game release dates are wrong for NES

[PaulC]

The dates in there now should be under Super Famicon not Nintendo Entertainment System.  Donkey Kong was not released on the NES in 1983!  1986 instead. Doesn't it make more sense to have the U.S. release dates there?

[kurzih]

The answer is in the rules:

"The release date should be the first date the game was released on." And since the NES platform in the LB database includes Famicom games as well ("same console", different region), the date is correct.
I can only think of having "Alt release date + region" as a new option to change that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game):
Famicom/NES:

JP: July 15, 1983
NA: June 1986
EU: October 15, 1986
 

Edited June 2, 2020 by kurzih

[damageinc86]

I would say having a region release date list would be better.  Just list all the main regions it was released in just like that wikipedia page has it.

[Chris Kant]

On 6/2/2020 at 8:55 AM, kurzih said:

The answer is in the rules:

"The release date should be the first date the game was released on." And since the NES platform in the LB database includes Famicom games as well ("same console", different region), the date is correct.
I can only think of having "Alt release date + region" as a new option to change that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game):
Famicom/NES:

JP: July 15, 1983
NA: June 1986
EU: October 15, 1986
 

that would be great. in general there are so many yet unused opportunity with the Games DB and Launchbox incl. media management etc.