With the impending launch of a new generation of consoles, beginning with the Wii U this Fall/Winter, we can expect a wave of launch titles of varying degrees of quality. I think a retrospective of past launch titles, specific to each platform holder as their new console launches, in a similar format to the "SNES Party" and "SNES Time" events that have been produced in the past.

For example, maybe a month prior to the Wii U launch, the GB crew does a Nintendo Launch Title Retrospective Blowout, hitting launch titles for the NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, and Wii, offering some perspective on the quality and pedigree of launch titles of the past and how the new batch for 2012 stacks up. The retrospective wouldn't need to cover all launch titles for every system, even if it were only four launch titles for each system you'd be looking at 20 games being played and a nice chunk of content to boot (at least in terms of potential length of video, the quality is up to the GB guys to knock out of the park). The retrospective could/should cover the worst of launches past, in addition to the best because, man, there are some real stinkers that come out with just about every launch.

Ripping launch title lists from Wikipedia, here's the sort of titles that could be picked from:

NES U.S. launch: October 18, 1985

• 10-Yard Fight
• Baseball
• Clu Clu Land
• Donkey Kong Jr. Math
• Duck Hunt
• Excitebike
• Golf
• Gyromite
• Hogan's Alley
• Ice Climber
• Kung-Fu
• Mach Rider
• Pinball
• Stack-Up
• Super Mario Bros.
• Tennis
• Wild Gunman
• Wrecking Crew

SNES U.S. launch: August 23, 1991

• Super Mario World
• F-Zero
• Pilotwings
• Gradius III
• SimCity

Nintendo 64 U.S. launch: September 29, 1996

• Pilotwings 64
• Super Mario 64

Gamecube U.S. launch: November 18, 2001

• All-Star Baseball 2002
• Batman: Vengeance
• Crazy Taxi
• Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
• Disney's Tarzan Untamed
• Luigi's Mansion
• Madden NFL 2002
• NHL Hitz 20-02
• Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
• Super Monkey Ball
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
• Wave Race: Blue Storm

Wii U.S. launch: November 19, 2006

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Call of Duty 3
• Cars
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
• Excite Truck
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
• GT Pro Series
• Happy Feet
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Madden NFL 07
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• Monster 4x4: World Circuit
• Need for Speed: Carbon
• Rampage: Total Destruction
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
• Red Steel
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
• Wii Sports (bundled with the Wii console)

Similar Blowouts could be held for Sony and MS as their new console launches grew near in 2012, both of which would cover notably fewer systems, but could still offer some nice perspective and even grant the GB guys more time to spend on titles from each system, as they wouldn't need to get through five generations of console launches.

So what do you guys think? Content you'd want to see? Train-wreck of an idea? I'm interested to hear what y'all think!