West of Loathing
In 2003, Zack Johnson and his Asymmetric Productions launched the single greatest MMO ever created and ever will be – …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 249: Metroid Fusion
Join the HG101 gang as they spend nearly an hour discussing and ranking Metroid Fusion — just in time for your holiday road trip!
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 …
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
By 1994, momentum was building in the Wing Commander brand. While Academy gave fans the mission creator they always wanted, …
Wing Commander: Privateer
With Wing Commander: Academy, Origin had seen the value in developing smaller games with existing technology in order to recoup the …
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 …
