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Top 10 Video Game Franchises

Written by Zeromage 76 Comments
Last Updated:: February 5, 2009

There have been some video games that have been so popular that they were not only made into a series, but into a whole catalog of games, becoming a franchise. These franchise games would be released on every new system released by console developers. With a new Nintendo console would come a new Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. With a new Playstation console would come a new Final Fantasy and Street Fighter. These games were the backbone of these new systems because of how popular the preceding games were in the series. In this list we highlight what are the top 10 greatest franchises of all time in video game history. We were pulling no tricks with this list, but just knowing what the most popular franchises were by understanding how many games have been released for each. These franchises have created some of the most timeless games of all time for the video game medium.

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Top 10 Music Videos

Written by Zeromage 21 Comments
Last Updated:: February 4, 2009

The music video medium has swept music into a completely different form. Music was first intended for the ears. Combining the visual with the auditory reflected one of the biggest transitions for art in western society. With the popularity of the visual medium was the difficulty in being able to separate the visual from the audio, and often the audio would gain greater status because of the visual, when often not warranted on the music alone. While this has been the case for many bands and many fans of those bands, this is not to say that there hasn’t been creativity and nuance in the music video that has enhanced the musical experience rather than work as a crutch for it. In this list, we will account for these greatest videos as signatures of the possibilities in the medium. Believe us when we say that these are definite diamonds in the rough.

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Top 100 Video Games

Written by Zeromage 251 Comments
Last Updated:: February 1, 2009

What’s happening? What’s going on? Is this some sort of sick game? The answer to all of these questions is: YES BEOTCH. We’ve held out this long to weed out the suckers and prune our rose bushes. It’s hard for us to believe we’ve actually done it, the top 100 video games of all time list. We’ve separated ourselves from the pack by freely admitting that the only science behind this list is our cumulative gigantic brain. You’ve read the sales charts, you’ve formed your own opinions, now you are ready for the truth…the OLD-WIZARD TRUTH. If you don’t like the list, yell at us and we’ll undoubtedly yell back. So without any further ado: The Top 100 Video Games of All Time Ever in the Universe List!!!

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Top 10 Real Life Lessons We’ve Learned From Video Games

Written by Zeromage 35 Comments
Last Updated:: January 29, 2009

Spending 50% of our day playing video games must be for a reason. Beyond the pure enjoyment we get from playing the greatest games of all time, there is the endless amount of lessons we’ve learned from the games. Who would have thought that you could learn real life lessons from an 8-bit game? It happened though when we played games as diverse as Super Mario Brothers to Master Blaster. Looking back, games like these changed us in more ways than just starting a video game website. They taught us lessons on how to live, and how to go about the world. In this list, we will go through these real life lessons that we’ve learned from video games. Whoever said you can only learn life lessons from school and books was wrong, these next ten reasons will prove it.

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Top 10 90’s Sitcoms

Written by Zeromage 18 Comments
Last Updated:: January 28, 2009

Looking back on the 90’s with a slight feeling of cheesiness is nothing new, much like looking back at anything else from a decade before. This is no different with the best sitcoms of the 90’s. The humor comes across as cheesy, the characters come across as foolish, and we are given noticeable signifiers of what has become anachronistic for future sitcoms. Regardless of this inevitable fate, some of the shows could still be looked back upon as quality shows much like sitcoms from the 80’s (i.e. Family Ties, which is in our Top 5 80’s Family Sitcoms). The 90’s had it’s golden shows that would become permanently etched in the memories of those who lived through the decade. In this list, we’ll go through what we think were the best sitcoms from the 90’s. If your show is missing, don’t worry, there is place to comment and defend your choice below.

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Top 5 Super Metroid Bosses

Written by Zeromage 14 Comments
Last Updated:: January 25, 2009

Super Metroid is one of our favorite games here at Old-Wizard for reasons that are too numerous to list here. One of the reasons why the game was so great was because of how memorable and nefarious all the bosses were. This was especially true of the bosses of Super Metroid which were of course augmented by the most freighting soundtrack in the 16-bit era. Super Metroid was full of bosses and mini-bosses galore, so there was a large group of characters to choose from. Some of the difficult omissions were the beastly Crocomire and the evasive Spore Spawn. Nonetheless, we feel these next 5 bosses were the best in the series and will be remembered throughout all of gaming lore.

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Top 5 Video Game Swords

Written by Zeromage 49 Comments
Last Updated:: January 23, 2009

The video game sword took the world of fables and put them into real life with the gamer in actual control of the sword. There were plenty of swords throughout video game history, but only a few great ones. Many swords in modern day video games are too big and complicated. And some of the swords are just plain ugly. Can the effeminate hero of FF7 really hold that huge sword? So this list, we’ll go through what we think are the top 5 best swords in video game history. These swords stood out for their power and memorability, while others appeared silly. It’s not a coincidence that these next swords came from the greatest games of all time.

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Top 10 Street Fighter Characters

Written by Zeromage 30 Comments
Last Updated:: January 21, 2009

Street Fighter was arguably the most important fighter series ever made. It’s either Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat; it’s useless arguing which one was more important because how how much they both influenced the fighting games that came after them. Street Fighter has always had a place in our heart and we wanted to celebrate all the best characters to come from the series. There are many great characters from Street Fighter 2 all the way through the later editions, but not everyone can be listed in a top 10 of all time. We could easily make a top 10 worst street fighter characters also, and put characters like DeeJay and Guile on this list for their lack of fighting skills and the goofy disposition of the former. That’s for another list though. Right now, we’ll focus on the best characters in the Street Fighters an arguably the best characters in fighting game history.

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Ask Old-Wizard: January 21st, 2009

Written by Sage 9 Comments
Last Updated:: January 20, 2009

This week Sage answers a few questions on everything from Super Mario Brothers to the Illuminati Conspiracy. Remember to send any questions for Old-Wizard to oldwizard.com@gmail.com.

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Albino Humans

Written by Zeromage No Comments
Last Updated:: January 19, 2009

Anyone know what the KKK think of albino people? Either they venerate them for being the ultimate in whiteness or they hate them for being different. Or maybe its something different that I never heard of. Just a thought that came by me today. Not that I think about the KKK a lot or anything….