Retro XP
Retro reviews, analysis, and thoughts about retro games I’m playing, and think you should be playing, too.
- Created by Marc Normandin
- Located in United States
- July 2020
- Free
Recent posts
June 24, 2026
If you ask Tomohiro Nishikado, the first-ever original Japanese video game was 1973’s Soccer. And you could ask Nishikado — or look at his career history on his website — since he was the one who developed it for Taito, and did so at a time when Pong clones were what went to market. Not the first…
June 17, 2026
This column is a guest author feature, written by a friend of the site whose work I am thrilled to host at Retro XP. This entry is from Madeline Blondeau. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link . In 1991, the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis were poised for battle. The…
June 8, 2026
Pioneering game designer Will Wright was able to take the time to figure out what SimCity was in the first place because of Nintendo. Not directly — Nintendo didn’t fund the initial version of the city management game or anything like that. But his first-ever game, Raid on Bungeling Bay, released…
