Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Advanced Destroyer Simulator

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The result was Withdrawn. I give an embracing thank you to Mike Agricola for finding those reviews and stuff. Therefore, I am satisfied by the sources found. (non-admin closure) — ΛΧΣ²¹ 03:25, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Advanced Destroyer Simulator[edit]

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I have failed to find sources to back up notability of this title. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 16:30, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. And this is why wikipedia articles have no particular validity. This page is currently accurate. But delete it! Thats what you like to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.5.5 (talk) 02:56, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game-related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I tried to find sources for this but, while there's plenty of evidence that it exists, I can't find anything hinting at notability. Will change vote instantly if someone else finds any significant coverage. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 20:00, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. video games from this era of DOS programming almost all have notability, simply due to their nature of being part of the early stages of computer video games themselves.

furthermore, this game in particular is a unique item in its genre. there are very few ship simulations for that era of video games, or indeed for video games in general. --Sm8900 (talk) 13:49, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not meant to badger, but I need a source to believe what you are saying thet all DOS games are inherently notable. Cheers. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 15:19, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm by nature sympathetic to this type of article, but it's probably off target to call a game released in 1990 part of the "early stages of computer video games," given that that's already 8 years after even the launch of the Commodore 64, which itself was merely one of the first massively successful computers that had a thriving gaming community. That said, I agree with the spirit of your comment, so I'd love to see some kind of sourcing. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 20:44, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~ - I cannot find significant coverage in independent reliable sources. There is no automatic notability for ciomputer games from the DOS era. Although coverage for this 1990 game may exist in offline sources, there's usualyl at least some hints of notability. All I can find is that this game exists. -- Whpq (talk) 16:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Changing to Keep thanks to the efforts of Mike Agricola. The archive shows full page reviews from Amiga Action, and Amiga Joker as well as smaller reviews. I'm satisfied that notability is met. -- Whpq (talk) 19:27, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I was able to locate an archive hosting multiple magazine published reviews for the Amiga port of this game. Hence WP:GNG is met. --Mike Agricola (talk) 19:08, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep meets GNG. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 02:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.