Template:Did you know nominations/Cybermania '94

• ... that Cybermania '94 was the first televised video game awards show? Source: Geoff Keighley's lifelong obsession to create a video game Oscars – "Keighley had an early taste of award show excitement when he was a teen at 1994's "Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards," the first-ever televised video game award show." (corresponds to #13 in the article)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Episode 6867

IceWelder [✉] 11:43, 26 January 2025 (UTC).

• Article is well written and otherwise eligible. My only issue is that per WP:DYKDEFINITE "hooks with exceptional claims, such as 'the first X to do Y' hooks, require exceptional sourcing." - do we have multiple sources or a general agreement that this was, in fact, the first of its kind? PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:18, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

@PARAKANYAA: I would say so, yes. The source from Los Angeles Times cited above is a 2017 retrospective, but there are also plenty of contemporary sources that say the same, including:

• Computer Player
• Electronic Games
• Gannett News Service (via The Desert Sun)
• Broadcasting & Cable
• The Star Press

... which are all cited in the article. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 18:52, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Good to me then. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:03, 28 January 2025 (UTC)