I had some thoughts regarding the categorization and listing of G&W games and maybe this is a good time to bring this up here now that
#7631: Darkman425's GBA Game & Watch Gallery 4 "Zelda" in 07:19.33 is getting published.
Game & Watch
Some time ago, I made all 3 existing non-Gallery G&W entries use the naming format of "Game & Watch: [game name]" and put existing non-Gallery G&W submissions and publications under them regardless of what system or game they are played on and list those under Game Versions instead. The reasoning was that those different iterations are more or less meant to be near identical to each other and it's ultimately the same game that's being played on different consoles in different collections.
Now, what's different about G&W Gallery games is that they have an overarching star collection system that eventually results in credit rolls, and that makes each of those included games that give stars similar in nature to individual games in games like
Kirby Super Star and not so much a completely independent game. For that reason it generally makes more sense to put movies made on Galley games under those games themselves, be it a credit triggering movie of the Gallery game itself or a movie of one of those individual games that grant stars. (The acceptability of these movies is a different topic that is not inherently related to this one.)
However, some of the Gallery games also include unlockable G&W games that do not give starts. In other words, they are effectively their own thing and not part of the overarching collection system that leads to a credit scroll in some way. In this sense, movies recorded with those games on Gallery titles aren't of partial game content of a bigger process.
So, would it be reasonable to treat movies recorded on those individual games on G&W Gallery titles that do not contribute to the collection system the same way other G&W releases are treated when it comes to game categorization?
But now there's also a question of how do we want to name non-USA versions of games. Previously the USA name had to be used even if the movie is made on the Japanese version, to make the movie easier to find. But that was only a problem when navigation was movie based. With game based navigation, you can now have different aliases attached to the game, and user will be able to find it. And non-USA movies still link back to the game they belong to.
https://tasvideos.org/140G
So do we still need to care what "THE definitive default" USA version is called, and use that name for all other versions? Or maybe each version can now be called according to its release title (barring actual Japanese spelling)?
