Interesting, I've never heard of anyone refer to "Star Voyager" as "Acclaim's Star Voyager".
As a rule, I generally remove/ignore creators' names, like "Disney's". I also remove "Hudson's" from "Hudson's Adventure Island". I keep waffling on "Bram Stoker's Dracula", because the film that these games are based on heavily emphasized "Bram Stoker's" as if it should be part of the title, and I can't count on IMDb for clarification, it's been listed both with and without the "Bram Stoker's" at different times that I've looked at it. On VGMaps, these games are currently under "B", but I might move them to "D" one day to be consistent with my rules.
But obviously, with any rule, there are challenges and exceptions. You can't very well take away "Tecmo" from "Tecmo Bowl", but that makes "Tecmo Secret Of The Stars" on the Super NES problematic. You do have to call it "Tecmo Baseball" since Nintendo released their own "Baseball", but also, no one calls it "Tecmo Star Force", and that's fine as there isn't another "Star Force" game by someone else, but the "Tecmo" is indeed bigger on the Star Force box than the (Tecmo) Baseball box. Does size matter? Well, while I do think that "Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge" should be listed under "G", and I similarly ignore the "Capcom's" on "Capcom's MVP Football" on the Super NES and list it under "M", the latter looks really odd especially because "Capcom's" is so large on the box art.
I generally keep the name if it's a sports athlete/coach that endorses it, like "Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball" (Super NES). Sometimes you have to ignore it if it's a one-off and they don't endorse the whole series, like "Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II" (Genesis) or "Ryne Sandberg Plays Bases Loaded 3". This definitely runs into problems like "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" which feels like it should be under "M" (which is where it is here on VGMaps as of now) but by my rules, you'd think I should put under "P", as the series existed before Mike Tyson and has continued on without him. But if I keep it at "M", does that mean "Ryne Sandberg Plays Bases Loaded 3" should be under "R"? But since he PLAYS the game, then I guess the game really is titled "Bases Loaded 3", and we should just see "Ryne Sandberg Plays" as tagline text, like how "Tuff E Nuff" on the Super NES isn't called "Hey Punk! Are You Tuff E Nuff?", despite the box very clearly saying that...
Back to the sports thing, there's a Super NES PAL exclusive game called "Dino Dini's Soccer". If Dino Dini was a sports guy, that would be under "D". But I learned that he's a programmer, making it under "S" - like "Soccer, Dino Dini's". It's like "David Crane's Amazing Tennis" on the Super NES. David Crane developed it, like he did "David Crane's A Boy And His Blob: Trouble On Blobolonia", which I put under "B", not "D", despite the "B" in "Boy" so far from the front, similar to "J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings: Vol. 1" on the Super NES being listed under "L" for "Lord" which is almost in the middle!
And then I prefer APA alphabetization, which puts "Superman" before "Super Mario Bros." - since "N" comes before "R" - whereas "normal"/"typical" alphabetization (which doesn't seem intuitive to me) considers spaces as something to be alphabetized, rather than moving on to the next letter, and therefore puts "Super Mario Bros." BEFORE "Superman". APA alphabetization helps with being consistent when you're not sure if there's a space or not, like "Sub Terrania/SubTerrania/Subterrania" on the Genesis, if there were other "Sub-" games listed around them. A better example is that I'm pretty confident that "StarTropics" is one word - though the sequel's box has it as two - and it seems silly to me that its position among other games that begin with "Star" (eg. "Star Trek") would depend on whether it is one or two.
I was thinking of putting my alphabetization woes into a YouTube video, if I wasn't behind on other video projects that I feel more obligated to do. But after reading about the NES and Super NES game libraries so often, and auditing ROMs/box art/maps, I've definitely seen all sorts of alphabetization choices and wrestled with my own, that it COULD be an interesting video, despite that (or maybe because) many people probably don't think that hard about it.
