Another Tuesday, another @hg101.bsky.social podcast episode! It starts with @bobinator.bsky.social @frankiesamba.bsky.social @mercurycdx.bsky.social and me talking bout NES cult classic Super Dodge Ball, before other cool folks discuss The Longest Journey! www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top...

Another week, another episode of the @hg101.bsky.social podcast! @mercurycdx.bsky.social @taxowlbear.bsky.social and I wrap up JRPG June/July with the famous Quest 64, before some cool folks discuss Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos on the PSP! www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top...

Hey howdy, everyone! My latest @hg101.bsky.social review is up, and it's about Bubsy 4D by @fabraz.bsky.social! Yup, Bubsy actually came back for a second time, with a snazzy new look and a pretty good 3D platformer that tries its best! You love to see it. : ) www.hardcoregaming101.net/bubsy-4d/

gosh, sonic adventure is hella pretty

Hullo howdy, I write quite a few casual reviews on Backloggd, and I've done one for Bubsy 4D just now. It's a pretty good game. Not my cup of tea when it comes to 3D platformers, but a solid obstacle course-driven adventure with plenty of style that might work for you. backloggd.com/u/FrDougal90...

hey howdy y'all, another episode of the @hg101.bsky.social podcast is out today! I'm in it, along with cool people @bobinator.bsky.social @kaly.blackskycomra.de and @scobellsays.bsky.social to discuss @cowcatgames.com's pretty cool Brok the Investigator www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top...

Got the stupid idea last night to do a Bubsy the Bobcat sprite in the style of Earthbound (in that I drew on top of Nes' walking sprite since I've basically no experience with pixel art). I think it's pretty decent with that in mind. : )

Ended up looking up the Wikipedia page for English alt rock band The Sundays, and I love that this is genuinely how their "history" section begins.

Hey howdy everyone, hope y'all are doing well! My latest @hg101.bsky.social article is up on the website today, looking at the rad arcade-style jumping shooter HOP TOP! www.hardcoregaming101.net/hop-top/ (Also, this is the 100th review for the site, which is wild.)

had a thought today about Ken Macklin, the artist for the old Bubsy games. He used to do the cover art for rando issues of furry anthology comics like Critters and Albedo, and I got the idea to turn one of his Bubsy pieces into a Critters-style cover. Sorry to everyone ever.

Hey howdy, I forget to post about @hg101.bsky.social's Top 47k games podcast whenever I'm on it, so let's amend that lol! @kaly.blackskycomra.de @taxowlbear.bsky.social and I kick off this week's ep by talking about the amazing/annoying Trespasser! www.hardcoregaming101.net/podcasts/top...

Hey howdy everyone, my latest @hg101.bsky.social article is now up on the site! It looks at Packy & Marlon, a well-intentioned but ultimately middling educational platformer about diabetic elephants. (That's not a sentence you read very often) www.hardcoregaming101.net/packy-marlon/

also also, another @hg101.bsky.social article I did came up during the week, for Tequila & Boom Boom! It's an attractive-looking spaghetti western point-and-click adventure starring animal people, but it's sadly unfinished in a bunch of ways. One for the 90s furry adventure game fans, at least?

hey howdy everybody! I've got a new @hg101.bsky.social article up on the site today, looking at the spiritual successor to those cool Marble Blast games from the early 00s, Marble It Up! If you like momentum-based marble rolling with good tunes, here you go! www.hardcoregaming101.net/marble-it-up/

Feck it, have this drawing I did a couple weeks ago of Bubsy as Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3.

Finally getting round to playing Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3, and came face to face with the most 2005 thing anyone could put in a kids' game.

trying to get back into watching looney tunes shorts, and damn some of them are saucier than i remember

Hullo howdy again, my latest @hg101.bsky.social article is now up for everyone to read. Continuing the mascot platformer theme I've been mucking round with, it looks at MicroProse UK's decent though frustrating Tinhead for the Mega Drive (and technically SNES). www.hardcoregaming101.net/tinhead/

Hey howdy! It's the weekend, so why not relax with my latest @hg101.bsky.social article? It looks at the educational SNES sidescroller Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus, an okay game that teaches players about asthma via the medium of asthmatic dinosaurs! Really! www.hardcoregaming101.net/bronkie-the-...

Ever played Aladdin on the Genesis but wish it had cartoon pigs and was mediocre? Look no further, because I've got a @hg101.bsky.social article up today talking about Radical Entertainment's late SNES platformer Power Piggs of the Dark Age! www.hardcoregaming101.net/power-piggs-...

Howdy folks, my first @hg101.bsky.social article in a while is now available to read! It looks into the pretty neat Japan-only Saturn platformer Willy Wombat, developed by Westone and featuring designs by Susumu Matsushita & English voice acting! www.hardcoregaming101.net/willy-wombat/

shout out to this fucking rad bit of Sonic fan-art by Matt Lyon, adorning the pages of Mean Machines issue 10 (July of 1991, making this one of the earliest known pieces of Sonic fan-art)

A bunch of pictures I took from the 1947 stop-motion adaptation of the Tintin book Crab with the Golden Claws (by Claude Misonne)

Howdy everyone, hope you're all doing well! I've got a new article up on @hg101.bsky.social talking about the cute puzzle platformer Rolo To The Rescue, made for the Mega Drive by British dev Vectordean (of James Pond fame)!

Howdy folks, it's been a while! One of my @hg101.bsky.social articles got posted on the site today, looking at the solid point-and-click adventure revival Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse by @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social! It's pretty good! www.hardcoregaming101.net/broken-sword...

watching a bit of Jem and the Holograms, and this rando poster in the corner reminded me of the Ys 1 title screen lol

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched oh cock i'm a bit late with this. lotta animal comedy cartoons this week, with the excellent T&J Trap Happy and the very rubbish Mansion Cat. glad that FIXED got to come out, even if i didn't jive with it all that much, and Technological Threat's a good time.

my favourite 80s clint eastwood film, dirty harry and the hendersons

Metal Gear Solid if it really took place in 2005

#LetterboxFriday #LastFourWatched A bit late, but I finally watched enough stuff over the last week that isn't fucking Jem and the Holograms lmao. A pretty charismatic "hunt the serial killer" film with Sigourney Weaver/Holly Hunter and some good Looney Tunes shorts (and Muscle Tussle).