Talk:Yoshi Racing

Name

Someone claiming to be an employee of Argonaut claims the prototype was called "Yoshi Racing" (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=227362239&postcount=351), but it's just a forum post without nothing solid. Does anyone think this is worth mentioning somewhere on the page? --Glowsquid (talk) 14:17, 29 December 2016 (EST)

What would make neogaf more of a source than, say, some random person on another forum? It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 21:28, 31 December 2016 (EST)

*shrug* NeoGaf was known as an hub for developer and industry insiders before its bad reputation caught up to it, and the guy's messages mention being an employee of Argonanut as early as 2008.

Also for what it's worth, a (now-ded) Croc Fansite maintaned by a guy who claimed to have visited Argonaut's office also mentions Argonaut's Yoshi pitch was a racing game (in 2005 - wayyyy before the Eurogamer article was published), though he doesn't mention the "Yoshi Racing" name verbatim. --Glowsquid (talk) 21:40, 31 December 2016 (EST)

In my opinion the name should be changed. I think it's absurd to trust a simple post on NeoGAF. Even the page is ambiguous, was it to be a 3D platformer or a racing game? Of course there would also be the statement of a user on a Croc site, but it is a fan site. And, even if we do not know what changes the prototype has undergone, it seems to me quite bizarre that a racing game has been used as the basis of a 3D platformer.--Alternis (talk) 08:43, 18 February 2019 (EST)

I agree with the notion a NeoGaf post isn't enough to move the page title (I merely left it as an aside on the page until someone moved it without discussion), though I think it merits a mention. Also platformer racers are a thing (think Sonic R, Rayman Arena, etc). --Glowsquid (talk) 19:02, 18 February 2019 (EST)

Merge this page into List of unreleased media

This talk page proposal has already been settled. Please do not edit any of the sections in the proposal. If you wish to discuss the article, do so in a new header below the proposal.

merge 4-0
Something tells me that there are no Yoshi Racing images other than a leak. Perhaps there's be a possibility to merge it into List of unreleased media § Low-information media and rejected pitches.

Proposer: GuntherBB (talk)
Deadline: October 21, 2023, 23:59 GMT Extended to October 28, 2023, 23:59 GMT Extended to November 4, 2023, 23:59 GMT

Support

1. GuntherBB (talk) Per proposal
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Per proposal. If we allow stuff like Super Donkey on there, or who-knows-how-many media where the only information is a single image, we might as merge this seeing as we don't feel like this is particularly large enough at the moment. On the extreme off-chance more juicy details get shared in the future, maybe we can re-split?
3. Super Game Gear (talk) Makes sense to me.
4. Killer Moth (talk) Per all. There ultimately isn't enough information on this to warrant a separate article.

Comments

...Huh? Why wasn't this proposal on the list while it was active? And why did it just end at the deadline instead of getting extended? Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 06:37, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

Oh, you're right, I saw there was an outcome and thought it had ended. Mario JC 06:53, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

I'd support, but in the unlikely but possible chance that Mushroom Derby gets retranslated as Yoshi Racing in the Super Mario RPG remake, what then? LinkTheLefty (talk) 12:07, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

How is that relevant at all? If it gets renamed then that article will be moved and probably take naming priority due to being from a released game, if the article about the cancelled game is still extant then it can get "(game)" or "(cancelled game)" or something as an identifier, and if it's not then an about template can link to the list of unreleased media. I don't see any potential problems here. Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 14:44, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

If the proposal were to pass and this gets merged, the article wouldn't exist beyond maybe a redirect anyways--of course, if it comes to it, you could also just stick a "This article is about the event in Super Mario RPG, if you want the cancelled game go here." at the top. ~Camwoodstock (talk) 17:56, October 25, 2023 (EDT)

I think Return of Donkey Kong and Super Mario 64 2 could also have proposals done similar to this, since they also don't have any images. 1468z (talk) 13:53, October 25, 2023 (EDT)