Week of improvements
As things start to be used it’s always easier to flesh out what should be improved. For this week that has been the games list. After taking a tour of Orlando I ran into a surprising number of games that weren’t in the GameFaqs listing that we’re using here. The solution is to move off gamefaqs as the definitive listing for games. You’ll notice that the URLs no longer use the gamefaqs ids as the URL parameters. It’s just not a good idea to base your system that much on another one of which you have no control. Plus, as I was going arcade to arcade I was noticing other items that we might want to track (pool tables, air hockey, basketball, etc) that just wouldn’t fit into the mold if we required all games to exist on gamefaqs.
As for the games that aren’t on GameFaqs, we’ll soon be adding all games from the Killer List of Video Games as well. It’s just about ready, but I’m running into a problem with game names that are similar but not exactly the same. After I write up a script to merge the differences between these two we should have another 1,000 or so games available.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:29 am
Hello Adam,
Browsing your database, I’ve seen that you use GameFaqs and KLOV as references for your “Find out more about this game on” feature.
To purpose to your users an alternative source for information, it would be interesting to link each game profile from http://www.arcade-history.com too.
IMHO, arcade-history is way better than klov, since klov is now a non-updated and full-of-errors database…
September 24th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
@Alexis B.
Sounds like a plan. I’d love to add links to arcade-history. Looks like a very complete list.