Together Retro 2015 Calendar

[BoneSnapDeez]

Companies could be cool if we stuck to retro ones that have a wide variety of games/genres under their belt. Konami, Capcom, Data East, Midway, Namco, SNK, Sega, etc...

[Key-Glyph]

I came in here wondering what the poll would be about specifically, and I have to say I giggled aloud when I read the choices and had absolutely no idea what was going on.

I read further in and it all became clear, but without context, those options were very amusing.

[Flake]

Companies could be cool if we stuck to retro ones that have a wide variety of games/genres under their belt. Konami, Capcom, Data East, Midway, Namco, SNK, Sega, etc...

That's 7/12ths of the list right there. Nintendo, Squaresoft, Activision, Lucas Arts, and Compile to round it out?

Your mentioning Midway really raises a lot of options in my mind. I think that a TR calender that includes Rampage, NFL Blitz, or Gauntlet Legends could only be better for the inclusion.

[ZeroAX]

I came in here wondering what the poll would be about specifically, and I have to say I giggled aloud when I read the choices and had absolutely no idea what was going on.

I read further in and it all became clear, but without context, those options were very amusing.

That's 7/12ths of the list right there. Nintendo, Squaresoft, Activision, Lucas Arts, and Compile to round it out?

Your mentioning Midway really raises a lot of options in my mind. I think that a TR calender that includes Rampage, NFL Blitz, or Gauntlet Legends could only be better for the inclusion.

Yeah but isn't it a crime to restrict ourselves to basically well known games? What about all the hidden gems not published by big companies?

[Ack]

Or what about the craptacular dregs of the big names? Who is up for War Gods?

[Sload Soap]

Seems like if we went companies things would become a bit biased towards Japanese developers which I don't think is a good thing.

[ExedExes]

Yeah, I'd go with genres as well. Companies is either too broad (Sega games) or too narrow (Infocom becomes the text adventure genre without any other entries).

Genres have served us well in the past, and like Popo said, companies can be either broad or narrow.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Genres have served us well in the past, and like Popo said, companies can be either broad or narrow.

I agree, I think we need to stick with genres per month. This way we can continue to have that broad variety that gets various groups of people involved.

[alienjesus]

I still think we don't really need either.

The only reason I can see to limit to certain genres each month is to stop us playing certain genres more than once in a year.

I'd rather we just let people pick anything they find interesting to suggest, rather than saying 'and now you have to choose an RPG, and a shmup, and a platformer'

[fastbilly1]

The thought behind using companies is to shake things up. But if yall dont think that will help, we will stick with a genre concept with a few wildcard months (for things like Toe Jam and Earl and Lemmings).