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The Fairyland Story

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An early Taito arcade game, and one of the predecessors to Bubble Bobble.

West of Loathing

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A hilarious point-and-click adventure/RPG hybrid with some high quality black and white stick figure visuals.

Detention

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A beautiful horror game in both style and substance, feeling like the sort of Silent Hill experience we're definitely not getting from Konami ever again. 

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 73: Somari

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.  

HG101 Year-End Book Status Updates - A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games, Japanese Video Game Obscurities Vol. 2, and more!

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hg101-year-end-book-status-updates-a-jrpg-book-japanese-video-game-obscurities-vol-2-and-more/

A status update of the bo...

Hana Taaka Daka!?

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An amusing tengu-themed shoot-em-up for the PC Engine from Taito

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 72: God of War: Ghost of Sparta

  Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.  

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 251: Marvel Ultimate Alliance

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game where Doctor Doom invades Niffleheim to absorb the power of Odin and the only way Deadpool and Silver Surfer can defeat him is to steal the Muonic Inducer from Galactus and fuse it with a piece of the M'Kraan Cryastal. This weekend's 2019-12-11 17:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Wing Commander Armada

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The last of the three Wing Commander spin-offs, this one is a strategy game with space combat, before leading into Wing Commander III

Wing Commander Academy / Privateer

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Two...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 250: Illusion of Gaia

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an action RPG about helpful pigs and patiently waiting for things. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Somari. 

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 249: Metroid Fusion

 Join the HG101 gang as they spend nearly an hour discussing and ranking Metroid Fusion 

Papers, Please

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Who would've thought a game about border crossing would be as fascinating as this ended up being?

Top Speed

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It's an OutRun clone by Taito with some cool music. Nothing super impressive, but worth checking out nonetheless. This mostly came about due to it popping up in The Wizard (the movie) under the...

New Patreon Exclusive Postcards!

New Patreon exclusive postcard bundle! Pledge $16 or more before December 15th to get five postcards with originally commissioned artwork for Rolling Thunder, Yume Penguin Monogatari, Marvel Land, Legend of Valkyrie, and Gunstar Heroes! 

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Crime City

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It's Rolling Thunder/Shinobi with a Lethal Weapon theme, courtesy of Taito! Starring the Chase HQ guys, too, in the great Taito expanded universe.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 248: Dark Seal / Gate of Doom

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank perhaps the most Data Easty of Data East beat-em-ups. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be God of War: Ghost of Sparta. 

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 71: Dragon Quest Builders

 Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.      

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 70: The King of Fighters 98

 Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.      

Patreon Postcard Art: Legend of Valkyrie by Kaibuzetta

Here's the final piece of postcard art for this batch: Legend of Valkyrie by Kaibuzetta!

I'll be posting more details in a holiday update shortly, but it'll work similarly to last time - if you're pledged to the $16+ tier by the end of November, you'll be registered to receive this and four other original postcards, whi...

HG101 Digest Vol. 6: Namco Arcade Classics is now available!

Here are the PDF/MOBIs!

HG101 Digest Vol. 6: Namco Arcade Classics

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Solomon's Key

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Tecmo's brainy action puzzler, which has seen a couple of sequels/ports/rip-offs over the ages.

Dingo

Dingo, an early and long forgotten arcade game from Rareware.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 247: Samurai Shodown

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the best fighting game to take place in early spring 1788. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Dragon Quest Builders. 

003 - HG101 Mailbag

Show host Xerxes reads your five-star review game nominations from Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Follow xerxes and HG101 on Twitter. Check out what games we've already ranked on the 2019-11-24 16:14:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 246: Breakdown

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Namco's First Person Puncher for the original Xbox. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Dragon Quest Builders. 

Guacamelee 2

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There's more Mexican-wrestling and Metroidvania-exploring in this sequel, not like that's a bad thing.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 69: Super Mario Odyssey

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World of Goo

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 World of Goo is, without a doubt, one of the single most important modern indie games, released in 2008 and one of the first to kick off the 2010s indie boom.  

Robocop (Arcade)

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From our Data East book, this covers the arcade Robocop plus its assorted NES/computer ports and conversions, plus the arcade-only Robocop 2.