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DragonRanger
Since: Dec, 2009
MyFinalEdits
(Ten years in the joint)
1st Apr, 2020 04:44:08 PM
Especially since video games were NOT invented in Asia. I would remove those indexes, but let's wait until more people chime in.
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DragonRanger
Since: Dec, 2009
3rd Apr, 2020 01:36:01 PM
Bumping again.
DragonRanger
Since: Dec, 2009
19th Apr, 2020 08:19:13 PM
One more bump before I drop it.
I've occasionally been doing some indexing cleanup in the subpages for UsefulNotes.The History Of Video Games, but there are some things the pages that don't make sense to me.
First, they're all indexed as part of UsefulNotes.Asia and UsefulNotes.The Far East; and I notice that a number of other gaming tropes are also indexed there. While Japan is the major center of game development, I'm not sure gaming tropes belong on those indexes because gaming is global at this point.
Second, the lists of games per generation just seem odd. I can't entirely put my finger on why they don't feel right, but they're split into "new IP" and "Existing IP" sections, and they include non-game IPs like Tiny Toon Adventures tie-in games that feel out of place for these particular indexes. And with all games already indexed by console and by decade, a third set of game-list indexes comes off as redundant clutter. Do we even need to index games again here?