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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

Schildmaid MX

What makes Schildmaid MX stand out is immediately obvious; your goal isn’t to avoid bullets but to fly into them!

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 785: Major Havoc (and Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters!)

LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Atari’s magnum opus of vector-based gaming. Then stick around for Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, an isometric Gauntlet-like with a ’50s sci-fi theme!

Missland

Missland / Missland 2 (ミスランド) Developer: Altron Release Date: 1995 Platforms: PlayStation If you’ve ever played one of those “Spot

Bomberman World

This entry is part 31 of 35 in the series Bomberman

With all the innovation happening on the Game Boy and Sega Saturn, you’d think that Bomberman’s PlayStation debut would be

Gradius Origins

This entry is part 16 of 17 in the series Gradius

Gradius Origins is a compilation of Konami’s classic arcade shoot-em-up series, developed by emulation wizards M2 as part of their

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