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Video Game Review: Paper Mario 2008-04-05 16:08:12 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 [...] Read more:Video Game
Top 10 British Bands of All Time 2008-04-03 18:20:49 The British
have given us much from tea and crumpets, to Winston Churchill, to advanced naval technology, but their most conspicuous gratuity has been their pop music. Consistently, British music dominates pop music from other countries without ever seeming like they’re trying. Whether it comes to pure song craft, sonic innovation, or to showmanship, the [...] Read more:Bands
Top 5 Girls From the Wonder Years 2008-04-01 14:10:19 The Wonder Years
was full of amazing dialogues, and amazing actors. For the boys who watched these episodes in their young age though, all that really mattered were the girls in the show, the girls that Kevin would inevitably end up falling for. They represented all the different girls that they wanted [...] Read more:Girls
Top 10 Nerd Musicians of All Time 2008-03-20 13:53:53 So since pretty much the beginning of time nerds and music have gone hand in hand, yet there has never been a top ten musical nerds list! WTF? There seems to be a non-explicable status jump from high school band geek to ultra-cool band dude. Is this enigma a natural cocoon cycle? Is there some [...]
Top 10 Mega Man Bosses 2008-03-18 12:43:01 Is there a game with more recognized and appreciated bosses than the Mega Man series? Once one plays past the more hackneyed bosses of Mega Man 1, one is overwhelmed by the amount of memorable bosses in Mega Man 2 and 3. Both these games clearly make up the best in [...]
My Alignment is Neutral Good 2008-01-04 13:06:43 A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. The common phrase for neutral good is “true good.” Neutral
good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing [...] Read more:Alignment
Top 10 Characters From Punch Out! 2008-01-03 12:27:30 Mike Tyson’s Punch
out for Nintendo was one of the highest selling games for the ubiquitous system. It had great game play that was neither too complex nor too simple. The game’s duration was a perfect length employing a simple password technology to start you off at the first fighter of a respective circuit. [...] Read more:Characters
The Top 100 Video Games of All Time in the Universe List 2008-01-01 15:34:00 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 [...] Read more:Games
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Video Game Review: Quest for Glory 2007-12-30 14:55:16 Take one stereo-type Hero, you know, the hulking blonde hair 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 game in Sierra Online History. Read more:Video Game
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Top 10 Bands of the New Century 2008-04-04 09:34:32 The passing into the new century was a landmark event for the popular arts. Critical reviews of their past forms became common place in their information mediums. Pop music specifically saw itself in need of a transformation into minimalized modes of execution. This insistence combined with the diminution of the major label as that which [...] Read more:Bands
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Legacy Weapon Deck 2008-02-16 18:05:56 Ever since I first saw the LegacyWeapon
in a friend’s five coloured deck I’ve always wanted to make my own deck based around it. Here’s what I came up with (It uses the colourless mana from Urza’s Lands and converts it with the Crystal Quarries in order to power the Legacy Weapon):
Top 10 Gaming Consoles of All Time 2008-02-10 11:57:22 The home based video game system has been the greatest signifier for what a “nerd” is. What would a nerd be without home video game systems? From the next gen systems of today, to the video game systems of yesteryear which collect dust over time only to be undusted when the urge comes to [...] Read more:Gaming
Magic: The Gathering Card Review: Benalish Hero 2008-02-03 11:45:31 The Benalish Hero has been a staple Magic
card since the early days of Magic, back when a Fireball Deck was unstoppable. Even though she’s nothing more than a 1/1 creature with a useless ability, she’s been included in countless white weenie decks throughout the ages. I’ve never put one into any of my decks, [...] Read more:Gathering
Top 10 Most Overrated Bands 2008-02-03 11:07:02 Pop music as a field of art has been notorious in exaggerating the importance of its own work. From the more naïve claims of divinity by certain artists, to the subtle interpolations of an artist’s songs to anywhere that a sound system projects, pop music has found itself as the most conspicuous signifier of the [...] Read more:Bands
Top 30 Seinfeld Characters 2008-03-17 11:49:22 The staff here at Old-Wizard are in unanimous agreement that Seinfeld is the best TV show ever created. While not ostensibly having anything to do with the prevalent “nerd” theme of the site, we can leap beyond the formal bounds of logic and make the connections regardless. George? C’mon, [...] Read more:Characters
Top 20 Worst Video Games of All Time 2008-04-11 08:40:04 What makes a worst video game of all time? Poor storylines, insane difficulty, controlling issues to the point of broken screens… all these contribute towards video games that you threw out your window in disgust of wasting 3 dollars in renting them. On this list we prudently considered what games made us break [...] Read more:Games
Top 10 Video Game Heroes of All Time 2008-04-13 12:11:00 Remember the first time you played Zelda 1 and realized that you wanted to be the hooded 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 this lifetime? Old-Wizard [...] Read more:Video Game
Classic Video Game Review: Super Mario Brothers (NES) 2008-04-16 13:11:02 Super Mario
, a character more recognizable than Mickey Mouse. What can we possibly say about this classic game that hasn’t already been said a thousand times before? It was one of the first, and quite possibly still the best video game out there. It went places no one else had ever been [...] Read more:Classic
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Which Polyhedral Are You? 2008-04-18 16:26:24 Take the quiz at dicepool.com
Here is me: “Ah, the d10! While you aren’t actually a true regular polyhedron, you are the only die that makes logical sense–metrically speaking. Chances are, others see you as over-analytical or a goody-goody. While that may be true, you also have a gift for patience and tolerance. Growing up [...]
Movie Review: Cloak and Dagger 2008-04-18 13:01:17 Ah the 80s. A movie era filled to the brim with ninjas and an unfortunate stereotype of Asians with cameras. During this decade one movie stands out that combined imagination with video games. And why not? The electronic world pretty much soared during this decade. That movie is Cloak and Dagger
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Top 5 Worst Gaming Consoles of All Time 2008-04-20 09:30:18 The video game world has seen its fair share of poor systems that had no business being released in the first place. Some of these systems were created for getting something in time for a holiday. Some of these systems though were carefully constructed, and failed for any amount of reasons from poor [...] Read more:Gaming
Ask DestructoMaximo: April 19th, 2008 2008-04-19 09:49:01 Hi everybody! It’s me, Destructo! Ask me any questions you’d like and I’ll answer them. There is no guideline for the type of questions you might ask, but if you try to stump me with something technical I’m just going to make something up a-la “ask dr. stupid” on ren & stinmpy. [...] Read more:April
Say “No Way” to Norway 2008-04-26 22:53:01 In these turbulent times, times which threaten our way life and test our mettle, Old-Wizard.com has amassed an army. The fires of Isengard burn brightly. In order to preserve the sanctity of our website and more over our very existence, we have decided declare war! We have hired a general; (sort of. The details of [...] Read more:Norway
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