Old Gamer’s Almanac

The darkness. The light. The heart. The chains. The shoes. Is this the most important episode of the show? Probably. Donald Duck is like a wizard and Goofy is a knight? Shut up and quit asking questions. Come for the Disney, stay for the clothes and pop music. It's time for us to embark on our Kingdom Hearts journey.

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Nintendo is knows for classic, cute, and relatively easy games. And then there's Pikmin. It's had its share of sequels and spinoffs, but this original entry is notably punishing and finicky, and yet it still has all of the charm and allure of other Nintendo fare. So what does that mean for The List?

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We're digging through the early Nintendo 64 catalog today with one of the earliest big Star Wars video game projects. Lauded as a movie without a movie, Shadows of the Empire had the full backing of Lucasfilm to be cross-media success. There's a lot of history to this game that is somewhat lost to time and will that be enough to carry it in our stupid ranking?

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Today is the splendid arcade classic from Arkansas' own Dona Bailey! Centipede by Atari has such an original look and feel that it easily stands out from so many games at the arcades of old. Good arcades are hard to find these days, but if you can find this cabinet in good condition, it's absolutely worth the time!

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The Ranking So Far:

There are a lot of genres this show has yet to tap and it's honestly a crime that it took us this long to do a stealth game. But boy, we're gonna go ahead and come out strong with IO Interactive's 2016 revival of the Hitman series, the kick off of the World of Assassination trilogy that you can acquire ALL of now as part of a Hitman 3 super collection. But today we aren't talking about all of that extra stuff. JUST Hitman 1.

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We're returning to the NES for the first time since our flagship episode about a significantly more well known game. Journey to Silius is a game famous amongst a certain generation but it's memory has been lost to time for many. So, can this game stand up to the resurrection? Or will we have to hire a machine to go back in time and kill it before it was ever made? That's a Terminator joke.

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Elden Ring is the game everyone is talking about and we want to feel included! The structure of this show prevents us from probably doing an episode on this game for many months because we would like to have both actually played it, but we didn't want that to stop us from getting to ignorantly yell about it.

So join us on this journey as we all start Elden Ring and maybe you can help Matt not suck at it along the way. Lord knows he needs all the help he can get.

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It's been all peaks and valleys this last month over here on OGA, and we round it off with top billing: Katamari Damacy. This is a deeply original game that checks every box. Level Design, atmosphere, humor, music. It's all rolled up in there and the mass is quickly breaking beyond the scope of the list. This game is the barometer by which we establish friendships, folks.

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It's our first venture into a proper fighting game and we lead with a tragic story from Matt's past. It's the genesis of Matt's anger towards video games and the game that turned him off of fighting games. Will nostalgia redeem this derivative classic?

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CARS. We're big gear heads over here, just like our dads and their dad's before them. Love them cars. Or at least I love it when I have near infinite cars available to me via Wheel of Fortune style prizes and when driving those cars around recklessly awards me a limitless amount of points. Car games rule and this is an especially good one. I just wish it was more like a dad that wanted me to learn about cars.

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