PixlBit

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. 

Oh cool. I look forward to your review. What do you think of Ys IX? 

I flew through the air. . . attached to the ground. Haha. 

That's the one. It comes up on Xbox as Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection, which is weird. Having Konami in the title is a selling point for me. 

I'm playing the remake of Trials which I imagine is very different from the original. 

I like to see it as what a good Star Trek game should have been. 

Just a very small car. Seems like a broom, now I think of it. 

I just hooked up my PS4 again, but I've gotten sucked into Mass Effect Andromeda again. I'll try that demo when i emerge. haha. 

I just put Yar's Rising on my Xbox wish list the other day. Wayforward gives me confidence in it. 

I'm curious about Mika and the Witch's Mountain. It sounds like a fantasy version of my old job, which I kind of secretly enjoyed. 

I have paid very little attention to the story of Doom over the years. A good vid like this might just get me interested in it. 

The main thing for me was the fighting controls and they are much better than the old ones.