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• Top 10 Mega Man X Bosses

  

  Written by Zeromage 10 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 20, 2008

  Mega Man X was filled with much more creative bosses than the original Mega Man series for the NES. Its not like we’re knocking the original series, but the name “Boomer Kuwanger” is much more inspired than “Hard Man”. In this list, we’ll go through what we think were the top ten bosses from the Mega Man X series. Most of the choices will be from the first three Mega Man X’s as we feel that the series started to spiral downward after the initial three in the series (like most video games series). Mega Man X 1 has the most placements in this list. We feel the most creative bosses came from this initial game in the series. Here then are our top ten Mega Man X bosses.

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• Top 10 Most Overrated Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 168 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 19, 2008

  Oh boy, this is ganna be a controversial one. Your favorite game of all time listed on Old-Wizard’s most overrated video games of all time? Surely it can’t be! You know us though, we have a knack for knocking down the typical things people enjoy. In this list, we tried to think of games that just plain piss us off because everyone loves them and we think they’re total ass. Going into our thinking process when considering these overrated games were a lack of creativity and a lack of entertainment that these games possessed for us. We don’t understand why anyone would play them more than twice, but sometimes people do and other people think the game is good for this reason.

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• Arthur (Ghosts N’ Goblins) vs. The Paperboy

  

  Written by Zeromage 4 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 1, 2008

  Paperboy and Ghosts n Goblins consistently gets bashed here on Old-Wizard (just check out our top 20 worst video games of all time). We not only dislike the games, but we dislike the heroes of those games for making the games even more painful to play. When thinking of weak heroes, the Paperboy from “Paperboy” and Arthur from “Ghosts n Goblins” come to mind. Who would win in fight between these two “heroes” though? This was a fun topic of conversation for us at Old-Wizard. These two characters would lose to all other characters except each other. But for us, we had to pick the paperboy as being the stronger of the two. This probably seems ironic seeing that Arthur is supposed to be a medieval hero. How can he not beat out a kid paperboy?

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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 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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• 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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• Mega Man 9!

  

  Written by Zeromage 4 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 29, 2008

  It’s been eleven years since Mega Man 8. Whoever thought the original series was dead was dead wrong. Mega Man 9 will be one of the most anticipated releases for the Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 for this fall. The promotional art for Mega Man 9 looks as poor as that for Mega Man 1. If all else follows suite, we will have a great game on our hands. Dr. Wily is at it once again as Dr. Light is blamed for world-wide reploid tragedy. The game follows the same design as the old Mega Mans with our blue hero fighting 8 reploids before entering Wily’s castle. There is a major twist to Mega Man 9 though. The first woman boss to ever battled will make an appearance in this Mega Man. Her name is “Splash Woman”. No one knows as of yet what she splashes, but we hope that it’s got nothing to do with her gender. Other interesting reploid names include “Galaxy Man”, “Concrete Man”, and “Plug Man”. We hope that Galaxy Man brings back memories of Gemini Man’s level. We will keep a close eye on this release as we always have love for the Mega Man series (check out our top 10 Mega Man Bosses of all time list). Maybe one of the bosses in Mega Man 9 will knock out one of the bosses already on our list.

• Top 5 Sega Games

  

  Written by Zeromage 39 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 27, 2008

  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…)

• Nintendo Wii best selling console in US

  

  Written by Zeromage 2 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 22, 2008

  Are we right or are we right about Nintendo? The Nintendo Wii is now the highest selling video game console currently in the US. It has shipped over 666,000 consoles in June alone (which proves even the devil loves Nintendo). The Wii totals are currently about 11 million shipped in the US. The Wii now takes over Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3 as the most popular video game console system. What has made the Wii so successful?. We go into this in our top ten video game systems of all time, but how about the highly unique and intuitive controllers? How about the games themselves that reach out to all audiences (Who could have ever thought that there could be a perfect bowling game in Wii Sports Bowling?) Or finally a new Mario game (Super Mario Galaxy) on par with Mario 3? Nintendo has done it again with the Wii creating a video game system more powerful than a fully operational Death Star. What’s next for Nintendo? Only the future can tell. For now though, Nintendo once again controls the video game market.

• Noel Gallagher ties Video Games to Stabbings

  

  Written by Zeromage 4 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 20, 2008

  Everyone who visits Old-Wizard from time to time knows how much we prop up Oasis like most nerds prop up Star Wars. But our love for Oasis may have found its limits when Noel Gallagher criticized video games for creating all the high crime rate in the UK. In the past year, knife crimes have been up big time in the UK. Could this all be because of video games like Noel Gallagher thinks? First off, what video games are out there where the main weapon is a knife and theme of the game is knifing people? Violence in video games has become much more elaborate than the puny blades belonging to the likes of Arthur from Ghosts N’ Goblins. Is there a correlation between violence in video games and any type of violence whatsoever? Often, politicians and role models alike will try to find scapegoats for spikes in violence by blaming the video game market, but the evidence is always inconclusive. We love Noel Gallagher, but we suggest he sticks to writing great songs rather than being a social critic against video games. We’re pretty sure he has never actually played any.
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