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Aliens: Infestation

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aliens-infestation/A DS Metroidvania developed by Wayforward, based on the movie/comic/whatever else series.

HG101 Guide to Beat-Em-Ups Vol. 1 99% Preview

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mvpm6cgb52d67be/HG101%20The%20Guide%20To%20Beat-Em-Ups%20Vol.%201%20-%20Preview.pdf?dl=0The HG101 Guide to Beat-Em-Ups Vol. 1 is almost done! While we're still in the final stages of proofreading/QA, here's a content complete preview. It should be published next month!

Barker Bill's Trick Shooting

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/barker-bills-trick-shooting/An NES light gun game, made specifically for American audiences.

Kiterestsu Daihyakka

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kiteretsu-daihyakka/A surreal Famicom platformer based on the manga/TV series by Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon).

Bonus Get 155: Avernum

Join the HG101 gang as they discusses the second iteration of Spiderweb Software's cult classic shareware CRPG.

Control

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/control/Remedy's latest reality-bending third-person shooter.

Top 47k Ep. 419: Mirror's Edge

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank thing single best game ever made about running away.

Top 47k Ep. 418: Harvester

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Harvester, a "Boomer Gothic" point-and-click exploration of video game violence that wants ever-so-desperately to shock you.

Disposable Hero

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/disposable-hero/One of the finest shooters on the Amiga.

Iru!

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/iru/A first person Japanese PS1 horror game, highly recommend for those enticed by the lo-fi horror surge currently sweeping indie game development.

Bonus Get 154: The Henry Stickmin Collection

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss a collection of good old Flash games rescued from oblivion.

Dragon's Lair (Game Boy, SNES, NES)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragons-lair-the-legend-game-boy/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragons-lair-snes/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragons-lair-nes/Three different ports of Dragon's Lair, all of which try to emulate the FMV game in distinct ways, even if one of them is just a reskin of a Spectrum game.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX

Alex Kidd returns in Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, a remake of the original SMS game

Top 47k Ep. 417: Demon's Tilt

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss 2019's indie pseudo-successor to Devil's Crush, a physically impossible, decidedly digital pinball table.

Dragon's Lair (Coleco) / Other Computer Ports

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragons-lair-coleco/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragons-lair-escape-from-singes-castle-the-curse-of-mordread/We're returning to our Dragon's Lair piece, this time focusing on some early console and computer ports, as they do their best to convert an FMV laserdisc game into ROM and floppy disk formats.

Top 47k Ep. 416: Xevious

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss Namco's super-innovative vertical scrolling shoot-em-up. Both more and less influential than you might think.

Whispers of a Machine

Whispers of the Machine, a post-cyberpunk adventure/RPG hybrid from the folks behind Kathy Rain.

Dracula 3/4/5

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dracula-3-the-path-of-the-dragon/More Dracula point and clicks. Dracula 3 is so hardcore it has the whole Bible in it!

Bonus Get 153: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss an unfairly maligned Final Fantasy spinoff featuring JRPG quality-of-life improvements that we now take for granted.

Dracula: The Resurrection / The Last Sanctuary

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dracula-the-resurrection-dracula-the-last-sanctuary/The first two in a tetralogy of Dracula first person adventure games released in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Top 47k Ep. 415: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss a Arkham-ish Lord of the Rings game where you and a cranky elf ghost win orcs and influence goblins.

Top 47k Ep. 414: A Wolf Among Us

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss Telltale's episodic adventure where the Big Bad Wolf solves crimes in seedy, fairytale-infested 80's New York.

Bomber Hehhe!

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bomber-hehee-japanese-video-game-obscurity/A demolition simulator for the Dreamcast where you set bombs to blow up buildings and watch your handiwork unfurl.

Eternal Legend

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/eternal-legend/An early JRPG for the Game Gear, though not a particularly great one.

Bonus Get 152: Warlocked

This week's Patreon Bonus Get covers the best real-time strategy game on the Gameboy Color. But really folks, it's surprisingly good!

A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games Launches June 25

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/a-guide-to-japanese-role-playing-games-launches-june-25/A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games from Bitmap Books is out tomorrow! On the eve of its release, I wrote a little bit about how we selected its contents and organized everything!