/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9851916
Wikipedia's editors have a weird chip on their shoulder once something is on there for long enough. They have a grandfather clause style sensibility, which is fucking absurd for an encyclopedia. It goes beyond specific games, even. The Colecovision very specifically identifies itself as a third generation system but Wikipedia lumps everything "pre-crash" into the Second gen despite the crash of 83 having nothing to do with console generations. This has the side effect of weird shit like the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 being lumped together and systems that aren't really that different hardware-wise being split up depending on which side of the crash they fell, and sometimes even which country they came from. It's a mess but try bringing it up on the discussion pages and see how far you get. You can show whatever evidence you want and they'll just "meh" you to death and revert your changes. If it were just a random fan wiki then it wouldn't be a big deal. But this is the kind of thing people nowadays rely on for actual information. So you get lies perpetuated by virtue of being on Wikipedia.

And I don't think there's any higher authority to appeal to when the page's editors are acting like retards. I half suspect the reason they don't want to change things is because of the work involved. If you accurately move consoles to the 3rd Gen then you have to systematically wikiwalk through dozens and dozens of pages updating the information. These people would rather just lie than be bothered.

>>8808518
Colecovision was touted as a third gen system during it's own era. Plus it's a direct competitor of the Atari 5200 and putting the 5200 in the same generation as the 2600 makes no sense at all.