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Phantasy Star IV

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It's the last (and the best) of the mainline Phantasy Star series, which brings together near...

Phantasy Star III

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It's more Phantasy Star, with this black sheep of the series, which sure tries some interesting s...

Patreon Exclusive: Rocket Knight Adventures illustration by Thor Thorvaldson

Here's our second bit of exclusive artwork for Patrons - Sparkster from Konami's Rocket Knight Adventures!

In the near future, we'll be creating 4x6 postcards featuring this art on one side, and information about the game on the back. These ...

HG101 Digest Vol. 5: Treasure (Preview)

And here's the preview for the upcoming Treasure digest! This is a bit longer than our previous ones (118 pages) since there's quite a lot of stuff crammed in there beyond just Treasure's games. It's content complete, though the cover and logo is ...

Now available! ÉPOPÉE: Tales from French Game Developers

ÉPOPÉE: Tales from French Game Developers is now available! As Patrons at the $5+ level, you get complimentary PDF and Kindle MOBI files (the Kindle file is a text version rather than an export of the PDF, since it's largely text with...

Phantasy Star II

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This 16-bit sequel is sort of a two-steps-forward, one-step-back kind of deal, but it was important...

Phantasy Star

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Sega's seminal sci-fi RPG series, which began on the Master System, and hit English territories began Nin...

Corpse Party 2 / Adaptations

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Corpse Party: Blood Drive

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The Corpse Party series has trouble counting to "2" (though they get their eventual...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 189: Mega Man X

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom's first attempt to reinvent Mega Man. 

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 188: Keep Yourself Alive

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this Combat-esque Amstrad CPC game.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 41: This Means War!

Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.

Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko's Hysteric Birthday Bash

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A bizarre comedic spinoff of th...

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

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This semi-sequel is a straight visual novel in anthology format...

Corpse Party (PSP/WIN)

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This is the "second" game in the series but is really a remake of the PC98 original, and is wha...

Corpse Party (Introduction / PC98)

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We have a number of expansive articles coming up in the next few months, and this is the first ...

The Real Ghostbusters (Arcade)

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One of the several Ghostbusters game from the mid-80s, this one...

The Hex

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A meta, multi-genre video game from the makers of Pony Island.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 187: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that's not quite a Metroid, and it's not quite a Castlevania, but maaaaan...  

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 40: Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Cheese

 Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games. 

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 186: BLAM! Machinehead

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game where a scientist in bondage gear uses a nuclear hover-bobsled to kill a hamburger virus. 

Yuppie Psycho

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Office life is hell in Baroque Decay's brand new horror game.

Stone Protectors

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Witness the horror of those troll dolls, reimagined as beat-em-up heroes.

Express Raider

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A mid-80s Wild West side-scroller from Data East, and one of the many titles from the publi...

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 185: Yars Revenge

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank one of the brightest jewels in the Atari 2600's faux-wood paneled crown. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be This Means War.

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 184: Myth: History in the Making

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this Commodore 64 classic. This weekend's Patreon bonus game will be Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Cheese. 

Streets of Fury EX

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A recent indie beat-em-up with digitized graphics, it's easy to hand wave this away as somethin...

Coming soon: HG101 Presents: Épopée - Tales from French Game Developers

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This is s...

HG101 Digest Vol. 5 Treasure Cover Preview

It was a busy week and there's a lot to catch up on, but first off, here's a preview of the cover for our upcoming Treasure digest, illustrated by Kaibuzetta! The book itself is almost content complete - a preview will probably be released to $5+ ...

Cookie's Bustle (Japanese Video Game Obscurity)

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A five year old girl/bear trav...