What is MobyGames?
{{Infobox website |name = MobyGames |logo = MobyGames.png |logocaption = MobyGames' official logo |url = [http://www.mobygames.com MobyGames.com] |commercial = Yes |type = Gaming |registration = Optional, Free |language = English |content_license = |owner = [[GameFly]] |author = Jim Leonard and Brian Hirt |launch_date = {{Start date and age|1999|3|1|df=no}} |revenue = |current_status = active |footnotes = }} '''MobyGames''' is an [[online games|online gaming]] [[website]] for [[video games|computer and video games]]. It is also a [[wikt:review|review]] site which allows their [[critic]]s to give their opinion's on any video game. The site has a lot of video game information. Their goal is to be a huge game database and allow users to add information to the website by providing screenshots and adding the names of the people who worked behind a video game. As of July 17, 2012, the site includes 131 gaming platforms ([[video game console]]s, [[computer]]s and [[handheld games|handheld devices]] including [[mobile phone]]s.) They also have more than 67,000 game entries,<ref>Ports for different platforms count towards this number. Without ports, compilations or special editions the number of unique titles is over 30,000. [http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/list-games/ MobyGames: Game Browser]</ref><ref>[http://www.mobygames.com/moby_stats MobyGames database stats]. Retrieved from MobyGames 2012-07-17. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503234709/http://www.mobygames.com/moby_stats |date=2012-05-03 }}</ref> in [[History of video games|40 years of gaming]]. [[GameFly]] bought the site in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32856/Report_MobyGames_Acquired_By_GameFly_Media.php|title=Report: MobyGames Acquired By GameFly Media|publisher=Gamasutra|date=2011-07-02}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Books == * Jean Swanson, Dean James, ''The Dick Francis Companion'', Berkle