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Per the sources and expansion found by Someone I think this can be withdrawn. Google still has a long way to go in topics pre Internet as they have with non Anglo coverage so the fact that this game was reviewed in notable magazines of that period is sufficient. COuld still use more sources though..♦
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after all that, they're now cited and the article has gone from a sentence or two to a decent start-class article. I would suggest withdrawing this AFD and would also ask anyone with misgivings about an article on an old videogame to consider flagging it up at the videogame project before AFD, we
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a 1996 game by Segasoft whose notability I am not questioning. Google Obsidian 1986 and the sources that turn up are exceedingly poor, so this is a valid nom.. Maybe this is because it was pre-Internet when released so sources may be in magazines.. ♦
281:- search on 1997 with keyword obsidian - they did win three times for their marketing. Article can grow a ton - especially when you include their award winning marketing campaign. I am pretty confident notability is now established. 171: 73: 323:
Is there more than one game with the same name? If so please cite reliable sources and demonstrate that these are actually notable games by adding to them. It would seem Turlo s referring to
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Striking commentary because it is for a different game as stated below. (However, adding notes to other pages talk page,as there is plenty that can be added to existing)
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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wins and "a permanent feature on the New York Museum of Modern Art". This can be proven here
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Questionable notability, doesn't seem to be a lot of reliable sources on it.
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s have been and I've located and used their review to expand the article.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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has been scanned onto the net, but the complete set of
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