Talk:Kart racing game

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There are tons of sources, reliable or otherwise, writing about kart racers. They generally talk about specific games in the genre, though, and while they'd probably aid in establishing notability and popularity, they simply do not add any information to this short page.

Video game genres often have a section dedicated to the history (possibly multiple sections), a section dedicated to the gameplay common in the genre and sometimes a section dedicated to sub-genres. I don't think we'll have any luck with the latter, but if we can find the sources, I am sure we should be able to add something to the current history section. I don't want this article to turn out as another "list of games that fall into this genre", like what happened to "vehicular combat game"... ~Maplestrip (chat) 13:26, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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Anon user re-adding incorrect info
Back when this article was created in 2014, the initial author sourced a website called modojo for the claim that the first video game with "vehicular combat" was a Taito game called Crashing Race released in 1976. Modjo does not appear on the list of sources considered reliable by the Video Game Project, and a look at the site today gives no indication of editorial control or any reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Indeed, the site has been dormant for three months, and every posted article in recent times has been written by a single person.

While including this material was certainly a good faith edit, the information in this source is simply not true. According to KLOV, which is considered a reliable source by Wikipedia for arcade games, Destruction Derby by Exidy was released in 1975 and features the same game play as Crashing Race. I recently removed this info with an explanation as to the mistaken facts, but an anon keeps returning it. The anon also found several more recent sources, some of which Wikipedia does consider reliable (Ars Technica for example), that parrot the same claim, but this is likely an instance of citogenesis, as none of these other sources provide any additional info to the 2012 source and none of them predate our Wikipedia article on kart racers. Regardless, this is a demonstrably false claim. I asked Sergecross73 to protect the page, which will hopefully solve the problem. I am posting this to provide a record of the dispute and to invite further discussion as necessary. Indrian (talk) 16:08, 26 January 2018 (UTC)