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Prey (2006)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/prey-2006/

There are a whole bunch of unrelated shooters named Prey, some of which have never been released. This is the first one that actually made it to market, showing off some cool portal technology.

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Bonus Get 195: Black Tiger

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's barbarian-themed fantasy hack-and-slash platformer.

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Top 47k Ep 501: Ghoul School

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a quirky late-period NES platformer by Glen Rock, New Jersey's own Imagineering.

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Top 47k Ep 500: Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the profoundly original new Yakuza game that pulls off a daring takeover of lesser JRPGs' turf.

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Pocky & Rocky Reshrined

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pocky-rocky-reshrined/

The SNES Pocky & Rocky gets a massively overhauled remake, released a few weeks ago in Japan but coming shortly elsewhere.

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Bonus Get 194: Sonic the Hedgehog (SMS)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the surprisingly playable 8-bit version of classic Sonic.

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Heavenly Guardian

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/heavenly-guardian/

What started as a Kiki Kaikai sequel morphed into its own thing, though it doesn't quite live up to its name.

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Top 47k Ep 499: Kingdom Rush

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the hit tower defense game from Uruguayan developer Ironhide Game Studio.

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Pocky & Rocky 2 / Pocky & Rocky with Becky

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pocky-rocky-2/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pocky-rocky-with-becky/

The Pocky & Rocky series continues with an SNES sequel and a GBA entry.

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Top 47k Ep 498: Balan Wonderworld

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Yuki Naka's triumphant swan song, a classic that will never die.

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Pocky & Rocky

The SNES sequel to Kiki Kaikai, and the one used as the basis for the upcoming "Reshrined" version.

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Bonus Get 193: Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an indie roguelike FPS full of voxels and really awkward apologies.

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Top 47k Ep 497: Wolfenstein: The New Order

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank another good reboot of the Wolf 3D series, this time in the 1960s.

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Kiki Kaikai

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kiki-kaikai/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kiki-kaikai-dotou-hen/

With the new Pocky & Rocky game out in Japan, we're looking at all of the early entries in the se...

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Top 47k Ep 496: The Wonderful 101

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game that's half Pikmin, half X-Men, all fun!

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Taito Milestones

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

A very curious compilation of Taito arcade games from the 80s.

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Bonus Get 192: Super Thunder Blade

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this Genesis/Mega Drive launch title based on the classic Super Scaler coin-op.

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Top 47k Ep 495: John Madden Football

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a truly historic video game by the most unlikely of video game creators.

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Stella Deus

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/stella-deus/

A PS2 strategy-RPG from Atlus, with art by SMT/Persona artist Shigenori Soejima and music by Hitoshi Sakimoto.

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Top 47k Ep 494: Double Dragon Neon

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank WayForward's kitschy, comedic revival of an 80s arcade classic.

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Contract J.A.C.K.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/contract-j-a-c-k/

The No One Lives Forever series goes out with a whimper with this personalityless spin-off.

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Bonus Get 191: Jurassic Park (SMS)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Sega Master System's internally-developed Jurassic Park game. No, you can't play as Wayne Knight in this one, either.

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No One Lives Forever 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/no-one-lives-forever-2/

Cate Archer returns in this FPS spy spoof sequel.

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Top 47k Ep 493: Jazzpunk

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a dadaist adventure game about cold war spycraft and other nonsense.

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Top 47k Ep 492: Dark Colony

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an M-rated RTS games about life and death on Mars.

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The Operative: No One Lives Forever

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/the-operative-no-one-lives-forever/

Monolith's 1970s spy movie tribute, and one of the best FPS of the early 2000s.

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Bonus Get 190: Gauntlet (LCD)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Tiger LCD handheld version of a beloved arcade classic.

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Bonus Get 189: Chasing Static

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this PS1 era homage and "psychological horror short story" about science, Wales, and murder probably.

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Magic Castle

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/magic-castle/

A Japanese indie Net Yaroze game, originally made in the late 1990s to pitch to publishers, recently made widely available.

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Top 47k Ep 491: Call of Duty: Black Ops (Java)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a rather unique entry in Activision's blockbuster series, tailor made for your Nokia Asha 301 cell phone.

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