[Freebase-discuss] [philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk: Re: Draft Definition of /cvg/game_version]

[Thad Guidry]

I expected to see a somewhat different hierarchy here:
http://www.freebase.com/view/m/03mh0vs/-/cvg/game_series/games_in_series

<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/03mh0vs/-/cvg/game_series/games_in_series>where
The Sims - the video game series http://www.freebase.com/view/m/03mh0vs

<http://www.freebase.com/view/m/03mh0vs>would include only the 3 major
releases, The Sims 1, The Sims 2, & The Sims 3 and then under each of those
would be the corresponding expansion packs and various platform releases.

Perhaps I don't fully under the video game series ??  Help ?

-Thad

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Anne Semana <nsemana at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've deleted the sentence about Contra and added SimCity as an example
> instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Philip Kendall <
> philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> [ This bounced back to me as well :-( ]
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Philip Kendall <
>> philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk> -----
>>
>> From: Philip Kendall <philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk>
>> To: freebase-discuss at freebase.com
>> Subject: Re: [Freebase-discuss] Draft Definition of /cvg/game_version
>> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:16:04 +0100
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:16:32AM +0800, Anne Semana wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Philip Kendall
>> > <philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk> wrote:
>> > > The comments on Contra / Gryzor are confusing at best: the game was
>> > > caleld Gryzor in all Western markets, not just for the Ocean releases.
>> >
>> > >From Wikipedia.
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=490572#Home_computers
>> >
>> > "Under license from Konami, Ocean Software produced ports of Contra
>> > under the title of Gryzor for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and
>> > Amstrad CPC, which were released in Europe in 1988.[5] An IBM PC
>> > version was also released in Germany.[6] Ocean's ports were patterned
>> > after the original arcade version of the game. The Commodore 64 and
>> > IBM versions were released in North America under the Contra title."
>>
>> You're missing my point. Nobody's disputing the fact that the Spectrum /
>> C64 / etc releases were released as Gryzor: if nothing else, I'm the one
>> that added that information[1]. However, the name change had already
>> occurred _before_ any licensing happened: if you found the arcade machine
>> in a UK arcade, it would be called "Gryzor".
>>
>> [1] As a slight aside here, the C64 and CPC versions are called
>> "Contra" in Freebase. It would be better if the examples we picked
>> matched the claims being made.
>>
>> > Do you have any suggestions what the wording should be?
>>
>> I'd suggest picking a different example, and just avoiding the whole
>> Contra / Gryzor / Probotector issues: the regional differences between
>> all the versions really aren't represented by the data we currently have
>> in Freebase.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil
>>
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