If I may make another recommendation, I say go for non-Japanese console games, pre-crash for your first few go-throughs. I think it will be rewarding both for you and your audience. While I'd personally prefer something like the ColecoVision or something terribly obscure and mostly terrible like the Arcadia 2001, I say stick with the Atari 2600 or Intellivision. For the former, the sky is pretty much the limit, but I'd say given your preferences, you might want to offer some historical perspective on "Adventure" and "Haunted House", and particularly what the former meant in terms of real-time dungeon crawling. In terms of the latter platform, the Intellivision, there are a ton of D&D games and similar RPGs that would be quite worthy of your attention (there are probably 7 good ones). Again, I recommend experimenting with reviewing two games at the same time to provide some compare and contrast type of stuff and to offer a broader perspective. Entirely up to you, of course, but those are my thoughts. Of course I'd really like to see you try and tackle purely action oriented games for a true break from the past, but that might be asking too much. In any case, good luck!

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