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• Top 10 Nintendo Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 20 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 30, 2008

  The NES represents retro gaming even more than the Atari, mostly because it had more quality games that would be imprinted in the gamer’s imagination for years. These retro games are some of the most enjoyable games every to be released for the platform system. The amount of great for the NES was staggering, but we wanted to make the tough choices and limit it to a top 10. These games we find undeniably great, meaning that even if you wanted to see a different entry on this list, you couldn’t disagree with the games we have on them now. With a list like this, difficult omissions will always be made. The ordering was very difficult for this list. Sit back, pour a glass of wine and enjoy the memories of 8-bit glory.

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• Top 10 Worst Types of People

  

  Written by Zeromage 99 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 28, 2008

  As the readership of Old-Wizard knows, we have gripes with many different types of people. The most often cited people who we dislike are the Sega-heads who consistently claim that the Sega Genesis was better than the SNES. We have addressed this numerous times throughout many of our articles (top 5 worst video game websites), but we also gave them their due in our “top 5 best Sega games of all time“. What the Old-Wizard reader may not know though is that we have a lot of heat for more than just the Sega-head. We come across people every day that make us ask ourselves “Why do we have to live in this time”? While this may seem like too much of a gloomy disposition on our part, it is not without reason that certain people just tend to piss us off. We’ll go through these “types” in this list. We just hope that you’re not one of them!

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• Top 10 American Bands Revisited

  

  Written by destructomaximo 6 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 21, 2008

  Earlier in the week we posted up our Top 10 American Bands list and naturally we received many emails from both people who loved it and hated it. Although we just posted a Mail Bag a couple of days ago, we wanted to take the time to respond to a particularly annoying email we just received from one of our more useless readers (although not as annoying and useless as Gamer Muzz). For some reason this guy hates all of our music lists, and yet he still comes back and reads every single one. Not only that but he emails us about every single one too. So we figured it was time to give him the attention he’s been craving for so long:

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• Mail Bag: August 19th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 4 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 19, 2008

  This week we reply to a couple of our more annoying readers…
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• Top 5 Two Player Co-op Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 12 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 18, 2008

  Was there anything more fun than playing a video game with a friend after school? Not only were you taking turns playing though, you were playing together, traversing battlefields and experiencing the best 2 player action in the video game medium. In this list, we wanted to go through what we thought were the top 5 co-op video games. This was a fairly obvious list for us. We knew what games we played most with our friends at all hours of the day. We’ll spare you any more of an introduction. It’s these next games that bonded friendships, and sometimes created turmoil over one or the other not “doing their part”.

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• Top 10 American Bands

  

  Written by destructomaximo 67 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 16, 2008

  After releasing the Top 10 British Bands of all time and the Top 5 Swedish Bands of all time, it was only a matter of time before we released a “Top 10 American Bands” list. Sticking to bands within our generation helped narrow the long list of bands on our original roster, which was more like the top 1000 American bands. Luckily, we rethought our list after a fateful computer crash. As usual, this list has nothing to do with chart positions or albums sold, simply what we like. Since we are always right, take note, dear reader, and go get whatever you might not have from this list. Kisses fu%#ers.

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• Ask Old-Wizard: August 15th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 4 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 15, 2008

  Ask Old-Wizard is back this week answering some of our fans’ older questions (Some of these questions have been sitting in our inbox since the first week the site went up). Feel free to send any question about any topic you can think of to oldwizard.com@gmail.com.

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• Mail Bag: August 14th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 26 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 14, 2008

  This week we reply to a couple of readers who took our Investigative Report from earlier this week a little too seriously…

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• OW Investigative Series: Violence in Video Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 9 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 11, 2008

  Part 1: Donkey Kong

  This week begins OW’s most ground breaking work since our SegaGate report. Being the lovers of all video games (except Sega games which we only like a little) we decided to launch a multiple part, in depth, and often controversial investigative report on violence in video games. Personally we here at OW feel that the idea of video games influencing the acts of others to such a profound degree is utterly preposterous. For the sake of our journalistic credit, however, we will put aside these feelings and focus on only the facts as history presented them.
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• Mario vs Sonic

  

  Written by Zeromage 49 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 10, 2008

  Nintendo and Sega’s flagship heroes come face to face for the first time in this Old-Wizard melee of epic proportions. Who is the stronger hero? Mario looks like an average plumber but everyone who has ever picked up a controller knows how strong he is. Sonic looks strong with his uber-cocky attitude and his needled back that surely wreaks damage on anyone who comes his way. Just picture it, Mario in the first Mario level coming across goombas and koopa troopas and then all of the sudden there’s Sonic standing in his way preventing Mario from jumping onto the flag and into the subterranean level. Would Mario be able to knock out the confident Sonic or would Mario be kept out from the rest of the game because of Sonic’s strength? This topic will be discussed in this article. Let the battle rage on.

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