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Here is the scan of the sales review. There are more nuggets, help yourself. This stuff has been around for years, yet nobody bothered to take a look--surely there are a lot of articles that could use these lists!

• If you're interested, here is a 1998 sales report which mentions that FU2 sold 3363 copies--quite miserable and contrary to TTLG's info. No idea how you could possibly cite this, however. Electroguv (talk) 21:50, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to get Monkey Island 2 to the GA status--it's a shame such a classic doesn't have it yet--and I'm currently having a lot of trouble with finding development info. Could you help me out and try finding something in your sources database (which, as far as I'm concerned, is large enough to cover the entire history of Looking Glass Studios)? Electroguv (talk) 22:56, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• On the subject of MI2--I know you'll retire sooner or later (real sad, considering you reappeared after quite a long absence), but would you like to help me with the article should I put together a decent Development section (which now seems to be the case because I found a few interesting tidbits the other day)?

Hey JB—would you be able to get me a copy of the Mischief Makers coverage in NG issue 34? czar ♔ 00:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to drop a note about

I have no way of knowing exactly how much it's been used, but I do see evidence of its impact from time to time, which always makes my day.

I believe I originally found your online sources page when searching for EGM reviews for Mischief Makers—wouldn't have known those archived sources would have existed without your work, so thank you. As a suggestion for your new guide: what would be helpful for me is a pointer to all the online places to search for each platform (where to search for Atari vs. NES vs. SNES/Genesis—what magazines covered each one and the best way to search them systematically). No pressure, just something I was thinking about czar ♔ 22:03, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Wikipedia_talk:VG#Source_update—does that mean you have Mitaphane's originals or digital copies? czar ♔ 00:47, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, awesome! More than I was expecting... Thank you very much!!! I hope I can do a great use of this material. Cheers, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 04:19, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, JimmyBlackwing, and thanks once more for your help at Sega Saturn. It turns out there is something else you could assist us with. Red Phoneix used material from the "EGM rates the systems of 1996!" article in Electronic Gaming Monthly 78 (January 1996) for the "Reception" section, but was unsure about the correct page number when I asked him abut it. I noticed you have this issue in your collection, so I was hoping you could look into the matter. Cheers,TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 22:16, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your effort to find scans online, regardless. Is the citation still accurate, then? Regards,TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the thorough review. I'm interested in the FACs where "short length" was criticized, if you can point me towards them czar ♔ 18:49, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man, I recently put Super Mario Bros. 3 up for a peer review, and was wondering if you could kindly give some feedback on the article. I'm planning on taking it to FA in the upcoming weeks so anything would be appreciated! Thanks for your time. URDNEXT (talk) 21:21, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So this little number finally has a bronze star on itself. And since you mentioned in the nomination that you helped with acquiring the sources for the article, I wanted to say thanks. Also, you probably should update your "History" section on your user page. Looks to be dated. GamerPro64 00:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You know what? I was thinking about an Ion Storm topic after all of this. Heck, I wondering about how to work on the beast that was Daikatana. Mainly because that article was the one that got me into working on Wikipedia. Well at least going on its talk about lead me to the project. So yeah I'm all for it. Deus Ex is already a Good Article too, though it may need cleaning up. Maybe we can start with that one. GamerPro64 14:21, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JimmyBlackwing,

Here is the review you requested --> [1] <-- --SubSeven (talk) 01:12, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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OK I located the article after a bit of searching but it's not very long really. It was situated in a "PC news in brief" kind of section. Anyway here's the blurb:

• MacDonald, Thomas L. "Game Views: Inside the Box - News From the World of Electronic Gaming - PC." Games. No.175 (Vol 25, #9). November 2001. Pg.74. ISSN 0199-9788.

I hope you find it helpful. -Thibbs (talk) 00:23, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for flat-out insulting another user., as you did at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:11, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Believe me when I say I really wish I didn't have to do this, but come on man... you can't just say shit like that. The diff has been RevDel'ed but you know what I'm talking about. And I'm 100% certain that you sincerely know better. I dunno what got into you to post that but I really regret that it happened; please understand that I just couldn't see that and let you off with a warning and still call myself a fair admin. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:13, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My 2¢ (having seen the post and chosen not to reply "WP:NPA") is that a warning would have sufficed czar ♔ 02:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't seen the post myself but I agree that a warning should've happened first. I swear anything Niemti related brings the worse out of us. GamerPro64 02:18, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Okay, so I may have jumped the gun a bit because I was so shocked to see an editor whom I respect a lot flatout insult another, seemingly unprovoked. I agree a warning would've been better than a full block, and thus I unblocked you, but Jimmy... please don't do that again. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:37, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks, Salvidrim. At the time, I saw it as an uncontroversial assessment of his behavior over the last several years, from a psychology standpoint. It was never intended to be an outright flame. However, I fired off the remark without much thought, and I was irritated by the idea of BOZ's amazing work being systematically vandalized. I see now that these factors produced a comment that reads like a random, disrespectful and unproductive insult. I regret posting it and causing all of this fuss. Sorry for the bad form, guys. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:21, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• For what it's worth, I agree with you on the specifics of this "dispute" and I can certainly understand that tempers can run high when dealing with Niemti. Thanks for not taking my action too harshly, I overreacted slightly (a bit like you did maybe?), so it just goes to prove that nobody's perfect. But if you're gonna fight to the death, at least pick an opponent that's worth your time. *hug* ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:34, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your honest and thorough FAC review. I was more interested in your help, rather than a freebie support vote, so there's no need to apologize for not holding back. That being said, I found your review to be incredibly frustrating for the reason that most of your suggestions were proposed reversals of input that I've received via peer reviews and GANs over the last four years. Seriously, look at them and you will see people insisting that I remove the content that you were insisting upon. That's frustrating to me because I completely agree with all your points, but I have been editing the page at the insistence of others who had certain details that they found imperative for every quality scale benchmark. Nonetheless, your criticism seems the most valid, so I'll do what I can to fix the prose and make the text pragmatic. DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 00:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jimmy, very nice to hear from you! Of course I've considered something like this, and I planned to actually bring BS5 and BASS to GA status, but of course they're quite a big piece for me, and I've been rather lonely in my Revolution editing, with the exception of your help with copy-editing & plot sections. Plus I've been a little inactive lately. If you'd be willing to jump in, I might get a bit of motivation. :) Cheers, --Khanassassin ☪ 18:03, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/System Shock --Harizotoh9 (talk) 20:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have Game Informer July 2007? I'm attempting to source the last line from Deus Ex mods:

Two texture mods, Project HDTP and the enhanced OpenGL renderer, were featured in a July 2007 issue of Game Informer, along with gameplay mod Shifter.

czar ♔ 22:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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To JimmyBlackwing, thank you for writing the article "Thief II: The Metal Age". Axl ¤ [Talk] 18:15, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. I saw your essay, and it's quite good. It's also very similar to and more comprehensive than something I had been planning and started writing for the 2014 3rd Quarter WPVG newsletter. Would you be interested in contributing your work as the featured article for that issue? Take a look at our conversation here for more details. Cheers. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 04:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you have Flight Unlimited III up at FAC. Also, I noticed you saying that once it gains Featured Article status, you would nominate the Looking Glasses topic to Featured Topic. I'm just letting you know that it doesn't have to be nominated. Once a Good Topic has at least 50% of their content be of Featured Content, it automatically becomes a Featured Topic. Hopefully that makes things a bit more easier. GamerPro64 15:24, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically, you update the little stars on the topic, and let the coordinators (*cough*GamerPro64*cough*) know, and they'll shuffle the categories/templates around. --PresN 22:56, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for helping the games project! URDNEXT (talk) 23:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks very much for offering with the sources! Well, Legend of Mana come out in NA in June 2000, and JP in July 1999, so articles would be in:

• a review around EGM issue 133 (August 2000)
• a review in Next Generation issue 8 (August 2000) with a preview in Next Generation issue 55 (July 1999)
• OPM US preview in issue 21 (June 1999), news in issue 24 (September 1999), preview again in issue 33 (June 2000), and review probably in issue 35 (August 2000, if you have it)

I'm particularly desperate for development information, so if EGM has anything else I'd really appreciate it. No rush on any of this; I've been moving pretty slowly on this article for a while and I can always jump ahead to Sword of Mana. --PresN 21:45, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Yeah, the ultimania isn't going to happen- I spent 24 solid hours once hand-OCRing and translating a few mediocre scans of interviews from the Final Fantasy XIII ultimania after an FAC complaint, and I am never ever doing that again. There's no good scans or translations out there, and I don't much feel like spending $30 on a book I can't read for a game I didn't play. --PresN 05:37, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JimmyBlackwing. You may remember offering me some of your resources if I wanted to go for Dreamcast. I'm finally back from my extended Wikibreak (meh, about two months) and would be ready to go on that. That being said, I also have another question involving if you have sources... I'm working right now on a GA review for PlayStation (console) and honestly it's missing a lot of content. I've suggested a full refit to a user called Jaguar, and he's at work on it, but any sources you have could be really helpful here as well. Much as I may be a Sega nerd, I wouldn't like to leave this article for such an important console just hanging. If you've got anything for either one, that would be fantastic. Thank you, Red Phoenix ^{let's talk...} 15:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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video games
Thank you for quality articles on video games such as System Shock, following "countless standards for video game article quality", for collaboration and taking care of the project archives, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Thank you for Thief II: The Metal Age, precious again, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were recipient no. 786 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for today's Flight Unlimited III, "not a well known game. It bombed commercially and helped to bankrupt its developer, Looking Glass Studios. Even the company's management, and publisher Electronic Arts, seemed uninterested in it. Still, it was technologically advanced for its time, and reviewers loved it." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Six years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Jimmy, thanks for the edits. Question on this:

Fez was released on April 13, 2012, and it sold 200,000 copies during its yearlong exclusivity to the Xbox Live Arcade platform.

Why was that "it" needed (bolded)? czar ♔ 06:12, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not receiving any further input, not even from CR4ZE. Should I simply go ahead and start a peer review for Dota 2? DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 23:16, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You probably noticed the ping, but I have opened a new peer review. Do people ever say "fourth time's a charm"? :P DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 23:25, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking through the article and noticed a hidden message about wanting to add a piece of information but it was in the second issue of Play magazine. By any chance do you have a copy or know how to get that information fully sourced? GamerPro64 00:36, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I'll worry about that later. While we're on the subject of magazines, do you have anything involving the game? GamerPro64 01:01, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad my work is appreciated. The only one I'm feeling uneasy about bringing up for any kind of review is the Characters article. There aren't really the sources to make it as complete as I would like. Also, I've recently nominated the article for FF character Lightning as an FA, so I prefer to focus fully on that for the time being. Anyway, thanks for the message. --ProtoDrake (talk) 09:09, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Update for you: I'm making a push towards getting my Drakengard GT. I'm doing a rewrite of the Characters article in my sandbox. If you would like to contribute, feel free. Any improvements you can make to the other two in my absence would also be greatly appreciated, but are not compulsory. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:13, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Jimmy. I just want to say thank you for sticking up for me at my RfA. It was a train wreck but I still appreciated you backing me up on certain issues raised. Makes me happy when you know others are on your side. GamerPro64 03:19, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed this listed at WP:VG talk. It was "one of mine" and I've been under the impression it was a GA :S Looking at the talk page it seems I nominated it, then withdrew the nom "for now". The best I can recall, I probably withdrew it during a period of inactivity: I nominated several articles for GA, waited a few weeks during which I ended up having less time; someone then decided to review multiple of my nominations at once and had a go at me because he ended up failing a couple. I'm guessing that was when and why I withdrew the nomination. I guess maybe I should just go ahead and nominate it; though not entirely sure I can be bothered... Cheers bridies (talk) 08:24, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Glad to see someone noticed; it's always encouraging. I had originally just planned on doing Seiken 3, then did Secret as well, and then since I had the sources... It'll take me a while to get the last three, since I'm busy at work/with a new baby, but I'll get there. It's good to see you still here, tooling around giving crazy-in-depth reviews; hope you find another big project to work on now that your LGS FT masterwork is done (speaking of impressive)! --PresN 01:49, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jimmy,

I regret to say it, but I simply do not have the time nor energy to edit Wikipedia for the foreseeable future. I was really enthused about fixing up the Dota 2 article, but with my new film, I've been stripped of the resources I'd need to edit, so I do believe I must step away. I would, however, be interested in hearing if you'd feel compelled to edit the article yourself and possibly bring it to FA status if you were so willing. You have excellent intuition about this kind of thing, which would be a relief for the article's sake, as I believe I can't help it further at this time. DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 19:11, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An update concerning the FA nomination of said article. It's in the process of being promoted. Thank you for the extensive prose review. --ProtoDrake (talk) 15:41, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Jimmy, regarding your edit request, I'd prefer not to deal with TFA conflicts until the 1st. My thinking is that we pull people like you into the process to help make the rules, but we'll have to do that carefully. More on the 1st. - Dank (push to talk) 20:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mean to sound like a tantruming child, but would I be eligible for an exemption of the two-week prohibition for this FAC? It failed on inactivity grounds with no unaddressed feedback; there was one support and one extensive review from a user who wasn't available very often and was almost done, and because there hadn't yet been two supports (though this second reviewer only had one section to go), I couldn't ask for image and source reviews. Again, I don't mean to just pout because I didn't get the result I wanted (I actually reviewed a Video games WikiProject member's GAN in exchange for them reviewing someone else's older FAC); I just don't have anything to work on with it for two weeks, which it looks like is supposed to be the point of the prohibition. Thanks. Tezero (talk) 17:03, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• @Tezero: Wrong talk page. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 17:12, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Couldve sworn I went to Ian Rose's. Thanks, I guess. Stupid phone. Tezero (talk) 17:31, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Could I please have a scan of the Lego Racers review from issue 1 (Jan 2000) of Next Generation Magazine? Thanks, BlookerG ^talk 10:55, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JB—thought you'd be interested in this article:

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Hey JB—I'm looking for EGM scans of reviews from the Super Mario Land series. Should be reviews of the three series games in July 2003 #168, if you have a moment. czar ⨹ 18:57, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey JimmyBlackwing, I took a look at the Famitsu reviews of Red Alarm. Sadly the quality of the scan is such that some of the diacritics and especially the smaller radicals in complex kanji were too blurry for me to have more than 90% confidence in my transcript. I'll give you what I produced for what it's worth. You can probably get some kind of a sense of what they're saying by copy&pasting to Google Translate or any of the other online translators. On the other hand the names of the reviewers are quite clear and I'll provide those too. Reviewers in order from top to bottom: Sawadi Noda (サワディ・ノダ), Mizu Pin (水ピン), Isabella Nagano (イザベラ永野), and Ninja Masuda (忍者増田)

Hopefully you can use some of that. You may already know but PlanetVB is also hosting a 4-page article on the game in the August 1995 issue of Virtual Boy Tsushin (pp.32-35) (link: [2]). The quality of that scan is even worse than the Famitsu article, though. I'm not sure I could get more than 60% of it even with the help of the furigana.

I looked through my Portuguese and Chinese material as well and there are a few references to the game, but only the Portuguese Super GamePower had what I would consider "significant coverage" in the sense meant by GNG (i.e. they devoted a sidebar to the game and images of it), and even that was pretty small. Here is what they said in case it is helpful: "Red Alarm - As imagens deste game de tiro espacial parecem simples demain, até você começar a jogar. Uma visão por trás da nave permite vôos acima, abaixo e em torno de obstáculos e naves inimigas. Seu arsenal inclui lasers e mísseis." (Morales, Marcelo (ed.) "Cicuirto Aberto" Super GamePower No.18, P.11. September 1995. ISSN 0104-611X). Also in their May 1995 issue (No.14) at P.10 they compared the game to Star Fox ("Led [sic] Alarm é um jogo tipo Star Fox produzido pela T & E Soft. Foi montado em wire frames."). I can get you scans of any of these sources if needed. Only one Chinese article I found covered the game, but it was just a listing of VB titles. For what it's worth, the Chinese name for Red Alarm is "红色警报". -Thibbs (talk) 14:26, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Got another one for you in case you're interested. This time it's in English:

• Wallace, Danny. "Virtually Here! - Red Alarm". Total!. Issue 46, Pg. 36. October 1995. ISSN 0964-9352.

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Happy to accept more accurate wording that will be understood by most Main Page readers (who aren't as knowledgeable about the topic, on average). - Dank (push to talk) 17:50, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JB—looking for EGM January 2004 (p. 189), a review of Blast Corps, when you have a chance – czar 05:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Could you scan Killer Instinct Gold from Next Gen Feb 1997 (#26)? There's also a preview in #23, but it's probably not worth it unless it has development or reception material. Thanks again – czar 08:08, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Did Next Gen run a score or any other content in the magazine? – czar 22:59, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I was curious if you might be able to take the time to look at the December 2001 issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. There might be mention in there about a rather unknown game (which was ultimately cancelled) called Jurassic Park: Survival, which was delayed from its 2001 release date and then apparently rescheduled for a January 2002 release. I'm searching for confirmation of that 2002 release date. It might be listed in a game outlook section, or a coming soon section. I would be curious to know what it says about the game, if it's even mentioned in the magazine at all. Thanks. -- InGenuine (talk) 14:18, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JB, I'm looking for scans that could be used to give some meat to sections like Development and Reception. Notify me if have something around. —Electroguv (talk) 06:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Great to have you back in full force, by the way. —Electroguv (talk) 19:23, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, so was Shepherd Book. Didn't stop him from kicking ass anyway :) —Electroguv (talk) 23:29, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Good to know that. In the meantime, I found some little tidbits myself. —Electroguv (talk) 02:51, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • Very nice of you to provide me with these. Most of this stuff will come in handy once it's time to flesh out the Reception section. The NG preview is not partcularly valuable, though. The good thing is, despie there being virtually nothing on the game's making at a first glance, I still managed to find some very worthy material to work with. Anyway, thanks a bunch! —Electroguv (talk) 07:56, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is going to very wildly come out of the deep blue, but I wanted to apologize for being very curt with you over a year ago. I happened to be re-reading this discussion (reviewing whatever skeletons my closet may hold while secretly mulling over an ArbCom candidacy... shhhh...) and I couldn't help but to cringe when I noticed how discourteous this sounded in retrospect, especially towards an editor whom I respect greatly. There was definitely some frustration involved, but it should not excuse incivility. You owe me a good trouting. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 22:13, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Fuck, and that was less than a month after my finger twitched waaay too fast on your account's block button. I'm really a shitty collaborator, ain't I? :( ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 22:15, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey. The last time I nominated Dota 2 for Featured Article status, I closed it up myself and walked away feeling rather helpless, as I saw that that page was littered with virtually impossible input from Eric Corbett, like stating that the game isn't the most actively played title on Steam... which it is, and so on and so forth. I approached copyeditors and we applied a lot of heavy reworking to the page, but I just felt so fucking uninspired after that, so I left the page alone. Well, I recently started editing the page again and cleaned up some newer gunk that's built up. Would you like to thoroughly go through it and tell me if you think I should nominate it for FA status again? DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 08:51, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I may need a little time this week to think of how to include all the key points from the article. It's a little tricky to restructure that lead so drastically. DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 10:39, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Jimmy. By any chance do you have an issue of Game Informer that has their review of Shantae? GamerPro64 17:02, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Jimmy. Gotta say this review is a bit lackluster, though. The games definitely not bad enough to warrant a 3/10. GamerPro64 21:24, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah I'm liking the game. A bit difficult but the dialogue is nice. Didn't know about their review of The Thousand-Year Door, though. That game was great. GamerPro64 22:43, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

For all your work throughout the years. GamerPro64 03:16, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JimmyBlackwing! I've been working on improving X-Men vs. Street Fighter (in my sandbox) and looking through the reference library for print sources. I was wondering if you'd be willing to scan the features from Issues 24, 39, and 45 of Next Generation Magazine? There is also some stuff listed for Issues 5 and 8 of Official PlayStation Magazine, but I'm not entirely sure how substantial the information would be, since they're listed under "Other" and "Preview", respectively.

Sorry if that's asking for too much. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Wani (talk) 08:00, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JB, in search of the Next Gen Dec 1999 review of Donkey Kong 64, if you have a moment czar 08:06, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, JB. I was able to get the EGM review but I do need help finding the EGM April 2005 list of "overrated" games (specifically for the DK64 blurb). The ref lib says you might be able to help. (More details here, if it helps.) czar 17:05, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi JimmyBlackwing, if you get a free minute, could you help me get hold of the Rez preview in the September 2001 issue of Next Gen that you listed here? No need to rush, but I've recently started updating the article and I'd like to see what they had to say. Thanks in advance! -Thibbs (talk) 15:30, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey JB, could you please pull the following citation for me? "Rare's Triple Threat". Next Generation. No. 56. August 1999. p. 25. (for verification) czar 16:09, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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