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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. 

January - Gen 1 - Brick Breakers: I reserve the right to expand beyond the generation in search of new brick breakers to play. There are a few new ones out right now I'd like to try, plus the variations from the original Breakout like Arkanoid. 

February - Gen 2 - Twin-Stick Shooters: Earlier this year I found myself liking Robotron 2084 and Smash TV quite a bit and thought about exploring more games with this mechanic. I wonder if auto-battlers like Vampire Survivors can be considered one even though you don't control the direction of attack. It certainly looks a lot like a twin-stick shooter when you see it. 

March - Gen 3 - Platformers: I would go turn-based RPGs since I played Wizardry back in this generation, but I thought I'd explore something different, and a bit of a bugaboo for me, platformers, which certainly came into their own in this gen. I played a platformer on the Apple Macintosh called Dark Castle back then. It's a platform game but you can also throw and shoot at things (sort of proto Metroidvania when I think about it). You get a jetpack in Beyond Dark Castle as well. These two games are not available other than a poor Genesis port of the first game, but that gives me a chance to explore the genre and find something that doesn't make me want to throw my controller. 

April - Gen 4 - Brawlers: I got into Golden Axe and Streets of Rage on the Genesis in this gen, so maybe I could O.D. on similar brawlers this month. Or, I could explore RPGs. I'm still deciding. 

May - Gen 5 - Action RPGs: I decided on this largely because I loved Gauntlet Legends so much on N64 and Dreamcast. It started me on wanting to play co-op games since I played this with my longtime gaming friend Mark. I could go Combat Racing though because I discovered this genre with Destruction Derby 2 on Playstation this gen. Decisions, decisions. 

June/July - Gen 6 - 3D Platformers: I played a ton of FPS games with my friend Mark this gen, so it would be nice to do something different. Starting with Ratchet & Clank, since I haven't finished the first trilogy all the way through. I could dig in deep with these games I've historically shied away from. 

Aug/Sept - Gen 7 - Handhelds: Not a genre but I've been neglecting the fairly large collection I have of Nintendo portable games. I would say it was this gen I started getting interested in handhelds with the DS. I ended up trying out the PSP, Vita and 3DS after that, and even venturing back to the GB and GBC I had overlooked. 

Oct/Nov - Gen 8 - Toys-2-Life: This is the gen I got into Skylanders and then all the other games with chipped figures and portal periferals. I could do something different though, as I've played all these games pretty thoroughly already. Perhaps I should focus on the Switch or PS4 moreso and any genre's special to those systems like JRPGs. Thinking. . . 

Dec - Gen 9 - Indie: It dawned on my that some of my favorite games of recent years have been indie, or smaller, games. Stuff like Tinykin, Journey to the Savage Planet, Bomber Squad, Merge & Blade, Monster Sanctuary, Farm Together and Island Saver have been some of my favorite. I'm sure there are more to explore if I focused on them exclusively. Oh joy! 

And that's the tentative plan so far. I have editted it even as I wrote this, so maybe it'll change a bit more before the year ends. What'd ya think? Any ideas?