Forgot to write yesterday, apologies. I'm sure you don't mind too much. I was just kind of exhausted after the week and I've still felt exhausted today. Had a long nap in the middle of the day and I'm not sure it helped, but, well, it happened.
I have a productive day planned tomorrow, though, and I'm excited to get down to it — I'm going to record the first episodes of Retro Select along with the new Atari A to Z episodes. Retro Select will doubtless cover a wide variety of different platforms in the long term, so it's going to give me plenty of scope to fiddle around with some games that I haven't spent nearly enough time with to date.
We'll be kicking off the series in its first couple of weeks with an Xbox and a PC Engine title. Both of those platforms are a bit underrepresented in online retro video stuff, so I think it will be good to have some explorations out there.
Xbox in particular I think tends to get bundled in with "oh, its games are just pretty much what's on PlayStation" — but there's a lot of really good exclusives on there, along with a bunch that are not backwards-compatible with the modern Xbox consoles. So that's one of many things I want to put some focus on with Retro Select in the long-term.
The only real issue I might have is that as time has gone on, games have gotten more complex and longer, and demanded that you spend more time with them in order to appreciate them. This has always been a thing with RPGs, of course, but there are plenty of other games for which this is true, too. I'm not going to rule out the possibility of doing multiple episodes on a game for Retro Select if I think it might be relevant, but the priority will be on highlighting a selection of interesting games and just giving them the sort of "quick look" treatment.
Anyway. That's all stuff to think about when it becomes relevant. I'm sorted on what I'm covering for the first couple of weeks, and I'm not exactly short of other stuff to play with, too. Looking forward to getting it all started — and I hope you enjoy it once it's underway!
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