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• Top 11 Video Game Endings

  

  Written by Zeromage 103 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 13, 2008

  The Video Game Ending. It’s what every gamer seeks when playing the game. Gamers spend hours trying to conquer a game just to be able to see the resolution of their whole adventure or lack thereof. Sometimes tragedy strikes in the ending of the game, alluding to a subsequent game in the series. Sometimes the ending of a game just plain sucks like the end of Ghost’s n’ Goblins. Bad endings can ruin the experience of a whole game, which we will cover in a future list. For now though, we’ll go through the games with the best endings video game history. Making the choices were hard, and objectivity in these cases is always treading the line of subjectivity. Nevertheless, these are the endings that stood out the most for us.

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• Top 10 Ways to Know If You’re a “Hardcore Gamer”

  

  Written by Sage 133 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 11, 2008

  We here at OW get a lot of flack from a group of people who refer to themselves as “hardcore gamers.” Despite the fact that we have never claimed to cater to anyone, other than ourselves, these people feel they are owed something. They are an interesting lot. They have a lot to say when they are anonymous, and they find fault in everything. No game or system is perfect, and what little time they don’t spend playing games is spent complaining about them. Their most hated enemy is the “casual gamer” often blamed for the fall of gaming, whose peak was in the ’90s (around the time of SNES). In an interesting twist of fate, in the gaming world these people are gods but in real life they are nothing. If ever confronted by a hardcore gamer fear not, their only strength is in their wrists and fingers (from gaming and juggling their naughty bits); the rest of their bodies are doughy and atrophied from poor diets and lack of exercise. But if you’re worried you may have found one, or wondering if you might be one, here is a list that helps.

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• The Top 10 Reasons the Wii Has Dominated the PS3

  

  Written by Zeromage 228 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 9, 2008

  After Nintendo’s utter domination of Sega in every single platform generation, a new console war was started between Sony and Nintendo.  Sony thought it would try to take on the Nintendo franchise and learn from the mistakes of Sega. Sony succeeded in large part by beating out Nintendo with the Playstation 1 and 2. But a debate now occurs between what the better system is between the Wii and the PS3 in this most modern generation of platform gaming. Nintendo fan boys or not, the Wii is the clear winner over the PS3 for plenty of different reasons. In this list, we will go through these reasons to make clear why the Wii clearly dominates the PS3.

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• Top 10 Video Game Quotes

  

  Written by Zeromage 47 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 7, 2008

  Its a well known fact that nerds love quotes, whether they’re video game quotes, movie quotes or almost anything else a nerd likes. Most people who know a nerd personally will tell you that its hard to have a conversation with him or her without hearing a quote from Star Wars or Indiana Jones at some point in the discussion. Whether the conversation is about politics, religion or even what’s for dinner tonight, you’re likely to hear “I find your lack of faith disturbing” or some other random quote from the nerd’s favorite movie. All the staff members here at Old-Wizard.com are guilty of this behavior, and are able to quote all of the original Star Wars movies, Monty Python episodes or Lord of the Rings books on command (and our wives and girlfriends will tell you that we do it all the time). With that in mind, here are our top 10 video game quotes of all time:

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• Top 5 Zelda Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 85 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 5, 2008

  Has there ever been a better video game series than the Zelda series? Maybe the Super Mario, Castlevania, Metroid or Mega Man series, but after those, Zelda has no competition. The single factor that contributes towards a great gaming series is the amount of great games in the series. The same cannot be said for the Double Dragon series, for example, where it fell drastically in quality after Double Dragon 2. In the Zelda series though, as the games seemed to get better with each subsequent addition. This is rare for a video game series, and the Zelda series has been able to accomplish this with flying colors. Controversy will be heard in the sequencing of this list, but that only goes to show how strong each game in the series was.

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• Top 10 Easiest Video Games of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 136 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 2, 2008

  What makes a game easy? How about an unlimited amount of lives? How about an unlimited amount of continues after you’ve  lost all your lives? How about a seemingly never ending amount of energy? There is something noticeable about all these traits that make a video game easy. All these traits are embodied in most new video games that are released. Gone are the days of working hard to beat a game. Sure, you could beat Contra in ½ an hour, but achieving the skill level of mastering the game took months, if not years. Today’s games are long, and require no mastery to accomplish. With what seems like an unlimited amount of life for the protagonists of new games, comes a gaming disposition that is ubiquitously lazy and lacking in patience. Fight your way to the end of the game without focusing on anything specifically. In this list then, we will go through the top 10 easiest games of all time with the central theme being that new games in the video game medium define what it is to be an easy game. Oh yeah, we will include one old game, but at #10.

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• Top 10 Video Games From the 80’s

  

  Written by Zeromage 16 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 25, 2008

  Oh the 80’s. Bad haircuts, moderately entertaining family sitcoms, and the first glimpses of the technology boom. What else were the 80’s known for? How about the emergence of the home video game platform that entertained an entire generation of people with great games? All that blowing on cartridges could do nothing to stop the 80’s gamer from getting a game going. It took some great games for people to lose all their oxygen trying to get them to work. In this list, we will go through these excellent games that defined the 80’s and led to the emergence of the video game market as one of the most powerful in the entertainment industry. Without these, games, who knows how video games would’ve developed.

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• Top 10 Reasons All Video Games Should Be 2D

  

  Written by Zeromage 104 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 19, 2008

  With modern games like Halo and the Resident Evils, the video game world has become obsessed with the first person 3D format where you’re “virtually” mimicking your own real life movements. In a modern game like GTA, you’re able to move in all directions in a 3D environment. What are all these games missing? In this article, we’ll discuss the fact that what’s missing from these games is mainly due to the 3D format of modern video games. With this in mind, we’ll see how the video game world needs to go back to 2D gaming to capture its lost greatness from the 8 and 16-bit eras. The problems started happening at the 32-bit era. It’s time to move forward by taking a couple steps back.

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• Top 5 Mario Power-Ups

  

  Written by Zeromage 11 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 16, 2008

  As Old-Wizard continues to remember the good old days of retro games, we always come back to Nintendo and the Mario Brothers games. In this list we will go through what we think are the top five power ups for Mario. There were many power ups that Mario could have too, from a shitty frog suit to a raccoon tail. In this list we want to highlight the ones that made us excited to procure these great gifts. One thing we knew for certain was that the Frog suit wasn’t making it. That suit in itself makes us want to make a top 5 worst Mario suits, but for now we will focus on the best.

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• Top 5 Racing Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 27 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 13, 2008

  Racing games have been the thrill of the video game universe ever since the early days of the arcade. In every arcade you went into you would find racing games that tried to emulate the real thing. These games though, are not included in this list. In this list, we’ll cover the best racing games for the console generation. As always, our retro instincts made us think of choices that weren’t the “high fi” racing games of the day that can be tedious and same-y to use anyways. We are confident that this list will bring back memories of all the great racing games of the past. If not, then you truly haven’t played the best racing games of all time.

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