Crazy KLOV entry

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I know that KLOV has sporadic inaccurate information, but the entry for Data East's cassette system game Explorer is among the worst.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7734

The first cabinet shot is of Sidam's Explorer, an unrelated Scramble clone.

http://www.arcadeflyers.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=3418

The second cabinet shot is of the actual Data East cabinet.
The only screen shot on the KLOV entry, (which is blurry...) appears to be of 1985's Son of Phoenix, which has zero to do with either the Data East or Sidam Explorer games.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9619

Even the description of the DECO game, calling it a "3-D space adventure" is flawed, given as how the game appears to be a standard 2-D vertical shooter. However, DECO's own flyer calls it a 3-Dimensional Galaxy Adventure, so that's probably where the KLOV description comes from.

To be fair, most of the KLOV entries are 100% accurate, and it is a great resource that we all use regularly, but this entry just made me chuckle.

Kyle :cool:
 
Yeah,there's more of that crap than you think.And you think they'd update crap faster.I've sent numerous images of boards quite some time ago that they have no image of,and have yet to see the image up where it should be.Come on KLOV!
 
Yeah,there's more of that crap than you think.And you think they'd update crap faster.I've sent numerous images of boards quite some time ago that they have no image of,and have yet to see the image up where it should be.Come on KLOV!

I've been here a couple years and until very recently there have been no updates. Even when in the past folks offered to help clean the archives. There are likely years worth of pics and such that people have contributed that have never been posted.
 
I think the KLOV should be turned over to another group who actually gives a crap or has time to give it the attention it needs.A few good men and women who'd do their best to keep the site as helpful and accurate as possible.The KLOV as it stands now is quite honestly deplorable...it reminds me of a classic working game that someone just leaves out in their yard to rot....and that's very sad.
 
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I think the KLOV should be turned over to another group who actually gives a crap or has time to give it the attention it needs.A few good men and women who'd do their best to keep the site as helpful and accurate as possible.The KLOV as it stands now is quite honestly deplorable...it reminds me of a classic working game that someone just leaves out in their yard to rot....and that's very sad.

They've clearly felt that message boards, 31 of them counting sub-forums (with more to come) are more important than updating and verifying KLOV entries and/or making the KLOV DB more search friendly.

Oh yeah and spending time on very important stuff like making forum user name changes and such.
 
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