MobyGames
MobyGames is a commercial website which catalogs video games both past and present.
As of February 2016, this includes over 190 gaming platforms (arcade, consoles, computers, social networking sites, handheld game systems, and mobile phones) and over 100,000 games, spanning over 40 years.
The site is supported by banner ads and by users paying to become patrons.
Overview
The MobyGames database contains information on video games and the people and companies behind them. Some individual developer profiles have biographical information.
Content is added on a volunteer crowdsourced basis, with all items tracked to a non-anonymous user account. Prior to being merged into the database—whether it be an entirely new entry or a small piece of information appending any existing item—all submissions must first go through a process of verification and validation by "approvers". Similarly, members of this group are comprised entirely of volunteer users, taking on the obligations of copy editors to make sure that information presented to visitors is accurate and meets the predefined standards of quality. The most commonly used sources are game packaging and manual or the game itself (title and credit screens), but also publishers' announcements, interviews with developers, etc.
