Posted on 11/09/2024 at 12:25 PM
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Thanks! And you're right. I could do a whole year on most generations after the second and even on a single console like the PS2. I may consider something like that in the future.
This year was different but similar. I put Gen 1-3 together for January (Pong/Atari/NES) followed by Gen 3, Feb. (Genesis/SNES console wars), Gen 4, March (PS/N64). Then from April (1998-2000, when Metacritic begins showing more search results), I did three year spans for each month and used Metacritic to generate a list. I'm currently on 2019-2021.
That was fun, but I want to stick a little more closely to the history for 2025. I'll probably not use Metacritic to generate lists. I think I might go through my own collections first because I want to thin the herd of bad games. Then maybe go by release dates. There's always so much though. It's hard to try and find a satisfying focus and not try and cover everything. But I may come up with a favorite genre theme each month, like shmups for Gen 2 and RPGs for Gen 4, or something like that. Oh, I'm keen on brick-breakers for Gen 1. I got way into those earlier this year. I may start with that.