Hardcore Gaming 101 – Page 249 – Promoting the culture of video games

September 24, 2017

Gaia Seed

Techno Soleil was a small start-up company during the PlayStation era, and their first game Gaia Seed is a simple sprite-based 2D …

September 24, 2017

Released in 1991, IGS/Alfa Systems’ Sinistron quickly got lost in the crowd both in Japan and in the US, due …

September 24, 2017

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Sparkster

Sparkster was Konami’s entry into the overcrowded “xtreme rodent” market. He’s an opossum, but you can barely tell since he’s …

September 24, 2017

This entry is part 1 of 17 in the series Gradius

Konami’s first original shoot-em-up was the arcade game Scramble. While Scramble saw a follow-up called Super Cobra, a different project …

September 24, 2017

Space Harrier‘s release in 1985 was followed by many imitators. Their quality is as varied as their settings, running the …

September 24, 2017

While the NES was on its way out in 1991 thanks to the advent of the SNES, games were still …

September 22, 2017

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September 22, 2017

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Alex Kidd

For Alex’s last adventure, Sega tossed him back to the 8-bit Master System and decided to fuse him with one …

September 22, 2017

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Alex Kidd

Sega was a rather pitiable entity when it came to the Master System. They had no market share, their advertising …

September 22, 2017

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Fantasy Zone

Unlike most Game Gear ports, Fantasy Zone Gear isn’t just a miniaturized version of the arcade/SMS game. Rather, it’s a completely new …