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This is my January 2025 goal, to sample games of the 70s. It was just console gen 1, but that is so limited, I thought I'd add a few years and make it the whole 70s. This includes the first years of the Atari 2600 and the very first arcade hits. The true console gen 2, to me, starts at 1980 when things really blow up in the arcades and at home. Also, I'm continuing certain game genre's into the present because they are just so iconic of the first gen of gaming like brick breakers. So here's my handheld iternerary for January (the console stuff will be in another post).

I only had one day to game this week and it was more mopping up in Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga. 

How to play what I want to play and get it done. I often end up with these gigantic lists that are impossible to get through. I also end up buying games that just end up in the backloggery. So how to solve this? I think I have an answer. 

Two games I focused on, one handheld and one console, this week. 

I have a few half days of gaming in my week that I thought, from hear on out, I would devote to handheld games. Then I'd attack the console stuff on full days off from work. That is, barring any other distraction. So this week I played 3DS and then returned to Xbox Series S. 

This would be January 2025 when I will be focusing on the first generation of consoles and games from the 70s in general, plus some digging into even older stuff if I run out of games to play. It will be the beginning of the year and the beginning of games, video or otherwise. Here's the first list I wrote up:

It was all Switch this week. I feel like i'm cramming in playing the systems I largely ignored during the year in this last month. Better late than never. 

I finished Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain finally. I then picked up EDF 5 on a black Friday sale and started playing that. I'm debating whether to continue with it into December. 

I'm still working out my 2025 plan of going through the console generations month to month. However, I recently started thinking about game genre's, ones I like and one's I'm curious about. So I'm starting to work them into the schedule, featuring a specific genre per generation. Here's what I got so far, subject to change of course. 

I finished Mass Effect Andromeda and switched consoles to PS4. After playing a few games there, I settled on Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain. I am now going to battle bugs for the rest of the month.