Talk:Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II/GA1

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Reviewer: Namcokid47 (talk · contribs) 03:52, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Told you. Namcokid47 ^(Contribs) 03:52, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

That was great :P I saw the response on my talk page last night, went to bed, then this morning see you picked it up. Red Phoenix ^talk 12:33, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

@Red Phoenix: This article is very close to passing, but there's a few things that need correcting. Here are my comments:

• I'd rename the series in the infobox to just Monaco GP, since that's the title of that series (I'd also italicize it)
• I do think it's a little weird to introduce the release date in the second sentence. There's also some repetition there (The game was released for the Sega Genesis and Mega Drive, Master System, and the Game Gear, released in 1992.) and it also implies that the consoles were released in 1992, which obviously isn't the case.
• If possible, use the names of the reviewers instead of the publication (for instance, the Mean Machines review).
• "Reception to Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II was mixed to positive, praising the gameplay and the graphics but criticizing too few changes from Super Monaco GP." - The reception praised it? Or reviewers?
• Does the title need to be specified in the image? Just using "the game" would be fine since the reader knows what the game is called.
• While I've seen other articles do this, I feel for this game it isn't really necessary to merge the Release and Reception. The near-entirety of the paragraph in that section can be merged with the above Development section (which would make more sense, the product's release counts as development info) with no issue whatsoever.
• Not sure if the link to the online Game Gear version should be included. It's very unlikely that Web Archive didn't receive permission from Sega to host it.
• It's not required for a GA, but it's best if you archive the Sega-16 interview in the event it gets removed sometime in the future.

That's all I have. Once these are addressed I'll pass it. Namcokid47 ^(Contribs) 19:00, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

• @Namcokid47: All comments addressed. For the reviews, anyone who did have a name listed, I gave one. Unfortunately, not all vintage magazines made clear who wrote the review, and Mega Machines is one of them. I will want to visit with the Video games WikiProject about the game link, particularly since we have a template for them. I'm not entirely sure what rights the Internet Archive has and how all that works out. That being said, it is stricken for now. Red Phoenix ^talk 21:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

• Actually, I put it back up. I did some research in the VG project talk archives; it looks like the Internet Archive received a special exemption to distribute more vintage software as a library, and while that was initially temporary it's been extended to indefinitely. Red Phoenix ^talk 21:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

• Okay, that's good to hear. Doesn't seem like there's any other issues, so I'll give it a pass. Namcokid47 ^(Contribs) 22:22, 27 July 2020 (UTC)