Retro XP
Retro reviews, analysis, and thoughts about retro games I’m playing, and think you should be playing, too.
A racing game on the Dreamcast featuring robot animals pulling chariots. And it somehow gets weirder than that.
Hudson and Yuke's partnered together on a mech combat game on the N64, but only for Japan.
Nintendo put a game with Satellaview origins on Nintendo Switch Online, and we're all the better for it.
The first of the Valkyrie games, and still a Japanese exclusive nearly four decades later, this game had its own take on the emerging "Zelda-like" genre.
The Japan-only sequel to The Legend of the Mystical Ninja deserved a worldwide release over three decades ago.
Not every Gradius game is a shoot 'em up, as Cosmic Wars' proto-4X design reminds.
Or, Shutokou Battle '97: Tsuchiya Keiichi & Bandou Masaaki, or, Drift King '97. The important thing is this is where Tokyo Xtreme Racer first used 3D and came into its own.
Dream Land 2 isn't a top-tier Kirby, no, but it is the origin point for ideas that would persist throughout the series from that point forward.
Salamander? Life Force? It's one or the other, unless it's both.
A Japan-only arcade game for decades, until it finally got a Namco Museum release in 2017. You're a tank!
Duck Dodgers is still fun in the 21st and 1/4 century.
A Data East arcade game turned into a number of console ports, revived in the present in a number of forms.