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Warlocked

A real time strategy game developed for the Game Boy Color, that's not only surprisingly good, but one of the best exclusive games on the platform.

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Fallout

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An exhaustive look at the legendary post-apocalyptic RPG series, begun by Black Isle Studios and continued by Bethesda, including its spin-offs and cancelled titles.

Pepper's Adventures in Time

A cute and clever educational point-and-click game from Sierra, where you play a young girl and her dog, traveling back in time and fixing things that have gone astray in colonial America.

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Broforce

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Do you love America? Do you love movies where muscular, poorly acting men shoot evil in the face? If you said yes to one of these two questions, you are going to love  2016-07-04 14:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post

The Banner Saga 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bannersaga/bannersaga2.htm

The follow-up to the tactical indie hit is technically more of the same, but that's not really a bad thing.

Pharaoh Rebirth

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pharaohrebirth/pharaohrebirth.htm

An excellent Metroidvania from long-standing doujin studio Krobon, featuring a rabbit archaeologist exploring a pyramid.

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Paladin's Quest / Lennus

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lennus/lennus.htm

A duo of grindy SNES JRPGs by Copya System, with some bizarre art design that's unlike anything the genre has seen before, and a characteristically strange translation.

Kaze no NOTAM

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kazenonotam/kazenonotam.htm

A hot-air balloon simulator from Artdink, a minor developer perhaps best known for making experimental games that initially received a lukewarm reception, like&n...

Samurai Shodown Slash

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/samuraishodown/samuraishodown8.htm

An infinite runner for mobile platforms starring some of the characters from SNK's seminal fighting series. It was only released in Korea, though s...

Dark Earth

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/darkearth/darkearth.htm

A post-apocalyptic steampunk RPG that had the misfortune of launching against larger titles like Fallout and Final Fantasy VII, this French-developed title has clumsy co...

Your Weekly Kusoge: Quiver

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-quiver.htm

In the running of the sad title of "most mediocre Doom clone", Quiver was developed for low-spec systems, even though Doom could run comfortably on a low end 486.

HG101 at Too Many Games in Oaks, PA, from June 24-26th

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2016/06/hg101-at-too-many-games-in-oaks-pa-from.html

I'll be at Too Many Games in Oaks, PA on the weekend of June 24-26th, 2016, manning a table in the dealer's ro...

Cosmic Cavern 3671 on Steam Greenlight

http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2016/06/the-realm-of-early-japanese-computer.html

The realm of early Japanese computer gaming is not widely documented, especially on the English internet, but it's s...

Racing Lagoon

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/racinglagoon/racinglagoon.htm

Developed during Square's daring PS1 days, Racing Lagoon is a combination of an arcade racer and an RPG, inspired by the popular anime/manga series Initial D...

bit Generations Pt. 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bitgenerations/bitgenerations2.htm

The second (and final, for now) part of this article covering the old school/artsy GBA games covers COLORIS, ORBITAL, DIGIDRIVE, and Soundvoyager.<...

Hardcore Gaming 101 - Life is Strange

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lifeisstrange/lifeistrange.htm

Starring a young woman with the power to rewind time, Life is Strange's point-and-click DNA is easy to spot, but it turns all of these toward telling a sto...

A Look at the Japanese Game Preservation Society

A look at the Japanese Game Preservation Society's laboratory in Tokyo, as guided by Joseph Redon. This organization works to preserve Japan's software, which, like software from all over the globe, was initially distributed on rather fragile medium.

A chat with Hifumi Kono, Masaki Higuchi, and Masatoshi Mitori of Human Entertainment

From the Untold History of Japanese Game Developers DVD. A chat with Hifumi Kono, Masaki Higuchi, and Masatoshi Mitori. Higuchi and Kono worked on Clock Tower.

Tumblepop

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tumblepop/tumblepop.htm

A goofy, rainbow-colored single screen platformer from Data East, Tumblepop combines two popular arcade titles from the early 90s, Pang and Snow Bros. Also includes revi...

Gone Home

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gonehome/gonehome.htm

Causing a flurry of controversy when it was released in 2013, Gone Home is an emotionally impactful exploratory adventure game, one that kicked off the subgenre semi-derisiv...

Demon Front

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/demonfront/demonfront.htm

Taiwan-based developer IGS is primarily known for their PolyGame Master arcade hardware, and along with it, a whole slew of 

Final Fight

-sty...

Gangsters: Organized Crime

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This overlooked strategy game is essentially "SimCapone", a gangland simulator as deep and palatable as a barrel of bootleg rum. Also followed up by a less ambitious seq...