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VG To-do: edit  Peer review: Video game, Crash of the Titans, Xbox Live Arcade, List of Final Fantasy compilation albums, Metal Gear Solid, Shigeru Miyamoto, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess‎, Myst III: Exile, Blade Runner, Zanac, Warhawk (PlayStation 3 game) Cleanup: List of characters from The King of Fighters, Hellgate: London, LeChuck Featured article candidates: List of songs in Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (FLC), Halo (series), List of Sega 32X games (FLC), Alleyway Good article nominations: Ayu Tsukimiya, Music of the Final Fantasy Tactics series, Super Smash Bros., Music of Final Fantasy XI, Day of Defeat: Source Article status review: GA Review – None; FA Review – The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 3D Monster Maze; FT Review – Final Fantasy titles Articles for Deletion: Participate in video game related deletion discussions. Images: Add box-art and screenshots to articles. Make sure to include a valid non-free use rationale. Monitor the following related changes pages: changes to WP:VG and changes to this to-do list. Announce your new articles Sign up for the new VG Newsletter.

Contents 1 Merged Video Game Crash of 1977 into Pong 2 8th Generation 3 sixth and seventh gens 4 sixth generation over? 5 make template wider?

[edit] Merged Video Game Crash of 1977 into Pong

Please see Talk:Video game crash of 1977 for discussion.Coll7 06:13, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 8th Generation

the 8th generation has been deleted before twice already and has just been recreated and will likely be deleted again [1]

While I think this is no harm in having the article, recreating the article is the wrong approach while the event is so far into the future. When the time comes we can ask an administrator to dig up all the old versions of the article and we can add the updated information. In the mean time there are lots of things to do on

Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games

Enjoy. The article will unfortunately most likely be deleted soon so there is no need to leave it on this template.--E-Bod 02:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you but I'd hate for some strict and not so helpful Wikipedian to get to you all first--E-Bod 02:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sixth and seventh gens

Sixth gen ends when PS2 stops being produced-it will still be produced in 2008. (And is still outselling PS3 and 360.)

Seventh gen leave it like (2004- because that's how its usually done for human lifespan, etc. Tehw1k1 08:33, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sixth generation over?

Is the sixth generation over yet? the PS2 is still selling very well and it is doing better than the PS3. My personal opinion is that we should either put 2008 as the end of the sixth generation because that's when the PS3 will likely begin to consistently outsell the PS2 (this option could be considered speculation) or we could leave it open like the seventh generation. (ie. "1998-"). Either way, I think it is incorrect to list it as ending in 2006. Thingg (talk) 03:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] make template wider?

I think it would be a good idea to make this template a little wider so we can spell out "North American video game crash of 1983". I can picture a European gamer looking at a history of video games article and thinking: "I didn't know there was a video game crash in 1983" only to find out the crash primarily affected North America. If you would like to see what the widened template would look like, please check out User:Thingg/sandbox. Any opinions would be appreciated. Thingg (talk) 03:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)