ALTTop 47K - Batman (2013) (and Star Fighter 3000!)
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Raw Thrills’ Batmobile-based shooter. Then stick around for Star Fighter 3000, a 3D aerial combat game for the Acorn Archimedes!
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ALTSonata
Sonata is a dating sim/RPG hybrid from T&E Soft. The game begins with the protagonist watching a movie with his date. Afterwards, they are both swept up in a mysterious light, just like the fantasy-romance flick they just watched (also named Sonata). He awakens in an alternate world called Paradigm, unable to remember what his date looked like but knowing he must find her.
ALTOne Step From Eden
What do you get when you mix the unique battle system from Megaman Battle Network, the high-speed intensity of Eschatos, Cho-Ren-Sha 68k and other similar shoot-em-ups, and the addictive gameplay loop and procedurally-generated challenges of Balatro, Rogue Legacy and its modern indie kin? You get Thomas Moon Kang and Humble Games’ One Step From Eden, one of the coolest games to have come from the roguelite boom of the 2010s and 2020s, and one that sticks far, far closer to old-school roguelike tradition than it may first appear.
ALTTop 47K - CarnEvil (and Rolling Gunner!)
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!
ALTSplatterworld: 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 action games and turning them into RPGs was not a new one, but would definitely have been a first for the Splatterhouse series, if it had actually been released. It was scheduled to be released on March 19th, 1993. Instead, despite being nearly one hundred percent complete, it was quietly dropped from Namco’s 1993 release schedule. For years, few outside of Japan knew that it even existed at some point. But by the early 2020s, information about it began trickling out to the world.
ALTTop 47K - Emergency Call Ambulance (and Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid!)
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!
ALTPixygarden
A remake of a 1995 PC98/Windows game, Pixygarden is a simulation game where you raise fairy-like Pixies. These Pixies have properties of the four elements – Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water – with many different evolutions based on their stats, more than twenty in total. You can pick from five gardens, each favorable for certain types of Pixy cultivation.
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It could have been anything, really. Maybe it was series fatigue, or just the general slump fighting games went through in the mid 2000s. It could have been mismanagement from Konami, who ended up acquiring Hudson Soft around the game’s release. Maybe, just maybe, Bloody Roar 4 just wasn’t that good, and people took notice. Whatever the case, it’s the game that may have well killed the series for good.
ALTTop 47K - 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!