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is Samurai Trilogy a text adventure?

JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
edited October 2007 in Infoseek database
When I make an advanced search:

year: 1987
type: text adventure
message language: english
release country: UK
publication: commercial

infoseek shows a text adventures list; among them, we see Samurai Trilogy. Is it an error? :???:
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  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited October 2007
    Something similar happens to Travel with Trasman, wich appears when I make an advanced search for simulation games.
  • Philip KendallPhilip Kendall
    edited October 2007
    I believe this is generally caused by differences between the WoS and SPOT*ON listings for a game. Certainly, the WoS dump has Samurai Trilogy listed as a text adventure.
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited October 2007
    Philip Kendall wrote: »
    I believe this is generally caused by differences between the WoS and SPOT*ON listings for a game. Certainly, the WoS dump has Samurai Trilogy listed as a text adventure.

    SPOT has Samurai Trilogy as a Beat-em-up, which is the type shown by Infoseek. Infoseek merges data from several sources to produce its results, but I think that the search only scans the primary WoS database.

    There was a reply from Martijn on this topic a week or two ago (or maybe a month or two - my "passage of time" sense isn't very reliable).
  • mheidemheide
    edited October 2007
    JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »
    When I make an advanced search:

    year: 1987
    type: text adventure
    message language: english
    release country: UK
    publication: commercial

    infoseek shows a text adventures list; among them, we see Samurai Trilogy. Is it an error? :???:

    Yes, now corrected. :oops:
    JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »
    Something similar happens to Travel with Trasman, wich appears when I make an advanced search for simulation games.

    Indeed, another one. :oops:
    Philip Kendall wrote: »
    I believe this is generally caused by differences between the WoS and SPOT*ON listings for a game. Certainly, the WoS dump has Samurai Trilogy listed as a text adventure.

    That's correct. I let SPOT*ON override the Type field when displaying the details, as it has much more detail than Infoseek. I just use Arcade, for example, while SPOT has various sub-types for it.
    Internally (i.e. everywhere else) the Infoseek value is used. In both cases, SPOT was right and Infoseek was... um... less right. Both have internally been changed to Arcade now.
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