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Top 47k Ep 534: Tomba!

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the quirky PlayStation platformer starring a feral child who wears leaves for pants like a damn idiot.

Deathloop

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Arkane's followup to the Dishonored series, different from any other project they've done tonally though not necessarily in design.

Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders

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A mystery point and click adventure game, channeling the same energy as classics of the genre like The Dagger of Amon Ra and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. Unlike those games, howe...

Bonus Get 211: Top Player's Golf

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the only Neo-Geo golf game to earn the coveted endorsement of Top Player.

Top 47k Ep 533: Darklands

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank MicroProse's 1992 CRPG set in 15th century Luxembourg that inexplicably failed to set the world on fire.

Power Dolls

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An overview of a series of mecha-themed strategy-RPGs, the first of which was brought over during the DOS era.

Top 47k Ep 532: Q*Bert and I, Robot

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Gottlieb's best-remembered arcade game, elegantly paired with Atari's fastest-forgotten.

HG101 Digest Vol 8: The Bride of Retro Horror Preview!

Here's a preview of the upcoming follow-up to our Retro Horror digest from a few years back. The feature articles here are Clock Tower and Alone in the Dark, two of the games that established the "survival horror" formula as we know it, plus a wide variety of titles from around the globe.

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Kumatanchi

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A cutesy little life sim for the DS developed by Vanillaware.

Rinne

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The Relics series finishes up under a different name, this time published by Nihon Falcom.

Patreon Postcard Art: Zillion by Danmakuman

Here's our latest piece of commissioned retro game artwork - Zillion by Danmakuman!

One of our plans for this year was a Sega-themed book that would feature some SMS games. Things sorta got sidetracked with other projects but it's still in the works for next year sometime. Expect some more SMS themed artwork in the future!

Top 47k Ep 531: Shining in the Darkness

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the 1991 JRPG that kicked off the Shining Force series.

Bonus Get 210: Ragnarok Battle Offline

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a doujin PC beat-em-up with light RPG elements.

Top 47k Ep 530: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's quirky foray into the world of Mid-90s arcade puzzle games.

Bonus Get 209: Quiz & Dragons: Capcom Quiz Game

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's 1992 fantasy-themed boomer trivia game.

Bonus Get 208: Aconcagua

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a recently fan-translated first-party Playstation adventure game.

Relics: The 2nd Birth

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More body-possessing action-RPGing in this Windows sequel.

Relics: The Recur of Origin

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A late 1990s revival of the Relics series for Windows.

Top 47k Ep 529: Berzerk and Frenzy

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a classic multi-directional shooter and its unfairly forgotten sequel.

Top 47k Ep 528: Outer Wilds

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the celebrated indie game about an entire solar system trapped in a 22-minute time loop.

Relics / Relics: Ankoku Yousai

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An enigmatic Japanese PC game where you venture through a fortress by swapping bodies. Also includes a reworked (...

Top 47k Ep 527: Bust-a-Move and Snood

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank two 90s puzzle classics from opposite sides of the platform tracks.

Korokoro Post Nin

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The tumbly PS1 cult-classic, part out of Japanese Video Game Obscurities column.

Doctor Hauzer

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An Alone in the Dark-style survival horror game, exclusive to the Japanese 3DO.

Top 47k Ep 526: Frogger & Jungler

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank two 1981 Konami arcade games, one where you "Jungle" and one where you "Frog."

Ghost Sweeper Mikami

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A side-scrolling action game from Natsumi, based on the famed 1990s ghost-hunting anime/manga.

Bonus Get 207: Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Ys game that both time and Falcom forgot.

Top 47k Ep 525: Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's sprawling 1994 beat-em-up that captures a bit of the tabletop RPG magic.

Ironclad

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A Neo Geo shoot-em-up from Saurus, long CD exclusive before a Virtual Console release.

Top 47k Ep 524: Disney's A Bug's Life

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the surprisingly well-remembered tie-in game for a mostly forgotten Pixar movie.