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1024: 431: 1328:"A game that is sufficiently accessible and transparent, usually lacking depth, that groups of adults and younger children can play together. There are usually mechanisms of some sort that make it possible for Junior to win occasionally, or for mom and dad to let Junior win without appearing to do so. Many of the traditional games people know, such as Monopoly, Sorry, the Game of Life, and so on, are family games." (Source: 1060: 503: 850: 74: 53: 837: 84: 22: 1186:. I think that the content in the Cloned video game console article can easily be explained in the context of Video game clone, and the Video game clone article is of a reasonable size in which the merging of Cloned video game console will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. 1303:
Never heard them called "family game" either. The concept itself is notable enough to be covered in console articles, with a short mention about cloned video games here. I'm not sure why this article is covering cloned consoles in such detail, surely console related articles are much more relevant.
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Hmm, I'm not sure, necessarily. First, that article needs sources (I know that such units exist, but I've never heard them termed "family game" before, more typically "X-in-one" type consoles). Second, while we are talking about clones of video game software, the software elements I doubt have any
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This article is extremely biased. Star Ocean is not a clone of Tales, nor is Warcraft a clone of Dune II. True, it actually started out as "Warhammer" but blizzard lost the contract and renamed it and finished the game. By the way, Attack Of The Mutant Camels was not a clone of Defender, it was a
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Clones of Minecraft are one of, if not the largest example of modern game clones, with thousands of titles attempting to capture Minecraft's success. Please consider this addition, as it's important to understanding of clones in the modern videogame industry. This could be included in the 2012
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If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as
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where the point has been made that all "family games" are "family-friendly", but not all "family friendly" games are "family games". Even so, the two terms seem much more similar than "Family game" and "Video game clone" so I think this re-redirect makes sense.
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Dates are all over the place on this, and looking through history, the first dates added (several years after the article was started) are YYYY-MM-DD. I would suggest we standardize these to mdy but want to get consensus before running that script.
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I just re-redirected "Family game" to "Family-friendly" as that article seems to be much more similar to the various published definitions of "Family game" than this one. For reference, here are some of the definitions I located and their sources:
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Oh wait, we do cover some consoles here. I'd still prefer to see sourcing on the Family game article (to make sure we have the right name, at minimum) before merging into here. --
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significant influence on their own, it's the fact these hardware units were/are produced that make the units notable; hence it may be better in a hardware console area. --
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What exactly are the games Mabinogi, CABAL online, and other Korean MMORPGs a clone of? I sometimes label them as Ragnarok clones, although i'm probably VERY INNACURATE.
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is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under
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Paper on video game clones; might not be an RS itself but has number of relevant links within it
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as to why its use in Knowledge (XXG) articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the
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will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. --
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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:
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There is also a fair bit of discussion of the topic in various forum threads at
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http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20140804/222542/When_is_a_Clone.php
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clone of Star Wars something or other (the one with the ATAT walkers)
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Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish
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Please add Goldeneye (N64) to the list of cloned games.
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Gamasutra discussion on casual market and cloned games
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