Allgame.com, a database of video games, easily searchable, and full of information about every game for every system, is shutting down on December 12th.
For me, this really sucks because I used this resource regularly. As soon as I found out about their closure, I saved pages of games for each genre up through games ranked 4 stars and up. This way I have a reference I can use for a long time, but I will be missing any new releases from this time forward. I'll have to find another resource for that. Any ideas out there?
I got nothing for ya, sorry.
It's alright. Seems most people use things like gamefaqs and stuff, but I don't know if they have such a easy to use and comprehensive database like allgame.com.
Best give Wikipedia your $3. lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_video_games
In all seriousness, that sucks though.
I use wikipedia to give me an overview of a year in gaming. That's pretty cool, but for a complete list, you can't beat allgame.com.
Bleh, that sucks. I first discovered allgame back in 2000.I was tickled to find so many of my favorite obscure games listed.
What I like is that it goes back as far as you want. With Metacritic, it only goes back to like 2001 or so. I like a database that includes every game ever made. Yea!
that sucks, man. I never used it, but I hate when internet institutions shut down like that.
It was such an awesome resource. I like to look at all the games ever made in one massive database. I dont' know if anyone else has done this.
I used to pal around on All Game waaaay back in 2004-ish. That sire inspired me to write game reviews.
Yea, there are a lot of reviews there on the site. Brett Weiss, who's book I just read, wrote a bunch of them. I hope the site gets archived. I read some forum posts that suggested some people were going to try doing that on archive.org.
I wish I could help but I don't know of any game resource pages. It is a shame because the site you are describing sounds like an excellent resource for the history of video games.
It was like a giant Excel spread sheet full of just about every game ever made. It was easily sortable too in many different ways. I loved it.
Sorry but never heard of it. Perhaps it's time for another video game database to take it's place?
I hope so. How am I going to figure out what to play next if I can't see the entire list of every game ever made before my eyes? Oh heavens!
