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Top 5 Hardest Levels From Mario 3

Written by Zeromage 21 Comments
Last Updated:: December 17, 2008

Remember the time when game designers cared more about making impossibly hard jumps and difficult enemies to get past in video game levels instead of putting all of their effort into making pretty-looking 3D worlds where you wander around aimlessly in? This golden age of video games hit its peak with Super Mario 3. Mario 3 is arguably the best video game ever made. But not many people remember that it also had some of the toughest levels in any video game on the NES. It won’t be surprising to anyone who’s ever played this epic game that World 8 dominates our list of “Top 5 Hardest Levels From Mario 3″. From the insane speed and of the tiny mini-airships, to the confusing maze inside the Mini-Fortress, if you play through World 8 you’re sure to break a few controllers in frustration. Most people would resort to using a P-wing or a Cloud to beat these levels. Those who didn’t are sure to agree that these five levels as the hardest levels from SMB3.

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Mail Bag: December 15th, 2008

Written by destructomaximo 17 Comments
Last Updated:: December 15, 2008

This week DestructoMaximo answers a lengthy email from one of our long time readers, Vintage Junkie:

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Top 10 Most Underrated Video Games

Written by Zeromage 49 Comments
Last Updated:: December 14, 2008

There are many underrated video games. These games pass by the gamer without notice not necessarily because they’re below average games, but because they were never fully promoted. Other games however can be considered underrated because they’re considered below average in popular video game opinion. These next games we feel should not go unnoticed and should not be considered below average. Some of these next games could be considered in the greatest games of all time list, and they are. Whatever one’s reason for underrating a game, they will need to reconsider their motives after reading through this list and understanding the power of these next ten games. These next games are not only underrated in our eyes, but can be considered as lost classics.

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Top 10 Problems with Modern Movies

Written by Zeromage 54 Comments
Last Updated:: December 13, 2008

It seems like every year movies are getting worse and worse. I used to go to the movies every week, and now I go once a month. Not only are the movies today worse, but they cost more too. Since I make more money now than I did when I was a kid, I wouldn’t really care about spending a lot of money to go to the movies, but it’s still hard to justify paying $10 to go and see Jumper. And if you bring your wife or girlfriend with you, plan on spending over $40 (with popcorn and a soda) to see some shitty new movie. I wouldn’t mind if every new movie was as good as Dark Knight, but let’s face it, most new movies usually suck ass. You’re better off spending your $40 buying a full season of the X-Files on DVD. At least you’ll be entertained for a whole week, and you won’t have to sit next to some overweight guy who breathes really hard, or some little girl who sniffs every ten seconds while you watch them. So why do new movies suck? In this next list we’ll go through the top 10 problems with modern movies.

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Top 5 Video Games You’re Currently Playing if You’re a Frat Boy

Written by Zeromage 32 Comments
Last Updated:: December 12, 2008

We all know the frat boy type. When they enter into college, it’s party time 24/7 along with everyone else who feels entitled to spend their parents’ money on frat boy activities. The frat boy needs to fit into all walks of his friends’ life, so if that means playing some video games then so be it. There’s a difference though between the traditional video gamer and the frat boy video gamer. The frat boy video gamer only plays games that tend to induce chest bumps and cracking beer cans over their head when successful in one of the games. It’s a rare occurrence when you find someone in a frat playing Final Fantasy 3 for instance. You can rest assured that they would be kicked out of their frat if the “head brother” found them playing a game with an actual dialog.

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Top 10 Worst NES Games

Written by Zeromage 47 Comments
Last Updated:: December 10, 2008

Everything in our past is nostalgic. We look back on our days of school, vacations, hell even arrests, with a strange fondness that seems to increase with age. The NES was definitely a breakthrough in gaming. We at Old-Wiz look back on it with a rose colored blindfold sometimes, but it wasn’t all roses. There were some horrible stinkers that we spent our measly allowances on back in the day. This week we took a break from trumpeting our youth to get cranky on the old NES for a spell, so here it is, the top ten NES crap-sticks. Enjoy.

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Top 5 Worst Careers of the Millennium

Written by Zeromage 16 Comments
Last Updated:: December 9, 2008

During a recession people can be desperate for jobs to feed their supposed monetary needs. Your stocks crashed through Terra Firma and your 401k statement has caused dead Mexican dogs to decompose at record rates. Yes, your life sucks but it’s important to have standards when considering a career change. If you or anyone you associate with has done any of these next jobs we don’t want to hear from you. In fact, your mere presence on this site makes our traffic ratings go down and we’re not letting that happen.

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Top 10 Ways to Tell if You Spend Too Much Time on Video Game Forums

Written by Zeromage 51 Comments
Last Updated:: December 7, 2008

Anyone who visits video game forums knows that there are people who spend a little too much of their free time on these boards. There comes a point where the gamer needs to get off the forum for a while, at least for a week, to refresh their memory on who they are in real life. This is not to say that all people who go on video game forums will be on this list, but definitely some, and some that we see every day. We think it’s in everyone’s self interest to recognize if they’re spending too much time on video game forums by seeing if they fall within one of these categories.

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Top 5 Blizzard Games

Written by Sage 20 Comments
Last Updated:: December 6, 2008

Blizzard is easily one of the greatest PC game creators of all time. Unlike many companies who release game after game, the people at Blizzard take their time and release only the most epic games. They are the definition of quality over quantity. They have even been known to pull games months before release because they aren’t completely satisfied with the product. We here at OW have always been huge fans of Blizzard and actually wish that their games weren’t so good. Hours of my life have been and still are being burned away staring at my computer screen trying to invade that last base or get that last piece of epic gear. Every game is Blizzard’s best game and with the release of the new WOW expansion and on the eve of the releases of sequels to both Starcraft and Diablo, here is our two cents on the matter.
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Old-Wizard.com Recommended by Once Upon a Geek!

Written by Zeromage 1 Comment
Last Updated:: December 6, 2008

Once Upon a Geek is one of our favorite nerd sites, as many of you already knew from reading our Top 11 Nerd Sites list. Well, it turns out that The Irredeemable Shag also likes Old-Wizard as we have been included in his latest post of “Comic Book Blog Recommendations”, saying “Not purely a comic book blog; really more of a video game blog. However, they do comic related posts from time to time. Also, the topics they bring up tend to be controversial, so there are always some fun arguments going on over there.” Check out the full post here.