hg101

patreon

hg101 posts

Posts: 3109 Files: 6208

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 135: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the forgotten Fire Emblem.

Magic Sword

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/magic-sword/More Capcom arcade coverage with this rad fantasy themed beat-em-up, with over 50 floors to smash through, eight ally characters, and tons of bonus items.

Youkai Yashiki

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/youkai-yashiki/Explore a demon infested house in the MSX/FDS game Youkai Yashiki .

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 134: Billy the Wizard

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the OTHER boy-wizard hero. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Geppy-X.

Abadox

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/abadox/One of Natsume's first games, this NES shooter borrows a lot from Konami's Life Force, though it commits more firmly to its "gigantic bio-monster" setting.

Pharoah's Tomb / Arctic Adventure

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pharaohs-tomb/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/arctic-adventure/Two IBM PC shareware action games from Apogee starring explorer "Nevada Smith".

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 14: The Castle of Dr. Brain

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 133: Final Fantasy VI

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the most yeti-havingest JRPG on the SNES. This week's Patreon bonus game will be Castle of Dr. Brain.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/black-tiger/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/son-son-ii/Capcom's barbarian-themed action game, loosely related to the Ghosts 'n Goblins series, plus its strange, overhauled PC Engine console port/sequel SonSon II.

Son Son

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/son-son/Capcom's early shooting monkey arcade game is still pretty fun, over 35 years later.This series of articles actually started when I was playing/writing about 1987's Black Tiger. This was scheduled to be ported to the PC Engine, but somewhere along the line, it was redesigned and rechristened Son Son II, despite having little to do with the first one...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 132: Skygunner

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss that one PS2 game where 8-year-olds fly death-gliders. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Castle of Dr. Brain.

Creepy Castle

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/creepy-castle/From the obscure Macintosh library comes this beat-em-up where you pummel an assortment of movie monsters. Featured in the HG101 Guide to Retro Horror!

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 13: Cyborg Justice

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 131: Dynasty Warriors

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss that one Dynasty Warriors that's called Dynasty Warriors but plays nothing like Dynasty Warriors. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Cyborg Justice.

The Speed Rumbler

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/speed-rumbler-the/A car-combat action game obviously inspired by Mad Max, directed by Capcom's Tokuro Fujiwara.A few months ago, Xerxes and I went to the Long Island Retro Game Expo to do the Retronauts panel, which was on the game's starring Super Joe. I'd never played The Speed Rumbler here before, so I dug out the old Capcom Classics Collection for t...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 130: Too Human

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss Silicon Knight's not exactly noble failure Too Human.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 12: Dungeons And Dragons - Order of the Griffon

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

Kickle Cubicle

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kickle-cubicle/Irem's adorable ice block-kicking puzzle action game.

HG101 Digest Vol. 3: The Guide to Retro Horror is now available!

The latest book is out! Here are your PDF/MOBI links (PDF is also attached here):PDF:https://www.dropbox.com/s/6oayg2s514o2v44/HG101%20Digest%20Vol%203%20-%20Guide%20to%20Retro%20Horror.pdf?dl=0MOBI:https://www.dropbox.com/s/9sxql8vugs83g9i/HG101%20Digest%20Vol%203%20-%20Guide%20to%20Retro%20Horror.mobi?dl=0And here are the Amazon links for the paperbacks. If you've pledged at any of the tiers...

Kitty on Your Lap

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kitty-on-your-lap/A rather bizarre cat girl raising sim for the PS1 from Kaneko.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 129: Ultima VII

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the Ultimate Ultima. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Dungeons And Dragons - Order of the Griffon.

428: Shibuya Scramble

The brilliant visual/sound novel from Chunsoft. Technically released nearly a decade ago, initially for the Wii, this has finally been translated into English and released last month!

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 128: Star Ocean: Second Story

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss "JRPG Star Trek". This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Dungeons And Dragons - Order of the Griffon.

Dragon Lore / Lost Eden

Three adventure games released during the mid-90s, from French studio Cryo.These were featured in the adventure game book from back in 2011 but weren't featured on the site until now. I'll be doing more of these in the future. I had actually just intended to format these and post them in a few months, since I'm getting together a contributed article for the Dune PC games, the first of ...