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Hey! What about the game show bonus round? That's why I originally created the article. 71.111.215.224 00:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What the **** happened to the Bonus Stage webtoon article?

This is sorta late, but for everyone who does not know, it was deleted. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonus Stage. --FireV 18:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is glowing speres from Sonic 3 and Knuckles that bad? Daniel Dronzek08 (talk) 13:04, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Joel's Most Boring Adventure Ever

Does anyone know what that Bonus Stage game parodied? I forgot the name of the chat program and the link. Cheddar Cheesia 01:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Things Gota change

I say we bring bonus stage back!!!

I say we don't. If you really want it back that much, take it to deletion review. One 07:18, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, what happened?

So apparently Bonus Stage (flash) was deleted while I was gone, so I went over to the deletion review link posted and checked out why it was deleted. Before I go further, just want to say that i'm just a fan but also, I am not obsessed with getting the article back. So after reading the jumble I realized all I could find was that the pro-deletion people were saying the same exact thing; that BS was non-notable and should be deleted for that reason. That was the only reason present in the discussion. Goddamn, if that's the only reason you guys went ahead and deleted the article doesn't that pretty much make a articles on web-sites eligible for deletion too? I mean those articles aren't any more important tha the one about Bonus Stage. So I ask you admins to answer with honesty, did you guys delete the article because you watched the show, hated it, and decided you wanted to erase the article? Felt the article was taking up space? or did you actually had a "good" reason to delete the article(like MattW requesting it). It's not a hard question, and the platform being the internet, you can choose to respond in any fashion. 09:30pm ,January,02,2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.229.117 (talk) 02:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I had nothing to do with this particular page, but lack of notability is a very common reason for deletion. That reason alone is typically good enough to get an article deleted without special cause to the contrary. See WP:N for notability guidelines, and WP:NOT for responses to common objections. Staecker (talk) 03:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Of course its notable. if it isnt why is Homestarrunner notable and how can an article be removed if it had its own wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.146.26 (talk) 15:49, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we could set up a list?

Maybe a list could be made on this page for "games that contain some form of bonus stage?" It would at least add more content, and maybe when cross linked on the pages of games that contain said bonus stages, the increased traffic would cause more people to add info or other game entries. Just a thought. KurisuYamato (talk) 12:22, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

I've attempted to search for references on this, but the only thing I seem able to find is cheat manuals (how-to's, really) and unrelated websites. Does anyone have anything that could be used, no matter how minor? Even a simple description of what a bonus stage is would be great, though insights in the goal of bonus stages within game design or a citation for Galaga and Rally-X being the first games with bonus stages would be amazing.

I'd love to help adding the reference to the page, for what it's worth, and I'll try to look around myself some more as well~ Maplestrip (talk) 10:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

References, would be nice. I'm looking now to see if I can find any. Instruction manuals would be kind of a primary source direct from the game designer, although it would only discus a single game's bonus stage not the concept in general, but it would be a start. I'm looking through old games I have that I know have bonus stages, Sonic 1 2 & 3 in particular. Sonic 1 2 and 3 have stages that could be called either or both secret levels and/or bonus stages, at least to me, but the terms used in game may be different and could confuse things. Sonic 1 has a type of level called "Secret Zone", Sonic 2 has stages called "Special Stage", then Sonic 3 has levels called "Special Stage" and more called "bonus stage". These all have brief mentions in their instruction manuals, so technically could be used as references, if only very limited ones, does the terminology, Special/secret/bonus matter that much? and would be worth adding them in some way as a reference? Carlwev 16:51, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've played the original Sonic, so I know how it works (never been able to beat the game, though >.>). I think this article really needs secondary sources, though, as such primary sources would only function well as an example. I'm not too font of adding many examples, because before you know it, an article turns into a list. Just look at procedural generation, I recently cut out half of the examples and it's still huge, while not really explaining what procedural generation is.

Changing the wording (bonus>special>secret) could really confuse readers, so it would be nice if that could be kept to a minimum... Anyway, I guess a manual could work as a reference, but be careful with it~ Maplestrip (talk) 18:45, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

bonus level vs. secret level

Can one really make a clear distinction between these two? For example, I remember hidden levels in various Super Mario games which contain elements of both - well-hidden extra levels with more points and power-ups to collect than in regular levels, but similar enemies and death traps, or one major enemy to be defeated at the end. For such levels I couldn't say spontaneously which type of level they are, I would say they are a mix of both. --2003:E7:7700:3C13:8C36:6FE5:5118:B3CE (talk) 01:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mario series bonus worlds (e.g. World 9/Superstar Road, World A-D in SMBLL)

In most Mario series games, there is a bonus world (or 5 in SMBLL). These include World 9 in SMBLL, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U, plus Worlds A through D in SMBLL. These are mainly unlocked by getting all the Star Coins or beating the game 8 times. Should this be included? Mariobros12345 ^{(T • C)} 07:32, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]