Various influences have made me want to try some new things with video — most notably the ever-excellent Rob "hellfire64" Caporetto's work on his channel. Be sure to check his work out if you haven't already — he does some wonderful stuff on a variety of oft-overlooked and underappreciated retro stuff across a whole host of platforms. I was just watching his piece on Bloodshot this week, and it just got me thinking "I want to do a broader range of retro stuff".
The thing that I often feel holds me back in starting new things is the sense that I've made some sort of "commitment", and that I'd be letting someone (possibly myself) down if I didn't stick to those "commitments". That's why I was hesitant to call time on things like the long playthroughs a while back — though that was ultimately for the best, I think.
Anyway, what I'm planning to do is something a little more freeform alongside the existing, established Atari A to Z series that are the channel's main attraction. I'm going to launch a new "series", for want of a better word, but that series will simply be "whatever I want, on a retro theme". I will then post that series into playlists that are both "all of the episodes of this series", and "episodes by platform", so that people who just want to watch, say, all the Mega Drive games will be easily able to watch just the Mega Drive games.
To further ensure that I don't constrain myself to a potentially restrictive format, I'm not going to brand this an "A to Z" series. Instead I think I'm going to call it "Retro Select", with the thinking being that each week I'll just, well, select something that I fancy playing for one reason or another. The channel will then have easy access to playlists called things like "Retro Select: Full Series", "Retro Select: Mega Drive", "Retro Select: PC Engine" and suchlike for easily tracking down the platforms you're most interested in — or just watching the whole lot.
I'm gonna stick with the "intro/Let's Play" format that I do on my other series because, frankly, that format minimises the actual amount of work I have to do on each episode besides recording it — you all know how busy I keep myself, so being able to do fun things like this without it ending up feeling like "work" is super-important!
short;Play will continue as an occasional thing when there's perhaps something a bit more recent I want to show off, but it won't be a regular thing. Retro Select is something I feel I can make on a regular basis without adding too much pressure to myself, though, and I think it'll be fun to expand the range of platforms I'm covering without any real constraints.
Chris and I are also in talks about a revamp of the podcast, too. You'll likely see the fruits of those discussions in a few weeks' time, so please look forward to that, also!
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