Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 775: Scott Pilgrim (and The Darkness!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a River City Ransom-inspired beat-em-up based on a popular Canadian comic series. Then stick around for The Darkness, a first-person shooter with more lightbulb shooting than Metal Gear Solid 2!
Super Pitfall
Harry’s back in the Lost Caverns, again searching for Rhonda, Quickclaw and the Raj Diamond. Unlike Sega’s arcade game, this …
Pitfall II (Sega)
In 1985, Sega licensed Pitfall II from Activision and turned it into an arcade game – one of, if not …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 774: Caves of Qud (and BurgerTime!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Freehold Games’ traditional yet ambitious roguelike. Then stick around for BurgerTime, an arcade game all about health code violations!
Kaettekita Cyborg Kuro-Chan
Kaettekita Cyborg Kuro-Chan (帰ってきた サイボーグクロちゃん) Developer: Konami Release Date: 2002 Platforms: PlayStation Between its budget price, 2002 release, and licensed …
Unbound and the HG101 Japanese Video Game Obscurities book
Recently there’s been quite a bit of drama in the book publishing world. Sometime in the past couple of years, …
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
Fans of Pitfall! didn’t have to wait long for a sequel, as Pitfall II: Lost Caverns was released for the …
Now Playing: The Guide to 1980s and ’90s Movie Games now available for preorder!
Now Playing: A Guide to 1980s and 1990s Movie Licensed Games is now available for preorder from Press Run Books! …
Freedom Finger
Freedom Finger describes itself as a “bat$#!% crazy space shooter”, and wow is it not kidding. You pilot a disembodied …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 773: C: The Contra Adventure (and Rollerdrome!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the other Konami series that wanted to go on an adventure. Then stick around for Rollerdrome, an extreme sports/dystopic bullet-time third-person shooter hybrid!
Falcom Manga
Falcom was a hot computer and video publisher back in the 1980s and early 1990s, with many of its games …
Super Bomberman R2
Considering that it was released six years after its direct predecessor on more powerful hardware, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 772: Castlevania: The Adventure (and Dee Dee Planet!)
Join the HG101 gang, and returning special guest Sara Leen/Saralene, as they discuss and rank the Castlevania game that blazes along at a bewildering speed. Then stick around for Dee Dee Planet – the eternally-delayed follow-up to ChuChu Rocket!
