Christmas is the season of giving and gifts, and who else will be found in the middle of it but Santa Claus himself, or the North Pole, winter, the elves, and every Christmas cheering character be it a Reindeer, Panda, Orc, Skeleton, and anyone and everyone who wants to join and spread the Christmas cheer.

So to this (as it yearly comes), here are 5 of the most memorable Christmas themed Retro Games one can play and have fun with this holiday season.

Xmas Panda Run

A very fun and immersive scroller with lively Christmas tunes. In Xmas Panda Run, you control your XMas Panda that keeps running forward (to the right) across a long winter expanse of houses, pine trees, boxes, presents and so many more. However, you also have grave obstacles that include huge ice globes, skulls, orcs, and whatever crawled out of Halloween and into Christmas. You're armed so you can fire on them (spacebar), and with the really heavy ones like the ice globes, better to jump over them with the arrow keys. Simple gameplay yet addictive in so many ways.

Frozen for Christmas

A platform game with several levels, Frozen for Christmas places you in the role of Santa Claus who has to chase thieving Elves who have stolen the gifts for the children. It's a good thing you've got your trusty “Santa Freeze Gun” that you can use to shoot at and freeze the no good Elves. A combination of the space bar and the arrow keys helps you maneuver Santa through the platforms of levels as you retrieve the gifts that the frozen elves drop and those they haven't gotten to yet. Simple, fun, immersive, and perfect for gaming in the holidays.

Xmas Furious

A very immersive and unique Christmas game. In Xmas Furious, the gameplay and objective is quite simple, keep Santa, his sled, and his reindeers in the air until they get to their destination. The catch, you've got a lot of floating pumpkins to maneuver around from start to destination, and you do this by clicking in the direction where you want Santa's reindeers to go. You'll have to keep clicking through the levels as the floating pumpkins grow in numbers and size to obstruct your path. Don't let Santa crash on the ice or it's game over!

Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike

Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike is a free to play Christmas game on Steam. However, make no mistake, this is a very challenging platform game where you control Businessman Fork Parker who has lost his profits to greedy game developers. As a result, he must ride his chopper all the way up to the icy mountain and endure all kinds of parkour-like challenges to retrieve sacks of cash to break even (or more) for the fiscal year. Lots of challenging Christmas fun with every unimaginable obstacle to bring the old Fork down.

Secret Santa

Finally, we come to the cutest and most memorable game in the list. Secret Santa is also free to play on Steam and once again, you the player will have to take on the role of Santa Claus. The game is a 2D obstacle course where you have to maneuver Santa in avoiding very dangerous obstacles as he delivers his Christmas presents for the kids, house to house.

Obstacles vary from the residents catching him, shooting him by mistake, or worse, Santa getting diced and sliced by really sharp residential anti-intrusion countermeasures all in the name of Christmas cheer. Therefore, it's up to you to keep Santa in one piece and get the gifts to the Christmas tree as he goes Hohoho to the next house.

While these are only 5 of the fun Christmas games that you can play, there are more spread all over the World Wide Web, but for now, note these immediate 5 in your playlist and if ever the need for more retro games arises, you can always visit backtotheretro.games for more selections.

"Holiday Cheers" Everyone!

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