Talk:Duck Hunt/GA1

GA Reassessment

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Result: delisted MuZemike 23:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

This article became a GA in December 2006. However, I feel that this no longer meets the criteria for GAs. Here are my reasons:

• The article is not written very well (criterion 1). Examples of substandard prose include
  • Nintendo Research & Development 1 created the game. They also developed the Light Gun used in Duck Hunt. The game was supervised by Takehiro Izushi, and was produced by Gunpei Yokoi.
  • The ducks appear one or two at a time, and the player is given three shots to shoot them down.
  • In Duck Hunt, players utilize the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun that must be plugged into their NES consoles, and attempt to shoot down either ducks or clay pigeons in mid-flight. Duck Hunt was also released as an arcade game in 1984, and is included in the PlayChoice-10 arcade console.
• Most of the sources cited in the article are not reliable sources and hence cannot provide for verifiability of the content (criteria 2a and 2b), and some (such as those going to a YouTube video and a likely unauthorized Flash version of the game).
• There is no review provided by IGN or GameSpot, and the unbased claim that "The game was not initially reviewed often" smacks of original research as a result (criterion 2c).
• Possibly only the Gameplay section (in which most of that content is unverifiable as I noted above) contains anything close to "broad coverage" (criterion 3), whereas all the remaining sections provide very little coverage—nothing that would be remotely considered "broad" in my view.
• The non-free rationales of the two images are insufficient, and the boxart looks like it's in high-resolution. Both images do not meet the non-free criteria for images (criterion 6a).

Hence, my recommendation is to demote the article from its current GA standing to either B-Class or possibly C-Class. MuZemike 23:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I was thinking of doing this sometime soon. I agree that it's not GA quality. Gary King (talk) 00:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I too agree this isn't a GA quality article and should be demoted.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 00:31, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not on wiki anymore and couldn't care less what happens. I might consider fixing it sometime if I'm ever at 100% ever again, but the sad truth is that there really aren't enough reliable sources to make this happen. I was quite surprised I was able to pull it off the first time.--CM (talk) 03:35, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

There are quite a lot of sources for this article in offline articles. Gary King (talk) 04:33, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I subscribed to Nintendo Power since its first publication in 1988, and I don't even recall anything from Duck Hunt there. I think the problem is that it's so ubiquitous in everyone's mind, kind of like Victory Auto Wreckers (if anyone here has lived in the Chicagoland area, then you very well know how their TV commericals go verbatim), that very few bother to review it. It would be likely that someone would need to dig back into the mid-80s (like actually in late 1985 or 1986, when the NES was brand new) to find something in print on the game. I didn't even think it would be that hard to find reliable sources online, but maybe because it's something that common. MuZemike 08:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

There are a few more sources from outside the video game industry (that discuss the article in greater detail than a single sentence), such as the following articles:

• Westbrook, Bruce (1986-12-21). "Toy high-tech puts zap into Christmas". Houston Chronicle.
• "Sitting (room) ducks – Buzz". The Sunday Times. 1989-10-29.

Sometimes defunct magazines also have information about games, while other magazines, even decades after a game was released, decide to write about the game's development history—User:Guyinblack25 had that kind of luck with Marble Madness (1984) from a 2008 article in the British magazine Retro Gamer. I'm working on Metroid (1987) right now, which was released in North America two years after Duck Hunt was released in North America, so they are both fairly hard to find information for—but it is out there. Gary King (talk) 16:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

There is also information out there on an unsuccessful port.じんない 21:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Ah, yes, I put that down as one of the current events over at Portal:Nintendo. MuZemike 21:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)