Brings back an array of key value pairs describing the different types of "things" that currently exist on the Everygamegoing web site.

This command requires no parameters.

Most things included upon items are games, but this is not always the case. In the case of compilations, or electronic magazines, an item (i.e. a physical cartridge or other type of media) may contain demos, pictures, articles and all sorts of other things. At database level, the things have not only specific ids (i.e. thing_id), they also have a paarent_type_id which corresponds to the 'type' of thing they are. For example, type 1 is a game, type 2 is a utility, type 3 is a demo ... etc.

This command merely tells you which paarent_type_id corresponds to which type of thing. At time of writing, it returns the following response:

							{
								
								"response":
								[
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"1",
										"paarent_type_name":"Game"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"2",
										"paarent_type_name":"Utility"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"3",
										"paarent_type_name":"Demo"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"4",
										"paarent_type_name":"Educational"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"5",
										"paarent_type_name":"Picture"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"6",
										"paarent_type_name":"Review"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"7",
										"paarent_type_name":"Article"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"8",
										"paarent_type_name":"Solution"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"9",
										"paarent_type_name":"Letter"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"10",
										"paarent_type_name":"Opener"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"11",
										"paarent_type_name":"Advert"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"12",
										"paarent_type_name":"Cheat"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"13",
										"paarent_type_name":"Adventure"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"14",
										"paarent_type_name":"Emulator"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"15",
										"paarent_type_name":"Music Demo"
									},
									{
										"paarent_type_id":"16",
										"paarent_type_name":"Mini-Compilation"
									}
								]
							}
							

You can use the paarent_type_id with calls such as getAllThingIDs to narrow down the thing_ids returned. This process is throughly described in the documentation for that call.

Whilst the above should satisfy most needs, there is an additional, optional parameter called [paarent_type_id]. This is a filter and including it will narrow down the subset of data which the call returns. This [paarent_type_id] is an integer and must take one of the following values: