The Avocado-chosen Best Video Game of the pre-85 gaming years is… Pac-Man! The runner ups are Frogger in second place and Galaga in third. Please join me in about a week for a generation I’m excited for — the 8-bit generation featuring … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Early Years – Winner

This is the semifinals for the Early Years generation of video games, covering pre-85 games including the Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision. Please vote for one game in each pairing. The most upvoted games will continue to the finals. The most … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Early Years – Semifinals

This is the quarterfinals for the Early Years generation of video games, covering pre-85 games including the Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision. Please vote for one game in each pairing. The most upvoted games will continue to the semifinals. The most … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Early Years – Quarterfinals

This is the round of 32 for the Early Years generation of video games, covering pre-85 games including the Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision. Please vote for one game in each pairing. The most upvoted games will continue to the Round … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Early Years – Round Two

This is the round of 64 for the Early Years generation of video games, covering pre-85 games including the Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision. Please vote for one game in each pairing. The most upvoted games will continue to the Round … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Early Years – Round One

This is the elimination round for the Early Years generation of video games, covering pre-85 games including the Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision. In this round, games have been arranged into groups of six. You can vote for as many games in … Continue reading Best Video Games Tournament – Early Years – Elimination Round

This is the first in a series of video game tournaments to determine the best video game of all time (according to the Avocado)! Because this is such a broad category, and because of the difficulty in comparing, say, arcade … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – Early Years – Nominations

This was a triumph. I’m making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction, because the winner of the first Avocado video game character is GLaDOS! We were going to celebrate with cake, but… you know. Instead, you’ve … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament Final Result

128 entered and only two remain. A showdown between two of gaming’s classic female antagonists. Will Carmen Sandiego steal the whole tournament? Or will GLaDOS take the cake? Tournament Statistics: The characters who received the most votes in any match … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Finals

128 entered and only four remain. Results from Round Five: The characters who received the most votes overall was Link, who perhaps faced the weakest competition in Bowser. Unsurprisingly, Bowser was the character who received the least votes. The advancing character … Continue reading Best Video Game Character Tournament, Semifinals