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Bonus Get 230: Cosmic Smash

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Sega's 2001 Squash-Breakout hybrid.

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Top 47k Ep 571: The Portopia Serial Murder Case

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Enix adventure game that is single-handedly responsible for all those Famicom ROMs you can't play.

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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories / Kingdom Hearts II

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kingdom-hearts-chain-of-memories/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kingdom-hearts-ii/

More Kingdom Hearts, this time covering the GBA interquel and the p...

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Patreon Podcast Poll January 2023

Vote for an upcoming episode from the choices below!

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Top 47k Ep 570: The Neverhood

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the claymation adventure game that came with your mom's Gateway 2000.

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Bonus Get 229: Streets of Rage 4

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the triumphant return of Sega's signature beat-em-up series.

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Top 47k Ep 569: Triplane Turmoil

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a bizarre, World War I themed DOS game.

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Kingdom Hearts

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kingdom-hearts/

Kicking off the new year with the first in a large article series on Square-Enix's massive (and massively confusing) action-RPG series Kingdom Hearts.

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Top 47k Ep 568: Cannon Fodder

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Amiga's war-liking top-down arcade shooter.

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Ardy Lightfoot

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ardy-lightfoot/

Mascot platformer shenanigans from Titus for the SNES.

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Bonus Get 228: Taboo: The Sixth Sense

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Rare Ltd.'s fortune-telling NES game that told your fortune and picked your lottery numbers.

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Top 47k Ep 567: Lemmings Paintball

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game that shouldn't exist, couldn't exist, yet does exist.

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Patreon Postcard - Ghost House

Here's the final postcard artwork of the year - Ghost House by Thor Thorvaldson, another SMS game and personal favorite of six-year old me.

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Dead Rising 3 / 4

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dead-rising-3/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dead-rising-4/

Around Halloween we started covering Capcom's other zombie-bashing games. We're finishing it up just in time for ...

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Pandora's Palce

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pandoras-palace/

An ancient Greek-themed platformer and forgotten early arcade game from Konami.

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Top 47k Ep 566: Catrap

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Game Boy puzzle classic that beat both Blinx and Braid to the punch

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Bonus Get 227: Don't S@*! Your Pants

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game you win by not shitting your pants. So, you know, similar rules to the game of Life.

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Top 47k Ep 565: Home Alone (NES)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Bethesda's ugly sweater of an NES game.

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Top 47k Ep 564: Marathon

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Bungie's Mac-exclusive shooter that almost made up for all those Mac-elusive shooters.

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Bonus Get 226: Final Fantasy Legend II

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Game Boy Final Fantasy game that's really a SaGa game by one of HG101's patron saints, Akitoshi Kawazu.

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Patreon Postcard - Black Belt

Next Patreon Postcard - Black Belt by Rusty Shackles!

This is another SMS game, which was originally a Fist of the North Star game in Japan but received an overhaul for its international release. 

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Patreon Postcard - R-Type II

New Patreon postcard artwork - R-Type II, by Mike Morrocco!

We've got a few of these to post (and to finish up). For all Patrons, I'll be printing and sending out the yearly batch sometime early next year!

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Bomberman Series Complete (for now)

While I haven't been posting these on Patreon, we've been posting the remaining articles in the Bomberman series over the past few weeks. Now we've completed them, for now, ending with Super Bomberman 3 for the SFC and the puzzle game spinoff Panic Bomber.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/series/bomberm...

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Top 47k Ep 563: Ys Origin

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the 2006 Ys prequel that's set 700 years before whatever it is exactly that's supposed to be happening in Ys.

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Bonus Get 225: Virtual Pro Wrestling 2: Royal Road Succession

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank one of AKI's many excellent Nintendo 64 wrestling games.

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Bonus Get 224: Metal Head

Join the HG101 gang as they rank the mecha 32X game that's definitely not Tin Head.

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December 2022 Podcast Poll

It's time to pick your game choice for an upcoming episode!

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Top 47k Ep 562: A Week of Garfield (feat. Marooney)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Japan-only Garfield game that Garfield truly deserves.

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Top 47k Ep 561: Virtua Tennis

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the forgotten forgotten Virtua series game

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Top 47k Ep 560: Live-A-Live (Remake)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that dared remake Live-A-Live Original Recipe.

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