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• Top 5 Video Game Makers

  

  Written by Zeromage 24 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 29, 2008

  In this next list, we’ll explore who we think are the top 5 video game makers of all time. When making this list, we didn’t consider companies who had at one time or another also made video game consoles (i.e. Nintendo, Sega, and Playstation). One can certainly make the case for Nintendo as being one of the best video game makers of all time, but we didn’t want to consider the video game makers who also owned stock in the console market. There were many companies to choose from. The top 2 on this list were no-brainers though. They were the first companies to come to our mind when we were initially thinking up this list. The amount of memorable games conceived by these next companies gave much more than sales to the video game market. They gave an endless amount of entertainment and lasting memories to the avid game player.

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• Best of Ask Old-Wizard

  

  Written by Zeromage 2 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 29, 2008

  I was too busy/lazy this week to come up with any new answers to your questions, so instead I decided in my infinite wisdom to compile some of my best answers to your past questions into one convenient place for my loyal readers. Hope you enjoy. See you next week.

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• Top 5 Hardest Video Game Castles

  

  Written by Zeromage 32 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 22, 2008

  Castle levels have been some of the most exciting moments to come from the video game medium. Going from outside levels to incandescently designed castles was always a nice change in scenery. The enemies changed, the music changed, and most importantly, the mood changed. In this article we are not simply delving into the quality of castle levels though. We are delving into the hardest castle levels in the video game medium. There were plenty to choose from. At first, we wanted to make this a top ten hardest castles of all time list, but upon second thought we decided to change it to a top five. There was a logic to this. The five castles on this list we felt to be much more difficult than the other difficult castles making the rest of the top 10 list. The lack of consistency between these five and the other five made us cut out the other five we had in mind. We spent hours trying to master and conquer the castles on this list. Some of the staff here at Old-Wizard haven’t even beaten one of these levels. Only Zeromage has beaten them all, and we already knew beforehand that he wasn’t human. Here then are Old-Wizard’s top five hardest castle levels of all time.

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• Mail Bag: June 19th, 2008

  

  Written by bug 2 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 19, 2008

  This week Bug answers a couple of your email questions:

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• Ask Old-Wizard: June 18th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 5 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 18, 2008

  This week we answered a couple of Nintendo related questions from some of our normal readers, and then proceeded to answer some drunken ramblings sent to us by one of our oldest fans, Master Barker. Keep sending your questions to oldwizard.com@gmail.com.

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• Classic Console Review: Super Nintendo

  

  Written by Zeromage 12 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 16, 2008

  Previously on our top 10 video game systems of all time, we rated the Super Nintendo as the greatest video game system of all time. We wanted to expand on this claim. Certainly, any system listed as the greatest of all time is afforded more than just a small blurb. In this review of the SNES, we will go back over some of the qualities expressed in that blurb and expand on what made the SNES so great. Nintendo’s movement from 8-bit to 16-bit was massive. Graphics improved, sound improved, character development improved, and the games improved most importantly. This was no small feat for the SNES as the NES was dominant in classic video games that are still played today. We will then recapture the glory of the SNES with the rest of this review and hope to reestablish the SNES rightful place as the greatest video game console of all time.

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• Top 20 Star Wars Characters

  

  Written by Zeromage 38 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 12, 2008

  Anyone visiting Old-Wizard.com must know that the three original Star Wars movies are some of our favorite movies of all time. Our appreciation does not always end in satisfied acquiescence though, as debate quickly occurs about what the best movie in the series is. Another debate that manifests itself in our nerdy Star Wars discussions is who our favorite characters are in the series. You’ll know if someone is a true Star Wars nerd by the fact that they immediately choose a minor character as their favorite. Wedge and Lando are typically immediate responses from the authentic Star Wars nerd. No one would be caught dead actually saying that Luke was their favorite character for fear of being ostracized from the Star Wars community. It’s as if you weren’t aware of all the discrete information in the Star Wars series by picking someone so obvious. With this in mind, we thought it important to not write just a “Top 10 Star Wars characters” list, but a “Top 20″ list so we could do justice to the not so obvious choices that are often ironically overlooked. Without further ado, here is our Star Wars list for nerds and faux-nerds alike.

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• Top 10 Hardest Video Games of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 101 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 8, 2008

  Remember the first time you played a game where you couldn’t get by the first level no matter how hard you tried? Remember thinking to yourself that you spent 3$ dollars borrowing a game that was so difficult you wanted to return it and ask for something more tolerable? The staff here at Old-Wizard remembers these games like we played them yesterday. We remember all the controllers crushed under the weight of our throwing power. We remember the broken windows from the throwing of the controller at them. It wasn’t until the invention of the Game Genie and emulator programs that we were able to make any headway into the places we wanted to in these video games. We didn’t think that all of the video games on this list were difficult because we couldn’t conquer the first level though. Some of the games on our list hit points where we just gives up because we knew that it would take a year of practice to conquer the part. On top of this, one would have to go back through the whole game to get to the part that takes a year of practice to conquer. This was vexing and when one had the chance for using cheats, they were used, knowing that they would get them to where they wanted to go regardless of the pride lost in the apparent lack of skill. These next games then are the definitive most difficult games of all time for us. No games more than these have ever been as smashed after playing them.
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• Ask Old-Wizard: Star Wars Edition

  

  Written by Zeromage 8 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 7, 2008

  Next week we will be releasing our Top 20 Star Wars Characters List, and with that in mind, I decided to answer only Star Wars related questions this week. I’ve received quite a few since we released our Top 5 Worst Star Wars Characters List a while back, and I’m sure I’ll be answering more in the future, so keep sending them.

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• Mail Bag: June 6th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 61 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 6, 2008

  Even though a couple of months have passed since we published our controversial Worst Video Game Systems of All Time list, we still continue to receive plenty of hate mail from Sega fanboys about it. This week we decided to address some of their concerns…
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