

message: Just wondering if anyone happens to know any easter eggs or cheats for this game? I play it on the odd occasion, have been for a decade, I decided to play a game of it tonight and happened to win $5000 from the lottery ticket :-O Timeshift 17:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Easter eggs/Cheats

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected Taskinen (talk) 21:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Jones in the Fast Lane.png

message: I've marked the Mykel Kochenderfer source as possibly unreliable. Referenced as being published by Stanford University, it appears impressive, and indeed it is held on the University's website. On the other hand, the file itself appears to be a student essay linked from this page. As such, I don't think that it meets the standards for fact-checking and accuracy required by WP:SOURCES. I don't think it meets the criteria for inclusion as a primary or self-published source. Other opinions are welcome. --Rogerb67 (talk) 12:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. My personal opinion is the game is notable for its pioneering use of graphics, a cash economy and boardgame interface, and that references probably exist in videogame research texts ad historical works to support this. Regrettably, the current article references don't quite cut it. The absence of online sources reflect the game's age - does anyone with a better background in this area have access to offline sources that might support a pioneering claim? Euryalus (talk) 03:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A few more sources added - its still struggling to meet WP:V but we're heading in the right direction. If anyone can read either Hebrew or German, feel free to add any relevant details from these links. Euryalus (talk) 22:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The German source is entirely trivial, it mentions Jones as one of the examples of intermediary steps in the evolution from the tamagochi to more complex life simulation games. Half a sentence and you can't even be sure if it refers to Jones or Princess Maker. MLauba (talk) 00:10, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Since the AfD has ended, and consensus appears to be that the Mykel Kochenderfer source is not reliable, I'm going to remove it now, along with the now superfluous and apparently unreliable GameFAQs reference. Thanks and congratulations to those who found the objective evidence of notability required to keep the article that I was unable to (I concur with the general sentiment that while formally the notability established is at best marginal, the indication now is that further sources quite probably do exist; although I can't read it, the scan of the Top Secret source demonstrates decent coverage there and only confirms this). --Rogerb67 (talk) 09:32, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreliable source? 

message: I had Rogerb67 ask me to provide something more about this reference, and so I'm providing a scan for all to see. The scanned page can be found here: http://filesmelt.com/Imagehosting/pics/b2e23eef50392f958a16534321272e2f.png (sorry for low quality of screenshots, it has been saved in DjVu format). However, it's all in Polish, so should I provide a translation?
Korodzik (talk) 05:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A translation would be great. Euryalus (talk) 05:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference from "Top Secret" (scan) 

message: I replaced the listing of "Life" with "Careers".  Life is a very linear game, which ends when the players reach a definite end.  I replaced it with Careers, since it also has a "Success Formula" that is based upon difffering goals which the player sets at the beginning of the game.  Having played Monopoly, Life, Careers, and Jones In The Fast Lane, it is more like Careers then any of the other games listed.  Mushrom (talk) 22:29, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar Games 

message: Hahahah... Ok, seriously. I know you guys are probably thinking, what the heck? Ok, I was born in the late 70s, so I grew up playing these games. The first version of this game that I got came on 3.5" floppies. It was hte INITIAL release of Jones in the Fast Lane. The original release of the game had an ASIAN kid with pimples all over his face working at the fake Mc.Donalds chain. In the subsequent "printing" of the game on 3.5 (version 1.1) as well as all the newer multi-media versions that were released on CD instead had a white teenager with pimples all over his face. Thought that was kind of funny. Since Al Sharpton and everyone else seems to believe that racism exists everywhere, I figured I would just do my part to help denegrate society.
--Todd82TA 10:37, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racism, or Political Correctness in Jones in the Fast Lane?