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It's Top Ten Topic time again, people.

This time the Top 10 topic deals with the console that single-handedly destroyed hundreds of thousands of kids ability to form meaningly and constructive social relationships. Also, saved the video game industry!

Most of you are probably too young to have played an NES, but I don't care. Throw together a list anyways. These are the games that defined the entire Nintendo franchise - your Donkey Kongs, your Marios, your Links, you Samus Arans, your Kid Icaruses.

I got the NES bundled with Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt wasn't even released yet.

Here's wikipedia to my rescue once again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NES_games


10. M.C. Kids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids
Yeah, yeah...of all the games that I could've chosen, I choose the game set in McDonaldland. Say what you will, but this game is really fun. Video game critics often accused it of copying from other games (particularly from Super Mario Bros. 3), and the game was far too difficult to be marketed for a younger videogame audience. Like that's a bad thing.

9. Kid Icarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus
This is a kickass game. And damn hard when you are 7 years old. You play as Pit, the fallen angel in Angeland. Your goal is to kill Medusa. Pit can run and jump, shoot arrows, upgrade his equipment (and health meter), summon allies, and use items in this platformer. (This game also had a New Game+ mode - Chrono Trigger eat your heart out!)

8. Adventure Island 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Island_3
Master Higgins (which I maintain should be a Super Smash Bros. playable character) is at it again! This island native rides a variety dinosaurs as you make your way through this fun platformer. You should try it out if you get the chance.

7. Mega Man 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_3
This was the first Megaman I really got into. I probably would've gotten into Megaman with the first game if that gawd-awful cover of the first game didn't turn me off so much whenever my dad took me to the video store to rent games on 2-for-1 Games Wednesday. Megaman 2 and 4 are also awesome.
Fuck that is an ugly box.


6. Ducktales
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckTales_(video_game)
Scrooge McDuck on a pogostick cane? Awesome.

5. Super Dodge Ball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dodge_Ball
This game is one of the best sports games ever made. Warping glowing dodgeballs pummeled the opposition, often sending them into the stratosphere! A full game takes less than an hour. Get a ROM and try this bad boy out. Sam rules.

4. Super Mario Bros. 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._2
A big departure from any other Mario game, really, but a hella-lot of fun. (I seem to be saying 'fun' a lot - the NES was known for that). Toad is awesome, and will be in SSBB, you'll see.

3. Dragon Warrior IV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_IV
This game is pretty much the first console RPG to have a main villain with a purpose. Necrosaro is so badass. It's the Dragon Warrior games that set the standard for other RPGs to be "cliche".

The Hero was living in a calm village with his family, but his town was finally discovered by Necrosaro. In an assault of monsters, the hero's best friend used her transform magic to disguise herself as the hero and sacrificed herself to the army so as to fool them into thinking that the real hero was dead.

See?

2. Dragon Warrior III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_III
No one saw this one coming. This game is so awesome the Japanese gov't forbade the sale of future DQ games to occur on weekdays. It is the best selling game of the series (if you count remakes - the Gameboy Color one is pretty good. It adds a new class.)

1. Super Mario Bros. 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._3
Gaming perfection. Best platformer ever. They made a fucking movie based on kids playing this game.

This game went on to come second place in GameSpy's Title Fight, a user driven tournament to discover the gamer's favorite game. http://archive.gamespy.com/titlefight/brackets.shtml. The reason why this tournament has merit is because Chrono Trigger beat out Final Fantasy VII in the first round, meaning that the voters have good taste.

Play the original, or one of the many remakes. Seriously, if you haven't beaten this game, you need to soon (or I will ban you).

Honorable Mentions:
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Rollerball
Karnov
Megaman 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Power Blade
Dragon Warrior
Dragon Warrior II
Ducktales II


Previous Top Ten Topics:
Week 5: Top 10 Favorite NES Games
Week 4: Top 10 Favorite Comic Strips
Week 3: Top 10 Favorite TV Shows
Week 2: Top 10 Favorite N64 games
Week 1: Top 10 Favorite SNES games

Time for another round of RMN most neglected topic! (Brought to you by the letters K and G and the number 4)

Once again, wikipedia comes to my rescue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comic_strips. Good for them.

Now, I am opening the catergory to include Webcomics, if that's your thing. Be sure to provide us with a link at least. While characters like Batman and the Hulk might have had a comic strip, they are really considered comic books, which is a subject of another Top 10 list altogether.

My writing is very uninspired in this one, but I doubt you read it anyways...


10. Blondie
Okay, so I'm starting off with an old one. But it makes me laugh fairly consistently so it gets the nod.

9. Pearls Before Swine
Was incredibly funny when it first came out, but has dropped off precipitously since then. If it stayed as funny as the first year's work, it'd be Top 5, for sure. Still good for a giggle now and then.

8. Hägar the Horrible
You'd think the jokes would get stale by now...

7. Herman
Funny, funny, funny one panel strip. And a very unique art style.

6. Penny Arcade
Everyone should know this one.

5. Garfield
Everyone DOES know this one. I read Garfield like crazy as a kid, and it's still pretty funny 10 years later. But talk about selling out...

4. Dilbert
This isn't a comic strip. It is a documentary (and I am living it).

3. FoxTrot
This should be everybody's favorite comic strip that is still in production. This, and #2 and #1 are in a class of their own when talking about funny comic strips. Plus, there are so many nerd in-jokes that I can't help but appreciate it.

2. The Far Side
I've read them all at least 4 times, and they still make me laugh. Best one-panel comic "strip" in existance.


1. Calvin & Hobbes
This is the pinnacle of the Comic strip. It is what all other comic strips aspire to be.

progressiveboink (fan site) puts it better than I ever could:

Hundreds of comic strips have been published in newspapers. The majority are terrible, and almost all the rest are mediocre. There have been maybe four or five good comic strips in the history of the world. So saying that Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic strip ever doesn't really hold a lot of weight.

And it's really a shame that it's so difficult to quantify this strip's greatness. I can confidently state that Calvin and Hobbes outclasses the rest of the comic strip world more than anything else has ever outclassed the rest of its medium. Sans this strip, the industry is characterized by guys sitting on rocks making stupid puns, a Family Circus kid misunderstanding the meaning of a word, or an overweight father playing golf while telling jokes such as I LIKE GOLF and GOLF IS HARD. It's a medium that doesn't really deserve something as good as Calvin and Hobbes, but it got it anyway, and the newspaper-reading world was made a better place by it.

Calvin and Hobbes ran from 1985 to 1995. Bill Watterson drew thousands of strips, and while I wish like hell that he would come back and draw more, it's probably best to reflect and be thankful for what he's done. Below we have showcased, in no particular order, some of our favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips of all time. If you love them as much as we do, let us know if you think there are any that we should have included. And if you missed out, well, hopefully we can give you some idea of why Mr. Watterson is our hero.

And, yes, I own all the books AND the $200 hardbound collection. The strip is just that good, people.


Honorable mentions:
Get Fuzzy
Peanuts
Blondie
Rose Is Rose
Non Sequitur
Pickles
B.C.
Betty
VG Cats
8-Bit Theater
Ctrl+Alt+Del


Previous Top Ten Topics:
Week 3: Top 10 Favorite TV Shows
Week 2: Top 10 Favorite N64 games
Week 1: Top 10 Favorite SNES games

Time for another round of everybody's favorite topic!

Straying a bit from the video game theme of the last two topics, this week we will be listing our favorite TV shows, past or present. Comedies, dramas, comedramas - the range of possible choices is expansive! WARNING: Anyone listing a reality TV show as one of their favorite Top 10 shows will be instantly banned, and then I will come to your house and kick you in the balls is silly.

Can you believe wikipedia has a list? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programs_by_name Craziness.

I like TV. So, it's time to present my...


10. Law & Order
DUN DUHN duhduhduhDuh Duuuuhhn! This is a cool show. Of course, I'm lumping in the various spinoffs - SVU, CI, SUV, PSI, and whatever else - but they are all pretty much the same show, just different actors (hell, the main show seems to cycle through different actors every 4 seasons or so).

9. Criminal Minds
Sleeper hit of the 2005-2206 season, and for good reason, too. Follows the BAU unit of the FBI as they hunt down seriously screwed up in the head criminals. Stars Greg (from Dharma and Greg) and Inigo MontoyaMandy Patinkin. If you like criminal drama shows, be sure to catch this one. It's on Wednesday nights.

8. Corner Gas
Canadian sitcom filmed 45mins from my house! And it's funny (Canadians, as a people, are funny). It's won Canada's Gemini award for Best Comedy Series four years running (since it started) and has never had less that 1 million Canadian viewers for every new episode (to put that in perspective, Hockey Night in Canada gets around 1 million viewers). It's been syndicated for broadcast in the US just this year on some sort of Superstation based in Chicago, so watch it if you get the chance! (First scene ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veu-Cm7aHMw (I own a Corner Gas shirt)).

7. Scrubs
Funny hospital comedy. Plenty of non-sensical moments, great characters and ends with a nice little life lesson.

6. Star Trek: The Next Generation
While better than the original series in many ways, it will never be as well known. Even so, TNG is the best incarnation of the Star Trek series ever to appear on TV. I miss this show.

5. Family Guy
I like non-sensical comedy, and this is pretty much the acme of non-sensical comedy.

4. House
House is such an asshole.

3. Arrested Development
Totally underated show. This show is filled with subtle jokes and humor to go along with the larger jokes and plotline. It also hits close to home, as I have a weird younger brother, a slacker older brother and a spoiled sister (with straight blond hair, too).

2. Whose Line Is It Anyways?
Now it's time for more Whose Line with Wayne Brady! *cheers* Ryan Stiles! *cheers* Colin Mochrie! *cheers* and some other guy who's not-quite-as-funny-as Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles or Colin Mochrie but we need a fourth! *cheers*

Some of THE funniest moments on television have occured on this show. Youtube it up.

1. Simpsons
Was there every any doubt what would be #1? The Simpsons is comedy gold. Seasons 4-7 is Comedy Platinum. (Admittedly, seasons 11-present have been a little, well a lot, weak, but still). There's enough material here for a Simpsons channel.


Honorable mentions:
Family Feud
Flintstones
CSI
CSI: NY
Futurama
Robot Chicken
Just For Laughs: Gags
Frasier
Seinfeld
The Price Is Right

PS. CSI: Miami sucks.


Previous Top Ten Topics:
Week 2: Top 10 Favorite N64 games
Week 1: Top 10 Favorite SNES games

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