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Retro revival: Utah Retro GameXpo to spotlight gaming's past, present and future this month
Thanks to social distancing and lockdown orders, people around the world were often forced to find their entertainment at home during the pandemic. For a slew of Gen-Xers and millennials, that meant taking a warp pipe back to the world of retro gaming, where the princess is usually in another castle, conflicts can be settled in slappers-only mode and Bo Jackson still regularly breaks off 80-yard runs. It's a world that Tracy Charlton, owner of Layton's Minus World Games and the upcoming Utah Retro GameXpo, has inhabited for much of his life. "We had an Atari when I was younger, but I ...