Talk:The Adventures of Willy Beamish
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The section now labeled "Controversy" doesn't make much sense to me. The line about political incorrectness was removed, and the first paragraph now seems to be an abrupt segue from "humor that hasn't aged well" to "things that might be considered objectionable". Then there's some sort of rebuttal about the environmentalism mixed in with comments about a parody of Rush Limbaugh and a cameo by Star Trek characters. Could someone please explain the flow of this section? I don't want to simply revert the edits since I made the last major edit before this new change. Don't want to appear overly proprietary and so on. -DynSkeet (talk) 13:22, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. This section is very POV as written. -- 64.60.140.146 21:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm a little confused... the article states that the main character is both eight and nine years old? Which is it? --CherryMay 02:23, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
A google search of the game has revealed that numerous people have had problems getting the game to work under Windows OSes. I found that I could fix it by changing the sound driver to AdLib (this was with a Soundblaster AWE64 card in a Pentium-200MMX system). While this advice could be helpful to people googling for solutions to such issues I'm not sure how appropriate it is in a Wikipedia entry, since Wikipedia is not really a hardware support forum. --24.80.119.229 19:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
- You're right, it's not really something that'd belong on the wikipedia article. If there's another page that explains how to make it work under Windows though, feel free to add it as an external link... if not, perhaps people will find the solution on this discussion page anyway. ;) --CherryMay 19:55, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
-- This article reads like a heavy handed liberal propoganda piece and is highly subjective. I'm also not convinced there is any real "controversy" execpt in the minds of a minority of uptight left wingers. It needs major changes. - Anon
Reception[edit]
As mentioned by several people above, the "reception" section was too POV and much of it struck me as barely relevant (mentioning characters from "Star Trek" appearing in the background as some sort of "balance"). I've rewritten it to try and get rid of the POV, but it still doesn't look right and all the information under "Reception" seems wrong. Might be better to remove the reception part and distribute the information elsewhere.
I removed quite a bit of stuff and if there's any of it that people think might fit in elsewhere, the original text I edited is as below
Willy refers to a bar's bouncer as a "tinker bell", the school bully smokes cigarettes, and a family of Japanese tourists (complete with cameras and stereotypical accents) transform into Ninjas. Yet, the game does have a solid environmentalist theme, a parody of conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, and characters from the humanist Star Trek: The Next Generation television series made cameo appearances as audience members at the frog racing contest. The game also has several none-too-subtle sexual innuendoes (not least of which is "Horny", the name of the frog); while the main character is a nine-year old, the game is obviously intended for a much older audience.
Zagrebo 12:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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Why does it need the rambling paragraph about what versions are the most common on ebay? It seems totally irrelevant to describing the game. 64.71.152.88 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- I can sort-of understand the reasoning behind including eBay price listings etc - it's reminiscent of Record Collector magazine. The problem is that this kind of thing is either impossible to source authoritatively, without it being original research, or so transient that it would have to be continually updated. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 16:33, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
The Reception section would benefit greatly from a description of how the game was received by the press, and how well it fared in the marketplace. In the UK, for the Commodore Amiga, I remember the reviews being mostly positive, with the graphics coming in for a lot of praise, although the game didn't seem to have a wide release and was quickly forgotten. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 16:29, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Personally regarding this entire section I see it as wholly unrelated to its actual reception. The article starts off well establishing that its geared towards late teens at least but then goes on to discuss things wholly unrelated to how it was either received critically or by fans. Does anyone have any facts that we could use (magazine reviews, sales, etc.?) 173.28.194.126 (talk) 03:42, 16 July 2010 (UTC)