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Single player games still sell well

I find the article's original implication that single player games were "dying under the weight of the multiplayer revolution" more than odd.no more ≈

The following are examples of top-selling games, by year: 2003 April 2002 2000

Single player games appear to be going strong. Though I've played neither, I've found that the most exciting and hyped releases of this year are Doom 3, and Half Life 2.

And that's without consideration for how many single-player games are played online (flash, or otherwise). I don't have statistics for this, but as for a complete guess, I'd say that for every hour an madly obsessed, 8 hours a day gamer (or typical gamer) spends on a store-bought 1+ CD, complex multi- or single-player game, there are likley 10 hours that have been spent by many, many 'regular folk' mucking around with free flash games. Slike 18:24, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh well that sucks Jasmin151617888090 (talk) 07:05, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move article to "Single player game"?

I think it would be more informal. - Sylph 23:33, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

== Removed some odd claims, such as the Xbox claim and lack of friend.--Theblackgecko 00:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why would we make it informal?
―PapíDimmi (talk | contribs) 11:32, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Single player mode?

According to the article,

"'single player mode' usually refers to a game that multiple people can play, but is played by a single person."

This sounds rather odd, as the term implies that only one person can play. Personally, I've never heard this definition, either. As a result, I'm adding {{fact}} to the article. -- VGF11 00:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. I think I understand what the sentence meant, and I've changed it to a more clear sentence. -- VGF11 23:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pk Pintu Das (talk) 06:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Early games not mostly one-player

Two-player games appeared with the first personal computers

This is not correct, Tennis for Two was already a Two-player game and didn't use a personal computer. --MrBurns (talk) 09:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The earliest games (SpaceWar, Pong etc) were 2 player games. Also, most arcade games of the 70s/80s offered 2 player modes although only one played at once. Retro junkie (talk) 12:12, 7 April 2009 (UTC)leeds united are the best[reply]

Move article

Someone made a section about this before, but it looks like nobody replied, so I’m making this section.

Why is this article titled Single-player video game, whilst articles such as Platform game, Action game, Shooter game, etc. don’t include the “video” part?

I think that we should move this article to “Single-player game,” as the “video” part isn’t really necessary.
―PapíDimmi (talk | contribs) 00:13, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Because this isn't a genre, like "platform game", which is the WP:COMMONNAME. This is a description, like educational video game or history of video games or cheating in video games. This is using the convention of spelling out and disambiguating "video game" as the common name/term versus just "game". That said, if "single-player game" and "multiplayer game" are provably common names nowadays, then we might move the page(s). (Also, you should make a proper WP:MOVEREQ if you want outside input, as hardly anyone will see this section (again).) — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:14, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh… well, thanks. It’s hard to keep track of Wikipedia’s million policies and guidelines.
―PapíDimmi (talk | contribs) 11:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New image

In the lead, the Frozen Bubble screenshot should be replaced with File:Tetris basic game.gif.

Tetris is a more well-known and classic example of a single-player videogame. (Note: the image is actually of a JsTetris version)
The new image illustrates gameplay more effectively
Both are free (CC BY-SA 4.0 for Tetris, GNU General Public License for Frozen Bubble)

Thoughts? Tera TIX 06:19, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]