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• Top 10 Video Game Heroes of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 76 Comments
  Last Updated:: April 13, 2008

  Remember the first time you played Zelda 1 and realized that you wanted to be the green clad hero that was walking about the flat screen? Remember the first time you loved a game because you wanted to be the protagonist with all their abilities that you would never have in real life? Old-Wizard remembers all of these moments as we constantly reflect on what our favorite video games are, and in this case, who are favourite video game heroes are. If this list seems retro in its choices, its not without reason, as games within the newer market fail to focus on the personal qualities embodied by one figure trying to save the world. This sense of grandeur and intrepidness led to some of the most memorable characters in the video gamer’s life. Protagonists in novels that the video gamer would read at school would always pale in comparison to the 8-bit characters they always had full control over. The characters in a video game always had much more nobler tasks than modernity’s insistence for leveling out heroism to anyone who feels entitled to their pride. The heroes on our list were always on the most aggrandized of adventures battling only the most nefarious of antagonists. Nowhere was their repose when faced with doom on a universal level. To these dreams of large adventures and magnanimous characteristics we owe the protagonists on this list. The video game world would be nothing without them.

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• Video Game Review: Paper Mario

  

  Written by Zeromage No Comments
  Last Updated:: April 5, 2008

  Paper Mario for the N64 is one of the more colourful games that comes to mind when thinking of video games. It looked conspicuously different from most games in 2D and 3D format. Paper Mario was the successor to Mario RPG for the SNES which was a definite success in its own right. The game play and 3D style reminded you a lot of the original Mario 64. Let’s not forget the graphics though. This game was a site to be seen. The clarity and effulgent style went a long way for making the player excited to play this game. The dialogue between players was sophisticated and fun at the same time. Obviously, a Mario RPG is not going to have the seriousness and command of a “Squaresoft” RPG, but it had its own identity and entertainment value in a world where plumbers are heroes, and princesses like men with giant mustaches. The story line takes place as an actual book with its own chapters, expedient to its “dreamy”, effervescent quality. The game play was smooth and easy to learn, a palpable characteristic with all Mario games. Paper Mario serves as an incredible sequel to Mario RPG. It’s additions from the SNES predecessor to this N64 installment lose nothing in terms of creativity and enviability. This is not something that can be said about most sequels in a video game series.

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• DK v. Mega Man

  

  Written by Zeromage 2 Comments
  Last Updated:: April 2, 2008

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• Top 10 Video Games of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 55 Comments
  Last Updated:: March 1, 2008

  The Old-Wizard staff spends much of their time contemplating what the greatest games of all time are from every system in all ages. Whether it’s a drunken night, a sober night, a math night, or even a romantic night with our girlfriends, we at Old-Wizard can’t keep our minds off what the greatest games of all time are much to the dismay of our significant others. After long hard work narrowing down our top 100 favorite games, we finally became settled with what our top 10 video games of all time were. These were not chosen lightly as there were obvious omissions that made us question even defining what a top ten list of video games would look like. Would half of the list consist of Legend of Zelda games? In order to make sure that didn’t happen, we decided to include only one game from any franchise. We weren’t dismayed by this problem though, and put down what we thought were the ten best games ever. We think our descriptions of our favorite games of all time will speak for themselves in defense against other suitable choices. We know there will be games on this list that readers will agree with. We also know that that there will be games on this list that will make readers want to send viruses over to our server in hopes of never having to read these choices again. Regardless, we feel these next ten games will be remembered for years to come.

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• Video Game Review: Quake 4

  

  Written by Zeromage No Comments
  Last Updated:: February 2, 2008

  Made by Ravensoft, the classic franchise returns, and as usual, it’s Quake’s multiplayer that saves the day and will keep this game on your hard drive for months to come. Quake Four’s campaign itself isn’t as good, but it’s worth playing through anyway. The Quake 4 storyline picks up where Quake 2 left off (Quake 3 Arena didn’t have a single-player storyline): with the Space Marines fighting the Strogg (an alien race who are much like the Borg from Star Trek, only more Goth), this time on their home planet of Stroggos.You take on the role of Corporal Matthew Kane, a member of the elite Rhino Squad, as the Space Marines attempt to annihilate their alien nemesis. Unfortunately for you, your landing craft gets shot down in the middle of trench warfare, and you’re separated from your unit. Afterwards, it’s off to the races as one superior officer after another sends you off to retrieve someone, destroy key locations, and infiltrate deep behind enemy lines. Sometimes you’ll be accompanied by game-controlled team members – usually a technical officer who can repair your armour, and/or a medic who can heal you up to full health.

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• Video Game Review: Quest for Glory

  

  Written by Zeromage No Comments
  Last Updated:: December 30, 2007

  Take one stereotype Hero, you know, the hulking blonde-haired blue eyed douche, add a cocktail of Germanic lore with a shot of fairy tale, mix in a colourful cast of characters and you will have one of the most exciting games in Sierra Online History.

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• Video Game Review: Space Quest 1

  

  Written by Zeromage No Comments
  Last Updated:: December 28, 2007

  Being trapped in a closet can be useful in some instances; like when you are R. Kelly and you feel the need to write a bad song; or if you’re that gay cousin at a redneck family reunion, or perhaps when there is someone attractive locked in said closet with you while playing a hardcore game of “Seven Minutes in Heaven”. I’d have to say the most useful example of being trapped in a closet comes from the tale of one Roger Wilco. You see, Roger was never really what we would call a smart guy, I mean, he lives his life as a Janitor on a space ship. Cool to be on a space ship, not cool to have to clean the toilets. Well, it just so happens that one day, while being trapped in a closet, Roger avoids certain death when Sariens invade his space ship. Roger manages to escape the closet after the main attack on the ship; however, there are 15 minutes until the ship self-destructs. As Roger uses his dulled wits to bumbles through the space ship and look for his escape, he learns from a dying scientist that the Sariens have taken the Star Generator. The scientist then gives him access to a computer cartridge that has the plans to build another generator.

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• Top 5 Video Game Soundtracks

  

  Written by Zeromage 29 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 30, 2007

  When a video game has great music, it usually points to the care in creation that’s needed to be make one of the better games of all time. As you’ll notice, the games on this list are also some of the greatest games ever made. You won’t be finding “Paperboy” or “Ghouls n’ Goblins” on this list. Only the best games have the best music. They go hand in hand. When you travel the world of a great RPG, great music is a necessity for identifying the different lands. When climbing up a dark, shadowy castle, appropriate music is needed to instill a feeling of unease in the gamer, and this all must be done in a unique way to give the game its claim for greatness, an ambition that’s not necessarily sought after in modern gaming. After close inspection in our listening sessions, we have chosen these 5 video games. The music in these games reminded us of playing them at younger ages, and sometimes overcame us with a sense of forlornness, in knowing that these games can’t hit us again like they hit us the first time we played them. Nonetheless, the music in our top 5 video game soundtracks are the best examples of great music in great games, music so great that they are often instinctively listened to even when not playing the game, maybe even in your car when you’re around the right crowd of nerds who could appreciate such a thing.

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• Super Off Road

  

  Written by bug 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: November 29, 2007

  Super Off Road. First introduced to me in the dimly lit corner of a Burger King Castle in Meriden, CT. The machine stared me down, flaunting the three primary colors, each assigned to a black steering wheel. I don’t remember if there was a gas pedal for each of the three players, but I do know for sure each of us had our own NITRO button. The three players were able to, of course, toss quarters into this machine and drive their tiny little truck around a beaten dirt course on the 20 inch color screen. Taking on the yellow truck, I began my adventure into Off Road nitro-filled racing, battling with three other vehicles on the muddy and worn pixilated track. At times these vehicles were driven by humans, at others, the computer inside this amazing stand up interactive video game would control the relentless trucks. I played course after course, winning money for finishing each race. With this money, I was allowed to upgrade my truck over and over, in many different ways. Sometimes it was the tires, others it was the engine, turbo or shocks; and so on. At first I experienced some initial shock spending $70,000 for a set of tires, but they proved to be well worth every penny. After some time, there would be random green money bags that would just show up on the dirt track. If you aimed for them, and ran them over, you collected the cash. However, the amount of money in each money bag was just as random as its location and timing on the track. It’s as if the system would taunt me, sometimes when I got the moneybag it would be $1,000. When I saw the other computer controlled trucks get the money bags, they would get $100,000. I’m sure it was rigged, but nonetheless, I carried on. This was the type of game I could play for a very long time off of just one quarter. I played until the birthday party at that Burger King Castle was over, and I had to be dragged away.

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• Mario Pary 4 : Domination Mini-Game

  

  Written by bug No Comments
  Last Updated:: November 28, 2007

  Mini games. Mini games were the name of the game in Super Mario Party 4 for the Nintendo Gamecube. Wandering through the digital world of psychedelic Japanese programmers, we were sent off onto little detours. Forced to play games that had nothing to do with our main goal: beating the full game. Most of the time these so called mini games were just a pain in the ass, but we came across one that was just completely pointless. It goes by the name of Domination. It was the one where you faced a never ending line of stone figures, shaped and stacked like domino’s. The only point of this mini game was to smash the A button on your controller as fast as you possibly could in a certain time period, and then it would knock down the corresponding amount of stone domino’s. Highest count of downed stone domino’s wins.

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