Adding a Category "Super Metroid" is an ugly workaround. Categories aren't game names.
However, game names aren't normalized in the database, which leads to performance problems when attempting to group by game. So as a first step, games need their own table. That also means that we need to write an admin-tool for the new data and most scripts accessing the movie table need to be adjusted for the new table structure as well.
I've originally suggested Game pages
in Nov 2006. Bisqwit
picked up on the idea later, and some work was done, but there was some disagreement over details and communication failures on both sides and then we both lost track of it. I still have the scripts I wrote somewhere, collecting dust. Not that those scripts are all we need, but they'd be a start.
I've asked
in a recent thread if any of the new admins were interested in reviving this, but got no reply.
So there. I still think that a new system would improve the site, but it's a lot of work and I'm not doing that alone (can't even, I'm no admin). Unless one of the current admins steps forward with an intent to see this done, things will stay the way they are.
anyway, that was a lot of OT-talk, should you wish to discuss this further, I'd suggest going to the proper threads :)
