Question: Firstly, I'd like to say that I've just discovered that this new SE site exists and I'm very excited!

There are a few games that I played in my childhood that I would like to play again but I don't know the titles. Is it on-topic to describe the games as much as possible and what platform they ran on and ask what they were called (one game per question)? It doesn't seem appropriate to ask on gaming.SE as it seems that site is only for recent games.

Answer: 
There are a number of sites within the SE network that have [identify-this](https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this "show questions tagged 'identify-this'") tags, so why not this one?

Note that a few of these sites periodically have on their metas a proposal to ban them. Particularly where there are a lot of such questions. See the soul searching on [Movies & TV](https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2292/maintaining-improving-and-cleaning-up-identification-questions), a site that has a large number of them.

As with all questions, they would go on merit. A good question describing one game from yesteryear clearly enough for a chance of an answer would be good for the site.

We may attract vague questions - they should be closed as "*Unclear what you're asking*". Let us take some and see how we go.

Note also, this site isn't for asking "*Where can I buy...*" questions, so we would restrict ourselves to identification.

While on the subject - why not "*Identify this computer*" questions. After all, they have already been asked [elsewhere](https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/26832/what-is-the-computer-that-benny-hill-hacks-in-the-italian-job-1969/31762#31762) too.
I don't think retrocomputing is appropriate for these types of questions. [Gaming.SE](http://gaming.stackexchange.com) might be a better fit for these types of questions, as they are dedicated to gaming across multiple generations.

If we allow game identification questions, this site might become a dumping ground with them, rather than general retrocomputing questions.