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Bonus Get 329: Cuphead

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a high-concept run-and-gun for TWO kinds of nerd!

HROT

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hrot/

A retro Quake-style shooter set during Cold War era Czechoslovakia.

Top 47k Ep 748: One Finger Death Punch + Brandish: The Dark Revenant (PSP)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the ultra lo-fi indie tribute to Spartan X/Kung Fu. Then stick around for BRANDISH: THE DARK REVENANT, the PSP remake of an PC98/SNES cult classic!

Strangeland

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/strangeland/

A horror point-and-click adventure from Wormwood Studios, the folks behind Primordia.

Bonus Get 328: Cobra Triangle

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Rare's 1989 powerboat racing RC Pro-Am Clone -- or pwn?

Top 47k Ep 747: Super Mario Run & Trace Memory

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Super Mario game inspired by Mobile Phone Mutations of Super Mario. Then stick around for TRACE MEMORY, a P&C adventure on Blood Edward Island which is totally a real island look it up!

Travis Strikes Again / No More Heroes III

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/travis-strikes-again-no-more-heroes/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/no-more-heroes-iii/

Finishing up the No More Heroes coverage with this spin-off that leads to the third and final game!

Simple 1500 Series Vol. 57 – The Maze

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/simple-1500-series-vol-57-the-maze/

A one-on-one 3D maze game released in the Simple 1500 series.

Bonus Get 327: G-Darius

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank one of those Dariuses that doesn't have the really long screens.

Top 47k Ep 746: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon + Doshin the Giant

Join the HG101 gang and Official First Fan ChibiUFO [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unidentified-flying-obsession-podcast/id1519033993] as they discuss and rank Konami's delightful N64 game about the ninja who invented Japanese bathtubs by dying in one. Then stick around for DOSHIN THE GIANT, an even deeper N64 cut for the ill-fated 64 Disk Drive...

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Stuggle

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/no-more-heroes-2-desperate-struggle/

Grasshopper's slice-em-up makes some changes to the formula but somehow loses a bit of itself.

Bonus Get 326: After Burner Climax

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Sega's flashy update to the coin-op classic.

Irem Collection Vol. 2

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/irem-collection-vol-2/

Another Irem arcade compilation, including Air Duel, GunForce, and GunForce II, the last one unofficially known as "Metal Slug 0"

HG101 Arcade Cult Classics and NES Cult Classics in Latest Storybundle

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hg101-arcade-cult-classics-and-nes-cult-classics-in-latest-storybundle/

https://storybundle.com/games

Our Arcade Cult Classics and NES Cult Classics book are featured in the latest Storybundle, which gets you several video game themed eb...

No More Heroes

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/no-more-heroes/

Suda51's punk action open world game, filled with crazy visuals, even crazier villains, and one heck of a soundtrack.

We'll be covering the rest of the series over the remainder of the month as well!

Top 47k Ep 745: M.C. Kids + Trilby's Notes

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a McDonalds game with no fast food in it whatsoever. Then stick around for TRILBY'S NOTES, an indie adventure game by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw!

SD Gundam Over Galaxian

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/sd-gundam-over-galaxian/

It's Galaxian with a bunch of squat little Gundam and Gundam associated mecha!

November Patreon Podcast Poll

Vote on a topic for an upcoming episode!

Worms WMD / Worms Clan Wars

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/worms-w-m-d/

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/worms-clan-wars-worms-battlegrounds/

Expanding in the (massive) Worms feature with some of the more recent entries.

Bonus Get 325: Pac-Man Championship Edition

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the original version of the game that revitalized Pac-Man.

Join HG101 on BlueSky!

For a variety of escalating reasons, Twitter has become unusable, so we've completed moved over to BlueSky. Please check us out!

We've actually been on BlueSky for quite some time, but it's become more active in the recent months, especially since Twitter announced its plans to neuter the block function (and then carry through those plans much to everyone's dismay). While I know a lot of artists and small...

Top 47k Ep 744: Elden Ring + The Spectre Files: Deathstalker

Join the HG101 gang and special guest Sid Menon (https://linktr.ee/beamsplashx) as they discuss and rank FromSoft's grimmest, darkest, goodest(?) soulsborne to date. Then stick around for THE SPECTRE FILES: DEATHSTALKER, the unreleased interactive FMV game that was too hot for 1980s!

Bonus Get 324: Streetstep: 21st Century Basketball

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an NBA Jam-inspired basketball game that would have looked perfectly at home on the Nintendo DS.

World of Horror

World of Horror (1.0), a roguelike RPG done in the style of Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft, dune with retro Macintosh-style graphics.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/world-of-horror/

Top 47k Ep 743: Castlevania (N64) + Little Goody Two Shoes

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Castlevania game so nice, Konami published it twice! Then stick around, because the gang covers Little Goody Two Shoes, a beautiful RPG/adventure game with nods to SaGa Frontier and Legend of Mana.

Ys X: Nordics

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ys-x-nordics/

Adol's latest adventures takes him to the high seas and shackles him together with a fearsome viking princess.

Contra Returns

Contra Returns as a smartphone gacha game....or should we say "Returned" since it was shut down a few months ago.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/contra-returns/

Bonus Get 323: WWF Wrestlemania

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Rare's visually impressive, gameplay depressive take on late 80s pro wrestling.

Blazing Chrome

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blazing-chrome/

A Contra: Hard Corps tribute from JoyMasher, the team behind Oniken and Odallus.

This was initially published in the Retro Indie Games Vol. 2 book, but when I was writing Iron Meat and Contra: Operation Galuga recently, I realized it wasn't posted on the site. So here it is!

The Genji and the Heike Clans

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/genji-and-the-heike-clans-the/

Also known as Genpei Toumaden, this bonkers arcade game from Namco sends an undead warrior across feudal Japan.

This was originally featured in the Namco Arcade Classics digest several years ago, but I realized was never posted on the site.