![]() ![]() These include the ubiquitous Epyx sports mini-game collection California Games II (which was first released on PC three years prior, so I don't know what the delay was) and The Hunt For Red October game. January saw an average number of releases, but it also saw a relatively small amount of games in the "US Block": those games that first appeared in the US. SNES highlight: The Super Nintendo release schedule of 1993 was a lot like the modern console release schedule of today: the first few months of the year were fairly mild, it picked up around Spring, became a drought in the Summer and then slowly picked up again around Autumn and continued strong until the holiday season peak. You know, nothing brightens up an article like a bunch of numbers. I'll throw in some stats and stuff too, for flavor. I discovered many of these games for the first time while working on this project - Japan's Super Famicom saw a lot more games than the US/Europe SNES ever did - and while many are your standard baseball and mahjong nonsense, there's a few weird hidden gems in there too. Even the big ones.īecause talking about old games is more fun than talking about updating the wiki pages of old games, I'm going to segue now into a list of highlights. Most Super Nintendo pages require a lot of work, it turned out. I suspected I'd be filling in the occasional missing detail and adding a fancy new header image and then moving on. I fully expected every page to have at least half of the above already complete. Now, the way I figured it, the Super Nintendo is one of the most popular consoles in the world. Since the big site switch, there's now spaces for a developer and publisher for every release (publishers typically tend to change depending on region) so there's usually at least some work to be done here even on popular pages. Obviously, the game needs all its releases too. It's not always possible to fill out every field (especially aliases and franchises, given that they're not always applicable), but I try to ensure we have as much info as possible. The side-panel that tells you the platforms, release date, genres, themes and so on. We have a useful tool by mod that lets you "test" uploaded images, but I've gotten to the point now where I can feel it out well enough. It also means choosing the right shots that work well within the small target window that the site picks out for the display. Such a small image looks awful and blurry when blown up for a header image, considering most modern PC monitors use something like 1366x768 or higher as their default. This requires high-res screenshots, which is kind of a pull when you're dealing with a console that natively displays in a 320x200 resolution. The background shot, the one that goes behind the deck. ![]() Makes me wonder what decade they were taken in. Just a smattering of gameplay shots, all the relevant box art and every title screen (for cases when a game changes its name after localization). There's nothing too concrete in the rules about what that message ought to contain, but a simple single-sentence description of the game usually suffices. ![]() That little blurb at the top of the page that briefly describes the game. Most game pages ideally need an overview section (brief synopsis, basic history of releases, any pertinent facts about the game from a meta standpoint) and a gameplay section (actually gets into detail about how the game plays, its systems and features), but I kind of just left them with overviews in most cases. My definition of "full" for the purposes of this exercise included the following: Let's start over:Īt the start of this year, I began what seemed like a fairly simple task: Ensure that every SNES game from 1993 had a full wiki page. Sorry, I'm making this sound like I climbed Everest or something. I haven't been working tirelessly on it day or night or anything, more as an occasional something to do while I listen to new Bombcast and MBMBaM podcasts, but it still required a lot of work and perseverance. I've just completed a Wiki Project that has taken nine months from start to finish. Mildly intriguing news, let's go with that. Well, by a certain muted definition of exciting. ![]() Hey Wiki Pages and Wiki Squires, I have exciting news. ![]()
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