Old Gamer’s Almanac
The definitive ranking of all every video game, every week at a time. If you work in the gaming industry, please stop making games while we catch up.
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
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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Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
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:1 Celeste2 Super Mario Brothers 33 Katamari Damacy4 Halo: Combat Evolved5 Quake6 Papers, Please7 Hyper Light Drifter8 Crusader Kings 39 Hitman (2016)10 Jet Set Radio11 Halo 312 Mass Effect 313 Mass Effect 214 Out Run15 Inscryption16 Forza Horizon 517 Metroid Dread18 Donkey Kong Country 319 Final Fantasy 720 Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)21 Mass Effect22 Journey to Silius23 Solar Ash24 Halo 226 Killer Instinct27 War of the Monsters28 Sonic Adventure
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
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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Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
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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Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
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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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
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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Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
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?
Mentioned:Fight On: The Killer Instinct Story
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Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
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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