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The Stanley Parable

The Stanley Parable

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/stanleyparable/stanleyparable.htm

It's easy to get the impression that 

The Stanley Parable

 just wants to mess with you, but it's actually making a lot of clever points abou...

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Seicross

Seicross

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/seicross/seicross.htm

An unusual sidescrolling shooter where aliens chase you on hoverbikes across a vaguely 

Tron

-like landscape.

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Magic Kid Googoo: Annotated Longplay (2/7)

Magic Kid Googoo: Annotated Longplay (2/7)

In world 2 we try out some more transformations and meet a few very familiar obstacles. In preservation news: We've now determined who's going to dump the game, but there'll be a bit of a delay since we've decided to try out some old leads for another undumped cart before shipping it across the Pacific.

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Jazzpunk

Jazzpunk

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/jazzpunk/jazzpunk.htm

No April Fool's Day joke this year (no lies!) but instead we're featuring this comical first person quasi-adventure game, which flirts with dadaist humor, but misses the mark as often as it hit...

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March 2016 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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Read Only Memories

Read Only Memories

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/readonlymemories/readonlymemories.htm

A recent indie cyberpunk adventure game, heavily influenced by the likes of Snatcher.

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Double Dragon (Final)

Double Dragon (Final)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon9.htm

The brawl is almost over. Left standing are only a variety of spin-offs and crossovers, both official and unofficial, inmidst a rubble of misguided media tie-ins.

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Magic Kid Googoo (도술동자 구구) Annotated Longplay (1/7)

Magic Kid Googoo (도술동자 구구) Annotated Longplay (1/7)

Magic Kid Googoo is an unlicensed, rare and (so far) undumped Famicom game that was only published in Korea. Hopefully the bad video quality here will be obsolete soon, but until we manage to arrange the game's preservation, this longplay will be the most comprehensive footage you can find. Turn on annotations for explanations about the gameplay, d...

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Your Weeky Kusoge: Operation: Body Count

Your Weeky Kusoge: Operation: Body Count

A terrible Wolfenstein 3D clone from Capstone that puts you against an army of Islamic terrorists.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-bodycount.htm

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Segata Sanshiro Shinken Yuugi

Segata Sanshiro Shinken Yuugi

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/segata/segata.htm

Sega Saturn shiro! The tough guy Saturn spokesman may have sacrificed his life (in the ads, of course) to save Sega from their evil competitors, but his triumphant spirit lives on in this collection of...

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Nelly Cootalot

Nelly Cootalot

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/nellycootalot/nellycootalot.htm

A charming duo of adventure games, Spoonbeaks Ahoy! and the brand new The Fowl Fleet, starring a pirate lass, and developed by British comedian Alasdair Beckett-King.

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Double Dragon (Pt. 3)

Double Dragon (Pt. 3)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon6.htm

As beat-em-ups lost their place in the spotlight, 

Double Dragon

tried to jump on the 

Street Fighter II

 train, followed ...

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Blazing Star

Blazing Star

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blazingstar/blazingstar.htm

Hey poor player! Our week of Neo Geo shooter coverage finishes up with Yumekobo's Blazing Star, a quasi-sequel to Pulstar that shows off the muscle of SNK's hardware.

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Pulstar

Pulstar

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/pulstar/pulstar.htm

Our Neo Geo shooter coverage continues with Aicom's Pulstar, which is an R-Type game in all but name.

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Last Resort

Last Resort

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lastresort/lastresort.htm

We'll be covering a trilogy of Neo Geo shooters this week. The first, Last Resort from SNK, borrows heavily from R-Type, along with appropriating some imagery from the Akira movie.

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Double Dragon (Pt. 2)

Double Dragon (Pt. 2)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon4.htm

The struggle continues as the series takes a nosedive thanks to a few unfortunate outsourced games, but also experiences an almost-return to form with a tragically rushed rebo...

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Assault Android Cactus

Assault Android Cactus

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/assaultandroidcactus/assaultandroidcactus.htm

Recently released on the PlayStation 4, this fantastic twin-stick shooter takes the classic template of Robotron 2084 and Geometry Wars, and fuse...

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Video Inventories: Platforming games before Super Mario Bros. #03 - Joust, Pitfall!, etc.

Video Inventories: Platforming games before Super Mario Bros. #03 - Joust, Pitfall!, etc.

Tracing the history of the platformer genre before Super Mario Bros. - Joust, Jungle King, Donkey Kong Junior, Springer, Pitfall!

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Blood

Blood

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blood/blood.htm

The best game using 3D Realms' Build Engine, Blood has an unmistakable visual and atmospheric style that marries H. P. Lovecraft with Unforgiven and Evil Dead, and dr...

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Shardlight

Shardlight

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/shardlight/shardlight.htm

Back in 2012, Wadjet Eye Games and Wormwood Studios released Primordia, a post-apocalypse adventure about machines surviving the world man left behind. In 2016, Wadjet Eye decide...

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Double Dragon (Pt. 1)

Double Dragon (Pt. 1)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/doubledragon/doubledragon.htm

Hardcore Gaming 101 takes on the Lee brothers, but to avoid biting off more than we can chew we're gonna spread the fight out across the entire month. Check back every Monday th...

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Tail 'Gator

Tail 'Gator

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tailgator/tailgator.htm

Join Charly the 'Gator has he takes on Basso Gila in this action-platformer for the Game Boy from Natsume.

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February 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

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Revolutionary Girl Utena

Revolutionary Girl Utena

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/utena/utena.htm

While nostalgia for the 1990s has become a cliche over the years, for anime, it feels at least somewhat appropriate. During this decade, artists and writers were given free range to experiment with wha...

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HG101 Digest Vol. 2 book now available on Amazon!

HG101 Digest Vol. 2 book now available on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Gaming-101-Digest-Vol/dp/1522827242/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=hardcorblog-20&link...

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Tao

Tao

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tao/tao.htm

A JRPG that's pro organized religion? Does that exist? Find out on your spiritual journey through a weird future-fantasy world where the train is out so you have to ride a dinosaur to Moscow. By the developer who ...

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Dragon Stomper

Dragon Stomper

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dragonstomper/dragonstomper.htm

A look at one of the very first (if not 

the

 first) attempts at turning fantasy role-playing into a console game experience.

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HG101 Digest Vol. 2: Taito Arcade Classics PDF Now Available!

HG101 Digest Vol. 2: Taito Arcade Classics PDF Now Available!

Here's the PDF for Taito Arcade Classics! Technically this isn't the final final versions, because there are some last minute checks I need to go over, but it should be 99.9% complete. It's attached to this Patreon entry rather than a Dropbox link for now, until I clear out some space or upgrade my account. The Kindle MOBI will be coming shortly to...

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Planescape: Torment

Planescape: Torment

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/torment/planescape.htm

Some of the greatest writing ever in a computer RPG, set in one of the strangest fantasy worlds ever conceived.

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Puyo Puyo (Part 1)

Puyo Puyo (Part 1)

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/puyopuyo/puyopuyo.htm

Puyo Puyo

 was one of the earliest articles on Hardcore Gaming 101, so unsurprisingly it was completely outdated by now. So over the course of the next few months, it is going...

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