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Game Club 199X Episode 4: Vagrant Story
(Mar 7, 2012)
No FAQs, no cheats, no save states: Playing classic games like we did in our childhood. This episode: A statistician's dungeon crawler by Yasumi Matsuno.
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Interview with SWERY65
(Feb 20, 2012)
He created [DEADLY PREMONITION] and was inspired by the small towns in the North-West. He loves big hamburgers, and can't live without ketchup.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 7: Gaming in Europe
(Feb 1, 2012)
Audun Sorlie joins us as a special guest to talk about MAGFest 2012 and discuss the history of gaming in Europe, and how the continent has lost its unique identity over the last decade.
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Book Review: Masters of Doom
(Jan 23, 2012)
The book that tells the history of id Software, and thus the origin story of the most predominant genre in gaming today: first person shooters.
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Agness Kaku Interview
(Jan 22, 2012)
In this long talk with the translator of Metal Gear Solid 2, Hybrid Heaven, Shadow of Memories and Katamari Damacy you get to read a candor and honesty that's rare in any interview about old video games.
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Game Club 199X Episode 2: Wasteland
(Jan 22, 2012)
No FAQs, no cheats, no save states: Playing classic games like we did in our childhood. This episode: The apocalyptical RPG that inspired the creators of Fallout.
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Best Western Video Game Music of All Time - 2011
(Dec 23, 2011)
Following up on our overall best VGM poll, this new list is there to highlight specifically music produced outside of Japan, to prove not all Western video game music is aping generic hollywood soundtracks.
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Game Club 199X Episode 1: Snake's Revenge
(Dez 12, 2011)
No FAQs, no cheats, no save states: Playing classic games like we did in our childhood. This episode: The semi-apocryphical NES sequel to Hideo Kojima's timeless classic Metal Gear.
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Interview with Richard Garriott
(Nov 28, 2011)
Richard Garriott, aka Shamino Salle Dacil, aka Don Shamino, aka Lord British, original author of Ultima and one of the founding fathers of computer RPGs.
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Books on Video Games
(Oct 30, 2011)
Who says video games lead people to never ever read? Check out this ongoing collection of video game related book reviews.
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¿Que Pasa Perro?
(Oct 28, 2011)
One of the weirdest adventures you'll ever see... in Spanish! (and now also in English)
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Ys History Interviews
(Jul 8, 2011)
Snippets of interviews with many Ys persons: Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo, Ken Berry of Xseed, YS Book I&II artist Hiromasa Iwasaki, MonkeyPaw Games' Ed Greiner, and fan/pro translator Jeff "Deuce" Nussbaum.
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Donald Duck Interviews
(Jun 2, 2011)
No, we couldn't get any anwers from Mr. Duck himself, but Al Lowe and Darlene Waddington talk about their video game encounters with the world's most choleric fowl.
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Jason Park
(Apr 23, 2011)
Interview with the former programmer of HiCom and eSofnet, who worked on the Corum series of Action RPGs.
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Kim Kyongsoo and Kim Seongwan
(Mar 25, 2011)
Our interview with two former Mirinae Software employees sheds light on the pioneer days of game development in Korea.
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Jeff Mills and Joe Jing
(Feb 21, 2011)
Two of the main staff members of the Nocturne and BloodRayne series share anecdotes about the horrors they helped create at Terminal Reality Inc.
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Your Weekly Kusoge
(Jan 21, 2011)
In this new regular column HG101 presents short and sweet introductions to games you'll love to hate.
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Interview with Ryu Umemoto
(Dec 3, 2010)
The composer visits Stockholm and discusses his work on YU-NO, Desire, Eve burst error, ESP Galuda II Black Label and Akai Katana.
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Japanese Artwork of Western Games
(updated Nov 6, 2010)
American companies are not the only ones who feel the need to "adjust" game artwork to the need of their local market, as these comparisons of various covers show.
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Retro Japanese Computers: Gaming's Final Frontier
(Oct 1, 2010)
The Japanese personal computer landscape in the 1980s was quite different than the one in the Western world. This feature details all of the different platforms, including numerous noteworthy games.
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Al Lowe
(Sep 17, 2010)
The godfather of adult gaming talks about the workings at Sierra in her early days, his design philosophies and the changes in the video game industry since his Leisure Suit Larry series passed its prime.
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Hiroshi Ishikawa
(Sep 4, 2010)
John Szczepaniak had a chat with the creator of Kagirinaki Tatakai and Brain Breaker, two really unique and really obscure Japanese home computer games from the 1980's.
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A History of Korean Gaming: Part 1
(Jul 13, 2010)
The first in a (probably) three-part series takes a look at the origins of game development in Korea and its ups and downs until the early 1990's.
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Fan Translations
(Jul 13, 2010)
Introducing a look at the history, the community and the technicalities behind the art of ROM translation.
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Thorsten Nickel
(Jun 11, 2010)
Interview with the German-born actor who starred in Jackie Chan's Thunderbolt and the arcade game Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master.
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The Life and Games of Jeremy Blaustein
(Jun 2, 2010)
Jeremy Blaustein is best known for his localizations of Metal Gear Solid and Shenmue, but he has much more to show off in his portfolio. We are taking an in-depth look at his career and the games he has been involved with.
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Yellow Light of Death PS3 Info
(Nov 4, 2009)
The Xbox 360 isn't the only console that got it's own trademark system failure. A customer warning about the PS3's much less discussed YLOD.
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Masato Kato
(Oct 26, 2009)
Gamers who missed the last 15 years of JRPG history might know him better as Runmaru, one of the key staff members that made the Ninja Gaiden trilogy on the NES what it is. In our interview he lifts many of the mysteries that surround the series.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 6: SMS
(May 5, 2009)
About the Sega Master System, discussing pretty much everything related to it - its origins, its accessories, and its most notable games, including Alex Kidd, Zillion, Wonder Boy, Phantasy Star, Shinobi, Fantasy Zone, and many, many more.
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HG101 vs The Pirates
(Apr 17, 2009)
There's differing opinions about software piracy and bootlegging of old and commercially unavailable games. Some pirates, however, are just evil.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 5: The 3DO
(Apr 16, 2009)
This podcast is solely 100% devoted to the 3DO. We discuss why it's the most 90s console in existence, as well as some of its best titles - Star Control II, Total Eclipse, Return Fire - and some of its worse, mostly Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and Virtuoso.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 4: Best of 2008
(Jan 31, 2009)
Some of the best games of 2008, Mother 3, other recent RPGs that haven't been officially translated, Gamestop, the death of EGM, and the Video Games Live! concert.
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HG101 Podcast Episode Gaiden
(May 21, 2008)
Live from the Too Many Games expo in Reading, PA: Video game stores in the tri-state (NYC) area, Mario Kart Wii and GTA4, SNK Arcade Classics, a handful of Treasure games, and R-Type Command.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 3
(Apr 30, 2008)
Discussing rogue-likes like Baroque and Shiren the Wanderer, some of the Sega Master System's better titles, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Persona 3: FES, Arcana Heart, The World Ends With You, along with brief bits about Hokuto no Ken, Contra, Ninja Gaiden and Hanjuku Hero.
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Introduction to Doujin Games
(Sep 26, 2007)
Giving cultural background, meaning, and general installation aid for the Japanese equivalent of the indie game.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 2
(Jul 8, 2007)
Briefly discussing releases like Grim Grimoire and Doki Doki Majou Shinpan, before moving onto our main topic: the waning popularity of 2D fighters and shooters, and what developers could be doing to get them back in the graces of the public.
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HG101 Podcast Episode 1
(Jun 23, 2007)
In our first podcast, Kurt Kalata, Joesteele, Vysethebold and Onyx discuss Odin Sphere, Princess Crown, Senko no Ronde, Warzard, Shenmue, Elevator Action (and the Taito Legends 2 pack), Contra 4 and Ouendan.
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Old Classic Gaming Review Archive index
(Apr 12, 2002)
Before Hardcore Gaming 101, there was the Classic Gaming Archive. Please note that these articles are old, and some are outdated by newer articles. Yet you'll find many games discussed that are not (yet) on HG101.
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