Talk:Little Nicky (video game)

GA review

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Nominator: CooperCool23 (talk · contribs) 02:55, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Vrxces (talk · contribs) 04:48, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Hey, love seeing GBC articles go to GA, I'll take this one on and return with comments shortly. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 04:48, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

I'll do a source spot check soon, but here's some brief initial stuff:

General

• The article structure meets the manual of style completely fine.

Suggested sources

You've capably found pretty much everything there is to find about this game. However, some minor additions could include:

• For the Game Boy Color, we developed did a game that got rave reviews, played great, looked awesome, and did things on the system that simply couldn't be done - the lead programmer owned the Z-80. Unfortunately, it only sold about 30 copies, because it's name was Little Nicky. It was fun to develop, we got to hang out with Adam Sandler, but it was severely depressing when we saw the sales figures. (Digital Eclipse producer Chris Charla, Game Developer )

• Allgame has a purely descriptive review and rating () that may be helpful to add to the template, as well as any gaps in sourcing or gameplay that are worth filling in. Note Allgame has the release date at 23 December 2000, which may be a more direct and desirable source than the IGN reader poll.

Development and release

• For accuracy, the IGN source isn't saying Sandler personally announced the game at E3, but seems to have featured in a pre-recorded video announcing the release in a screen above their stand at E3.

• Not sure how useful stating there was a one-month release delay is, given nearly every source, like GI and Next Generation give different projected release dates. It isn't that remarkable for publishers to push forward their release dates for software on a month-to-month basis.

Reception

• Why do we lead with the IGN and GameSpot reviews when it neither seem like an overall assessment of the game? Careful leading with a specific review, can feel a little WP:UNDUE.

• felt that parts of the game might've been helped if it was better to play reads a little confusing. Parts of the game would be better if...they played better?

• When there's only a few reviews, statements such as "universal" or "most reviewers" lose a little punch; may be only worth it if pretty much all five reviews are making the same point.

• general positive > generally positive

• doted > noted

• Keep WP:MOSQUOTE in mind for the wide variation in things like appreciated, praised, noted and so on - can be tricky to find a balance. It's okay to be a little more neutral i.e. "wrote".

• it's implementation > its implementation

• Harris, Jonathan Dudlak of Pocket Games, and Ethan Einhorn of Electronic Gaming Monthly however labeled it as high quality for a Game Boy Color title, with Dudlak, Einhorn, and Nintendo Power describing it as "first-rate", "capably emulated", and "impressive" respectively. - This is super confusing: we start introducing two sources, and then listing three sources.

Discussion

Hey Vrxces, thanks for the initial comments! I can definitely get to these points relatively soon this week, but first I have a few ideas of my own and things that I want you to maybe elaborate on a bit more. COOPER COOL 23 user page 18:47, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

• When Chris Charla mentions the "Z-80", he's talking about this brand of microprocessor right? Furthermore he mentions how the lead programmer owned this Z-80, but in what way does that relate to "[doing] things on the system that simply couldn't be done"?

If we can't infer without using WP:OR, best to avoid discussing it. In this case it's the processor the GBC processor was based on. Sort of like 'the programmer is so experienced they even had the hardware. We don't need this in the article. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 05:30, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

• • He also mentions how the game managed to sell "only about 30 copies". That to me seems a little ridiculous of a sales figure, even for a game with a pretty unorthodox license (yes, this is coming from one of Digital Eclipse's producers who would have some kind of firsthand knowledge of this, but even then I feel like there should be some kind of sales report that additionally backs up this claim (If and where it exists, I'd have no idea)).

Agree this is a poor source for specific figures. I think as a WP:PRIMARY source we can fairly say that the game's producer stated the game sold poorly. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 05:30, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

• Your claims about the release source date are pretty spot on with my own research (I believe I found a meh aggregator source on the Wayback that listed it as December 22nd, but I can't remember what the site's name or url was whatsoever) so all good on that idea. But relating to the AllGame source's usage in the reception template, that seems a bit iffy to me considering how it just gives the score and never really elaborates on the critical why.

It used to be that catalog-style review guides were a common thing. Allgame is an RS taking this approach. The score is still of some limited value even if the source doesn't reveal the rationale for the score and would not contribute to notability. But not a particularly major inclusion or omission either way. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 05:30, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

• • On a semi-unrelated note, in the IGN reader poll, the text for that segment states that early versions of it, apparently, would have been worthy of an ESRB M rating, and then goes on to claim that Digital Eclipse and Ubisoft chose to focus on gameplay over vulgarity. Not sure where the heck they are getting that from: just from a brief check on the game's The Cutting Room Floor page all it mentions was that the game was seemingly called "Project Talisman" according to left over stuff in its code (at least from what I can tell).

We probably don't have enough to do more than speculate or do WP:OR, so nothing we can do here. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 05:30, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Hopefully all that stuff I just put down doesn't make this review any harder than it has to be! If so, really sorry 'bout that ._.

Not at all! I love researching these things and it's cool to see someone do it thoroughly in a similar subject matter area. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 05:30, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Finally got around to answering the majority of your current quota. The only suggestion I wasn't able to utilize for the time being was the Digital Eclipse producer ref, but I suspect that it could potentially hold some use later on (i.e. put it in a refideas template on the talk page). COOPER COOL 23 user page 23:30, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

(Attempting to ping Vrxces, since I addressed their current concerns almost 5 days ago) COOPER COOL 23 user page 15:06, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks - apologies! I'll have a final sweep through now. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 18:38, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, looks good! Thanks for actioning the feedback. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 19:38, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:17, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that a comedy film starring Adam Sandler received a video game adaptation?

• Source: Den of Geek, AllGame

• • ALT1 ... that a minigame in the video game adaptation of Little Nicky allows the player to print their results using the Game Boy Printer?
  • Source: GameSpot
  • ALT2 ... that Adam Sandler provided voice work for a video game adaptation of the film Little Nicky?
  • Source: Little Nicky Instruction Booklet (pg. 11), AllGame
  • Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by CooperCool23 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

COOPER COOL 23 user page 21:39, 15 January 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Promoted to GA yesterday, great work! Earwig is all green. The hook is a bit straightforward - it's basically "this existed". Could you suggest an ALT, please? I wonder if there's something about the minigames (pineapple throwing?!). Jonathan Deamer (talk) 10:24, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Approving the first hook (just in case, promoter's discretion) and ALT1. (In ALT2, "provided voice work" feels like an overstatement of the sources; it implies recording specifically for the game, while sources suggest samples from the film?). Either way, good to go, with a personal preference for ALT1 for interestingness. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 16:07, 16 January 2026 (UTC)