MobyGames
MobyGames' official logo until 11 March 2014
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MobyGames frontpage as of April 2012
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Type of site
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Gaming |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Blue Flame Labs |
| Website | MobyGames.com |
| Alexa rank |
 37,403 (February 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, Free |
| Launched | January 30, 1999 |
| Current status | Online |
MobyGames is a commercial website which catalogs video games both past and present.
As of October 2016[update], this includes over 200 gaming platforms (arcade, consoles, computers, social networking sites, handheld game systems, and mobile phones) and over 110,000 games, spanning the entire history of video games.
The site is supported by banner ads and by users paying to become patrons.
The MobyGames database contains information on video games and the people and companies behind them. Some individual developer profiles have biographical information.
Content is added on a volunteer crowdsourced basis, with all items tracked to a non-anonymous user account. Prior to being merged into the database—whether it be an entirely new entry or a small piece of information appending any existing item—all submissions must first go through a process of verification and validation by "approvers". Similarly, members of this group are all volunteer users, taking on the obligations of copy editors to make sure that information presented to visitors is accurate and meets the predefined standards of quality. The most commonly used sources are game packaging and manual or the game itself (title and credit screens), but also publishers' announcements, interviews with developers, etc.
Registered users can rate and review any game entry, and the scores are aggregated into a single value. Users can create game "have lists" and "want lists," which may be optionally made public. This can generate another list of games available for trade with other users.
The site has an integrated forum. Each listed game can have its own subforum.
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