PixlBit

Only one more week left of my 70s gaming. Other than Space Invaders, a few Atari 2600 games, a pinball game, and Mattel Electronics Baseball, I haven't really been doing much. The 70s are pretty lean for video games I'm interested in. So why not look forward to a very packed September of 80s gamesI

I made a priorities list. It starts with the systems I played the most in the 80s (1-6), then those I discovered later (7-10), and finally non-video games of interest (11-12). 

1. Arcades
2. Atari 2600
3. Intellivision
4. ColecoVision
5. Apple IIc
6. Apple Macintosh Plus
7. NES
8. Sega Master System
9. Game & Watch
10. C64
11. board games
12. pinball

I ask myself: what would this list look like as a random encounter table?

Roll a d10:
1-5  Arcade
6-7  Home Console/Handheld
8-9  Home Computer
10 Non Video Game

If Arcade:

Roll a d24:
1-3 1980
4-7 1981
8-11 1982
12-15 1983
16-18 1984
19-20 1985
21 1986
22 1987
23 1988
24 1989

If Home Console/Handheld:

Roll a d20:
1-8 Atari 2600
9-14 NES
15-16 Intellivision
17-18 ColecoVision
19 Sega Master System
20 Game & Watch

If Home Computer:

Roll a d6
1-2 Apple IIc
3-5 Apple Mac Plus
6 C64

If Non Video Game:

Roll a d4
1-3 Board Game
4 Pinball

This system is based on the amount of time I spent with each system or particular year in question. The number one most was Arcades, then Atari 2600, then NES (but first played in the 90s), then Apple computers, Intellivision and Colecovision and finally board games. Anything else was just a few times played much later on (SMS, Game & Watch, C64, pinball). 

As for years most played in the arcades: 1980-1984 were the most, followed by 1985. 1986-8 were just occational visits and 1989 likely not at all.  

That was fun. I think I won't roll to determine what I play though. I'm going to go with that first priorities list starting with arcade games. I can't wait.