Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2015 May 9

= May 9 =

Area 51 video game question
I've spent the last few hours on google trying to find the answer to this question, but due to the subject matter I keep getting BS answers from fringe site forums on military/alien conspiracies, so I am hoping some actual intelligence will succeed where artificial intelligence has failed. My question is this: does anyone out there know what the ranking system is to score a players progress through the 1995 video game Area 51. I am particular interested in know at which point the player gains the coveted 5-star rank in the game on the human track. Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:16, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * See Area 51 (1995 video game) for our article, although I've not yet been able to find an answer to your specific question in the linked references. Are you interested in the actual arcade cabinet game, or one of the console versions? Tevildo (talk) 08:56, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * At this point I'd settle for either, but I lean toward the arcade version since I have far more experience with the coin operated machine than with the console version. And for the record: I did check our article here, but as is usually the case with anything remotely related to fiction on Wikipedia these days it didn't tell me a damn thing remotely relevant to my inquiry, although in the case of our fictional articles that comes as no particular surprise to me. Fiction articles on here these day have zero relevant information for oddball requests like this one, it was all removed about 10 years ago during the so-called 'Wikipurges' (for lack of a better term). All the same though, I shall keep my good cheer, and thank you for the information you've found so far, however little it may be. TomStar81 (Talk) 10:14, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The old versions of articles are still here. Just look at the article history. 75.69.10.209 (talk) 18:51, 10 May 2015 (UTC)


 * A few tips - if you put search /"light gun" area 51/ you'll get a lot better hits. You will probably have best luck asking at an arcade game forum or a light-gun specific forum. Here's a few places that you might be able to contact other fans for info .  Finally, if you happen to live in a large-ish metropolitan area in the USA, then you might be near a  retro arcade, which are popping up in places like Columbus, OH, Austin, TX, not to mention Chicagoland, LA, NYC, etc. You could perhaps find out by playing again :) SemanticMantis (talk) 13:54, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Who's the model in this picture?
Can anyone help me to identify the model in this picture? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.66.177.249 (talk) 11:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Keeley Hazell - full picture -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 12:14, 9 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh thank you so much..


 * I've searched a lot for a higher resolution of these pictures, but couldn't find it.. picture 1, picture 2. All I could find is 640px (for pic 1 and 800px for pic 2]. I've searched using Google Image Search. But couldn't find it. I'm sure there will be a high quality picture available. Can you help me?


 * It is possible (probable?) that those are the highest available to the general public. If there were higher, Google likely would have found them.
 * If these were released for a web site, FHM magazine's web site for instance, then they likely would only be given a certain resolution which would have suited the site's purposes such as the ones you've found. The owner of the image isn't going to give them a high res file if all they need for an article is a medium res file.
 * And if they were printed in a magazine but not put on the web, then the versions you have would have been scanned in by some fan and a scan is not going to be bigger than the printed version without some degradation of picture quality.
 * My wife is a photographer and is often asked for digital files for both web and print. She always asks, if she's not told from the beginning, what resolution is needed and does not send a higher resolution image if it's not needed.  There's no point for her to make the image better than it needs to be and there's no desire by the publisher to get any higher res than they request.  Dismas |(talk) 06:49, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * TinEye can be useful for finding a larger version of an image file, but it does not find any larger version of either picture 1 or 2. --174.88.135.200 (talk) 06:28, 12 May 2015 (UTC)