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
August 17, 2026
The Aleste series of shooters wasn’t actually named such in North America, not until near the very end of its time in the shoot ‘em up space. Most of the time, that led to annoying changes: Aleste to “Power Strike,” Super Aleste to the highly generic “Space Megaforce,” things of that nature. With…
August 14, 2026
The western conception of early Japanese role-playing games is skewed somewhat by two things: what RPGs were released internationally and when, as well as the comparative dominance of Final Fantasy over the rest of those games. Square’s early offerings weren’t necessarily story driven, at least not…
August 7, 2026
There is a whole lot of misinformation out there regarding Donkey Kong 3. There are claims that its commercial failure in North America caused the Donkey Kong series to be shelved for over a decade, even though ports of the arcade games were released for the Famicom and NES following Donkey Kong…
