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Top 47k Ep 490: D2 (feat. Maroony)
Join the HG101 gang and special guest Maroony as they discuss and rank a weird survival horror curio from the mercurial creator Kenji Eno.
Top 47k Ep 489: Resident Evil 2 (Game.com)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's survival horror sequel that made its mark then aged really, really poorly. We're as surprised as you.
Powa!
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/powa/A recently released indie Game Boy game, whose cutesy demeanor betrays its high difficulty.
Die Hard (IBM PC / C64 / NES)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/die-hard-c64-ibm-pc/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/die-hard-nes/A look at a few of the Die Hard movie tie-ins from the early 1990s. The IBM PC and Commodore 64 games are related, while the NES game is totally different, but both do some pretty interesting stuff with the material, even if they're all pretty hard to play.
Top 47k Ep 488: Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the first PS2 entry in Konami's much loved card-battler series based on a late 90s manga. Look, it's hard to contextualize Yu-Gi-Oh.
Bomberman (1990)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bomberman-1990/Bomberman hits the 16-bit generation with this TG16 entry, which also included a few ports.
Bonus Get 188: Mole Mania
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an adorable Game Boy action puzzler that Nintendo seems to have forgotten they made.
Atomic Punk
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/atomic-punk/Bomberman moves to the Game Boy (and one of its first name changes) with Atomic Punk.
Top 47k Ep 487 - NightCry (feat. Maroony)
Join the HG101 gang and special guest Maroony as they discuss and rank Nude Maker's 2016 spiritual successor to the Clock Tower series.
Robowarrior
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/robowarrior/Bomberman gets an early spin-off in the form of Robowarrior.
Top 47k Ep 486: Rogue Legacy
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an early breakout hit of the "rogue-lite" genre about the world's most pathetic dynasty of adventurers. At least when I'm playing.
Bonus Get 187: Thunderstrike
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the 1990 PC game about the most popular sport of the year 2238, the Military Olympics.
Sega 8-Bit Mecha Shoot-em-ups
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/orguss/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/transbot/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/transformer/A brief series of articles on some related mid-1980s shoot-em-ups from Sega, beginning with a licensed game based on the anime Orguss, followed up by the more well-known Master System game TransBot (and a fan HD remake), and finally an obscure arcade game, Transformer.
Top 47k Ep 485: SunDog: Frozen Legacy
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a super high-concept space trading game about commerce, religion, and a boy named Zed.
Top 47k Ep 484: Hatoful Boyfriend (feat. Wren Brier)
Join the HG101 gang and special guest Wren Brier, creator of indie sensation Unpacked, as they discuss and rank a post-apocalyptic bird-dating sim.
Bomberman Series Introduction
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bomberman-series-introduction-bomberman-1983/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/3-d-bomberman/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bomberman-1985/We're beginning to look at Hudson's Bomberman series, beginning with the very, very early days!
Bonus Get 186: The Manhole
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the classic Macintosh predecessor to Myst: The Prequel to Riven.
Top 47k Ep 483: Sonic Mania
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Sega's fan-fueled mashup of classic Sonic games that is truly greater than the sum of its parts.
Top 47k Ep 482: Bionic Commando Rearmed
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's beautifully oversaturated remake of the NES classic that earns its pun.
Rising Zan: Samurai Gunman
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/rising-zan-the-samurai-gunman/A 3D PS1 action game starring a sexy samurai cowboy.
The Talos Principle
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/talos-principle-the/A brainy first person puzzler from the folks behind the Serious Sam games.
Bonus Get 185: Skate or Die: Bad 'n Rad
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Konami-developed Game Boy "Skate or Die" that tasks players with saving Miss Aerial from the likes of Bionic Lester and ElRad the Evil One.
Blood of Bahamut
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blood-of-bahamut/A multiplayer-focused DS action-RPG that skipped English localization.
Top 47k Ep 481: Dark Souls (feat. Slowbeef)
Join the HG101 gang and returning special guest Slowbeef as they discuss and rank the world-beating, controller-breaking FromSoft game that launched a thousand similes.
Top 47k Ep 480: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Ignition Tokyo's 2011 action title that proves "weird old bible stuff" remains a viable theme for video games.
SiN
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sin/An edgy late 90s FPS that was rushed to beat Half-Life to the market, but still holds up fairly well.
Bonus Get 184: Clue: Parker Brothers' Classic Detective Game
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the video game version of Parker Brothers' Classic Detective Game and try to figure out who killed Xerxes with a candlestick.
Basted
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/basted/A PC Engine CD that presents itself as an action-RPG, but is more of a very streamline anime OVA.
Great Greed
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/great-greed/A Game Boy RPG with an environmental theme and an amusing obsession with food.
Top 47k Ep 479: Dead Cells
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Motion Twin's 2018 roguelite platformer that just keeps getting bigger.
