Hardcore Gaming 101

creating a website and books based on retro video gaming

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● Every Patreon exclusive episode of our podcast, The Top 47k Games of All Time
● Insider updates on HG101’s upcoming books and articles!
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For $5, you’ll be getting:
● Digital copies of our 3 latest books (The Guide to Beat-em-ups Vol. 1, Digest 7: Metroid and Kid Icarus, and The Guide to Retro Indie Games Vol. 2, a $18 value!)
● Digital copies of all HG101 published books as they come out (2 to 3 books a year)
● Your name featured as in our credits in our upcoming books
●On top of this, you also get all the earlier perks!

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● Digital copies of our 6 latest books (The Guide to Beat-em-ups Vol. 1, Digest 7: Metroid and Kid Icarus, The Guide to Retro Indie Games Vol. 2, Retro Game Super Translation Selection II, The NES Endings Compendium, and The Guide to Shoot-em-ups Vol, 2), plus The 200 Best Games of All Time!
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● Digital copies of our 10 latest books (The Guide to Beat-em-ups Vol. 1, Digest 7: Metroid and Kid Icarus, The Guide to Retro Indie Games Vol. 2, Retro Game Super Translation Selection II, The NES Endings Compendium, The Guide to Shoot-em-ups Vol, 2, The Unofficial Guide to Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, Wrestling with Pixels, Digest Vol. 6: Namco Arcade Classics and Digest Vol. 5: Treasure), plus The 200 Best Games of All Time and our most popular book, HG101 Presents: Castlevania, an $81 value!
● On top of this, you also get all the earlier perks!

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● Collector postcards with originally commissioned artwork, mailed to your address once a year)
● Paperback copies of upcoming HG101 published books! (3 to 4 every year)
● On top of this, you also get all the earlier perks!
(Please add $5 for non-US addresses to cover international shipping costs)

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For $32, you’ll be getting:
● Digital copies of the entire HG101 published library (currently worth over $120!)
● Nominate 1 game to be covered in an article (1 every 3 months)
● Send a message to be read during our podcast episodes (1 every 6 months)
● Ask for a rebuttal of a game in a podcast (eg: team needs to re-explore a game and justify their score) (1 every 12 months)
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For $64, you’ll be getting the following (We ask for a minimum of 3 months of contribution):
● Request a special solo episode about a game of your choice (1 every 6 months)
● Send a message to be read during our podcast episodes (1 every 3 months)
● Ask for a rebuttal of a game in a podcast (eg: team needs to re-explore a game and justify their score) (1 every 6 months)
● At every book release, you can request an autographed copy of two of our previous books.
● On top of this, you also get all the earlier perks!

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