The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Blu-Ray
Now available on Amazon for $23.99 Author and journalist John Szczepaniak spent three months travelling around Japan, interviewing over 80 …
Submissions are open for 2020!
We are officially re-opening submissions for 2020! Please make sure to check out the submissions guidelines and send in your …
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 …
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 …
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 …
RoboCop 2 (Arcade)
Ocean retained the RoboCop license for all of the subsequent console and computer versions, none of which were very good. …
Retro Horror and Star Fox/F-Zero Digest Featured in the Latest Storybundle
The latest Storybundle features two of our recent eBooks – The Guide to Retro Horror and Star Fox/F-Zero, which includes …
Silent Hill
“The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh.” Capcom’s Resident Evil wasn’t the first horror adventure game, …
Ninja Saviors, The: Return of the Warriors
Tengo Project is a small group of developers working within Natsume-Atari to update some of their classic games. Their first …
Panzer Bandit
Sega/Treasure’s 1996 beat-em-up/RPG Guardian Heroes was a surprise cult international hit, but it didn’t come of out of nowhere. It …
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force
Mad Stalker is Fill-In Cafe’s first attempt at a beat-em-up. Designed and programmed by Masatoshi Imaizumi and Masaki Ukyo, its …
8-Bit Yu-No’s Great Adventure
When 5pb/MAGES put out the re-release of Steins;Gate Elite, they commissioned an adventure game in the style of an 8-bit Famicom …
