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As a rule, feature stories are limited in their time online, due to bandwidth worries and at times, because of dated irrelevance (example: an Oscar/Golden-Globes nominees list, which isn't much use after the awards show has already revealed who won!). However, if we didn't have the heart to delete a feature story, or it simply got too much feedback to remove it, it'll be listed here. See some of what you missed!...

The Techtite.com GOLDEN OTTO AWARDS!

Techtite.com's Annual "Awards Show," at the start of every new year... 

Main Page (What IS a "Golden Otto"...?)

1st Annual (2001)

2nd Annual (2002)

3rd Annual (2003)

4th Annual (2004)

5th Annual (offline)

6th Annual (2006)

7th Annual (offline) 8th Annual (2008)
The latest! All 2009's winners!

 

Past Feature Stories :

Oscar's Biggest Blunders! Did your favorite movie win Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year? Probably not! Here is an alphabetical list of Oscar's top ten "Best Picture" goofs.
The Best and Wost Superbowl Commercials (2010). "The Green Police" was among the very worst. Which was best?
The Best and Wost Superbowl Commercials (2009). In light of the above list; here's a repost of the prior year's hits and misses. Were the ads any better?
The Best Sci-Fi Robots of All Time This was the feature story during both the cinematic and DVD releases of Disney Pixar's Wall-e. What were the best robots of all time?
...and The Worst robots were also listed. Enjoy!
Techtite News was a weekly news column which never was terribly profitable and due to minimal manpower and even more minimal budget, it had to be "cancelled" in late 2008. Here is a link to the last news page, which includes links to prior news pages.
The Top Ten Most Intriguing New Shows. The 2008 fall season is looking pretty good. Here's the best of it. more... 
Fall TV's "Unlucky Seven," 2008. Hey; if you're a fan of these newbies, that's cool, though even diehard fans must admit these shows are flawed, and if the flaws aren't fixed...!
The Oddest Games I Ever Played! This site's founder and diehard game fan/critic, Steve Akyuz, reminisces this week about some of the most bizarre moments in video game history. more...
The Oddest Games I Ever Played! This site's founder and diehard game fan/critic, Steve Akyuz, reminisces this week about some of the most bizarre moments in video game history. more...
The Most Intriguing New Fall Shows, 2007. These are the shows that will most likely get cancelled because they rock, and networks most often...don't. more...
The Fall "Unlucky Seven" 2007. We're not saying this shows are totally awful; just flawed. In a day when shows are cancelled left and right; that's not good. more...
The WORST Characters Of Great Sci-Fi. One guess who made #1. The other nine, however... more...
The Worst Sci-Fi Shows of All Time. Which one-season wonders made our list of the biggest sci-fi series blunders of all time? You might be surprised...about one or two of them, anyway. Enjoy...! more...
Top Ten Best Superbowl Commercials. (2007 Edition)
Top Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials. ('07)
The Ten Best "Survival Tips" For Dead Rising. If you're surviving well against 52,000 zombies you might not need this list. If you don't like being eaten, by all means read on. more...
The Most Intriguing New Fall Shows, 2006. We'll begin reviewing new shows starting this week, now that the fall season is beginning. Here are which shows we're most interested in. more...
Top Ten Best Superbowl Commercials. (the 2006 Edition)
Top Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials.
The Best TV Holiday Episodes of All Time! 'nuf said.
The Most Disappointing Holiday Entertainment of All Time! ditto...
Techtite News. In 2005 there was a dry patch for this site's news blog. Click this link for the "farewell message" at the time, and if you so wish, backtrack to see what the page looked like back then. It's back permanently now. Maybe.
The Most Intriguing New Fall Shows, 2005. 'nuf said there.
Top Ten Best Superbowl Commercials, 2005. Underdog really saved the day this year. more...
Top Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials, 2005. Is it just me or is that baby "Bob" just plain creepy? more...
The Best New Shows: Fall, 2004. It's fall again, and that means another look at the most intriguing new shows. more...
Fall 2004's "Unlucky Seven. Far too sad as a "top ten" list; here are the seven new series concepts that may not last long. If you like them, be sure to keep them taped! more...
The Top Ten WORST Characters That Ever Happened to Great Cartoons. Sure, there have been bad characters in bad cartoons. What were the worst to happen to the best? more...
The Top Ten Things We'll Miss About Sex and the City These are the things that made the series great...

Ten Things We Won't Miss About Sex and the City ...and these are the things that make us glad the finale aired. Phew!

Top Ten Best Superbowl Commercials, 2004. You liked the 2003 list so much; here's the 2004 installment. more...
Top Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials, 2004. You can't win them all. Here were the crash-and-burn mistakes. more...
Top Ten WORST Superbowl Commercials, 2003. Seems like a perfect companion to the ten best list, wouldn't you say? It's also fun to remember the flubs. more...
Top Ten BEST Superbowl Commercials, 2003. Who won the Superbowl? Who cares! What really matters is which commercials kept us from the refrigerator during commercial breaks. Now THAT'S tough! more...
A Holiday Story...in Origami! This was an old Christmas story my friends and I used to pass around in the 1980's. Being the holiday season, why not share it? more...
What Was It About "Battlestar Galactica"? Over 25 years later this one-season-wonder still has a loyal following. Why? One former ten-year-old offers ten good reasons. more...
What Wasn't Good About Galactica...? How much time do you have? Just kidding. There were flaws, though. Big, steaming stinking piles of them! Here's the worst of the worst. more...
New fall TV season summaries: The Best Of New Fall TV, and "The Unlucky Seven" (the shows that might not make it!

A Dozen Ways to Improve Enterprise. It's good, though not great. For the only current Star Trek series, this is not good at all. Here are a dozen ideas to up the ante. more...

Techtite.com's Third, Semi- Annual, Top-10 Mysteries of Oscar Night, SOLVED!* Okay; make that slightly solved. Here are a few answers to your most burning questions. more...

"The Top Ten Most Under-Appreciated Thrillers! Just in time for Halloween, Techtite explores the video rental aisles, for the best of the least-watched (or least appreciated!) more...
The Five Biggest BLUNDERS in "Halloween Games"... The games on this list were only scary when looking at the hours wasted playing them. Check out the list, and be afraid...

"The Top Dozen BEST 'Halloween Games' ever made" It takes a lot to make people feel thrilled and chilled in a video game. These games succeeded. 'nuf said!

Top 10 Cartoons Gone Awry! Yes, only 10 mistakes! These are the cartoon concepts that made a very bad transition to the TV screen. Yes, the list includes Dynomutt. more...
The Top Ten Mysteries of Oscar Night, SOLVED! Well...sort of. From Marisa Tomei's Supporting Actress win, to Saving Private Ryan's loss to Shakespeare in Love, see Techtite's insight on some of the bigger questions ever asked on Oscar's big night. more...

Oscar Nominees, 2003: "And the (Deserved) Winners Should Be..." Steve Martin hosts. That's good news. Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can were snubbed; that's the bad. more...

Top Ten Best New Shows, 2002. Okay, so looking back on this list I was more than a little bit off. Okay, I was WAY off! I still had high hopes for these shows, based on their inspired pilot episodes. FYI: only three of these shows actually lasted to their second season!
The Techtite Re-play Award Winners! Constantly updated (or so gamers always hope!), these are the games that we actually played again...and again...and again...
Top 10 Changes CBS needs to make to "Big Brother" Did you even know BB's second season was on at all? Here's ten things CBS needs to change, before they attempt this reality TV concept ever again.

 

The "Tech Tables" era...

"TECH TABLES" were some of the first lists ever posted at Techtite.com, to better show newcomers where Techtite.com is coming from, review-to-review. By and large, they are typical best/worst lists on various subjects.
Top 10 Worst, Most Overused Jokes in Modern "Comedy" (12/6/00) Sorry, I've seen these jokes one too many times to not voice my grievances, once and for all.
The Top Ten Biggest Mistakes in Game Design  (10/05/00) The latest Techtite Table Topic challenge: list the worst mistakes game designers ever make. Yes, only 10 (!)...
The Top Ten Most UNDER-Appreciated Comedies. Just an intriguing followup to the prior list of Worst Comedies...
The Top Ten Worst Comedies Of All Time The latest Techtite Table Topic challenge: list the worst comedies you ever saw. The catch? No sequels! D'oh!
Addendum?:  25 Comedies NOT on AFI's Top 100 List Was AFI's choices of 100 "best comedies of all time" flawed? Here's Techtite's addendum to the list, if he was voting... 
Top 10 Ways to Totally Screw Up a Good Movie Sick and tired of the same mistakes made in recent films, over and over again? Me too! Here's my choices for the worst!
The Worst Games I Ever Played. One of the first Tech Tables ever posted; here are the worst of the worst of the worst in games.

 

and, still online: some of the first "Features" ever posted!:

It's Fall, 2000, and The Playstation 2 is out. See the obvious "pros", and the not so obvious "cons," where PS-2's mistakes were even compared to the ones for 3DO?

 

Techtite's Realist Guide to Star Wars, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace!

The latest Star Wars film raised several questions. Techtite offers this list, as a (possible) answer to some of them... more...

Evil Otto LIVES!

STILL ONLINE! Evil Otto, classic gamers will remember, was one of many icons of classic gaming. Visit here for Techtite's stroll down memory lane, of all his own classic game systems: from the Atari 2600, to the 3DO! more...

Top 50 Game Classics! The second of this web site's premiere monthly feature stories : Techtite.com's list of TOP 50 Game Classics ! You'll hear me refer to it a lot in reviews; see for yourself what all the fuss is about!  more...

 

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