Forum:Attack of the Graske: tv or video game
Following the recent wave of story re-titling/disambiguation, we're left with the occasional oddity. One is Attack of the Graske. As OttselSpy25 has pointed out on my user talk page, I've made the image category Category:Attack of the Graske video game images. This was an intentional, almost manual, move on my part. I think of it as a videogame.
But when the bot went to change the title of the page itself, it made it Attack of the Graske (TV story), because it's apparently sat, undisturbed for years, in a TV story category.
So the question is, is it a TV story or a video game? A poll shall be used in this case, simply because this is such an arbitrary thing, but discussion is of course welcome below the poll.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:57: Wed 07 Mar 2012
<poll> Attack of the Graske should be disambiguated with ... (video game) (TV story) </poll>
Discussion[[edit source]]
I think of it as "TV" because it's the red button a la Dreamland. I'm the wrong generation to remember full motion video, so when I picture video games, what springs to mind are 2D sprites and CG models. Short answer though, I suppose I consider it as an "interactive episode", so technically both.
For simplicity's sake, though, it's a video game. After all, it's listed on the "Fun and games" section of the Doctor Who website under Featured Games. -- Tybort (talk page) 21:53, March 7, 2012 (UTC)
I think it's best to focus on the reason for the thing's existence; it was made primarily as a game, with the TV just being an incidental fact of its delivery medium (and that's just for those who played it on TV rather than on its web release.) Graske is a game; the fact that the game's delivery system was a digital enhancement to TV notwithstanding. Top Trumps: Doctor Who and Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror were played, respectively, on a console and an old computer which also happened to display on the player's TV, but they were still just games. — Rob T Firefly - Δ∇ - 18:55, March 17, 2012 (UTC)
Closing[[edit source]]
No compelling arguments for calling it a TV story having been heard, and the vote running in favor of (video game), it's been entirely changed to video game on the site. All instances now have been linked to Attack of the Graske (video game), and prefixes, which were variously TV, WC and GAME, have been standardised to GAME.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:49: Fri 30 Mar 2012
Since polls can't be stopped really, I note that the vote for (video game) was 8:3 in favor at the time this thread was archived.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:50: Fri 30 Mar 2012
