Hardcore Gaming 101

I, I don't have any follow-up questions.

Uh, our guest is an artist for Eras of Wrestling, Hardcore Gaming 101, and 1-900-HOT-DOG.

He was recruited by the Culinary Karate Institute of America after battling a steak from a dog.

He's Rusty Shackles.

Uh, you working on anything fun and secret, or are you still, uh, they keeping you busy at Eras of Wrestling?

So I would say, yeah, primarily, uh, my main public gig is gonna be Eras of Wrestling.

I'm doing some occasional work for Hardcore Gaming 101 as well.

Um, I'm actually doing, we're actually doing a follow-up to the beat 'em up book.

I'm the show's main host and producer, Robbo and or Xerxe.

Me and the HG101 gang have already ranked well over 500 games and counting.

The list is at bit.ly slash 47kgames.

Hello, and welcome back to the Top 47,858 Games of All Time podcast.

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... we're, like, very slowly doing as part of a, a column on HG101, which I've, I've tried to do semi-regularly, um, which hasn't quite worked out.

But, um-

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I know I did.

My situation was probably pretty similar to Galleon's.

I don't remember if it was specifically HG101, but this was a game that I often heard mentioned in any community that was discussing 16-bit RPGs.

Quintet and particularly Terranigma would often come up since, at least among Americans, this was the one that we missed.

We got all of their other games, I believe, up until this point and even somewhat after, which was weird since, again, this was linked together as a loose, unofficial trilogy.

Uh, anyway, back to the Famicom version.

In short, from what I gather, uh, mostly from an old interview from, uh, Hardcore Gaming 101, I've mentioned them a few times on the podcast, the Ninja Gaiden III developer and the game's publisher didn't have a meeting of the minds.

The former wanted to change the difficulty to attract a, a broader audience, uh, you know, have a normal difficulty instead of an NES hard difficulty, uh, which is what happened with the Famicom original.

But, uh, Tecmo or their localizing team said no, uh, for the NES North American release.