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The box says this is a shoot-'em-up, not an action game: http://segaretro.org/File:Gain_Ground_MD_JP_Box.jpg -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 05:15, 9 April 2011 (CDT) | The box says this is a shoot-'em-up, not an action game: http://segaretro.org/File:Gain_Ground_MD_JP_Box.jpg -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 05:15, 9 April 2011 (CDT) | ||
+ | :I had a feeling this would happen eventually. [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/md/soft.html Sega's archive] lists it as an action game: | ||
+ | :1月 3日 ゲイングランド ACT 6,000円 G-4036 4M | ||
+ | :This kind of thing is the reason I made [[User:Andlabs/Shoot-'em-Ups|this]] (especially since I'm going through the non-JP games to see which ones would fit); it's really reassuring to know Sega is inconsistent with their archive too. Should we list it as both? - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 09:29, 9 April 2011 (CDT) | ||
+ | ::[http://vc.sega.jp/vc_gground/ The Virtual Console page says "Tactical Action Shooting..." sigh...] maybe both would be best? - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 09:43, 9 April 2011 (CDT) | ||
+ | :::The Virtual Console genre system might be from Nintendo so that won't count. | ||
+ | :::"Action" seems to have been used to describe most games back in the day, so I would probably lean on going with "shoot-'em-up", if not just to help split the action genre up a bit. Also I suspect the Japanese box is a tad more reliable than Sega's website, because it's easier to make a typo on a website than it is to design and print the wrong logo on a box. I'd put it in both though, just to be safe. | ||
+ | :::Anyway it's not this system that's the problem, it's the one they introduced 1994-ish that'll cause headaches (i.e. the one that accompanies Mega Drive, Game Gear, 32X and Saturn games). You have to make up genres quite a bit since few western-only games were given one officially -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 10:15, 9 April 2011 (CDT) |
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The box says this is a shoot-'em-up, not an action game: http://segaretro.org/File:Gain_Ground_MD_JP_Box.jpg -Black Squirrel 05:15, 9 April 2011 (CDT)
- I had a feeling this would happen eventually. Sega's archive lists it as an action game:
- 1月 3日 ゲイングランド ACT 6,000円 G-4036 4M
- This kind of thing is the reason I made this (especially since I'm going through the non-JP games to see which ones would fit); it's really reassuring to know Sega is inconsistent with their archive too. Should we list it as both? - Andlabs 09:29, 9 April 2011 (CDT)
- The Virtual Console page says "Tactical Action Shooting..." sigh... maybe both would be best? - Andlabs 09:43, 9 April 2011 (CDT)
- The Virtual Console genre system might be from Nintendo so that won't count.
- "Action" seems to have been used to describe most games back in the day, so I would probably lean on going with "shoot-'em-up", if not just to help split the action genre up a bit. Also I suspect the Japanese box is a tad more reliable than Sega's website, because it's easier to make a typo on a website than it is to design and print the wrong logo on a box. I'd put it in both though, just to be safe.
- Anyway it's not this system that's the problem, it's the one they introduced 1994-ish that'll cause headaches (i.e. the one that accompanies Mega Drive, Game Gear, 32X and Saturn games). You have to make up genres quite a bit since few western-only games were given one officially -Black Squirrel 10:15, 9 April 2011 (CDT)
- The Virtual Console page says "Tactical Action Shooting..." sigh... maybe both would be best? - Andlabs 09:43, 9 April 2011 (CDT)