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HG101 Year-End Book Status Updates – A Guide to Japanese Role Playing Games, Japanese Video Game Obscurities Vol. 2, and more!

Time of a year end round up here at HG101! When we began 2019, we had pretty ambitious plans when

Detention

Disclaimer: A few edits have been made to this article to correct a few historical mistakes the author made previously

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 248: Dark Seal

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank perhaps the most Data Easty of Data East beat-em-ups.

Hana Taaka Daka!?

The PC Engine was a great hardware for shoot-em-ups as it could handle fast gameplay and high amount of simultaneous

Wing Commander: Armada

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Wing Commander

By 1994, momentum was building in the Wing Commander brand. While Academy gave fans the mission creator they always wanted,

Wing Commander: Privateer

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Wing Commander

With Wing Commander: Academy, Origin had seen the value in developing smaller games with existing technology in order to recoup the

Wing Commander: Academy

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Wing Commander

  The prolonged development time and high costs of Strike Commander made Origin realize they should stop focusing exclusively on

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

Top Speed

Sega’s 1986 arcade racer OutRun was a technical marvel, featuring brilliantly lush graphics, a stellar soundtrack, and super smooth scaling

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.

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