thank you for this wonderful app. i find the images/information in mobygames to be more robust than tgdb. mobygames has lots more cover art including pictures of the cartridges, which i love to see. is there any future update that would include mobygames as one of the links? I copied some pictures from mobygames to tgdb but then i was concerned about copyright issues, etc. i can use google images to find cartridge pictures or missing cover art, but that seems cumbersome.
I just wanted to call out these websites for the wealth of information they provide. You can get tons of info, screenshots, trivia and more.
I especially want to call out Hall of Light which is a database of Amiga games and magazines. I never got into Amiga gaming so maybe this site is pretty well known. It has an incredible amount of information for games. For example here is Loom. It has front and back box cover, manual, and misc scans of stuff that came in the box. The most impressive thing for me is it links to reviews of the game. You click on that and it takes you to a list of all the Amiga magazines where a review appeared. You click there and it will tell you what page the review is on and you can just click on it and view it in the website. I wish we had such extensive and easy to access info for other platforms!
I can't even remember the last time I logged in. I remember one time it took a year to approve just one grammar edit on one game, sheesh! Me and my colleagues switched to Wikipedia/other sites to help archive video game data nowadays. I hope MG goes the same route honestly one day. Great concept but the approval process is too much.
I'm looking into making some boxes but I can't find complete scans for most of the games I'd like to on mobygames. Since they're not games for Nintendo consoles, nintandbox isn't useful.
I'd really appreciate it if anyone could recommend me some other sites.
By Genre:
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2483 Action Games
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948 Adventure Games
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363 Compilations
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2340 DLC / Add Ons
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67 Educational Games
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645 Puzzle Games
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281 Racing/Driving Games
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504 RPGs
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595 Simulation Games
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238 Special Editions
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206 Sports Games
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704 Strategy Games
Some crossover between genres means some games are counted here twice (9374 games vs. 8160 actual listed = 1214 crossover games)
By Platform:
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2 Amiga games
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647 Android games
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2 Apple II games
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5 Arcade games
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12 Arduboy games
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1 Atari 2600 game
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2 Atari 8-bit games
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44 Browser games
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1 Commodore 16/Plus 4 game
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7 Commodore 64 games
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4 DOS games
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3 Dedicated Consoles
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3 Dedicated Handhelds
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2 Dreamcast games
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2 FireOS games
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1 Game Boy game
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1 Genesis game
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2 Glulx game
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2 J2ME games
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1016 Linux games
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1684 Macintosh games
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3 NES games
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40 New Nintendo 3DS games
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118 Nintendo 3DS games
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1 Nintendo DS game
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455 Nintendo Switch games
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205 PS Vita games
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204 PS3 games
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1874 PS4 games
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2 Pokkito games
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9 SNES games
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9 Tizen games
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7 Wii games
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120 Wii U games
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5020 Windows games
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183 Windows apps
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20 Windows phone games
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149 Xbox 360 games
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1278 Xbox One games
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7 ZX Spectrum games
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1 ZX81 game
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1148 iPad games
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1139 iPhone games
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44 tvOS games
Games for much older platforms are usually hobbyist games or anniversary / collection releases. Games released on multiple platforms.
Just find this sort of info dump interesting and figured I'd copy paste it in case anyone else likes looking at a big picture of what platforms are out there, what genres are popping and just how many damn games there are these days, every year. In comparison, 2018 is up to about 5600 games so far and no sign of slowing down.
Launch credits: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/planetside-2/credits
This list likely just the launch credits as at Nov 2012. It doesn't cover all the work done under a huge team at SOE, and the team at Daybreak up till now, December 2017. It doesn't include PS1 team and their legacy. Probably misses a whole bunch of others who helped out but are not included.
- Executive Producer: Josh Hackney
- Producer:Ryan Wells
- Project Manager:David Carey, Shad Halsey, Jason Good
- Technical Director:Ryan Elam
- Client Engineering Lead:Shawn Baird
- Gameplay Engineering Lead:Bradley Heinz
- Engineering: James Campion, Bill Carlson, Mark H. Cieslar, Roy Eltham, Ryan Favale, Bijan Forutanpour, Alex Hoffman, Richard Jayne, Julio Jerez, Steven Klug, Joshua M. Kriegshauser, Kevin McPherson, Terry Michaels, Thomas Schenck, Greg Spence, Andre Watson
- UI Engineering Lead:Amit Shravan Patel
- UI Engineer:Jared Adkins, Tracey Bulliung, Chris Lee
- Build Master:Andrew U. Baker
- Business Intelligence:Gordon Brooks, Paul Cammish
- Additional Engineering:Rob Elam, Mickey Kawick, Russell Peltz, John W. Ratcliff, * Mark Storer, Hugh Smith
- Creative Director:Matthew Higby
- Combat Lead: Joshua Sanchez
- Infantry Combat Designer:Bryan Burness, M. Margaret A. Krohn, Jimmy Whisenhunt
- Vehicle Combat Lead: Kevin Moyer
- Vehicle Combat Designer: Dan Binter, Kris Roberts
- Environment Design Lead: Leonard Gullo II
- Facility Design Lead: Corey E. Navage
- World Designer: David Bennett, Brian Bosch, Alexander Clauss, Adam Clegg, Travis * DeSpain, Gerald Ligot
- Systems/UI Design Lead: Jonathan Weathers
- Social Systems Lead: Paul Carrico
- Microtransaction/Economy Lead: Ryan Nakashima
- Systems Designer: Taylor Dowell
- Additional Design: Drew Harry, Kevin McCann, Luke Sigmund
- Writing Services & Storyline Development: Marv Wolfman
- Senior Art Director: Tramell Ray Isaac
- Art Director/Vehicle Art Lead: William B. Yeatts
- Vehicle Art: Jacob Stone
- 2D Art Lead: Cesar Kobashikawa
- 2D Artist: Richard Diamond, Philip Tseng
- Animation Lead: Chad Lichty
- Animator: Sarah Barnes, Jay Brushwood, David Carter, Brad Constantine, Shawn DePriest, Shaun Johnston, Vanessa Landeros
- Character Art Lead: Mat Broome
- Character Artist: Kenneth Shofela Coker, Matthew Mangini, Jason Webb
- Weapon Art Lead: Ryan Zimmerman
- Weapon Artist: Matt Chavis, Lee Hinds, Christopher Bishop
- Environment Art Lead: Alen Lapidis
- Environment Artist: Kevin Burns, Steve Butler, Alexander
For cover art, screenshots, and promo image galleries
Example pages: https://www.mobygames.com/game/garou-mark-of-the-wolves/cover-art
https://www.mobygames.com/game/garou-mark-of-the-wolves/screenshots
https://www.mobygames.com/game/garou-mark-of-the-wolves/promo
While i am still slowly adding my game library i noticed:
Mobygames has a pretty good and accurate database of boxshots. Escpecially when it comes to download only titles mobygames provides good but not too huge picture quality and a consitent format.
for importing i prefer thegamesdb.net - it has the best amount of information and pictures of boxshots. (btw: psn import worked perfectly kudos!)
but for the lots of missing tiles i add them through other databases or manually and later i reassign 90% of the boxshot with pictures from mobygames.
SO: maybe its a good idea to implement a mobygame search in the picture search dialog (besides camera, direct image url, google image search, others).
maybe not - just want you guys to know of some of my ideas while i'm still using the app so intensley
keep up the good work
Main discussion thread at Mobygames.
I have been using MobyGames since 2002. The site golden years are far in the past. However, until today it remains one of my preferred sites for old games information. Want to find a screenshot of that game that you played on the late 80s on ZX Spectrum? Is there. Want to find more about some obscure console. Also there. Does not matter what you want, as the site claim, they are the most comprehensive gaming database out there. Built an maintained by a very small and dedicated community.
However, the site founders sold the site to GameFly by 2010 for an undisclosed amount and since then there was no communications at all with the community.
This month's redesign is alienating the community and threatening to finally sink the ship. A sad day.
I've been trying to find the name of two old DOS games. Both are early to mid-90s, and they're both 2D 16-bit pixel based. Edit: Forgot to mention that both are medieval era games.
The first one is primarily a strategy game with RPG elements. The RPG portion of the game comes mainly in the form of events popping up with various options to choose from. The events are very reminiscent of Crusader Kings 1 and 2. It mostly focuses on a world map of sorts, with tiles representing different provinces. I vaguely remember being able to design your own castle/forts as well. I think the story/campaign portion of the game had you playing as the Kingdom of Wallachia, though I could be confusing that for another game. Also, I don't remember the maps being randomly generated like Master of Magic was.
There's another DOS-era game that is mostly an RPG, where you have a fairly in-depth character creation screen. There's an overworld portion to the game that really reminds me of the SNES overworld screens, just more detailed. Also, the sprite that represented you on the overworld was not animated, and I for some reason remember it being a horseman with a flag. I think the game was open-world.
Feel free to ask for more details, and sorry for the horrible descriptions!
