I see an aristocratic EAD order which is holding down the R&D1 proletariat. Perhaps using retro was R&D1's way to connect with the internal proletariat of another regime, to harness their power, but it could also be EAD over ruling them saying " No you cannot make the games as EAD does. We are sadistic EAD employees who will give your game to American dogs before we let you have a go on our television console devices.".
At the fringes of a crumbling empire, from time to time, the internal proletariat can identify with external barbarians and nomad proletariats, or with other empires, more so than their own leaders and then the empire crumbles.