Talk:Index of DOS games

message: This seems like an interesting project, and I wouldn't mind helping in my spare time. I added some info to 0-9, changed the formatting and put game names in bold so that the Publisher name would be easier to tell apart from the game name, and changed the order a little (according to what I hear lists should have numbers in this order; 4 007 1987 20000). I hope you don't mind the changes, and in that case I am sorry, but this seems interesting. After a while though I think this should either be split into List of MS-DOS games: 1984 with alfabetic sorting under there, or List of MS-DOS games: F with sorting by year under that. If not this list will get very long. Anyhow, great idea. Clq 19:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Good project

message: We are now up to page 44 / 142 on the MobyGames list (1098 out of 3536 entries). --Lucian Gregory 00:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progress 

message: I have removed 9:05 from the list, as it is not specific to any system; rather, it will run on any system for which there is a Z-Code interpreter (for example, it could be run on a Dreamcast using FrotzDC). I would suggest that games written using Hugo, TADS, Inform, AGT, Alan or Glulx should not be added to the list.
This site might be the best source for PC / DOS specific interactive fiction, although many of the games in that list were created using one of the aforementioned utilities. --Lucian Gregory 23:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Interactive Fiction 

message: Apologies for starting this project and then apparently abandoning it halfway through. PC / connection troubles have kept me busy for quite some time now. Things should be back to normal now, so expect to see a bit more progress. A very tentative hope is to at least have all the games listed by the end of next week.
On that note, I notice the page is getting rather long. Any suggestions on the best way to split it? I'm thinking something like "List of MS-DOS games (A)", with a navbar on each page.
:Length is really not much of an issue for a page like this, in my opinion. Splitting it up would just make it harder to update all at once. Ideally this is a temporary page, as eventually the goal would be to create articles for every notable game and organize them in categories by release date. Until then, it's a work in progress (like most lists). --- RockMFR 07:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apologies 

message: I think under "external links" for the pages for the DOS games themselves, there should be a site in which the game can be downloaded if it is legal and possible to do so. If it isn't, and there's a legal demo (or shareware) version, then that should be included.  But only when it's legal :P
What do you think?
Yoda921 02:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the pages for the DOS games themselves 

message: Unreal isn't a MS-DOS game. It should be removed from the list.207.13.77.56 20:33, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are probably thinking about Unreal by Epic Games. But there's also an MS-DOS Ubi Soft Unreal game .Calvero2 11:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I dont think Caesar II i either!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.153.204.116 (talk) 03:08, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non MS-DOS game 

message: The list also has some Speech patches for games! I think the article needs reorganisation. -- Magioladitis 12:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansions/Speech patches

message: Seems like this page has been paid attention to less than other lists of games. Perhaps it should be redesigned into a table, similar to how List of Xbox games or List of Games for Windows titles is set up? Unless there's a massive amount of opposition, I'll likely just go ahead and do some of it to start it off. --Raikuson (talk) 01:39, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's only partially in table format now... looks kinda bad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.236.151.123 (talk) 02:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs Organization

message: Is this a list of MS-DOS games or what? There shouldn't be any Windows 95-only games listed, unless there's both a DOS and Windows version of the game. I think I also noticed several shareware games on the list, (VGA Miner etc.) this list should contain commercial software only. -- œ™ 07:35, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since when are shareware games not commercial? inclusivedisjunction (talk) 11:27, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok but can this list really accommodate the huge number of shareware games as well? -- œ™ 18:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's already a proposal to split the list off into more manageable chunks. I see no reason why additional games couldn't be added ad-infinitum. inclusivedisjunction (talk) 11:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Well there should definately be a separate list for shareware games list only... as big and unmanageable that list would be.. good luck.. - œ™ 02:30, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Almost all games of that era had a shareware version of their full retail game. There's probably little point in isolating such games. inclusivedisjunction (talk) 11:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Good question. Why don't you start one? -- œ™ 03:25, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

text: Is there some specific reason it doesn't exist? I don't mind getting started on it but won't be happy if the thing is deleted. 2fort5r (talk) 04:33, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A list of lists of games here: Lists of video games. Everything is there except Windows. 2fort5r (talk) 08:24, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I can't think of any reason why there can't be a List of Microsoft Windows games or List of games for Microsoft Windows (both titles are appropriate). Except for maybe because there's already a :Category:Windows games, but that shouldn't matter—categories and lists complement each other. There is List of Games for Windows titles and Games for Windows but those are distinctly different. It probably doesn't exist because noone has bothered to create it yet. Go ahead and start it, I doubt it will get deleted, as long as it's well done and has at least one general reference for verifiability (MobyGames is a good one). You may want to compare with other similar lists.. I know most featured lists are in a table format. If the list seems too long you may also want to further split it up into lists for the different versions of Windows.. such as List of Windows 3.1 games, List of Windows 95 games, List of games for Windows XP etc. -- œ™ 20:25, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

text: Ok, I'm busy ATM but will take a look at this in a few days. I'll see if there's some automatic way to generate a first draft - I'd rather not type out thousands of entries by hand if that can be avoided. 2fort5r (talk) 21:10, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As I feared, the pests are trying to delete the article. 2fort5r (talk) 21:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Windows_games_starting_with_A 2fort5r (talk) 07:48, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's with all the Windows 95 games in the list? 

message: Both sub-articles Index of MS-DOS games (A–M) and Index of MS-DOS games (N–Z) contain some release dates that cannot be correct when referring to the DOS version of the games, because they are before 1981, although MS-DOS 1.0 was released in 1981. Some games where in the A-M artioiicle have release dates in the 1970s, which is even too early for QDOS. --MrBurns (talk) 13:46, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release dates 

message: Sub-articles Index of MS-DOS games (A–M) and Index of MS-DOS games (N–Z) were created without any discussion regarding merging the already existing 27 articles into these two articles. However, per the section above, "Article needs to be split" the consensus was to split all of the titles into 27 separate articles due to the recommended size limit of list articles. However, a user seemed to have completely disregarded this conclusion and did something bold, and actually, in the process, created more work for editors to do. So now, I'm working on something in my sandbox regarding this (to basically revert the error that has been done.) Steel1943 (talk) 00:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Per note in WP:LENGTH (articles Index of MS-DOS games (A–M) and Index of MS-DOS games (N–Z) are too large), I will now carry on my action. When I am done, Index of MS-DOS games (A–M) and Index of MS-DOS games (N–Z) should become redirects to Index of MS-DOS games. Steel1943 (talk) 00:08, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thought I would note, for the record, that Index of MS-DOS games (A–M) and Index of MS-DOS games (N–Z) are now redirects to Index of MS-DOS games. They have been for a while, but I thought I would make it officially announced on this talk page. Steel1943 (talk) 06:07, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverting an action that was done without discussion