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The Stanley Parable
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/stanleyparable/stanleyparable.htm It's easy to get the impression thatThe Stanley Parablejust wants to mess with you, but it's actually making a lot of clever points about the nature and meaning of interactive storytelling... while also trying to mess with you. A lot.
Seicross
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/seicross/seicross.htm An unusual sidescrolling shooter where aliens chase you on hoverbikes across a vaguelyTron-like landscape.
Magic Kid Googoo: Annotated Longplay (2/7)
In world 2 we try out some more transformations and meet a few very familiar obstacles. In preservation news: We've now determined who's going to dump the game, but there'll be a bit of a delay since we've decided to try out some old leads for another undumped cart before shipping it across the Pacific.
Jazzpunk
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/jazzpunk/jazzpunk.htm No April Fool's Day joke this year (no lies!) but instead we're featuring this comical first person quasi-adventure game, which flirts with dadaist humor, but misses the mark as often as it hits.
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Read Only Memories
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/readonlymemories/readonlymemories.htm A recent indie cyberpunk adventure game, heavily influenced by the likes of Snatcher.
Double Dragon (Final)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon9.htm The brawl is almost over. Left standing are only a variety of spin-offs and crossovers, both official and unofficial, inmidst a rubble of misguided media tie-ins.
Magic Kid Googoo (도술동자 구구) Annotated Longplay (1/7)
Magic Kid Googoo is an unlicensed, rare and (so far) undumped Famicom game that was only published in Korea. Hopefully the bad video quality here will be obsolete soon, but until we manage to arrange the game's preservation, this longplay will be the most comprehensive footage you can find. Turn on annotations for explanations about the gameplay, development background info, and more.
Your Weeky Kusoge: Operation: Body Count
A terrible Wolfenstein 3D clone from Capstone that puts you against an army of Islamic terrorists.http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-bodycount.htm
Segata Sanshiro Shinken Yuugi
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/segata/segata.htm Sega Saturn shiro! The tough guy Saturn spokesman may have sacrificed his life (in the ads, of course) to save Sega from their evil competitors, but his triumphant spirit lives on in this collection of minigames.
Nelly Cootalot
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/nellycootalot/nellycootalot.htm A charming duo of adventure games, Spoonbeaks Ahoy! and the brand new The Fowl Fleet, starring a pirate lass, and developed by British comedian Alasdair Beckett-King.
Double Dragon (Pt. 3)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon6.htm As beat-em-ups lost their place in the spotlight,Double Dragontried to jump on theStreet Fighter IItrain, followed by almost a decade of nothing. The series got finally revived thanks to a long string of remakes, with varying results.
Blazing Star
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blazingstar/blazingstar.htm Hey poor player! Our week of Neo Geo shooter coverage finishes up with Yumekobo's Blazing Star, a quasi-sequel to Pulstar that shows off the muscle of SNK's hardware.
Pulstar
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pulstar/pulstar.htm Our Neo Geo shooter coverage continues with Aicom's Pulstar, which is an R-Type game in all but name.
Last Resort
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lastresort/lastresort.htm We'll be covering a trilogy of Neo Geo shooters this week. The first, Last Resort from SNK, borrows heavily from R-Type, along with appropriating some imagery from the Akira movie.
Double Dragon (Pt. 2)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon4.htm The struggle continues as the series takes a nosedive thanks to a few unfortunate outsourced games, but also experiences an almost-return to form with a tragically rushed reboot on SNES.
Assault Android Cactus
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/assaultandroidcactus/assaultandroidcactus.htm Recently released on the PlayStation 4, this fantastic twin-stick shooter takes the classic template of Robotron 2084 and Geometry Wars, and fuses them with the scoring mechanics and bullets patterns of a modern Japanese shoot-em-up.
Video Inventories: Platforming games before Super Mario Bros. #03 - Joust, Pitfall!, etc.
Tracing the history of the platformer genre before Super Mario Bros. - Joust, Jungle King, Donkey Kong Junior, Springer, Pitfall!
Blood
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blood/blood.htm The best game using 3D Realms' Build Engine, Blood hasan unmistakable visual and atmospheric style that marries H. P. Lovecraft withUnforgivenandEvil Dead, anddrops the player into the Roaring Twenties of a dilapidated America where violence is so over-the-top it's borderline parody. Also followed up with a not-so-good sequel.
Shardlight
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/shardlight/shardlight.htm Back in 2012, Wadjet Eye Games and Wormwood Studios released Primordia, a post-apocalypse adventure about machines surviving the world man left behind. In 2016, Wadjet Eye decided to return to the wastelands with a more human story with Shardlight, and it may be one of the best games in their entire library. Unlike Primordia's focus on...
Double Dragon (Pt. 1)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon.htm Hardcore Gaming 101 takes on the Lee brothers, but to avoid biting off more than we can chew we're gonna spread the fight out across the entire month. Check back every Monday this March to find us brawling our way through the series. For now we're starting with the initial two arcade classics and their many mutations across mul...
Tail 'Gator
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tailgator/tailgator.htm Join Charly the 'Gator has he takes on Basso Gila in this action-platformer for the Game Boy from Natsume.
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Revolutionary Girl Utena
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/utena/utena.htm While nostalgia for the 1990s has become a cliche over the years, for anime, it feels at least somewhat appropriate. During this decade, artists and writers were given free range to experiment with whatever ideas they wanted, no matter how esoteric. Revolutionary Girl Utenais a perfect reflection of that: it's hard to pin down what genre the sho...
HG101 Digest Vol. 2 book now available on Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Gaming-101-Digest-Vol/dp/1522827242/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=hardcorblog-20&linkId=1ab952524797956471c606d73f5e11e7The paperback is finally completed! Here are the finalized PDF and Kindle MOBI files. There were a few dozen minor tweaks made to the PDF since the preview last weeks, mostly minor formatting and copy editing things, but if you want the m...
Tao
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tao/tao.htm A JRPG that's pro organized religion? Does that exist? Find out on your spiritual journey through a weird future-fantasy world where the train is out so you have to ride a dinosaur to Moscow. By the developer who worked for Nintendo onMother.
Dragon Stomper
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragonstomper/dragonstomper.htm A look at one of the very first (if notthefirst) attempts at turning fantasy role-playing into a console game experience.
HG101 Digest Vol. 2: Taito Arcade Classics PDF Now Available!
Here's the PDF for Taito Arcade Classics! Technically this isn't the final final versions, because there are some last minute checks I need to go over, but it should be 99.9% complete. It's attached to this Patreon entry rather than a Dropbox link for now, until I clear out some space or upgrade my account. The Kindle MOBI will be coming shortly too.The paperback will be available some...
Planescape: Torment
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/torment/planescape.htm Some of the greatest writing ever in a computer RPG, set in one of the strangest fantasy worlds ever conceived.
Puyo Puyo (Part 1)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/puyopuyo/puyopuyo.htm Puyo Puyowas one of the earliest articles on Hardcore Gaming 101, so unsurprisingly it was completely outdated by now. So over the course of the next few months, it is going to be replaced by an entirely new, much more thorough article. This first part (re-)covers the mainline games of the Compile era.
