Game Checklist
Occasionally, people will ask "Yeah, but can Wine handle the most popular games?", so I wrote a script to mash together Wine's AppDB and Gamerankings.com.
http://kegel.com/wine/games.html lists the top 50 games for each year since 1999 along with their appdb score and links
http://kegel.com/wine/good-games.html is the same, but only shows games that have a Gold or Platinum rating
http://kegel.com/wine/bad-games.html only shows games with a Garbage, Bronze, or Silver rating
(A game may show up as both good and bad, since apps may have different ratings for different minor versions.)
Popular Games that don't map easily between Gamerankings.com and appdb
And then there's http://kegel.com/wine/missing-games.html for games I couldn't map between the two databases, either because the appdb treats them as versions rather than freestanding apps, or because the appdb spells the name differently.
All three pages were automatically generated via the scripts at http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/appdb-mashup/
How to Help
- Review appdb entries and make sure bugs are filed in bugzilla for the known problems
- Submit appdb entries for the games that don't have any yet
(hard) Improve the scripts in http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/appdb-mashup to map expansion packs better
Other data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games (we should check the games listed there)