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[edit] Worms table of contents

Hi, I saw your changes to the Worms (game) article, and I did like the added content; however, the new table of contents is huge.

Maybe you didn't see the discussion, but people agreed the old table of contents, with 50 weapons, wasn't good. I then replaced it with a categorized weapon list (and no individual headings for weapons), to make it smaller.

Could you please consider returning to the old format (or any other similar)? I can do it, if you allow me. (and sorry for my terrible english) --Kamek 17:46, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)

Ach, sorry, I didn't read the discussion. I thought it was better with everything referenced in a table. The problem is that with the old layout you have to offset every paragraph manually, which seems too clunky to me. Perhaps, instead of using headings, couldn't we just embolden them? That way they won't show up in the table.

Spottedowl 22:51, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Up/down

Hi there - yes, most are two dimensional, but some, like Fortress, have a true three dimensional element, you can go for/back, left right, or up and down. I think there are others, but you are right that they are rare. Mark Richards 14:08, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

m:Sure - its not a big deal, it was an old BBC Micro diagonal scroller where you were a plane with (IIRC) bombs and lasers, you had to fly into a kind of mechanical fortress and try to reach the end, it was fiendishly difficult, because it had so many controls, and because it was very difficult to judge the height of terain, which could kill you if you were not high enough. A great example of why these games SHOULD only be 2D! Mark Richards 16:58, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You will be refilling R-type, right?

I see you're working there, but it looks like you may have (temporarily) blanked it? - 04:50, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Er. Aye, I'm working on it, and it's there now. I don't know why it went blank. Spottedowl 04:53, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

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[edit] Power-up

I know that this is a bit late, but thanks for adding the images on the power-up article. They act as a very good demonstration and give the article a nicely cheerful feel. -- Kizor 11:16, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Defender

I was playing this damned game when you were born and haven't seen one in many years. How do you know about it? Do you know if there is a version that runs on Windows? alteripse 00:32, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Need your help and input

I have been trying to organize the mess of shoot em ups, by adding consistant categories. But i need so input.

1. in Shoot 'em up are you satisifed with the classifications of games and terminology used and the hiearchy in particular (eg run and gun is a subtype of multi-directional shooters]] 2. Should we creat categories for every type of shoot 'em up. I created a category for run and guns, but what about multi-directional shooters or tube shooters, or 3d shooters? 3. Can you go over run and gun and see if i didnt assume too much? 4. Are tehre more shoot em up types needed like vehicular shooters, and so on (the way MAME classifies games)? 5. ANything else you can think of. 6. SCrolling shooter really needs some serious attention. 7. R-type needs and deserves its own category, and a series template. (I can do this, i just want to know if oyu agree) Let me know and thanks alot!! --20:38, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Centipede clones

There are actually dozens of Centipede clones, mostly written for home computers in the early 1980s. I gave a few representative examples, but this is not an exhaustive list by any means. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 03:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cute 'em ups, French article on shoot'em ups

The french wikipedia page on shoote m ups is quite extensive, I could use some help merging this in. Also is "cute 'em up" a valid phrase? The french article and shmups! @ classic gaming seems to think so . french article. The frtench article has a long history of shoot em ups, but im not sure if we shoudl adapt to their styile or continue with the current history being inline with the subtype of shooter --19:28, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ghouls 'n Ghosts, a Run and gun?

i reall yhtink ghouls n ghosts, and the related games in the series is a run and gun; has all the charersitic elements, particulary an emphasis on shooting and large bosses, and wealth of powerups. What do you think? Also I was thinking about re-categorizing scrolling shooters into veritcal and horizontal and multi-directional. What do you think about that as well? (the last one isnt necessary, but I htink the first two are) Giving mo love to shooters :), --Larsinio 23:48, 22 February 2006 (UTC)==Categorizing shoot 'em ups== I was thinkin about that too; I do like just being able to click on any of these games, but at the same time I think its in the better interest to further classify the games. So im for splitting them up into vertical and horizontal categories, with a good brief explanation at the top of the category page for each, and explanation also on the scrollign shooter category page.

Also, do you think, racing shooters (spy hunter, breakthru, any other game thats like spy hunter) merit their own category?> or Are they simply just variations on a common theme? --Larsinio 17:42, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French Shoot 'em up article

Can you help me out by figuring out what is salvage from teh french shoot em up article? [1] Just run it through google translate. I am trying to figure this out as well. --Larsinio 16:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Manic shooter

I think we can go ahead with moving Bullet Hell into Manic shooter. Right? --larsinio \----(poke)––(prod)----/ 14:27, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Series boxes

Hi, I just had a glimpse at WP:AG talk and noticed you inquired about series boxes used at the bottom of articles. Perhaps you've already found an answer to your question? Generally there is no style guideline, most editors just copy and paste or design new ones themselves. You're free to edit any box to your hearts content. Cheers ~ Vic Vipr 21:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shoot 'em up

Is it against the law to Namco-ise the article? And everybody knows that Namco is the biggest and best arcade game developing company of all time, who were especially dominant in Japan in the 1980s! They made the first true colour arcade game, the first game to feature synthesized voices, the first game to feature a bonus stage, the first game to have a continue feature, the first vertical scrolling shooter, the first side-scrolling platformer, the first spinoff game to star an enemy character from a previous game and they also made the first 16-bit game. Pac-Man765 07:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uploading screenshots

Hello - can you help with explaining how to successfully upload a screenshot? Even if I tell it a source and select the licence that it is a screenshot, I still get the error "This image has no source information". On another note, is it legal to upload screenshots from MAME? The roms are still copyrighted... Thanks Sandman30s 22:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I've tried to re-upload Image:2_On_2_Open_Ice_Challenge.png and I've now used the description:

Source: a screenshot taken by myself from the emulator MAME

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To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

and I've selected the video game screenshot from the licence dropdown, and STILL it warns me about no source. Help :) Sandman30s 22:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC) PS/ Is there a way of editing the description instead of re-uploading the file?

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