Forums > MobyGames > MobyGoal - 250 ZX81 games
MobyReed (325) on 6/22/2014 8:42 PM · Permalink · Report
Great job everyone on completing the previous MobyGoal of 4,000 iOS and Android games!
For our next goal we're going to try something decidedly more obscure. Currently we have 80 ZX81 games and are setting a goal for 250.
There are over 500 ZX81 games and you can play them in your browser via a Java emulator.
Kabushi (261204) on 6/22/2014 9:15 PM · Permalink · Report
I actually have adding 100 ZX81 games as my personal goal this year. But I suppose adding another 150 shouldn't take that long...
It should be said that it's quite an easy platform to document due to the good material from the ZX81Stuff site and an easy to use emulator although the games themselves aren't exactly the most thrilling.
Simon Carless (1834) on 6/23/2014 12:38 AM · Permalink · Report
Yup, I was approving your ZX81 games Kabushi, and noted that the sourcing is quite easy. For other people who want to join in, here's the site that has a LOT of the images/info: http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/index.html.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 6/23/2014 2:55 AM · Permalink · Report
Heh, my browser doesn't even want to allow me to run the Java emulator 8) That fact alone is keeping me from having just documented a half-dozen Colossal Caves versions.
Kabushi (261204) on 6/23/2014 2:29 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Rola wrote--] [Q2 --start MobyReed wrote--]over 500 ZX81 games... [/Q2 --end MobyReed wrote--] Please note that this website also list software, not just games - also I'm not sure if they count re-releases towards that number. [/Q --end Rola wrote--]They do but I think 500 is quite reasonable. They also list almost 500 missing in action programs and there are also many type-in and freeware games.
Karsa Orlong (151835) on 6/23/2014 4:41 PM · Permalink · Report
Maybe add 100 titles and make it ZX81+ VIC20 goal? :)
Simon Carless (1834) on 6/24/2014 2:14 AM · Permalink · Report
The goal is gonna be 250 tho :) When Reed sorts out the code rolls again and updates it - which should be v.soon!
Arrimas Arrington on 7/9/2014 8:34 PM · Permalink · Report
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zerothis (101) on 7/12/2014 1:06 AM · Permalink · Report
Is there a mobygoal planned for UNIX games? This is a frustration of mine. Some student puts his game on a college server. Then they graduated and abandon the server space. It eventually gets deleted. In the mean time 100 geeks saw it, and they all become industry game designers. Finding info on these inspired people and their games is easy. But the original is long since vanished from the interwebs. One has to go from developer to developer asking who remembers the guy that inspired them and knows what their real name is. And that's just the first two major hurtles.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 7/12/2014 2:02 AM · Permalink · Report
We do currently support Linux games, which do require a certain technical knowhow in order to document correctly. Older games made for variant flavours of UNIX fall in the contentious gap of "do we categorize these based on their hardware or their OS?"
Rola (8483) on 7/12/2014 3:08 PM · Permalink · Report
@zerothis: in the meantime you may want to read this exciting not-completely-unrelated thread. Too bad it didn't have a happy ending.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 7/12/2014 7:47 PM · Permalink · Report
And thank you for reviving the thread! I think that it represents good progress.
Indra was here (20755) on 7/17/2014 5:48 PM · Permalink · Report
Wish we had a hardware image to go with the platform name. I think I'm only familiar with three platforms in the database. I'm also bad at math. :p
Simon Carless (1834) on 7/17/2014 8:24 PM · Permalink · Report
Yeah, the default platform browse pages are still horrid :/ Congrats to everyone for making the goal tho - I think that was Kabushi, FatherJack, and some other folks BLASTING... woo!
Fred VT (25953) on 7/17/2014 8:30 PM · Permalink · Report
In the meantime, I'm still working on those [MOBYGAMES' MOST WANTED] from the beginning of the year :P Will probably finally add the third skylanders game in the next couple of weeks XD
Those old platforms are just not my forte ;)
Игги Друге (46653) on 7/18/2014 10:31 PM · Permalink · Report
I just happened upon these games from Canada, in case anyone wants to add some more ZX81 games.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 7/26/2014 9:32 AM · Permalink · Report
Please note, the header over each page (and on the mainpage) still hypes: "New MobyGoal! We're aiming for 1,500 well documented Arcade games."
FatherJack (61785) on 7/26/2014 9:36 AM · Permalink · Report
Not sure if i'm right but I think the old one was 1000, it must have now been increased to 1500.
Simon Carless (1834) on 7/26/2014 2:25 PM · Permalink · Report
Yep, this is a brand new goal, so we'll do a news post about it now, yay.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 7/26/2014 2:37 PM · Permalink · Report
OK, that makes more sense.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 7/26/2014 8:47 PM · Permalink · Report
I was just confused by how quickly we returned to the well after ignoring so many other worthwhile prospective goals.
Next MobyGoal: see how many of our small-game-library platforms we can bring to 100% completion.
Rola (8483) on 7/26/2014 11:58 PM · Permalink · Report
There is no such thing as 100% completion thanks to the homebrew scene :/ Even if it's "1979 handheld from Zimbabwe" (to quote Oleg) a new ROM may appear tomorrow...
My former suggestion was good old plain C64. Adding one entry usually also means ports for Spectrum and CPC or even beyond.
chirinea (47495) on 7/27/2014 4:23 AM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Rola wrote--]There is no such thing as 100% completion thanks to the homebrew scene :/ [/Q --end Rola wrote--]This. We had all Odyssey² games for a while, but Revival Studios keep releasing games every now and then, so we're half a dozen games behind completion, it seems.
Simon Carless (1834) on 7/27/2014 5:06 AM · Permalink · Report
If you guys have other suggestions, then yep, we'd love to hear em - we just went back to arcade cos it's by far the biggest area for improvement outside of PC and iOS/Android - there's 2 or 3,000 arcade games still 'missing', we think.
formercontrib (157510) on 7/27/2014 7:56 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
Maybe something that brings quality back to the database, instead of moving on entering hundreds and thousands empty new games entry...?? (with most of them never been touched by anyone afterwards). Something that brings people back the believing that there is at least a little bit of interest remaining about the good old - and meanwhile absolutly meaningless phrases like: Quality over quantity, contribution approvals: first in --> first out etcpp. --- and please don't bore me with the impressive reduction of the approval backlog - there's only one reason for this: Sciere, closing his eyes, shutting off his brain, and hits the approve button in full-automatic mode (which level did he reached meanwhile: 90% of all approvals, give him a new keyboard each 3 months, and he can complete the 100% faster than all others are able to complete 3 old platforms with 100% of all games ever released for it - but before everything else doing this for new entries of poor and poorest quality with errors over errors, but yes - it looks nice and impressive to all of those you look only one time at a new game entry. Besides that, the years ago impressive standard and quality of the database has decreased enormous, even most private 2-weeks-projects does many many things better than Moby actually.
Игги Друге (46653) on 7/27/2014 9:56 AM · Permalink · Report
You are in the contributors top three; probably you know what you're talking about. Why don't you start a new thread, or a new response, where you make a more clear argument?
Cavalary (11445) on 7/29/2014 8:01 PM · Permalink · Report
What about some completion goals next then? If the database can be queried that way, instead of new game entries set a goal for x% of games for [platform] to have at least one cover image, or at least y screenshots or such, the percentage thing making it so adding new entries without that will work against the goal, and also so it'll be harder to reach it just with new entries.