Retrospective of the Road

Spaztique conceived Endless Blue.
Spaztique revealed his idea for Endless Blue and posted the Stage 1 theme.
Later that day, Popfan would contact him and provide some suggestions for gameplay mechanics.
FullHitPoints contacted Spaztique and provided his service as an aspiring game developer.
Team Gaijin Alex was founded by Spaztique, Popfan and FullHitPoints.
Spaztique posted the Stage 1 boss theme for Endless Blue.
Spaztique posted the Stage 2 theme for Endless Blue.
After having expressed his desire to draw some character art for Endless Blue, Scarlet Rhapsody was accepted into the team.
Spaztique posted the Stage 2 boss theme for Endless Blue.
Popfan conceived Rampant Crescent Flora.
Website construction has begun.
Popfan offered programming assistance to Michirin for her game MajiKana, jumpstarting the first instance of Team Gaijin Alex collaborating with another developer.
(As he was still too inexperienced with programming at the time, however, FullHitPoints would join in not much later and the two would divide the workload between each other.)
Website construction was started over.
MajiKana (demo version) v0.01 released.
MajiKana (demo version) v0.02 update.
The blog was created.
The website has gone public.
The Japanese version of the website was rewritten in many areas thanks to the proofreading of Tsukune429.
10,000 hits!
The first day of TouhouCon 2015. Team Gaijin Alex members Spaztique, FullHitPoints and Popfan meet up in real life for the first time.
MajiKana’s full release delayed to spring of 2016; an update video was released (which is now no longer available).
A contract with Super Fighter Team was signed to bring MajiKana to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console.
MajiKana’s full release delayed until further notice; an update video released (which is no longer available).
Scarlet Rhapsody was removed from the team.
50,000 hits!
Popfan announced chain of lucidity.
The website was completely redesigned. Special thanks to for proofreading the Japanese text.
A contact form was added to the Contact page of the website.
An alternate, mobile-friendly version of the website was created.
chain of lucidity (trial version) v0.01a released.
100,000 hits!
chain of lucidity’s full release delayed until further notice.
Re: Emergency everyday gameplay footage released.
Started posting the Re: Emergency everyday soundtrack to YouTube.
Removed the mobile-friendly version of the website and added the Gallery page.
Sokoban v0.50 released.
chain of lucidity v1.00a released.
chain of lucidity v1.01a update.
chain of lucidity v1.02a update.
Started posting the chain of lucidity soundtrack to YouTube.
Finished posting the chain of lucidity soundtrack to YouTube.
chain of lucidity v1.02b update.
chain of lucidity v1.02c update.
Additional Re: Emergency everyday gameplay footage released.
Also, Proto-Unreality Replication ~Len’en Kai Mugenri~ is now on sale.
Check it out on the newly-added Goods page.
chain of lucidity v1.02d update.
200,000 hits!
Finished posting the Re: Emergency everyday soundtrack to YouTube.
chain of lucidity v1.02e update.
chain of lucidity v1.10a update.
chain of lucidity v1.11a update.
chain of lucidity v1.12a update.
Spaztique and FullHitPoints have retired from the team.
chain of lucidity v1.13a update.
The website received a minor design update and outdated information was corrected.
Special thanks to for proofreading the Japanese text.
chain of lucidity v1.14a update.
chain of lucidity v1.15a update.
Slight visual updates to the website.
Also, the MajiKana game page has been removed. See blog post for further explanation.
Popfan announced his latest album, Dextrous Yet Destitute.
Dextrous Yet Destitute has been released.
Popfan posted the Rampant Crescent Flora soundtrack to his Soundcloud (which has since been deleted).
Reposted the Endless Blue soundtrack to YouTube, along with previously unreleased tracks.
Once again, the website has been completely overhauled.
The Gallery, Goods and Links pages were removed and the Music page was added.
Special thanks to for proofreading the Japanese text.
Set up a Discord server.
chain of lucidity v1.20a (and v1.20b) update.
chain of lucidity v1.20c update.
chain of lucidity v1.20d update.
500,000 hits!
Team Gaijin Alex now operates under the new name “Retrograde Road”.
Also reworded and expanded parts of the website and added lightbox galleries to all game pages, as well as dark mode.
Added some missing events to the History page.
chain of lucidity v1.20e update.
chain of lucidity v1.20e hotfix released.
Moved all game download links server-side, added download links for all previous versions of chain of lucidity, and implemented download counters.
became the first person in recorded history to achieve over 500 million points in chain of lucidity! Unfortunately, he was unable to accept a physical copy as a reward, so that one’s still up for grabs.
Made some updates to the website’s layout.
Added a biography of the circle to the About page.
Added new screenshots for Endless Blue and Rampant Crescent Flora.
Added a German translation for the website.
Started work on the new blog.
The new blog is finished!
Started work on the website relaunch.
Sokoban v1.00a update.
Sins became the second person in recorded history to achieve over 500 million points in chain of lucidity! This time, he was able to receive a physical copy as a reward.
1,000 downloads on chain of lucidity (since existence of download counters)!
1,000,000 hits!
The website has been relaunched! See blog post for further info.