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Posted by Paul Constant on Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:28 PM
If you've read all you can, you don't want to go to the movies, and you have hours of aimless time ahead of you, may I suggest playing this online version of the original Legend of Zelda game?
I don't play video games anymore, but when I stumbled across this, I lost an entire evening or two trying to remember all the old hidden chambers and secret passageways and so on. I wasn't very good at the game when I was a kid, but I eventually won Legend of Zelda through sheer tenacity. I think, from my completely biased opinion, it is the best video game ever.
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I'll be the cliche nerd who espouses the virtues of Ocarina of Time.
For 8bit, though, this one rules~
For 8bit, though, this one rules~
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Zellllllda.
* If you're taking the illegal route of running old games through an emulator, there's plenty more Zelda to waste a few days with. Zelda: Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo is a masterwork of pacing, puzzles, twists, humor, and ease of entry. Unlike the original, you didn't need a strategy guide to figure out which random bush to set on fire to get through the game. (There's also Zelda: The Minish Cap, a years-old release on the Game Boy Advance in which Zelda shrinks to the size of a thumbtack and, somehow, whoops an ass anyway. 'Sgood.)
Or you could look up the most shameless Zelda clones of all time, Neutopia 1 & 2, which hit the ol' Turbo Grafx 16 in the long, long ago. Could even try Beyond Oasis on the Sega Genesis, but purists like Paul may poo-poo it.
* Playing NES games on a keyboard isn't right. Call me a crabby old man, but if you have a Wii, $5 gets you a legit copy of the game, and then you can sit on your couch and tear through Zelda with a real-deal controller (and wirelessly to boot). Bonus--the Wii will save your game for you if you hit the "home" button, meaning you can always stop and resume as you please.
* There're plenty of free Zelda-ish games on the Web, too. Cave Story is a personal fave, a retro-styled title made by a single dude in Japan a few years ago that's somewhere between Zelda and Metroid. Knytt Stories is similarly simple-fun nostalgic stuff.
Guardian of Paradise is a free Zelda clone that is a little too anime for my tastes, but, well, it's free. And then, of course, there's last year's particularly stupid Barkley: Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden. It won't let me embed that game's intro video here, and maybe that's for the better.
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* If you're taking the illegal route of running old games through an emulator, there's plenty more Zelda to waste a few days with. Zelda: Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo is a masterwork of pacing, puzzles, twists, humor, and ease of entry. Unlike the original, you didn't need a strategy guide to figure out which random bush to set on fire to get through the game. (There's also Zelda: The Minish Cap, a years-old release on the Game Boy Advance in which Zelda shrinks to the size of a thumbtack and, somehow, whoops an ass anyway. 'Sgood.)
Or you could look up the most shameless Zelda clones of all time, Neutopia 1 & 2, which hit the ol' Turbo Grafx 16 in the long, long ago. Could even try Beyond Oasis on the Sega Genesis, but purists like Paul may poo-poo it.
* Playing NES games on a keyboard isn't right. Call me a crabby old man, but if you have a Wii, $5 gets you a legit copy of the game, and then you can sit on your couch and tear through Zelda with a real-deal controller (and wirelessly to boot). Bonus--the Wii will save your game for you if you hit the "home" button, meaning you can always stop and resume as you please.
* There're plenty of free Zelda-ish games on the Web, too. Cave Story is a personal fave, a retro-styled title made by a single dude in Japan a few years ago that's somewhere between Zelda and Metroid. Knytt Stories is similarly simple-fun nostalgic stuff.
Guardian of Paradise is a free Zelda clone that is a little too anime for my tastes, but, well, it's free. And then, of course, there's last year's particularly stupid Barkley: Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden. It won't let me embed that game's intro video here, and maybe that's for the better.
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Yeah, your post made me open my DS (which had Phantom Hourglass in it) and play a few wifi matches with random people.
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You guys should try www.playnes.net. You can play online and also save your game states so you don't have to start over all the time. I love that site you posted though, mostly for the online dos and C64 emulation.
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