The Monday letters page remembers the glory days of the Commodore 64, as a reader recommends indie game Beyond Words.

Games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night prove that some retro games still hold up.

Retro games are having a bit of a renaissance, and prices for collectors have skyrocketed. Luckily, there are other options, including emulation.

It’s all the more depressing because just two console generations ago, the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console was a hub of retro ...

The word “retro” has taken a lot of forms over the years, but in the video game space, it typically refers to titles that haven’t been around for a long time or were made in some of the earlier ...

The next day, the couple also shared another batch of video games—this time for the PSP, GameCube, Wii, and PlayStation—along ...

A school locker jammed with trading cards, the clicking wheel of a floppy disk, or the sweet hum of a tube TV can trigger memories in seconds. Retro games plug straight into that emotional circuit.

This is going to be the final update to the Retro Classics library this year, but there should be more in 2026, as Microsoft previously promised more than 100 games. All of that said, and as always, ...

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