Asking to identify the game based on keyboard combination only

Question

The oldest question on identify-this-game-like questions that I found here is 7 years old. So my introduction question is whether this class of questions are or are not allowed here as of today (2021)?

If they're allowed, then currently the game-identification tag's wiki states (emphasis mine):

USE WITH CAUTION: Only ask if you have a screenshot, video, or audio clip from the game you want to identify. The only game identification questions allowed on this site are those asking to identify games in movies, pictures, videos, advertisements or otherwise where an unknown game appears - not from a description of what you can recall from memory, or from a picture you drew yourself.

Am I allowed to ask such a question based on a:

• Keyboard combination used to play the game (quite very non-typical)
• Approximate year the game was released (before XXX)
• Most likely hardware it was released to
• Probable game type (based on first point, i.e. key combinations)

Or is this not enough, there's a strong possibility that this will produce too many possible matches and the question becomes guessing-game-type question, which is prohibited here, if I am not mistaken.

Answer 1

I still believe it would be off-topic.

My reasoning is:

• If we go by the tags definition, we only allow these questions when they contain a screenshot, video, or audio clip, none of which you will be able to provide it sounds.
• Your four bullet points would all be based off of a "description of what you can recall from memory", to quote the tag.

Your strongest point from what it seems is the keyboard combination in question. I am guessing you would like to make a post akin to "What game had this keyboard combination?" Even if you are 100% positive of the keyboard combination being used specifically in that game, it still would be from memory.

Take a look at this answer on the meta post Why does Game Identification require pictures, audio or screenshots? (which are linked in the tag wiki for game-identification):

The thing is, "Game Identification" as a topic area is broad enough to stand for two separate types of questions:

• Memory-based - which are off topic:
  _{Example: "I remember a game with a duck. What game is it?"}
• Evidence-based - which are on topic:
  _{Example: "Here is an <image / video / soundbyte> of a game, which game is it?"}

The example for off-topic "I remember a game with a duck. What game is it?" can be replaced with "I remember a game with this key combination. What game is it?" in your case.