To add on the methods: categories on Wikipedia are pretty useful for such digging. However, there's an annoyance that, although lots of pages have uniform info

To add on the methods: categories on Wikipedia are pretty useful for such digging. However, there's an annoyance that, although lots of pages have uniform infoboxes, you can't just ‘query’ pages in a category by an infobox field, or sort them by one—like the release year for games. At least I haven't found such a service, and Wikidata has less info. However you can rig something up with the API: e.g. the wptools package for Python parses infoboxes before you even ask it specifically.