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Steamgear Mash

A cutesy isometric action import for the Saturn. One of those rare Japanese titles that isn't super expensive, though that's because the game is only *OK*.

HG101 Presents The Unofficial Guide to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona: 50 Page Preview

I've been talking about this for quite awhile, but here it is - a 50 page preview of the upcoming Guide to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona book. This preview contains reviews of the core SMT games (the original Megami Tensei games, SMT 1, 2 and If, Nocturne, Strange Journey, 4, and Apocalypse). There's much more that's actually done, but this is all that's really ready to show off p...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 10: Crash Team Racing

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

Eggy (Japanese Video Game Obscurity)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/eggy-japanese-video-game-obscurity/An arcade-style mid-80s Japanese PC game starring a little egg-shaped mecha, inspired by titles like Defender and Choplifter.

Gwanggaeto Daewang

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gwanggaeto-daewang/Another early Korean PC RTS, this one was delayed to the point where it ended up being overshadowed by more popular Western games.

Florence

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/florence/An iOS-based visual novel about a mid-20s woman navigating early adulthood.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 125: Dragon Force

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss this Saturn "simulation" RPG. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Crash Team Racing.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 124: Despiria

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss this creepy Dreamcast RPG. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Crash Team Racing.

Danan: The Jungle Fighter

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/danan-the-jungle-fighter/One of those unusual PAL-only SMS games that isn't a port of something else, though it does seem reminiscent of other games like Rastan, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, and Lord of the Sword.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 - Asteroids, Saturday Night Slam Masters, The Simpsons

Join the HG101 gang -- Kurt, Slowbeef, and Xerxes -- at a special panel for A Video Game Con 2018, in sunny Secaucus, New Jersey. Special thanks to everyone in the audience for their enthusiasm, insight, and nominations! Our apologies for the noisy recording. Intro music by NORM.

Japanese Video Game Obscurity: Cruse Chaser Blassty

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/cruise-chaser-blassty-japanese-video-game-obscurity/A mecha first person RPG, one of the first from Square, with incredible animation...that is unfortunately barely playable!

The Whispered World / Silence

A duo of point-and-click forlorn adventures from Daedalic.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 09: Super Mario Sunshine

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 123: Secret of Mana

Join the HG101 gang and special guest, Zero Punctuation's Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, as they add another game to their ever-growing list of Top Games. This Friday's Patreon bonus game will be Super Mario Sunshine.

Dark Age of JRPGs: Fantasian

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/fantasian-dark-age-of-jrpgs/Xtalsoft's Mugen no Shinzou series is basically Ultima with Wizardry combat; their Fantasian games are the inverse, basically Wizardry clones with fight scenes based on Ultima III.

Lamplight City

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lamplight-city/The latest indie point-and-click from Grundislav Games, a mystery with a steampunk New England setting.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 122: Driver: San Francisco

Join the HG101 gang and special guest, Zero Punctuation’s Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, as they add another game to their ever-growing list of Top Games.

Star Control

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/star-control/The epic space opera trilogy, featuring some intensely fun one-on-one multiplayer.This series covers the core games - in the future, we'll also be adding some bits about the (very bad) novel and some of the canceled / upcoming games.

Harakiri (Japanese Video Game Obscurity)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/harakiri/This Japanese war simulation looks pretty standard, but there's a running sense of weirdness beneath it.

Site Updates: New Features, New Books, Patreon Goodies, and more!

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/site-updates-new-features-new-books-patreon-goodies-and-more/A general summary of new features that will be posted soon (and will become recurring if we meet our Patreon goals!), upcoming books (the ones we're currently working on or finishing up), the next convention I'll be at (A Video Game Con in Secaucus NJ this weekend), an the status of the site migra...

Upcoming Books Poll

Here at HG101, we currently have a few books already in the works: The Guide to Retro Horror (due in October 2018), the Star Fox/F-Zero Digest (due either December 2018 or early 2019), Wrestling with Pixels (due 2019 sometime), The Unofficial Guide to Shin Megami Tensei (due mid/late 2019) and Japanese Video Game Obscurities (completed, currently awaiting publication for third quarter 2019). Howev...

Where is Hell is Carmen Santiago?

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/where-in-hell-is-carmen-santiago/A parody of Broderbund's educational series that also happens it take itself very seriously!I actually had this game when I was a kid, since my dad and I regularly went to computer shows, where we found this in the cheap shareware bins. I was way too young at the time to understand what the Divine Comedy was, and even now I thin...