Book Launch Day! Ys and Other Falcom Classics, and Metal Gear, Silent Hill, and Other Konami Classics now available!
Two brand new HG101 books are out now! Ys and Other Falcom Classics We love Falcom here at HG101, especially …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 836: CarnEvil (and Rolling Gunner!)
LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES!! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Midway’s lightgun shooter about a carnival… that is evil. Then stick around for Rolling Gunner, an accessible bullet-hell shooter with DLC-added twin-stick controls!
Splatterworld: Rick to Kyoufu no Daiou
Splatterworld: Rick to Kyoufu no Daiou (“Rick vs. The King of Terror”) is an interesting oddity. The trend of taking …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 835: Emergency Call Ambulance (and Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid!)
LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE RETURNS FOR 2026!! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Sega’s post-Crazy Taxi take on ambulance driving. Then stick around for Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid, an edutainment game where you use dinosaur facts to kick some zombie brains!
Pixygarden
A remake of a 1995 PC98/Windows game, Pixygarden is a simulation game where you raise fairy-like Pixies. These Pixies have …
Bloody Roar: Other
Bloody Roar: The Fang (2001) Released in two volumes in Monthly Shonen Jump, this manga is set in an alternate …
Bloody Roar 4
It could have been anything, really. Maybe it was series fatigue, or just the general slump fighting games went through …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 834: Super Dodge Ball (NES) (and The Longest Journey!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Kunio-kun game that introduced many gamers to the excitement and/or terror of dodgeball. Then stick around for The Longest Journey, a world-hopping adventure that lives up to its name!
Bloody Roar: Primal Fury / Bloody Roar Extreme
Although it lacks a proper number at the end, Primal Fury is very much a proper sequel to BR3, with …
Bloody Roar 3
Bloody Roar 3 is the game where the series really starts to feel like it’s really hitting its stride. It …
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 833: ToeJam & Earl (and ChainStaff!)
Join the HG101 gang plus special guest Robbo, as they discuss and rank-err, revisit, the groovy duo’s funky roguelike for the Genesis/Mega Drive. Then stick around for ChainStaff, a violently quirky action-platformer about having an alien parasite attach itself to your head!
Bloody Roar 2
Released more than a year after the original game hit arcades, Bloody Roar 2 stands as an improvement on almost …
HG101 Presents: Ys and Other Falcom Classics
Cover artwork and design by Stephanie “DiceSMS” Sybydlo Japanese developer Nihon Falcom has been part of the RPG scene since the …
Bloody Roar
By the mid 90s, the biggest craze in the arcades had become the 3D fighting game, as popularized by Virtua …
