It'd be impossible to sit down and write out everything that you love about everything. It'd be a pursuit of madness. Why would you do it? Just to have some kind of time capsule for all of your cherished memories?

But what if you did it within the confines of a video game? It would be an even madder pursuit, for sure, but that's exactly what Retro City Rampage is. It's a love letter to all of developer Brian Provinciano's favorite things within the borders of an 8-bit open-world crime game - a game, I might add, that is so beautiful in its simplicity and hilarious in its execution that it has become one of my favorite games of all time.