The Games database has untold potential.
Simple searching (or filter) additions would make it great:
- Search by letter (done)
- Search by title (done)
- Search by year
- Search by genre
- Search by status (playability)
- Search by developer
Not only that, but the DOSBox community was founded primarily based on games. This list is potentially the most comprehensive list of DOS games on the net. Adding extra meta information to each game in the list will preserve history and allow people to potentially use it more.
User contribution might actually go up if there was a (better) reason to contribute. I would love to see screenshots of all the games listed. I own hundreds of games for nostalgic purposes and was contemplating making a webpage devoted just to screens so that I could look at them at my liesure and reminisce.
Guests might enjoy browing screens of games to see what games look like if they've never played them before.
Yes its all been done before online somewhere, somehow, but doubtful that a community as large as the DOSBox community supported sites like that with the extensive games list available.
It's somewhat saddening to see such a robust, amazing emulator to have a webpage with portions in the state of disrepair that have great potential.