MobyGames

MobyGames is a anglophone Web site dedicated to catalog all the existing plays. The site contains a base of extensive data to safeguard information on the video games. The objective of the site is presented clearly: méticuleusement to catalog all the information brought back on the video games (computer, console, and arcade) by treating each play independently, and to then make validate information to reveal only those which attractive and are checked. In February 2006 the catalog has more than 72 different platforms of play (console, computer, portable) and more 13 000 plays single.

MobyGames is based on quality before the quantity, and so certain plays are absent from site, the reason given is that no user contributed, or that information was not valid and suitable.

History

MobyGames was founded March 1999 by Jim Leonard, Brian Hirt, and David Berk (which joined the project 18 months after the beginnings, but which are regarded as one of the founders), three friends since the college. Leonard with the idea to share information concerning the video games with many people; from this desire was born MobyGames.

MobyGames is created only with entries for the plays under DOS and Windows, simply because they were their only familiar systems. Starting from the second birthday, MobyGames starts to support other platforms, initially the last consoles of the time like the PlayStation, then the traditional systems were added. One of the events of most significant the east can be the creation of a petition on line to claim the support of ZX Spectrum. This platform was added at the end of 2004, and a year later 1000 plays were documented.

The additions of 2005 include the platforms MSX, Amstrad CPC, TRS-80, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Java ME, XBox 360 and Gizmondo. According to David Berk, new platforms are added once there is enough information to conceive the structure necessary for them in the database, but also as soon as there are sufficient people wanting to validate on this new platform. In 2006, Atari 8-bit and the TDCI were added in the base of data. The Apple Macintosh is perhaps the system less documented on the site currently, Micro BBC is not either present.

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