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Fighting Layer

Arika, developers of the Street Fighter EX series, try their hand at an original 2.5D fighting game, one featuring ninjas and sharks.

HG101 State of the Union September 2014

Updates on the Castlevania and Konami Shooter book, plus a summary of all of the articles from the past month.

Your Weekly Kusoge: Superman Returns: Fortress of Solitude

Play as the heroic Superman as he fights evil by...playing Sudoku.

This week we present the final (for now) part in our huge Mega Man feature, including a dozen mobile games, the fan-game-turned-official-product Street Fighter x Mega Man, a shameless rip-off and all those cross media tie-ins.

Inventories: 1980s Video Game Heroines

More than 75 games from the 1980s featuring women in starring or supporting roles.

Your Weekly Kusoge: Sonic's Schoolhouse

Join Sonic the Hedgehog as he does a poor job teaching you English and math!

Mega Man: Classic Series

Licensed games: Tiger Handhelds, the infamous DOS games, the WonderSwan stint and a bunch of surprising Taiwanese contributions.

August 2014 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Mercenary Kings

Metal Slug meets Borderlands in this mission-based action game with gorgeous spritework.

STALKER

This Ukranian developed FPS takes place in a completely nihilistic nuclear wasteland, where death and failure are commonplace.

Your Weekly Kusoge: Spanish for Everyone

This innocuous looking DS shovelware title is actually full of drug smugglers, prostitutes, lots of casual racism, and talking bulls.

500-Word Indies: Five Nights at Freddy's

Jump into the role of a nightshift maintenance man who has to take care of the creepy animatronics at an amusement venue, in the latest Youtube Let's Play darling.

Gokinjo Boukentai

Join up with your cat and fight demons in a modern Japanese town in this cutesy Super Famicom RPG with character designs by famed manga artist Masumi Sudou.

500-Word Indies: Darkness

Another Indiana Jones wannabe arrives on the Commodore 64 scene.

Your Weekly Kusoge: Gokuu Densetsu: Magic Beast Warriors

Digitized, rubber suit wearing weirdos reenact the legend of the Monkey King in this early PS1 fighting game.

Mega Man Anniversary Collection / Powered Up

This week: Some more compilations and Powered Up, the extended PSP remake of the original.

Steel Empire

The classic Genesis steampunk shooter gets a modern update with this 3DS downloadable title.

Amazing Princess Sarah

Yes, it goes way overboard with the titillation, but it's also a well-designed sidescrolling platformer by the creator of Akane the Kunoichi.

Highrise

Highrise sure does look like a long lost sibling of . In practice it does play quite differently, but it still appears like some kind of lost antecedent of the "falling blocks" puzzle genre.

Your Weekly Kusoge - Muscle March

Welcome this parade of beefy dudes (and one dudette and a polar bear) into your Wii in this ridiculous title from Namco-Bandai.

Tomba!

Two PS1 cult classic platformers developed by a Capcom alum, starring a pink haired feral child and his revenge against evil pigs.

Mega Man: Classic Series

The Blue Bomber makes some rare visits to Sega consoles and the NES games get reissued on PlayStation.

Things That Never Were - HG101 Presents: The Guide to Konami

Hey all! I've been thinking of various bonuses I could give to all of my awesome Patreon contributors. I have a lot of unpublished stuff sitting around, some of which might be good as previews, others which would never see the light of day otherwise. Like, this one here: HG101 Presents: The Guide to Konami. This was meant to be our follow-up to the Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures, publishe...