Talk:APB (1987 video game)

Inclusion of hardware info

A.P.B. - All Points Bulletin
Developer:	Atari Games
Publisher:	Atari Games
Release date:	1987
Genre:	Driving game
Game modes:	1 player
Cabinet:	Standard and sit-down (convertible)
Controls:	Steering wheel, siren button, "fire" button, accelerator pedal
System hardware/Arcade system
This game runs on the Atari System 2 CPU: T11 10 Mhz 6502 2.2 Mhz Sound: YM2151 3.579545 Mhz 2 x Pokey 1.789772 Mhz TMS5220 625.00 Khz
Monitor
Orientation:	Vertical
Type:	Raster, medium resolution
Size:	19 inch
Notes
Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Cabinet could be converted to a sit-down with a detachable seat.

AshSert keeps adding hardware info to the infobox of arcade games. While I don't object to hardware info in the article—though I do think it is a little superfluous—I do object to it being in the infobox.

The infobox is used for a quick overview of information included in the article. Look at the infobox as it was editited by AshSert at right. Not only is the "hardware section" much larger than the other sections, the information that the game used a simple joystick is patently wrong. The hardware information dominates all the other information in the infobox and makes other relevant information included in it harder to find.

If one feels that hardware information needs to be inlcuded in the article, that's fine. Create a new section and include it there. Anyone who cares about such information can easily find it. Plus, it gives the editor more room to expound on such information as much as they please.

See The WikiProject:Arcade games talk page for our previous discussion on this matter. — Frecklefoot | Talk 21:36, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Update

Any discussion on this topic should go on the Arcade games WikiProject Talk page. — Frecklefoot | Talk 22:12, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Citation needed ??

"A.P.B. was also the inspiration for the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto series."

This sentence has a {{Fact}}-tag does anyone really dispute it ?????? have a look at the screenshot. i mean really ?-- ExpImp^talkcon 22:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I do. Just because the games look similar doesn't mean one served as inspiration for the other. The top-down view is a popular one and just because they both use it doesn't mean they are related, or one inspired the other. Plus the premises are totally different: in A.P.B. the player is a cop, in GTA, the player is a lawbreaker. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

The creator of A.P.B. has sued DMA designs (now Rockstar North) because he beleived that GTA is in fact a clone of his game. The people behind the original GTA however state that they had never seen the game prior to the lawsuit. Blokker 1999 20:36, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

It'd be great if you could include that fact with a citation in the article.

On a related note, Atari Games (who developed A.P.B.) was sued by a kid who claimed they ripped off his idea for a newspaper delivery game with Paperboy. He sent in his idea, but they returned it without looking at it per their policy of not taking external submissions for game ideas. Anyway, he sued them and they had to find early design documents that showed they were already thinking about such a game before he submitted his idea. Anyway, games borrowing from one another is typical and often unintentional. All games are related in so many ways that proving one copied another in one way or another is difficult. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:01, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Apbscreenshot.png

Image:Apbscreenshot.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

real life imitates art...

Some people jokingly theorize that the police department is no longer about protecting the citizenry, but rather it just an additional source for "revenue generation". This news article seems to reveal that it's perhaps not far from the truth. :( http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/13/ticket_quota.ART_ART_10-13-08_B4_73BJ9HU.html?sid=101 "Effective immediately, all uniformed patrol officers are expected, as a minimum level of self-initiated activity, to issue one traffic citation, one traffic warning, and complete five park & walk business checks/residential vacation checks each shift worked." Yup, sounds like the ol' classic "APB". 199.214.26.82 (talk) 15:41, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Gamecruft

Removed the list of enemies per WP:GAMECRUFT. Here is the last version with the lists - link. --Jtalledo (talk) 14:58, 16 August 2012 (UTC)