I'm enjoying putting together the new short;Play series, as it's opened up the opportunity for me to talk about… well, pretty much any game I feel like, to be perfectly honest, and without any commitment to do a full playthrough on camera or anything like that. I enjoyed Warriors Wednesday and I am still enjoying the Final Fantasy Marathon, don't get me wrong, but Atari A to Z has taught me that having a variety of things week on week is enjoyable — both for me and for the audience.
Coming up in the next few weeks on short;Play, I'll be bringing you a video on A Valley Without Wind, which I've been loving my recent revisit of, and also an all-time favourite of the "golden age of shareware" — Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold. Neither of these would have really fit into previous series formats, but the flexibility of short;Play means that they're both ideal for inclusion — interesting games, largely underappreciated, and which I feel passionately about. A natural extension of the written work I do on MoeGamer — and in many cases, I'll end up writing about the things I cover on short;Play over on MoeGamer too, since there are things I can say in writing that I can't "in the moment" while demonstrating a game on video… and things that will occur to me while recording a video that won't necessarily spring immediately to mind while I'm writing.
Anyway, continue to expect short;Play episodes on Wednesdays for the foreseeable future. I've been fairly productive on the first day of my week off, with two Atari A to Z episodes and two short;Play episodes recorded; tomorrow I'm going to take care of two Atari ST A to Z and two Atari A to Z Flashback episodes, then that leaves plenty of time later in the week to continue my slog through Final Fantasy II's challenging postgame scenario!
It's a shame the Evercade didn't turn up this week — it sounds like units will be shipping for us here in the UK starting next week, or perhaps the very tail end of this week at the earliest — but I'll definitely find a way to cover it and its launch lineup in depth even if I'm back on the clock at the day job, don't you worry!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new videos when they drop; they're rendering right now, so I'll probably share them as "early access" for you lovely Patrons in the next couple of days or so if you'd like to see them a bit early! For now, I'm off to play a bit of Phantasy Star in bed.
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