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Dark mode inversion
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Implement changes in Module:Video game reviews/sandbox and Module:Video game reviews/data/sandbox, which inverts the color scheme to support dark mode. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 23:09, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Done Reopen the request if there are any issues :) SWinxy (talk) 18:19, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Early home computers
[edit]I quickly browsed talk archives but couldn't find anything relevant (please link if discussed already)...
I stumbled upon the Ghostbusters (1984 video game) page which led me to Module:Video game reviews/data.
For some unfathomable reason it seems the support for 80s home computer reviews is very sparse. I could add "C64" for Commodore 64 reviews, but there is neither support for Apple II nor "SMS" (which I presume refers to Sega Master System).
There's an absolute TRUCKLOAD of 8-bit systems not supported by your module.
Is there a reason for this? Before I attempt to Template:Video_game_reviews#How_to_add_a_new_platform, could it be that computer games are meant to use a different template than video game reviews - at least, that's about the only reason I can come up with? CapnZapp (talk) 10:12, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Is there a reason for this?
No one has asked for it thus far is the primary reason. Template editors can't necessarily be exhaustive or knowledgable on every possible system, and it's been added to as people request. -- ferret (talk) 14:29, 19 May 2024 (UTC)- I just found it hard to believe nobody has thought of using this template for MSX or Apple II reviews, or Atari 400/800 reviews, or TI or Colecovision reviews... so you're saying this is the only review template to use for early game reviews? Is the template perhaps a brand new initiative? Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 20:46, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- The template has been in use for more than 16 years (see also the aforementioned talk archives). I suspect most editors who have used the template for those platforms simply opted for the single-platform layout instead (as most articles do), or perhaps simply for the
|PC=parameter (as Ghostbusters currently does). – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 22:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
- The template has been in use for more than 16 years (see also the aforementioned talk archives). I suspect most editors who have used the template for those platforms simply opted for the single-platform layout instead (as most articles do), or perhaps simply for the
- I just found it hard to believe nobody has thought of using this template for MSX or Apple II reviews, or Atari 400/800 reviews, or TI or Colecovision reviews... so you're saying this is the only review template to use for early game reviews? Is the template perhaps a brand new initiative? Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 20:46, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Link request
[edit]MeriStation should be linked. Skyshiftertalk 18:59, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Request change in wiklink
[edit]Requesting that AllGame in review articles be linked to RhythmOne#AllGame instead of AllGame to avoid the automatic re-direct. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:32, 14 August 2024 (UTC)