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Taito’s 1986 Arkanoid was an update of Atari’s brick-breaker Breakout, adding elements like power-ups and enemies. The designer, Akira Fujita,

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 788: Mace: The Dark Age (and Fashion Police Squad!)

LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Atari’s 3D fighter that strove to corner the competitive… N64 fighting game scene… of 1997. Then stick around for Fashion Police Squad, the most glamorous FPS you can imagine!

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Broken Sword

How much can change in a few years. While it had never really died, the adventure game genre experienced a

HG101 Movie Game Panel at Retro World Expo in Hartford, CT on Friday September 12th, 2025!

I’ll be attending Retro World Expo at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT, the weekend of September 12-14th, 2025!

Dragon Quest Wars

This entry is part of 16 in the series Dragon Quest

In a long-running series known for its sense of familiarity, Dragon Quest Wars stands out as a curious and unexpected

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 787: Elevator Action (and Bonanza Bros!)

LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Taito’s spy action thriller that will literally crush you with excitement. Then stick around for Bonanza Bros., Sega’s multiplayer co-op heist game!

Soukaigi

Soukaigi (双界儀) Developer: Yuke’s Release Date: 1998 Platforms: PlayStation This review was originally featured in 32-Bit Library Vol. 4, covering

Fhey Area

Lunar: The Silver Star was meant to be the big Mega CD RPG in Japan, but it wouldn’t be released

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 786: Scramble & Super Cobra (and Anteater!)

LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Konami’s first horizontal shooter, plus its more challenging follow-up. Then stick around for Anteater, a game about an anteater who is incredibly vulnerable for some reason to… ants?!

Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom, The 

As an evolution from books, visual novels don’t tend to revisit their roots the way other games do. It makes

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