Wing Commander: Academy
The prolonged development time of Strike Commander made Origin realize they could not capitalize exclusively on bigger titles. The …
New Patreon Exclusive Postcards!
Here’s our second batch of retro game-themed postcards featuring originally commissioned artwork, created exclusively for our Patreon donors! Our first …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 247: Samurai Shodown
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the best fighting game to take place in early spring 1788.
Papers, Please
Papers, Please is many things. Papers, Please is one of the first games to come up in any discussion about …
Crime City
Crime City is basically Taito’s take on side-scrolling action games like Namco’s Rolling Thunder and Sega’s Shinobi. The goal, per …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 246: Breakdown
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Namco’s First Person Puncher for the original Xbox
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 245: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the classic adventure game that’s like a Dan Brown novel but with more clowns.
Solomon’s Key (Spinoffs / Ripoffs)
Zipang (ジパング ) – PC Engine (1990) For some unfathomable reason, the 1990 Japanese fantasy samurai film Jipangu/Zipang spawned not …
Monster Rancher Explorer
Monster Rancher Explorer is yet another reinvention of the original 1986 Solomon’s Key, and yet another example of a popular …
Solomon’s Key
For some reason Japanese retro gamers often fondly remember old arcade games that are nowadays seen as ridiculously difficult, frustrating …
Fire ‘n Ice
Solomon’s Key 2 is a follow-up that came out in 1992 but only for Nintendo’s 8-bit console. North American NES …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 244: EVO: The Search for Eden
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the SNES game about a mermaid who evolves into a goat-rhino who evolves into a man who kills a giant space amoeba and then gets lectured by the sun.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 243: Klonoa: The Door to Phantomile
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the PS1 platformer that introduced the world to Namco’s favorite long-eared cat.
Guacamelee! 2
With Metroidvanias being one of the more popular genres to appear in independent gaming, Guacamelee definitely stood out as one …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 242: Dragonstomper
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this secret ancestor to the console RPG genre.
RoboCop 2 (Arcade)
Ocean retained the RoboCop license for all of the subsequent console and computer versions, none of which were very good. …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 241: South Park: The Stick of Truth
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this surprisingly cromulent JRPG based on an American cartoon
