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October Podcast Poll

Pick a winter game for an upcoming podcast episode!

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Top 47k Ep 647: Air Combat

LATE SUMMER AND EARLY ARCADE 2023 ENDS FOR REAL THIS TIME! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that really should have been called Virtua Fighter Jet.

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Video Game References in Manga

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/video-game-references-in-manga/

This is a short piece that we're intending to expand in the future, of a few references to relatively obscure video games in manga. Many of these I'd posted on Twitter in the past, but given that platform's instability, I...

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Freedom Planet 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/freedom-planet-2/

The long-awaited follow-up to the retro platformer that channels Sonic the Hedgehog along with other 16-bit Sega classics.

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Top 47k Ep 646: Shadow the Hedgehog

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game about the slow, evil Sonic who has a gun.

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Bonus Get 267: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Missions

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a Konami-published Ninja Turtles game for DOS.

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The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/nayuta-no-kiseki/

The Falcom PSP action-RPG from 2012 finally made its way to English last week. I loved this game when I first played it and I was super jazzed to replay it. This article was originally written way back when, but has been updated with localized termi...

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Top 47k Ep 645: Die Hard Arcade

LATE SUMMER AND EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE 2023 RISES FROM THE DEAD! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Sega's polygonal arcade beat-em-up that was based on Die Hard and then became a Die Hard.

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Sherlock Holmes (Frogwares)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sherlock-holmes-the-mystery-of-the-mummy/

We've begun covering Frogwares' massive Sherlock Holmes series of adventure games. The first four games have been posted over the past month, we'll be covering the rest of them through October and Nove...

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Wibarm

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/wibarm/

A PC RPG from Arsys that mixes the mecha action of Thexder with the obtuse RPGing of Xanadu. This actually got an English release for DOS via Broderbund back in the late 1980s.

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Top 47k Ep 644: Neoquest II

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank what Google claims is the "underrated NeoPets RPG." You be the judge!

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Bonus Get 266: Earth Defense Force 5

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the fifth numbered sequel in the franchise that is forever 10 out of 10 (in our hearts).

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Top 47k Ep 643: Time Crisis & Xexex

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Ridge Racer of light gun games and the Xexex of late Konami shoot-em-ups.

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Top 47k Ep 642: Returnal

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Housemarque's 2021 shooter=roguelike hybrid.

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Bonus Get 265: Mindjack

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a early 2010s blunder with some interesting multiplayer ideas.

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Top 47k Ep 641: Virtual On: Cyber Troopers

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the first entry in Sega's long-running mecha action series.

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Top 47k Ep 640: Team Fortress 2

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the wildly popular sequel to a 90s Quake mod.

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Judgment / Lost Judgment

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/judgment/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lost-judgment/

One of the many Yakuza spinoff series, which puts the focus on a private eye rather than a gangster.

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Bonus Get 264: Dino Rex

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a sludgy and awkward dinosaur fighting game from Taito, where cro-magnon gladiators fight for the Dino Queen's favor.

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September Patreon Poll

Vote for an upcoming episode!


We've had a whole year of running polls, so in celebration, we're featuring other games from previous months that weren't picked, giving them a second chance!

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Top 47k Ep 639: Star Wars & Battlezone

LATE SUMMER AND EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CARRIES ON WITH ZERO CALM! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank two of Atari's classic vector arcade games.

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Top 47k Ep 638: Shrek Superslam

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a truly cursed game. Cursed, benighted, loathsome, and dreadful. A dark, dark event for the entire medium.

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Patreon Postcard: Blue Stinger by Rusty Shackles

Dogs Bower and friends just chillin' with some Hassy.

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Patreon Postcard Art! Rusty by Rusty Shackles

It's PC88 Castlevania clone Rusty, doing her best imitation of Simon Belmont from the Castlevania II cover!

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Bonus Get 263: Vice: Project Doom

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an undersung NES action game.

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Taito Milestones 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/taito-milestones-2/

Another compilation of Taito arcade games for the Switch, this one offering several legitimate classics like Metal Black and New Zealand Story, and also, Dino Rex!

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Top 47k Ep 637: Chase HQ

LATE SUMMER AND EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE LIVES YET! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Taito's 1988 combat racing game.

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Robinson's Requiem

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/robinsons-requiem/

A mid-90s survival sim as you attempt to escape from a hostile alien planet.

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Nightmare Frames / Urban Witch Story

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/nightmare-frames/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/urban-witch-story/

Two recent indie adventure games, with Urban Witch Story explicitly being like a late 80s Sierra Po...

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Top 47k Ep 636: Vampire Survivors

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game that you would never play if someone didn't recommend it to you first, let's be honest.

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