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
September 30, 2026
“Sokoban” is one of those words that represents both a game and a genre. The game came first, naturally, and a wave of clones and inspiration followed, leading to the adoption of the subgenre designation. A Sokoban game is a puzzle game in which you push objects within a grid, attempting to get…
September 25, 2026
In the early 1980s, role-playing video games were taking hold. Ultima and Wizardry arrived on the scene in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and kicked off a chain reaction that would result in Japan’s own role-playing scene on both computers and consoles. Falcom, Square, and Enix would all take…
September 23, 2026
When I was a young boy, we used to get the official XBOX magazine, and the demo discs that came with it. That’s how I first played Brute Force, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and even NCAA Football.¹ It’s also where I first played James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing’s co-op mode — where you play as…
