Talk:Tails' Skypatrol

Sources I found:

 * Hardcore Gaming 101
 * USGamer list ranking all Sonic games, Tails' Skypatrol is toward the bottom
 * A primary source, found via the Japanese Wikipedia

I had some more, but I seem to have lost them for the moment. But here's a start, and I added a couple to the draft already. Red Phoenix talk  04:28, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Stretching the oddness as well - this article is a Good Article on the Russian Wikipedia, of all places. I actually don't fully trust all of their sources (Sega-16 is a bit hit and miss unless it's by Ken Horowitz or an interview, and even then Ken sometimes makes errors; also, Green Hill Zone is not a reliable source), but there are sources that can be milked from there. The Italian Wikipedia might also have one or two from the list we can use.

That Hardcore Gaming 101 article, though, really looks like it's the source we should use to filter most of the article. WP:VG/S gives pretty free range to everything written there, and it's actually an in-depth article. While I'm not sure this would ever be a high-quality article given a lack of sources we probably won't find in Japanese from 1995, I think it can be a good, fully referenced article that is at least competent and informative. Red Phoenix talk  04:44, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm pretty on-the-fence with the Russian Wikipedia article. Sorta like us, they have a real thing for Sonic games, but they've got GAs for games we'd never cover due to notability concerns (like SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter) and the sourcing on them is largely dubious. After digging through that article I can at least confirm the Game Revolution and review comments made on its inclusion on Sonic Gems Collection are usable. Unforunately, the Famitsu review might be pretty much useless since the excerpt on the site looks to be corrupted, unless somebody has a scan of that specific issue. The Italian page doesn't really have anything else noteworthy, and neither does the Sonic Retro page aside from the manual. I'll leave anything else here if I find it, but I'm pretty sure this is all there is to find on this game. Namcokid  47  (Contribs) 05:09, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Reviews for Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut have also had some coverage, from what I've seen. Tails' Skypatrol is one of the unlockable games on there, and I can't find it now but I know I saw a VideoGames.com article that talked about it a bit.  Red Phoenix  talk  11:23, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

After spending an hour or so combing through the web and the Internet Archive, here's some more material that could be useful: And that's really all I can find. Namcokid 47  (Contribs) 16:44, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Some kind of coverage from Super GamePower magazine. It's in Portuguese which I can't read, but putting it through Google Translate might help.
 * Retro Gamer briefly covered it in a retrospective of the entire franchise, and they didn't like it a whole lot.
 * Game Watch noted of its inclusion in Sonic Adventure DX.
 * I really don't like commenting on other users' sandboxes but I wanted to speak about one of the sources Namcokid found: The one in the Super Game Power magazine is a preview article, which might contain pre-release thoughts about the title. I hope that little tidbit helps, since it's a Brazilian magazine... Roberth Martinez (talk) 16:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll have a look at the Portuguese article. I speak and read Spanish, which isn't quite Portuguese but there's a lot of crossover, enough that I translated Tectoy from the Portuguese Wikipedia sometime ago.  I think I can pretty well work out what it says.   Red Phoenix  talk  19:08, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * There's also the official JP release date of Tails' Skypatrol from Sega's official website: https://web.archive.org/web/20181207045745/https://sega.jp/history/hard/gamegear/software.html Roberth Martinez (talk) 16:51, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, a friendly advice: do not link playable roms from Internet Archive into the article, as Sega might take legal action against IA and the organization has enough issues right now with other companies. Roberth Martinez (talk) 16:54, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It's in one of the collections listed as okay at Template:Internet Archive game. Uploaded by Jason Scott and filed in an approved collection.   Red Phoenix  talk  18:19, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

The first to star Tails
Are we counting Tails and the Music Maker for the Sega Pico? Because that actually beat both Skypatrol and Adventure, by several months. It was released in September 1994. Red Phoenix talk  18:36, 21 September 2020 (UTC)