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• Top 10 Mega Man Bosses

  

  Written by Zeromage 45 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 4, 2008

  Is there a game with more recognized and appreciated bosses than the Mega Man series? Once one plays past the more hackneyed bosses of Mega Man 1, one is overwhelmed by the amount of memorable bosses in Mega Man 2 and 3. Both these games clearly make up the best in the series. While Mega Man 4 showed some strength in its boss creativity (Skull Man), once we got to Mega Man 5-8 the idea of specific elemental men to the ground with such monstrosities of “Centaur Man” and “Tomahawk Man”. When you look back at the bosses of Mega Man 2 and 3 specifically, you’re overwhelmed not only by how inspired the actual bosses themselves are, but also their respective stages and stage music. Flash Man WAS Flash Man’s stage, Snake Man was not just himself, but his stage which we will read about later. Mega Man hit its stride in these games not because of amazing graphics or overtly intricate storylines, but because of creativity and simplicity, combining a simple 2D shooter into a battle with all the elements epitomized by all the bosses that had to be cleared. One could make a list including every boss in the second and third installment of the series (except Top Man) but that would involve making no difficult decisions which is often the key in thinking about any “best of” list. The difficult decisions were made and we were left with these 10 bosses in the Mega Man series as the best.

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• Logo Contest Entries

  

  Written by Zeromage No Comments
  Last Updated:: June 2, 2008

  With the Old-Wizard.com Logo Contest barely a week old we’ve received some pretty solid entries so far (along with some just plain strange entries…but hey, this is Old-Wizard, what do you expect?) We’d thought we’d share a few of them to try to inspire some more entries. So without any further ado, here they are:
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• Classic Console Review: Nintendo Entertainment System

  

  Written by Zeromage 7 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 2, 2008

  Saying the Nintendo Entertainment System is the greatest video system of all time is not a difficult argument to make. Countless video gamers could make arguments on a variety of different levels to why this is. One of these arguments clearly has to do with how many classic games were released under the NES enterprise. One could simply look at all the greatest video games of all time lists that are out there to understand how many classic games were made for this ubiquitous system. Off the top of my head I can name Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Mike Tyson’s Punchout, Mega Man and Castlevania as some of the great games for the NES. All of these games had numerous sequels after them because of the outstanding success they won from their first NES versions.

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