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• Mail Bag: June 30th, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 8 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 1, 2008

  This email comes from Fgvb Bv:

  1.Why the fuck did you put sonic in the worst game characters?

  2.Why are 3 of the best SEGA game consoles on the worst console list?

  3.Your site sucks. I can tell your a Nintendo FANBOY.

  So, what is your reply? Oh no, you wouldnt do that,people who reply for last post are quite juvenile. I like mario but hes not that great so stop mocking SEGA!!!
  Read on for our answer…

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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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• 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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• 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 10 Hardest Video Games of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 100 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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• Top 10 Mega Man Bosses

  

  Written by Zeromage 55 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 story lines, 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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• Classic Console Review: Nintendo Entertainment System

  

  Written by Zeromage 14 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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• Top 5 Girls From Nintendo

  

  Written by Zeromage 24 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 26, 2008

  The Nintendo era introduced some of the most perfect women in video game history. The gamer felt compelled to save these damsels in distress in the hopes of being the hero they always saw themselves as.  But some of these women weren’t the fawning princesses we’ve come to know throughout the video game medium. You could actually play as some of them, and the ones that you could play as would became some of your favorite protagonists. This next list will go through the most memorable girls from Nintendo games. We could have made this list longer and included the girls from other video game franchises, but we thought the most important ones were on Nintendo games. When we think of hot video game chicks, we always think of these next five girls.  They are Nintendo’s very best women.

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• Top 10 Worst Video Game Heroes of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 64 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 18, 2008

  The video game world has prided itself on it’s inordinate wealth of protagonists. Gamers would become attached to games solely on the personality of the protagonists. Somewhere along the line though, video game makers started creating heroes that were less than desirable for the game player to control. The gamer was confused on how these “heroes” were even able to make it past the designer’s desk.

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