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Now available on Amazon: Sega Console Classics Vol. 1! Covering classic Sonic the Hedgehog, Shining Force, Phantasy Star, and Master System games! amzn.to/3Zk4qFD
Banger update
NES and GameBoy Classics added to NSO:
NES:
-Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
-BATTLETOADS
Game Boy:
-Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
-BIONIC COMMANDO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZZ...
NES:
-Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
-BATTLETOADS
Game Boy:
-Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
-BIONIC COMMANDO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZZ...
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Banger update
Sega's venerable ninja series with back with Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, this time with gorgeous artwork by developer Lizardcube (Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap remake, Streets of Rage 4). www.hardcoregaming101.net/shinobi-art-...
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sega's venerable ninja series with back with Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, this time with gorgeous artwork by developer Lizardcube (Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap remake, Streets of Rage 4). www.hardcoregaming101.net/shinobi-art-...
Willy Wombat, an isometric mascot platformer for the Saturn from Westone / Hudson www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Willy Wombat, an isometric mascot platformer for the Saturn from Westone / Hudson www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/
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New blog post time!
This week's game is Wizard Fire, the follow-up to Data East's D&D-inspired Gate of Doom that really doesn't stray far from it at all. However, an injection of style ends up adding some substance alongside it, resulting in a game that I found myself quite a bit more endeared to:
This week's game is Wizard Fire, the follow-up to Data East's D&D-inspired Gate of Doom that really doesn't stray far from it at all. However, an injection of style ends up adding some substance alongside it, resulting in a game that I found myself quite a bit more endeared to:
Wizard Fire
Wizard Fire is the kind of game that’s an improved sequel in virtually every regard, but it’s also a game I didn’t necessarily expect to exist as it was. Here I was asking for some kind of bigger a…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New blog post time!
This week's game is Wizard Fire, the follow-up to Data East's D&D-inspired Gate of Doom that really doesn't stray far from it at all. However, an injection of style ends up adding some substance alongside it, resulting in a game that I found myself quite a bit more endeared to:
This week's game is Wizard Fire, the follow-up to Data East's D&D-inspired Gate of Doom that really doesn't stray far from it at all. However, an injection of style ends up adding some substance alongside it, resulting in a game that I found myself quite a bit more endeared to:
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www.patreon.com/posts/144376... this week's bonus Get is BARTS NIGHTMARE! I nominated Ghosts'n Goblins Resurrection and this! You WANT to support @hg101.bsky.social on Patreon so you can hear 379 bonus rankings!! You NEED to hear the deeply thorough discussion on this mesmerizing tragedy.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
www.patreon.com/posts/144376... this week's bonus Get is BARTS NIGHTMARE! I nominated Ghosts'n Goblins Resurrection and this! You WANT to support @hg101.bsky.social on Patreon so you can hear 379 bonus rankings!! You NEED to hear the deeply thorough discussion on this mesmerizing tragedy.
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GO TO HELL! RETURN IN PORSCHE ONLY on @hg101.bsky.social TOP 47,858 GAMES PODCAST!
GHOSTS'N GOBLINS RESURRECTION
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FRANKAIMURA
Porsche CHALLENGE
Kal
Apollo Chungus
Frankiee? Frankaa?
GO TO HELL! RETURN IN PORSCHE ONLY on @hg101.bsky.social TOP 47,858 GAMES PODCAST!
GHOSTS'N GOBLINS RESURRECTION
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FRANKAIMURA
Porsche CHALLENGE
Kal
Apollo Chungus
Frankiee? Frankaa?
Hardcore Gaming 101: Ghosts 'n Goblins: Resurrection (and Porsche Challenge!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a revival of a previously-revived ghoulish Capcom series. Then stick around for Porsche Challenge, an advertisement in the form of a Playstation racing gam...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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GO TO HELL! RETURN IN PORSCHE ONLY on @hg101.bsky.social TOP 47,858 GAMES PODCAST!
GHOSTS'N GOBLINS RESURRECTION
@kaly.blackskycomra.de
@taxowlbear.bsky.social
@mercurycdx.bsky.social
FRANKAIMURA
Porsche CHALLENGE
Kal
Apollo Chungus
Frankiee? Frankaa?
GO TO HELL! RETURN IN PORSCHE ONLY on @hg101.bsky.social TOP 47,858 GAMES PODCAST!
GHOSTS'N GOBLINS RESURRECTION
@kaly.blackskycomra.de
@taxowlbear.bsky.social
@mercurycdx.bsky.social
FRANKAIMURA
Porsche CHALLENGE
Kal
Apollo Chungus
Frankiee? Frankaa?
Mimicking slowdown from old hardware is difficult from a programming standpoint but it's absolutely essential for shoot-em-ups
No deaths & no means to speed up or delay stage progression
R-Type Delta HD
St.3 starts - 14:49, boss music starts - 17:14
Play Time = 2:25 = 145 secs
PS1
St.3 starts - 9:30, boss music starts - 13:25
Play Time = 3:55 = 235 secs
The uncut stage OST lasts 4mins, so you miss 1.5mins of it in HD
R-Type Delta HD
St.3 starts - 14:49, boss music starts - 17:14
Play Time = 2:25 = 145 secs
PS1
St.3 starts - 9:30, boss music starts - 13:25
Play Time = 3:55 = 235 secs
The uncut stage OST lasts 4mins, so you miss 1.5mins of it in HD
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Mimicking slowdown from old hardware is difficult from a programming standpoint but it's absolutely essential for shoot-em-ups
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Howdy folks, my first @hg101.bsky.social article in a while is now available to read! It looks into the pretty neat Japan-only Saturn platformer Willy Wombat, developed by Westone and featuring designs by Susumu Matsushita & English voice acting! www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Howdy folks, my first @hg101.bsky.social article in a while is now available to read! It looks into the pretty neat Japan-only Saturn platformer Willy Wombat, developed by Westone and featuring designs by Susumu Matsushita & English voice acting! www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/
Big Ultraman
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Big Ultraman
Look at this big boy!
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Look at this big boy!
I don't know much about Ultraman but the girl next to me was an encyclopedia of Ultraman knowledge so she helped narrate
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I don't know much about Ultraman but the girl next to me was an encyclopedia of Ultraman knowledge so she helped narrate
Ultraman Live!
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ultraman Live!
Went to Walmart for some Buldak noodles, came back with these figures
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Went to Walmart for some Buldak noodles, came back with these figures
eXoWin9x Vol. 1 is out, containing 662 Windows 95 games from 1994-1996: www.retro-exo.com/win9x.html
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
eXoWin9x Vol. 1 is out, containing 662 Windows 95 games from 1994-1996: www.retro-exo.com/win9x.html
Violent Storm represent
Do you want to (virtually) punch guys? If so, we've got you with a list of the 25 best beat 'em ups ever, with oldies, obscurities, and more. www.avclub.com/best-beat-em...
Final fight(s): The 25 best beat-'em-up games
Do you want to (virtually) punch guys? If so, we've got you with a list of the 25 best beat 'em ups ever, with oldies, obscurities, and more.
www.avclub.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Violent Storm represent
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Sonic CD US Metallic Madness is mostly just riffing on top of this sequence preset from Korg Wavestation
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sonic CD US Metallic Madness is mostly just riffing on top of this sequence preset from Korg Wavestation
Just learned of the darkly disturbing 2001 Japanese ADV Dayonara o Oshiete ~Comment te Dire Adieu. This sounds a lot like the fictional game Coffin from My Dress Up Darling (the one with the nuns and the cannibalism) w.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/pag...
さよならを教えて ～comment te dire adieu～ - ゲームカタログ@Wiki ～名作からクソゲーまで～
さよならを教えて ～comment te dire adieu～ 【さよならをおしえて こまん とぅ でぃーる あでゅー】 ジャンル ファナティックアドベンチャーノベル オリジナル版あそBD版 対応機...
w.atwiki.jp
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Just learned of the darkly disturbing 2001 Japanese ADV Dayonara o Oshiete ~Comment te Dire Adieu. This sounds a lot like the fictional game Coffin from My Dress Up Darling (the one with the nuns and the cannibalism) w.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/pag...
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Strictly Limited Games - Clockwork Aquario - Collector's Edition (PlayStation 4) is $49.99 on Amazon Prime buff.ly/QNePqgG #ad
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Strictly Limited Games - Clockwork Aquario - Collector's Edition (PlayStation 4) is $49.99 on Amazon Prime buff.ly/QNePqgG #ad
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I can’t tell for sure but if Fortnite’s next season focuses on movies and is called “NOW PLAYING”, Epic owes me and
@hg101.bsky.social some free publicity at least ha
limitedrungames.com/products/now...
@hg101.bsky.social some free publicity at least ha
limitedrungames.com/products/now...
Now Playing: The Guide to 1980s and ’90s Movie Games (Hardcover)
– Limited Run Games
Now Playing: The Guide to 1980s and ’90s Movie Games Edited by Kurt Kalata PRE-ORDERS CLOSE ON SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2025, AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME. The modern movie blockbuster was born in the late 1970s ...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I can’t tell for sure but if Fortnite’s next season focuses on movies and is called “NOW PLAYING”, Epic owes me and
@hg101.bsky.social some free publicity at least ha
limitedrungames.com/products/now...
@hg101.bsky.social some free publicity at least ha
limitedrungames.com/products/now...
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The music for Gigalopolis Zone in 'Sonic Chaos' is different between Master System and Game Gear. Turns out, the Master System version uses the song "Oh Yes!1 (SONG 0)", which is a demo tune from the KORG M1 synthesizer. Here's a comparison of the two.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The music for Gigalopolis Zone in 'Sonic Chaos' is different between Master System and Game Gear. Turns out, the Master System version uses the song "Oh Yes!1 (SONG 0)", which is a demo tune from the KORG M1 synthesizer. Here's a comparison of the two.
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New blog post time!
This week's game is The Adventures of Star Saver, a sequel/reboot of questionable Famicom game Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100. It's so rare that unbeloved games get a second chance to build upon ideas like this, so the fact that Star Saver exists at all is to be celebrated:
This week's game is The Adventures of Star Saver, a sequel/reboot of questionable Famicom game Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100. It's so rare that unbeloved games get a second chance to build upon ideas like this, so the fact that Star Saver exists at all is to be celebrated:
The Adventures of Star Saver
The Adventures of Star Saver is, in a lot of ways, the ideal follow-up. It sincerely looks back at Miracle Ropit and removes its worst tendencies without compromising on the things that made it int…
ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New blog post time!
This week's game is The Adventures of Star Saver, a sequel/reboot of questionable Famicom game Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100. It's so rare that unbeloved games get a second chance to build upon ideas like this, so the fact that Star Saver exists at all is to be celebrated:
This week's game is The Adventures of Star Saver, a sequel/reboot of questionable Famicom game Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100. It's so rare that unbeloved games get a second chance to build upon ideas like this, so the fact that Star Saver exists at all is to be celebrated:
Operation Wolf, beginning Taito's seminal series of light gun/gallery shooters, which was recently re-released. www.hardcoregaming101.net/operation-wo...
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Operation Wolf, beginning Taito's seminal series of light gun/gallery shooters, which was recently re-released. www.hardcoregaming101.net/operation-wo...
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Hi I wrote about the Sega Master System and how it’s been criminally overlooked because everyone goes on about the NES like it was the only 8bit console in the world look don’t get me started
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Master System at 40: the truth about Sega’s most underrated console
Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System dominated the markets in Japan and the US. But in Europe, a technologically superior rival was making it look like an ancient relic
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hi I wrote about the Sega Master System and how it’s been criminally overlooked because everyone goes on about the NES like it was the only 8bit console in the world look don’t get me started
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Hey guess what isn't affected by the Cloudflare outage www.hardcoregaming101.net
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hey guess what isn't affected by the Cloudflare outage www.hardcoregaming101.net