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Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu

 http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hokkaido-rensa-satsujin-ohotsuku-ni-kiyu/

The second Yuji Horii serial murder mystery game, which also has tons of ports.

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Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/portopia-renzoku-satsujin-jiken/

Also known as the Portopia Serial Murder Mystery, this is one of the most important Japanese adventure game ever created. We'll be covering the rest of the series over the next week, as well.

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Darius Cozmic Collection

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/darius-cozmic-collection/

A recently released collection of Darius games, at quite the high price.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 314: Hugo's House of Horrors

 Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the horror-adventure game about a boy's adventures in a clip-art haunted house. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Prince of Persia 

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Banishing Racer

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/banishing-racer/

A Game Boy game from Jaleco in the underserved anthropomorphic car platformer genre

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 103: Pro Pinball: The Web

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

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 102: Contra

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

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 313: The Pagemaster

 Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the game where Macaulay Culkin fights books for some reason. 

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Gates of Zendocon

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gates-of-zendocon/

A fairly decent portable shooter and early title for the Atari Lynx.

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Bubble Bobble Finale

The rest of the Bubble Bobble feature is now live:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/classic-bubble-bobble/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubble-bobble-revolution/

http://www.hardcoregamin...

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 312: Devotion (feat. Nina Freeman)

Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss the spooky and thoughtful "hallway horror" game Devotion, with special guest Nina Freeman (Cibele, We Met in May)! 

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Bubble Symphony / Bubble Memories

Two more Bubble Bobble games, this time two arcade sequels from Taito.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubble-symphony/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubble-memories/

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 311: Ihatovo Monogatari (feat. Melos Han-Tani)

 Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss an SNES game based on the short stories of an early 20th century Japanese short story author, with special guest Melos Han-Tani (Anodyne 2, All Our Asias)! 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 309: Panzer Dragoon II Zwei

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, the rail shooter so nice they Zwei'd it twice. 

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 310: Wing Commander

 Join the HG101 gang as they rank and discuss Wing Commander, the space combat sim that exposes the Thundercats for the villains that they are. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Pro Pinball: The Web. 

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Lockdown Longplay Episode 4: Siren (feat. Chris Pruett)

 Another little (big) bonus for you: the weird and wonderful PS2 survival stealth horror game, Siren, with special guest Chris Pruett, Oculus Director of AR/VR Content Ecosystem, in the fourth (and final?) episode of Lockdown Longplay!  

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Bubble Bobble Part 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubble-bobble-part-2/

More Bubble Bobble! This includes two sequels created specifically for the NES and Game Boy, though they're quite different games.

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Bubble Bobble (Part 1)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubble-bobble-arcade/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubble-bobble-console-ports/

I mentioned this last month, but it's finally here - an expansive article covering all of the main Bubble Bobble games! This part posted together is already massive, but o...

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Sumo Fighter

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sumo-fighter/

One of the many offbeat Game Boy games that somehow came to North America.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 308: Parasite Eve

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss Parasite Eve, a grounded survival horror-RPG hybrid set in real-world New York City and featuring real-world spontaneous combustions. This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Clash of Steel -- a special Patron-requested reconsideration!  

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Patreon Exclusive Art: Alien Soldier by Rusty Shackles

Here's our latest original commissioned postcard artwork: Treasure's Alien Soldier by regular HG101 cover guy Rusty Shackles!

The pandemic has kinda put a wrench in our plans for these postcards, for a variety of reasons, but we're still commissioning them bit-by-bit, and we'll be doing another run for pledges once we've got enough built up. We've got a few more specifically planned, but if any of you all have specific requests, please let me know and I'll see what I can do!

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The Fish Files

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/fish-files-the/

A goofy European point-and-click adventure game that only ever came out for the Game Boy Color.

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Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/half-minute-hero-the-second-coming/

The sequel to the goofy RPG parody originally skipped international release since it was on the PSP, but eventually made its way into English on Windows platforms.

(Patreon got the header screencap wrong and unfortunately won't let me fix it, sorry!)

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 101: Sonic Adventure 2

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

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 307: RollerCoaster Tycoon

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss RollerCoaster Tycoon, absurdly low-interest loans, and puking in general.

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 306: Defender

 Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Eugene "Dr. J" Jarvis's first arcade classic, Defender! This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be Contra (the NES one).  

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 100: Low G Man

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

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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 99: Wolfenstein (200)

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

We've got a bit of a backlog of these bonus eps so expect more of them shortly!

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Half-Minute Hero

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/half-minute-hero/

Short on time? Experience an RPG quest in super fast motion in this silly parody.

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Chrith: Ai no Tabidachi (Japanese Video Game Obscurity)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/chrith-ai-no-tabidachi-japanese-video-game-obscurity/

A Japanese PC game where you (kinda sorta) play as Jesus Christ as you bless the needy.

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