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Top 10 Nintendo Games
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. -
Top 10 Worst Types of People
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 5 Two Player Co-op Games
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
This list will not be a foundational Top 10 American Bands list, but will focus on the Top 10 American Bands of our contemporary time. Rather than feign a love for things past that we never experienced, we will give credence to the few American bands that actually made a worthwhile dent into the recent history of pop music. This list was incredibly hard to make because of the few worthy bands that have come from America. Rock and Pop have not been the American strong suite musically speaking, that being said, what genre really has been? Regardless, we had to use all our brainpower to think of our favorite bands and eventually come up with 10 bands worthy of this Top 10. These are all the great bands who happen to be American, past these 10 bands though, you got us.
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Top 5 Sega Games
Who would’ve ever thought that Old-Wizard would ever compile a top 5 Sega Genesis games article? More importantly who would’ve ever thought that Old-Wizard would put together any positive list about the Sega Genesis? Over the past couple of months, we felt like we’ve been too hard on Sega (not really, but a number of emails have asked us if there there were any Sega games that we actually liked). We thought about it for a while and reminded ourselves that the Sega Genesis did have good games. In this article, we will go through what we think the five best were. We still think the SNES was the superior system, but we are reminded that the Sega Genesis did had some good moments. (more…)
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Top 10 Reasons Oasis is Better than The Beatles
Ever since Oasis has been called one of the greatest bands of all time, they have also been called Beatles copy cats. This is unfortunate as Oasis are better than The Beatles. The staff of Old-Wizard.com listens to Oasis about 10 times the amount of time we spend listening to The Beatles. We thought to ourselves, “What makes Oasis so much better than the Beatles”? This question was easy for us, and we came up with ten reasons in less time than it takes a Beatles fan to call Oasis a “rip off”. We hope these next reasons give some credence to the Oasis enterprise, if not totally change the mind of all those music fans who like to bash Oasis for some unfounded reasons. Say to yourself right now, “are you ready to say that Oasis are better than the Beatles?” Here we go! -
Top 5 Swedish Bands
There are many countries that are recognized first and foremost for their quality of music. Two of the most obvious countries are England and the United States. The musical battle between these two empires has lasted a good half a century now. Little do the fighters of these countries realize that some of best pop music of the last century came from Sweden. Unfortunately though, when someone mentions Swedish music they are usually trying to reference some punk band like The Refused. This website does not find punk music to be the best of anything, so anyone looking for The Hives to be on this list can go look on some generic best of punk list instead. With this list, we celebrate Sweden for its pop music that has influenced some of the stronger bands of today. We urge everyone to check out these bands if they haven’t yet.
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Top 5 Worst Music Magazines
As the avid Old-Wizard reader knows, we love music. We have written articles on musical themes which one can read under our music category. We were at the local book store the other day reading music magazines when DestructoMaximo shouted “this magazine sucks”, throwing down the publication with a force that turned the entire store’s head. After being confronted by a store manager, we decided to calm down and think of productive ways to displace our anger. The “top 5 worst music magazines” immediately came to both of our heads. Within a second we wrote down what 5 we disliked most. We clearly agreed on the first four and had to discuss the last. We took our anger out on our laptop keyboards and wrote this article fairly quickly. We both know that we will still glance at these pathetic excuses for music magazines, but it’s only because we like being angry at things that will we continue to make ourselves suffer by opening up these publications, even if for only a second.
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Top 10 Reasons That Super Nintendo Dominated the Sega Genesis
As many of you know, we are partial to Nintendo over and above Sega. We find this preference no more noticeable than in the comparison of the SNES and the Sega. In this list, we will go through the top ten reasons why we think the SNES is better than Sega. We find these reasons to be obvious for anyone who has thoroughly played both systems. With the amount of bitter email we receive about the whole NES VS. Sega “wars”, we felt it necessary to elaborate further on why we think Nintendo always dominated Sega. These next top ten reasons we feel are undeniable reasons for the SNES’s domination over the Sega Genesis. We hope we can convert some Segaheads to the real truth about the SNES’s domination.
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Top 10 Most Overrated Bands
Pop music as a field of art has been notorious in exaggerating the importance of its own work. From the more naïve claims of divinity by certain artists, to the subtle interpolations of an artist’s songs to anywhere that a sound system projects, pop music has found itself as the most conspicuous signifier of the age of self-importance. Nowhere is this seen more than the fans and followers of bands who momentarily become enamored by a nuanced style. This implicit privileging of difference as the most superlative of qualities in a work of art has guided not only pop music’s actual creations, but the popular connotations of pop music itself.
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