Talk:List of games

Organization
This list is going to be huge, so we should build it carefully. I suggest 3 general categories:

1. Official Tetris Games 2. Official Unrelated Games (games that use "Tetris" or "-tris") 3. Unoffical, Though Significant Fan Games (tetrinet etc.)

To clarify, I think Official Games should include even games that are technically unlicensed, but were believed to be legitimate by the developers. eg. Tengen Tetris & Megadrive Tetris

Also, should we drop acronyms? eg. GB -> GameBoy

At least, we shouldn't require them. There are waaaay to many versions on obscure Japanese home computer platforms to warrant that.

Colour Thief 22:41, 15 March 2006 (EST)
 * yeah, this is a touch decision. official, i guess, would mean the same thing as authentic, but how do you destinguish unrelated games? for that, you'd need to define tetris specifically. is tetris a falling tetromino game? if so, anything other could be unrelated. maybe do something like this,


 * 1) official (all published games with "ris" in its title, which would take care of believed legitimate games)
 * 2) unofficial (which would indicate unpublished unlicensed fan games)
 * in any case, we'd need to explain how we define it, however way we devide them.


 * in addition, feel free to move the pages to non-abbreviated pages, as i prefer the professional look.
 * Nicholas 22:42, 15 March 2006 (EST)
 * okay, basically we can make four distinctions
 * legally licensed games
 * those early games which were published during the copyright wars, but never legally were okay with elorg
 * fan games without licenses (which naturally aren't published)
 * games which bare the tetris trademark, but don't really have tetris look and feel.
 * so i guess we could clump 1 and 2 together, and seperate 4-- but i don't know how'd we label them.
 * Nicholas 22:56, 15 March 2006 (EST)


 * that wouldn't quite work as a definition... it's a little known fact that sega made 2 licensed tetris arcade games that did not use the name tetris at all: Flash Point and Bloxeed. these are falling tetromino games, with a license from ELORG if you look at the copyright screen. i think games that were believed to be legitimate at any point in time should count as official, so that history isn't written in the eyes of the winners.


 * the most borderline game would be Welltris, which i think shouldn't count. so the criteria would be:


 * -believed to be official
 * -similar gameplay to the original


 * this means we would combine your groups 1 and 2. so tetris (nintendo) and tetris (tengen) would both be recognized. obviously in the description we would mention the conflict.
 * fan games would get their own section. i think it's clear what belongs here.
 * the final "trademark only" category would have Welltris, Tetrisphere, Tetris Attack, etc.


 * so what do you think?


 * Colour Thief 23:07, 15 March 2006 (EST)
 * okay, so three categories, then? i still feel iffy about using "official."
 * Nicholas 23:14, 15 March 2006 (EST)

Ordering
So now we have categories. What about ordering? Chronological? Alphabetical? A combination of the 2?

Things get weird when you consider that the same game released at different times on different platforms, and also different times in different regions. Furthermore, we'll be lucky to pin an exact date on the more obscure versions... Sometimes we may even be without a definite year.

Colour Thief 01:38, 16 March 2006 (EST)


 * i like first published year for the title, then if we don't know exactly when, by alphabet.
 * Nicholas 01:40, 16 March 2006 (EST)


 * works for me. first year, then alphabet. if i don't know the year, i'll give it an approximate one followed by a question mark and otherwise fit it in the same way. eg. Tetris: Obscure Edition (WTF), 1989(?)
 * Colour Thief 01:43, 16 March 2006 (EST)