I am documenting video game and home computer history with screenshots. My current goal is to create a 4-8 screen screenshot section for every video game console and home computer that I can emulate. For those with many/important games or programs, I also create galleries.
Game Screenshot Section / Gallery Selection Criteria
The first problem when doing a new screenshot gallery section is selecting the games:
- Obviously, the best-selling and best-rated games should be included
- I try to get a selection that spreads over the systems lifetime, beginning with first games and release titles (even if they are bad) and ending with the last
- Even if the console's manufacturer did the most important games, I always try to include a few third-party manufacturer games
- The screenshots should contain a variety of genres. E.g. i always try to include as least one sport game in the 8-screenshot-section, even if is is not as important as the other games
- Dont ignore cheesy movie- or toy-games, like Atari 2600's E.T. or ColecoVision's "Masters of the Universe" in the gallery. Yes, they are bad, but they are a part of video game culture and history
- The available games are often limited, because I cant get ROMs for some games (e.g. Mario and Zelda games are hard to find - Nintendo protects them) or because they can't be emulated (almost every console lacks a screenshot of an important game because of emulation problems)
Licensing
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
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Gallery articles up for deletion!
I noticed that these articles:
- Gallery of Nintendo Entertainment System screenshots
- Gallery of Super Nintendo Entertainment System screenshots
- Gallery of Sega Mega Drive and Sega Genesis screenshots
- Gallery of Sega Master System screenshots
that you worked on in the past are now are up for deletion. Would you vote in favor of keeping these articles? They show the history of the advancement of video game graphics over time and are useful as a source of images for graphics for video game articles. --ShaunMacPherson 19:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)