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Post by parrothead on Feb 22, 2011 4:44:11 GMT -5
When I first played the very first Zelda title, I was at one of my babysitter's playing one of their son's NES consoles. Back then, I couldn't understand the point of it, so I quit playing it. Several years later, whe I kept hearing about Zelda DX and Ocarina of Time, I decided to add them to my Christmas list, and I was able to understand the series more. Before that Christmas, when I saw one of the commercials for Final Fantasy VII, I was like "Oh no, Nintendo is doomed.", but later, when I went to a store called "Software etc.", I saw a short clip of the scene from Ocarina of Time where Link and Epona jumped outside of Lon Lon Ranch, while Epona "nayed". I was like "Go get 'em, Nintendo!" How many of these 25 things about the Zelda franchise do you know about? I only knew 17 of them: www.1up.com/news/25-things-you-did-not-know-about-zelda?pager.offset=4Especially since "adventure games" are possibly the oldest genre that can be said to be true games. They go all the way back to 1979, with Zork and Colossal Cave. Why yes, I do want to punch the dragon. That being said, he's spot on with the Hydlide comparison. They really are quite superficial similar- enough to make me think its intentional. Well, I mean the bird's eye viewed kind of adventure games, not generally adventure games. What dragon? Gleeok? That was a tough one, especially with four heads. Even Virtual Hydlide, the first 3D game in the Hydlide series predates Ocarina of Time. |
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Post by The Qu on Feb 22, 2011 11:18:30 GMT -5
Never heard of Colossal Cave, have you? Go read up on it, bro. It was THE first Adventure game, to the point where it coined the term- the full title is Colossal Cave Adventure, and it was often shortened to just Adventure. It was also the first interactive fiction game, and as such, the first text based adventure game.
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Post by Arcadenik on Feb 22, 2011 21:23:58 GMT -5
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Post by parrothead on Feb 22, 2011 22:47:03 GMT -5
Never heard of Colossal Cave, have you? Go read up on it, bro. It was THE first Adventure game, to the point where it coined the term- the full title is Colossal Cave Adventure, and it was often shortened to just Adventure. It was also the first interactive fiction game, and as such, the first text based adventure game. I already looked it up while I was typing my last post. At first, I thought it was ALttP, then I saw some OoT characters, then I saw Marin from Link's Awakening, and then when I saw more characters from other Zelda games, I was hoping there isn't anyone that exclusively appeared in any of the CD-i games. |
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Post by Prince~Of~Light on Feb 23, 2011 4:25:42 GMT -5
Dangit, someone put that pic before I could.
Dang, this really has a huge chunk of Zelda-characters universally- HOLY MACARONI- THERE'S PRINCE RICHARD?! BUH---T
My memories with Zelda are kinda funny- My little brothers got the original Ocarina Of Time-cartridge and played the game in a competitive manner. I never wanted to try playing it, since I had builded some kind of respect towards my brothers as "action gamers"-
But one time I decided to try out the game, and actually cleared it as well. Even if my head was almost killed by all thinking. (->_>-)
I'm still little tolerant, even if somewhat rebellious on Zelda-games...
I remember clearing ALttP and loving that game, though. And I was very confused by the fact that it had so MUCH elements that would be used in OOT...
Besides, anyone heard of Majora's Mask Creepypasta "BEN"? (-lvl-)
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Post by Shrikeswind on Feb 23, 2011 4:55:25 GMT -5
It's all about meeting the right people. Tenacity, resourcefulness, and mutual interest go far in this day and age. So, being a magnificent bastard, then. Not cool, man. I just washed these undies. Stupid Arcadenik, posting pics so awesome they make me crap myself. Besides, anyone heard of Majora's Mask Creepypasta "BEN"? (-lvl-) Someone posted a topic about it here once. Between his poor spelling and the general air of falsehood to it, the topic went off like tofu in a steakhouse. |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Feb 23, 2011 15:45:06 GMT -5
Aweasome beyond words. This is a 512 times sped up video, meaning that the original production time was almost 120 hours, which you could possibly have used for beating all the games illustrated here. This is just plain crazy. |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Feb 23, 2011 20:20:07 GMT -5
I did a quick look through the archives and there's a hell of a lot of 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th and 25th anniversaries this year... particularly for hardware.
Famicom Disk System (25th)
SNES US Release (20th)
Nintendo 64 (15th)
Game Boy Advance (10th)
GameCube (10th)
Pokemon Mini (10th)
Wii (5th)
You have the 25th anniversaries of Zelda, Metroid and Kid Icarus...
You have the 20th anniversaries of A Link to the Past and Sim City
You have the 15th anniversaries of Pokemon Red/Green, Mole Mania, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario 64, Wave Race 64, etc.
You have the 10th anniversaries of Animal Crossing, Golden Sun, Pikmin, Super Smash Bros. Melee and NinDB!
And you have the 5th anniversaries of Mother 3, Wii Sports, New Super Mario Bros. and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
I know you could probably do something similar for every year, but when in one year you have the anniversary of the first Metroid, Zelda AND Pokemon games... Not to mention many systems and some of the best games ever made... It's gonna be a busy one this year!
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Post by Shrikeswind on Feb 23, 2011 23:00:11 GMT -5
Ho-ho-holy shit. That's an impressive list of big anniversaries. Glad to know I'm redoing my site before most of it gets started. Means I can get my celebratin' on.
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Post by Leon on Feb 24, 2011 0:56:10 GMT -5
Iwata made it public knowledge at the investors briefing in January that Nintendo has plans for the anniversaries of Zelda, Pokemon, and for some reason Dragon Quest.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Feb 24, 2011 4:12:00 GMT -5
I'm actually planning on using this list to schedule some NinDB site updates. I'm plugging all the cameos back into the site as we speak.
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Post by Leon on Mar 2, 2011 20:46:44 GMT -5
Zelda Anniversary Logo from GDC  |
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Post by Da Robot on Aug 6, 2011 3:10:47 GMT -5
So . . .  25th anniversary of Metroid . . . (6th August). |
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Post by Prince~Of~Light on Aug 6, 2011 6:17:23 GMT -5
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Post by Wildcat on Aug 6, 2011 8:50:55 GMT -5
Happy 25th to Metroid! - it's quite an awesome coincidence that my overall favorite franchise has its anniversary the same day as my website. LVLs. is 10 years old as of today, so I'm pretty stoked.  |
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Especially since "adventure games" are possibly the oldest genre that can be said to be true games. They go all the way back to 1979, with Zork and Colossal Cave.
