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 * 2) unofficial (which would indicate unpublished unlicensed fan games)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)