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Wing Commander: Academy

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Wing Commander

  The prolonged development time and high costs of Strike Commander made Origin realize they should stop focusing exclusively on

New Patreon Exclusive Postcards!

Here’s our second batch of retro game-themed postcards featuring originally commissioned artwork, created exclusively for our Patreon donors! Our first

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 247: Samurai Shodown

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the best fighting game to take place in early spring 1788.

Papers, Please

Papers, Please is many things. Papers, Please is one of the first games to come up in any discussion about

Top Speed

Sega’s 1986 arcade racer OutRun was a technical marvel, featuring brilliantly lush graphics, a stellar soundtrack, and super smooth scaling

Crime City

Crime City is basically Taito’s take on side-scrolling action games like Namco’s Rolling Thunder and Sega’s Shinobi. The goal, per

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 246: Breakdown

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Namco’s First Person Puncher for the original Xbox

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 245: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the classic adventure game that’s like a Dan Brown novel but with more clowns.

Solomon’s Key (Spinoffs / Ripoffs)

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Solomon's Key

Zipang (ジパング ) – PC Engine (1990) For some unfathomable reason, the 1990 Japanese fantasy samurai film Jipangu/Zipang spawned not

Monster Rancher Explorer

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Solomon's Key

Monster Rancher Explorer is yet another reinvention of the original 1986 Solomon’s Key, and yet another example of a popular

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