Wikipedia:Peer review/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/archive1

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

This will be the first peer review for the SNES as far as I can tell. I'm not looking for any specific criticisms, just a request for a general review of this article and how it stacks up compared to a featured article of a video game system such as Nintendo Entertainment System. Lumaga 17:26, 10 September 2006

See also section redundant, most of the wikilinks there are found in the navigation template.
~~Convert embedded external links into references.~~
Image:SNES Star Fox.png, Image:Sneslogo.gif and Image:Bs zelda.gif have no fair use rationale. Image:Snes2 sys.jpg has an obsolete license, consider changing it and using a fair use rationale as well. Image:Super famicom system.jpg might be redundant having Image:SNES 800.jpg.
Two references for the whole article, too few.
~~Too many list items, consider changing the lists into prose. That may bring some discussion (like the edit war at Xbox 360), but I don't think 77 or so bullets in the article are really "good prose".~~
Remove weasel words (One of the most interesting and successful first-party peripherals, Rivalry between Nintendo and Sega produced what is possibly the most notorious console war in gaming history.), speculation (It is argued that these issues, Most people used it to play copied ROM images that could be, From then on, these two emulators have continued to offer the most complete emulation of the system, In addition many US gamers had come to expect backwards compatibility from console developers), etc. Just search for most or many. In these cases, since there is no references, it is speculations, peacock terms or weasel words.
$xx USD should be moved to US$ xx per currency guidelines.
Year wikification should be reviewed. In example, in the History section, there is a September 2003 where September is not wikilinked and 2003 yes.
~~Bolding should only be used in the leading section.~~

I am a bit busy here, may check another review later. -- ReyBrujo 23:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestions. I hope you don't mind if I strike through what has been fixed. Lumaga 00:58, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not at all. I am only comments in "simple" issues as of now, but hopefully will be able to review the article again later. -- ReyBrujo 01:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Techincal Specifications and Enhancement Chips could stand to be spun out of the main article. ~~I'd lose the Nintendo Systems bullets, since they're in the Navbox, but keep the points relevant specifically to the SNES, such as Player's Choice games.~~ ~~Other than that, I'd maybe prune a bit from the Regional Lockout section, it tends to ramble a bit.~~ --Roninbk 12:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The pic up top should explain what each of the two consoles is.
The phrase (the earliest sources indicate August 13, 1991[1][2][3]; exact determination of the date is not possible due to the uncoordinated nature of North American retail video game releases during that era) is really excessive to nail down an exact day and date of the launch. I would get rid of everything after the semicolon.
I remember being disappointed the SNES was not backward compatible with NES carts, but I think it's a stretch to say that the market "had come to expect" backward compatibility, especially when the example cited is the Atari 7800, a system purchased by practically nobody. Tempshill 22:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]