Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 789: Rolling Thunder (and Pokemon Puzzle League!)
LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that paved the way for Shinobi to exist. Then stick around for Pokémon Puzzle League, the puzzler that continued Tetris Attack’s proud tradition of obscuring its roots as a Panel de Pon game!
Tempest Rising
In recent years, real time strategy, once written off by critics as a dead or niche genre, has seen a …
Contra: Rogue Corps
Contra: Rogue Corps has the unfortunate distinction of shared commonalities with Metal Gear Survive. Like that game, Rogue Corps seeks …
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
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
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!
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! …
