Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Next Generation Magazine

Collection

There is one NG collection which I think there is a link to every issue on the page, but there is another collection where not every issue is linked on the page: https://archive.org/details/nextgeneration I will try to link to them at some point in the future when I have the time. BOZ (talk) 22:05, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Awesome! I recently became aware of this secondary collection myself a week or two ago, but wasn't entirely sure how to proceed with that knowledge. This sounds like a great plan—thanks for all the hard work. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 22:43, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

No problem - I don't mind starting a bunch of little stubs, they can always be expanded by people more interested than me. :) I actually have a little time, so I will add those links now. BOZ (talk) 01:08, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

OK, I finally completed issues 1-16, at least insofar as making such that every link to every game review was pointing to a game. :) Issues #17-19 are the first of several which do not have links to archive.org yet, so if archived copies of those issues can be located I will pick up there next time I can work on this, otherwise I will just start with #20 and continue from there, and swing back in the future if archived copies are located later. BOZ (talk) 05:56, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

I have fully gone through all of the games in the review sections for the first 16 issues of NG, and made sure that each link on this index points to the right game (hopefully) and that each such article has each review from each issue cited at least once. Many of them were already cited to NG, thanks to Martin IIIa, KGRAMR, and other people, but I have added quite a few of the reviews to the remaining articles; several games had three or more reviews from NG on different platforms! As part of doing that ever since this April, I have added dozens of new articles, in most cases creating stubs from scratch, but plenty of times also splitting articles from parent/series articles, building new articles from old redirects, and restoring deleted or redirected articles. Many of the articles I created cite (or at least indicate) reviews from other sources, and I am sure we will find sources for most of the rest of them before long. These are the (mostly) new articles I (re)created this year as part of this project:

• 1): John Madden Football (1994 video game), PaTaank, PGA Tour Golf 486, Battlecorps, The Masked Rider: Kamen Rider ZO
• 2): Burning Soldier, Doctor Hauzer, Real Pinball, Shadow: War of Succession, Iron Angel of the Apocalypse, Ultraman Powered (video game), VR Stalker, Super Afterburner, Alien Gate, Kether (video game), Armored Fist, Zork Anthology, Cops (video game)
• 3): Cowboy Casino Interactive Poker, Family Feud (video game series), Ghost Hunter (video game), Shanghai: The Great Wall, Station Invasion, World Cup Golf: Hyatt Dorado Beach, Motocross Championship, PegLeg (video game), U.S. Navy Fighters, Zephyr (video game), Bouncers (video game), Midnight Raiders, NHL All-Star Hockey '95, PGA Tour Golf III, Rugby World Cup '95, The Shadow (video game)
• 4): Tama (video game), Gazillionaire, NASCAR Racing (video game), Zeppelin (video game), NBA Action '95, The Flintstones (Ocean Software), The Ren & Stimpy Show: Time Warp
• 5): Atari 2600 Action Pack, Front Lines, Retribution (video game), Virtuoso (video game), Word War 5, Digi Follies, ESPN NBA Hangtime '95, Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings, No Escape (video game)
• 6): Seal of the Pharaoh, Hover Strike, Renegade: The Battle for Jacob's Star, Shanghai: Great Moments, Zorro (1995 video game), Rapid Deployment Force: Global Conflict, The Adventures of Mighty Max, Sonic Blast Man II
• 7): Cosmic Race, Crime Crackers, Gotha (video game), The Doraemons (video game), Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S (3DO game), Yū Yū Hakusho (1994 video game), R.B.I. Baseball '95, Casino Tournament of Champions, Extractors, HardBall IV, Maabus, Sensory Overload (video game), IMG International Tour Tennis, NCAA Final Four Basketball
• 8): Power Baseball, Pebble Beach Golf Links (video game), Worldwide Soccer: Sega International Victory Goal Edition, Slam 'N Jam '95, Trip'd, The Pure Wargame, Tank Commander (video game), HardBall 5, Triple Play Baseball (video game)
• 9): Greatest Nine, Zhadnost: The People's Party, Eco: East Africa, College Football USA 96, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (video game)
• 10): Mobile Suit Gundam (1995 video game), Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye, Interactive Fiction Collections, Powerhouse (video game), World Hockey 95, Paparazzi!: Tales of Tinseltown, Rail Chase 2, Zone Hunter
• 11): Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22, Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators, Virtual Volleyball, Casino Deluxe, C.E.O. (video game), D-Day: America Invades, Mirage (video game), NFL Pro League Football, Savage Warriors, Prime Time Football '96
• 12): PGA Tour 96, Power Serve 3D Tennis, Black Fire (video game), NHL All-Star Hockey (Sega Saturn game), Blade Force, Flying Nightmares, Mazer (video game), Dangerous Curves (video game), Five A Side Soccer, LineDrive Baseball, Orbatak, Ultra Hockey
• 13): Agile Warrior F-111X, Boxer's Road, CyberSpeed, Metal Jacket (video game), SteamGear Mash, Werewolf vs. Comanche, College Football's National Championship II, VR Troopers (video game), Miner's Revenge, Sport Fishing 2
• 14): NBA In The Zone (video game), NFL GameDay (video game), Space Griffon VF-9, Power Move Pro Wrestling, Hang-On GP, Empire II: The Art of War, Peter Jacobson's Golden Tee 3D Golf
• 15): NHL FaceOff (video game), Iron Angel of the Apocalypse: The Return, Scramble Cobra, Curse of Dragor
• 16): Epidemic (video game), Skeleton Warriors (video game), Havoc (video game), Skyborg: Into the Vortex, Thexder 95, Virtual Karts, Dirt Dash, Konami's Open Golf Championship

If anyone ever finds links to NG issues #17-19 archived online, I would be happy to circle back around and work on those too! Meanwhile, failing that, sometime later this week I will pick back up at issue #20.  :) BOZ (talk) 02:11, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

@BOZ: Ahem... :)

• https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_17
• https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_18
• https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_19

There'ya go man :D Also, can anybody try to expand this: WikiProject Video games/Reference library/GameFan as all the issues of GameFan are available online right now by searching this way at archive.org: GameFan Vol X (1-8) Do The Math (talk) 02:20, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Ah, sweet, thank you! :) I will start on those in the not-too-distant future! BOZ (talk) 04:19, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

KGRAMR, thanks again, I have already started putting them to use. :) BOZ (talk) 03:28, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

• 17): Arcade America, Druid: Daemons of the Mind
• 18): Hyper 3-D Pinball, Top Gun: Fire At Will, Funky Head Boxers
• 19): Shellshock (video game), NBA ShootOut (video game), Super Major League

Got a few more articles out of those three issues, and I will pick back up on issue #20 after a short break. :) BOZ (talk) 18:29, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

• 20): NHL Powerplay '96, Dinotopia (video game), VR Soccer, Run and Gun II

I did these back in September and forgot to include them here! BOZ (talk) 14:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

• 21): Adidas Power Soccer, Olympic Soccer, Striker '96, Virtual Open Tennis, Fire Fight, Pool Champion, Total Mayhem (video game), Marsupilami (game), World Series Baseball '96, Alpine Surfer, Gunblade NY
• 22): Tokyo Highway Battle, Project Horned Owl, True Pinball, American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox, Manic Karts, Private Eye (1996 video game), Tracer (game), College Football USA 97, Prop Cycle, Dunk Mania
• 23): None
• 24): Namco Museum Volume 2, NCAA Gamebreaker, World Series Baseball II
• 25): NHL FaceOff '97, Pitball, F-22 Lightning II

Hey KGRAMR, thanks for finding those missing issues above. If you find some of the other gaps that I'm missing - issues #26, 31, 49, 53 - then I will be able to work on those as well. :) BOZ (talk) 05:52, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

@BOZ:You speak and your words might be heard quicker than you think...Roberth Martinez (talk) 17:41, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_26
• https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_31
• https://archive.org/details/ng_49
• https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_53

Thank you kindly, hope you've had a happy New Year thus far, however many hours of it you've had. ;) BOZ (talk) 19:40, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

KGRAMR, I put them to work right away and started a few new articles. :) BOZ (talk) 02:14, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

• 26): Slamscape, NBA In the Zone 2, Blam! Machinehead, Bedlam (1996 video game), NBA Full Court Press
• 27): Floating Runner, Namco Museum Volume 3, Robotron X, NeoHunter, Westworld 2000
• 28): DragonHeart: Fire & Steel, Peak Performance (video game), Nitro Racers, Scorched Planet, Wages of War
• 29): TigerShark, Jetfighter III, Front Page Sports: Football Pro '97
• 30): FIFA Soccer 64, BRAHMA Force: The Assault On Beltlogger 9, Buster Bros. Collection, NBA ShootOut '97, K-1 The Arena Fighters, League of Pain, VR Baseball '97, Banzai Bug, Scarab (game)
• 31): Battle Stations (1997 video game), Grand Slam (video game), Triple Play 98, Zap: Snowboarding Trix, Gundam Gaiden II, Air Warrior II
• 32): All-Star Baseball '97 featuring Frank Thomas, Rush Hour (video game), Gundam Gaiden 3, Fallen Haven, F/A-18 Hornet 3.0, Hummer (game)
• 33): D-Xhird, Quo Vadis 2, Comanche 3, Into the Void (video game)
• 34): Felony 11-79, Kickoff '97, Meat Puppet (video game), Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
• 35): NFL GameDay 98, iF-22 Raptor, Creatures (artificial life program), XCar: Experimental Racing, Gridz
• 36): NHL FaceOff 98, PGA Tour 98, VMX Racing, Virus (1997 video game), EF2000 v2.0, Battle Girl, Bumbler Bee-Luxe, GTI Club: Rally Côte d'Azur
• 37): Bug Riders, Courier Crisis, Rock & Roll Racing 2: Red Asphalt, Steel Reign
• 38): Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2, NCAA Gamebreaker 98, Sega Worldwide Soccer '98, Sabre Ace: Conflict Over Korea
• 39): Robotron 64, Lode Runner (1998 video game), Micro Machines V3, Andretti Racing, The Isle of Four Winds: Rune War
• 40): Air Warrior III, Faery Tale Adventure II: Halls of the Dead
• 41): NBA In The Zone '98, Newman/Haas Racing (video game), NetWAR
• 42): Judge Dredd (1997 video game), NCAA March Madness 98, Alien Earth, Motocross Go!, NFL Blitz (video game)
• 43): All-Star Baseball '99, Tennis Arena, Armor Command, Burnout Championship Drag Racing, Star Trek Pinball, Ultimate Race Pro
• 44): Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter: Interactive Big Game Hunting
• 45): Game, Net & Match, Redneck Rampage Rides Again
• 46): MLB '99, VR Baseball '99, Extreme Tactics
• 47): NFL GameDay 99, Team Losi RC Racer
• 48): NCAA Football 99, Emergency, Microsoft Revenge of Arcade
• 49): Knockout Kings, X Games Pro Boarder, VR Baseball 2000
• 50): Uprising X, Barrage (video game)
• 51): Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
• 52): Contender (video game)
• 53): NBA In The Zone '99
• 55): MLB 2000, All-Star Baseball 2000
• 56): Rich Diamond

Vol 2:

• 1): None
• 2): NFL 2K (video game), Championship Motocross featuring Ricky Carmichael, Sled Storm (1999 video game), Official Formula One Racing
• 3): NFL Blitz 2000, NFL Game Day 2000, NFL Xtreme 2, RC Stunt Copter, F-16 Aggressor
• 4): NHL FaceOff 2000, You Don't Know Jack, Braveheart

Vol 3:

• 1): MTV Sports: Snowboarding, Knockout Kings 2000, SuperCross Circuit, Deer Avenger 2: Deer in the City
• 2): NBA In The Zone 2000, Chocobo's Dungeon 2
• 3): None
• 4): Virtua Striker 2, Deception III: Dark Delusion, Wall Street Trader 2000
• 5): Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage, Rock the Rink, Invictus, Break Neck
• 6): None
• 7): Sky Surfer
• 8): Surf Riders
• 9): N.GEN Racing
• 10): NFL GameDay 2001
• 11): Swing Away Golf, NFL Blitz 2001, Monster Rancher Battle Card Episode II
• 12): Ball Breakers, Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche vs. KA-52 Hokum

Vol 4:

• 1): Gradius III and IV, Gungriffon Blaze, Mike Tyson Boxing, MTV Sports: Skateboarding, Cyber Groove
• 2): Q-Ball: Billiards Master, Real Pool, Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition
• 3): NCAA GameBreaker 2001, ESPN NBA 2Night, Surf Rocket Racers, HBO Boxing (video game), The Mummy (video game), Power Spike: Pro Beach Volleyball, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot Arena, Stupid Invaders
• 4): Kengo: Master of Bushido, NCAA Final Four 2001, Supercross 2001
• 5): NHL FaceOff 2001, Bass Rush: ECOGEAR PowerWorm Championship, Last Kingdom
• 6): Charge 'n Blast, Serious Sam: The First Encounter
• 7): ESPN National Hockey Night (2001 video game)
• 8): World's Scariest Police Chases (video game), Pearl Harbor: Defend the Fleet
• 9): MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael, Sports Jam, Off-Road Redneck Racing
• 10): NCAA Football 2002, Motocross Mania
• 11): None
• 12): Sega Bass Fishing 2, Reel Fishing: Wild

Vol 5:

• 2): None

Format for review lists

Having thus far gone through the first 16 issues, I must say that the lists of reviews are a bit of a mess. For one thing, take a look at how it was before I started - there was a lot of redlinks there that should have been pointing at existing articles, not to mention all the other links that I have fixed aside from those. That said, the current version is still a bit of a mess that lacks consistency. A few things I have noticed are that it can be hard (or impossible) to tell which game system was being reviewed in which issue, especially since several games had several reviews in several issues on several platforms. Often enough the name of the game on the list page was different from how it was listed in the magazine, and both were different from the actual name of the game in the article; I think we should link to the correct name, but give the name in the list the same way as it is presented in the magazine. Another thing is that games beginning with "the" are sometimes - but not always - listed alphabetically under "T" - I think they should never be listed alphabetically using the word "The". Now, take a look at the way issue #6 is listed, and notice how that is different than all the other issues. I haven't checked, but I think it may be listed with the reviews presented in the same order as they are in the magazine, and they are listed by system, just like in the magazine. I think this is how the whole list should be organized. If there are no objections, I would like to start reorganizing it this later this week. BOZ (talk) 03:20, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Hey! I feel like whatever you prefer will work, since most people will probably be CTRL-F searching the page or using the WPVG/RL search engine anyway. My only suggestion is that we make the page titles match Wikipedia's article names wherever possible, since people trying to find sources through the search engine risk getting thrown off by unusual formatting. Thanks for all the hard work! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 05:18, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

How does the search engine work, and/or where would I find it? BOZ (talk) 11:31, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

It's near the top of WP:VG/RL—this is always my first choice for digging through the RL, since it's so much faster than manually searching. Either way, hope the reorganization goes smoothly! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 18:17, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Reorganization looks great! It'll be much easier to find Next Gen's reviews of games' various SKUs now, which has been a recurring problem for me. Well done! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 01:12, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! Well, I did what I did not do on my initial run-through, and made sure that every article in the list had at least the stars and a brief bit from the review - and that took at lot longer than I expected, since most of them had nothing from the first issue! Wow, I doubt I will be trying to do that much in one sitting again any time soon, but glad I did that much. :) BOZ (talk) 03:50, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

top videogames of all time lists

Although Next Generation's top 100 videogames of all time from issue #21 was rightly deleted as an article, I think we can fairly include the bare list here on the talk page? Anyway, I am recreating it here for now, because I am going to go through it one by one to make sure we include it in each article as appropriate. :)

There was a similarly deleted Next Generation's top 50 videogames of all time list from the February 1999 issue that I will also have to go back and check on once I am done with these 100. :) I might just create some of these articles if necessary, but I suspect that the significant majority of them (if not all of them) already exist, so we'll see! BOZ (talk) 13:22, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

top 100

1. Super Mario 64
2. Tetris
3. Super Bomberman 2
4. Civilization series
5. Mario series (presuming Super Mario 64 was excluded from that list)
6. Virtua Fighter 2
7. Street Fighter II series
8. Lemmings
9. Quake
10. Warcraft II
11. Virtua Racing
12. Ms. Pac-Man
13. Defender
14. Elite
15. Marble Madness
16. Populous series
17. Final Fantasy series
18. Micro Machines
19. Doom series
20. Sonic the Hedgehog series
21. Daytona USA
22. Tekken 2
23. X-Wing/TIE Fighter
24. The Lurking Horror
25. NiGHTS into Dreams...
26. X-COM: UFO Defense
27. Sam & Max Hit the Road
28. NFL Gameday
29. Syndicate
30. Madden NFL series
31. Herzog Zwei
32. Wipeout XL
33. SimCity 2000
34. Nobunaga's Ambition
35. Duke Nukem 3D
36. Rescue Raiders (a.k.a. Armor Alley)
37. Super Mario Kart
38. Zork series
39. Asteroids
40. NHL Powerplay
41. Snake
42. EF2000
43. Rolling Thunder
44. Spectre VR
45. Out Run
46. Formula One Grand Prix 2
47. Worldwide Soccer 2
48. World Series Baseball
49. Command & Conquer
50. Donkey Kong
51. Panzer General
52. Spaceward, Ho!
53. The Sentinel
54. MechWarrior 2
55. Ultima series
56. Dragon Warrior series
57. Sega Rally Championship
58. Star Wars
59. Super Sprint
60. Wizardry series
61. Ikari Warriors
62. Bard's Tale series
63. Robotron: 2084
64. The Legend of Zelda series
65. Bump 'n' Jump
66. A Mind Forever Voyaging
67. F/A-18 Hornet 2.0
68. PONG
69. Links
70. Metroid series
71. FIFA Soccer
72. Phantasy Star series
73. AH64-D Longbow
74. Tempest
75. Balance of Power
76. NBA Live '96
77. Shining Force series
78. Track & Field series
79. King's Quest series
80. Falcon Gold
81. River Raid
82. Virtua Cop series
83. Joust
84. Centipede
85. Leisure Suit Larry series
86. Jumping Flash!
87. Discs of Tron
88. Knight Lore
89. Summer Games, Winter Games and California Games
90. Xevious
91. Resident Evil
92. Hard Hat Mack
93. Burning Force
94. Rave Racer
95. Strike series
96. Galaga
97. Space Invaders
98. R-Type
99. NBA Jam series
100. Trinity

I will copy the links to Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Top video games lists/38 when I'm done. :) BOZ (talk) 14:37, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

OK, got through the whole list! :) Most of these were already in the articles, but I did add it to several, and started articles for F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 and World Series Baseball (Saturn), and fixed all of the links above to point to the right articles. :) I will probably do the later top-50 list tomorrow. BOZ (talk) 16:19, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

top 50

I'm starting to go through the second list now. :) BOZ (talk) 12:49, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

1. The Legend of Zelda series
2. Tetris
3. Mario series (including Super Mario 64 that was listed separately at #1 in the previous list)
4. Civilization (I & II)
5. Quake II
6. Metroid series
7. Super Mario Kart
8. Virtua Fighter series
9. Street Fighter II series
10. Goldeneye 007
11. Ridge Racer series
12. Tekken series
13. Resident Evil series
14. Half-Life
15. Gran Turismo
16. Final Fantasy series
17. Galaga
18. Ultima series
19. Sega Rally Championship
20. Wave Race 64
21. Robotron: 2084
22. Tomb Raider
23. Defender
24. Star Wars
25. Doom series
26. Grim Fandango
27. Metal Gear Solid
28. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
29. Asteroids
30. Super Bomberman 2
31. Heroes of Might and Magic series
32. Warcraft/StarCraft series (with StarCraft considered as a spiritual sequel to the Warcraft series)
33. NFL Blitz '99
34. PONG
35. The Lurking Horror
36. PaRappa the Rapper
37. X-COM: UFO Defense
38. Battlezone
39. Herzog Zwei
40. NHL '99
41. Ms. Pac-Man
42. Sonic the Hedgehog (I, II, & III)
43. NFL Gameday series
44. Populous
45. Sam & Max Hit the Road
46. Star Control II
47. Grand Prix Legends
48. Zork series
49. Total Annihilation
50. International Superstar Soccer '98

OK, finally done with this list! Unlike the other list where I created two new articles, on this one I brought NFL Blitz '99 back from the dead. The chief difference between these two lists is that I got through the first one relatively quickly because most of the entries had already been added to the articles. Conversely, with the top 50 list, most of them had not already been added, so it took a long time and several passes to finally get them all on. Glad that I did it, though! :) BOZ (talk) 17:50, 25 May 2020 (UTC)