Category talk:Genres

Games with these titles

 * Action (1 pinball game)
 * Adventure (3 games; an Atari action game, a multi-platform text game, a mobile phone game)
 * American Football (arcade game with ports)
 * Baseball
 * Basketball
 * Bowling (no redirect or game yet)
 * Boxing
 * Flight Simulation (1983 Spectrum game)
 * Golf
 * Hack N' Slash (kind of borderline, but Hack and Slash would be a logical redirect to it)
 * Hockey (no redirect or game yet)
 * Pinball
 * Puzzle (2 games; 1990 computer game, 2008 mobile phone game)
 * Racing
 * Run and Gun (arcade game)
 * Shooter (iPod game)
 * Snowboarding (2 games; PlayStation game, mobile phone game)
 * Soccer
 * Stealth
 * Tennis
 * Wrestling (Atari game)


 * Are these the name of games that conflict with our genres? -- 23:53, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Some of them don't conflict yet because there's no page there, and others that do conflict should probably keep their redirect. Categories like "Adventure" have so many games and I think it's much more likely anyone using Adventure wants the category. Maybe these genres should have a link to a disambiguation page or a game page at the top. The strike-through names are ones that are already disambiguated, either through a game being at the main page or a disambiguation page there (Boxing). — najzere T 00:24, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I screwed up actually :( I gave Golf to the NES title, but the 2600 version came out first.  So technically, the current Golf article should be "Golf (Nintendo)" (since it was on the Famicom, NES, FDS, and e-Reader), and a new Golf article for the Atari 2600 should go in it's place... :P   Pro  cyon  04:19, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I changed my mind. I think the pages should go to the games, not the categories, regardless of how large the category is. The reason is that as editors, it's our responsibility make sure our links are correct, while users who type in the name of their game should be taken where they expect to go. I don't know if we're capturing searches, but I doubt many people are searching for game genres. Obviously, if we change this it will have to be watched on every new guide page, but the blanket use of C may make it bearable. Still, it's a big change and just about every game named after its category is pretty old and/or unpopular, so this probably isn't a huge problem. When the next blockbuster PS3/360/Windows game called "Action" comes out though… :P — najzere T 16:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)