Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Godzilla: Monster War

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep, consensus is that sources are avaialble to verify and establish notability. Davewild (talk) 14:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Godzilla: Monster War

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Fails WP:N, WP:RS and WP:V ukexpat (talk) 19:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• Keep; the best sources will be ten-year-old Japanese gaming magazines, but I have no doubt they exist. The general rule seems to be that actual mainstream console games are notable.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:58, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• Comment. The game does have a page on neoseeker, gamefaqs and gamespot. However those pages have little info regarding the game itself. Besides the picture found in the article seems to be from a gameboy color game.--Lenticel ^(talk) 22:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been added to the list of video game deletions. Someoneanother 19:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. What actions have been taken to verify that the article is not just in need of improvement, but irredeemable? --Kizor 20:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
• I've found a few profile pages for the game [1], [2], [3] which do confirm things such as developer and release date, and suggest notability, but they don't provide that much information to build a verifiable article from. I've been able to find one review, though I don't know how reliable the website is. The existing information can probably be edited and sourced to the game manual (if somebody has it). The profile pages and the fact it is a mainstream console game suggest notability. I'm going to say keep. Also, as mentioned above, I don't doubt there's Nintendo magazines out there with reviews that could be used to make a reception section. Bill ^{(talk|contribs)} 02:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
• Comment, It has an entry on Allgame (Godzilla: Kajuu Dai Kessen), and GameSpot (Godzilla: Kaijuu Daikessen). It was released December 9, 1994 in Japan for the Super Famicom. The serial number is SHVC-AG2J-JPN. It was published by Toho (or perhaps they just own the copyright to Godzilla), and developed by Alfa System (according to GameSpot). It's a 2D fighting game. The playable monsters are Godzilla, Mechagodzilla, Mechagodzilla 2, Super Mechagodzilla, Anguirus, Biollante, Gigan, Guoten, King Ghidorah, Megalon, and Mothra. I believe there were two Godzilla games made for the SNES/Super Famicom. The other was a 1993 Super Famicom/SNES game called Super Godzilla, also distributed by Toho and it was released in English and Japanese.

I don't speak Japanese, but using the symbols found on enwiki and the interlanguage links on the Japanese Wikipedia, this category on jawiki is the category for SNES games. I searched for Godzilla and found this page about a 1993 videogame with Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Mecha-Godzilla, and Biollante, which is in the category Godzilla films and Super NES games. I think that's the Super Famicom version of Super Godzilla though (based on the year and since the title is <something> Godzilla). The list of SNES games lists the release date of that game as December 22, 1993. And yes, from the Google translation I see that's Super Godzilla.

The Japanese Wikipedia page for Alfa System mentions Godzilla and Toho and Street Fighter II, possibly indicating a fighting game, although I believe it's mentioning a PC Engine game since I can't find the sub-title of this game, 怪獣大決戦.

The list of SNES games lists a Godzilla game under 1994 with the release date December 9 with a price of 9,980 yen, which is this game I believe. That link currently redirects to Godzilla though. The Google translation of the Japanese Godzilla article mentions it, under "Armageddon monster Godzilla." I'm sure there were reviews of the game in Japan when it came out. The Japanese title of the game is ゴジラ 怪獣大決戦 according to the Japanese Wikipedia. There are 2,100 Google hits for that (14,700 hits if you put a space after Godzilla). --Pixelface (talk) 05:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

• Keep, like Prosfilaes said, I'm sure coverage of this game exists in Japanese magazines from 1994. Help from WP:CVG/M and Japanese-speaking Wikipedians may be needed, but sources can be found and translated before our deadline. --Pixelface (talk) 20:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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