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Famicom Wars

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Advance Wars

Intelligent Systems got its start with programmer Toru Narihiro being tasked with porting games from Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System to

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 535: Vectorman

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a Mega Drive action-platformer starring a ball man.

Super Robot Wars 30

If you’ve been reading HG101 for awhile, you may be wondering what happened to that Super Robot Wars series. Long

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 534: Tomba!

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the quirky Playstation platformer starring a feral child who wears leaves for pants like a damn idiot.

Cyberblock Metal Orange

This article is part of our Japanese Obscurities feature. We put out a whole book about them, which is available

Deathloop

After Prey (2017) underperformed, Arkane mainly focused on an expansion for Dishonored 2 and helping MachineGames with some Wolfenstein projects.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 533: Darklands

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank MicroProse’s 1992 CRPG set in 15th century Luxembourg that inexplicably failed to set the world afire.

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders is a mystery point and click adventure game, channeling the same energy as classics

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 532: Q*Bert + I, Robot

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank MicroProse’s 1992 CRPG set in 15th century Luxembourg that inexplicably failed to set the world afire.

Power Dolls

Little is known in the West about the POWER DoLLS series, apart from it being an obscure turn-based tactical strategy

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 531: Shining in the Darkness

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the 1991 JRPG that kicked off the Shining Force series.

Rinne

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Relics

Among many games made by the famous Nihon Falcom, one stands out the most as the most unusual – that

Kumatanchi

This article is part of our Japanese Obscurities feature. We put out a whole book about them, which is available

Relics: The 2nd Birth

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Relics

After Relics: The Recur of Origin has gained some notoriety as a well-made remake of 1986’s original, Bothtec, the games’

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