Hardcore Gaming 101
Deep dives into the retro game series that make up video game history
- Created by Kurt Kalata
- Located in United States
- June 2026
- Free
Recent posts
June 23, 2026
About two years after Star Fox Adventures, the GameCube got a “real” Star Fox entry, subtitled Assault. Around this time, Nintendo was occasionally working on their properties with third party developers, like when they hired Sega to create F-Zero GX. Star Fox: Assault was initially meant to be…
June 23, 2026
Rare was Nintendo’s golden boy studio throughout much of the Nintendo 64 era, having expanded their roster of 3D platformers with Donkey Kong 64 and the two Banjo Kazooie games. What’s more, they introduced the competitive FPS phenomenon to console players with GoldenEye. One of their later…
June 22, 2026
Calcolo refers to itself as “Ochimono Shooting” (“Falling Object Shooting”). The closest point of comparison is ADK’s Twinkle Star Sprites, but while that was a shoot-em-up with some puzzle elements, this is more of a puzzle game a la Puyo Puyo with some vague shoot-em-up influence. You control a…