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| Acolyte_of_the_Hero | Feb 21 2016, 07:38 PM Post #1 |
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A Dark Place
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On this day, thirty years ago The Legend of Zelda was released in Japan on the Famicom Disc System. Sparked from Shigeru Miyamoto's boyhood explorations and making up imaginative adventures in the landscapes near his Kyoto home, the player controls Link in an unmapped world, forcing them to consider vague clues and possible new paths to find each new location. Allowing the player's curiosity of each new screen, and laden with secrets, the game posed an open-world challenge to rescue the kidnapped princess from the ultimate evil: Ganon. Thirty years later fans still eagarly await each new iteration of Link's quest to save the princess, the series having evolved quite a bit since its innovative beginnings. In fact, that first Zelda game was the first NES game to ever sell over one million copies! Pretty impressive. The Legend of Zelda is probably my personal favorite gaming franchise, as well as one of the most long-lasting and well-received series of all time. Clearly it's popular: this place started as a fan forum for the game series, for one! I thought it was only appropriate for us to have a commemoration topic on the series' huge milestone where we could share our favorite memories, or just reminisce about thing aspects of the franchise that are dear to us. I could gush on and on and type up a long shpeal about the first game and its legacy but I'll hold off for now. As for me, my first experience with The Legend of Zelda was when I was five or six and I first played Link's Awakening on the Game Boy. I know young me didn't really know what to do but I loved just running around Koholint Island and attacking things and finding each secret. I know I got to at least the end of the second dungeon or so, but I wouldn't revisit the game until I was nearly 8 and I got the DX version for the Game Boy Color. By then, it was 1998 and Ocarina of Time was out and I would always demand to go into Sears at the shopping mall nearby so I could play the demo they had of it. Weird to think of Sears being known for selling games these days, but back when I was seven I would run around the Kokori Forest/Deku Tree for as many minutes as my parents could bear to shop in the general vicinity of that N64 display. Eventually I got an N64 for Christmas that year and a few months later the first game I ever walked into a store and bought myself with my own money was Ocarina of Time. From then on, it's history. It certainly wasn't my first video game attachment, but I'd say it's my longest lasting, and most important. I, and millions of other fans, love the series for its focus on exploration and secrets. For the tightly designed dungeons and memorable bosses that are always fun to revisit. If there was one video game series I'd give anything to work on development for, it'd be a Zelda game. While the series has tried to evolve (and for the most part it has!) over the past few decades, it still holds a very special formula to it, that still is able to payoff. Of course, I for one am hoping Zelda U will break that mold somewhat, which is seems to be pushing for with an even more vast open world and potential dungeons like A Link Between Worlds. Here's hoping for many more decades of great games, and memories of the past adventures millions of people have shared and saved the world in. Here's to Shigeru Miyamoto, Link, and possibly the greatest series of video games ever release. Thank you, The Legend of Zelda.
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| Waterfox | Feb 21 2016, 10:22 PM Post #2 |
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Please. No ponies.
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OoT was my "first" Zelda game, but the first one I completed fully was Wind Waker. While I don't show too much interest in any of the recent Zelda titles or the upcoming Zelda U, the games were a sizable part of my video gaming as a kid and teenager, so they have a bunch of nostalgic value for me. Happy 30th anniversary to the series and hopefully more years to come. Also happy 9th birthday to CotS since we didn't have a topic this year. One more year until 10! |
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| CopShadowGuy | Feb 22 2016, 12:20 AM Post #3 |
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The Night
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Never heard of the series... My first Zelda memory was me as a kid playing the NES game at a friend's house and being completely lost because he already made some progress. So I just wandered around killing things and walking into whatever cave I could uncover or find. First game I beat was Link's Awakening DX. That's when I officially got into the series. Then my uncle bought Ocarina of Time...for my little brother. I played that game so much that he threatened to sell it because he didn't get to play it enough. Then came the Oracle games. I bought Seasons and eventually traded another game I had to a friend so I could borrow his copy of Ages. We never did trade back. Those, to this day are still my favorite Zelda games. As I get older, I'm finding declining interest in most new games but the memories are still there! Also it's CotS birthday again?! |
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