Night in the Woods
Night in the Woods, an extraordinary narrative experience by Scott Benson, Bethany Hockenberry, and Alec Holowka, tells a different type …
Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School
Miho Nakayama isn’t a familiar name outside of Japan, but back in the 80s, she was one of the most …
Complete Guide to the Famicom Disk System in the latest Storybundle
It’s again time for the triannual video game themed Storybundle, and for this, you can get digital copies of our …
HG101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities has been successfully funded on Kickstarter!
Earlier this week, funding this book was completed via Kickstarter. Of course, if you already pledged via Unbound, then you’re …
Sengoku Turb
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign …
The Three Great She-Devils of Square
Among the Japanese RPG fanbase, there’s a specific term for a set of female characters largely disliked by the audience: …
Holy Umbrella: Dondera no Mubou!
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign …
Lunar: Dragon Song
For a number of years, between 1997 and 2003, the Lunar series was caught in legal limbo. The issues began …
Magical School Lunar
The most popular console RPGs often received portable counterparts, games that purported to offer similar (but different) experiences in spite …
Lunar: The Silver Star
The early days of the CD-ROM marked an exciting time for role-playing games, especially on consoles. While they sought to …
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Lunar: Eternal Blue takes place 1000 years after the original, after most of the original heroes have long passed on. …
Wulverblade
About two thousand years ago, the Roman empire made some attempts to conquer the island of Great Britain. Wulverblade, an …
Love and Destroy
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign …