King Aquamentus
04-28-2014, 08:18 PM
This is a new kind of thread I am going to try and launch. Hopefully these will become popular and rouse some discussion in them. Despite the first pick, this discussion isn't really connected to Zelda Classic, but just the game in general.
Talk about this first game, in whatever incarnation you originally encountered it. I'm assuming we're all familiar with this game in some form or another, so I thought it'd be an easy start. :) If it looks good, I (or whoever wants) can maybe try some threads for games they wanna topic on. It's a really simple thing for a board, but on the other hand, nobody's doing it. So I'm gonna be the guy to do this and just get some healthy talk going around back and forth about elements and memories and whatever from the game.
This game was one of the very first waking memories I had in life, right after Super Mario Bros. I know this to be true, because when I saw Link in the game, I thought he needed a mushroom like Mario, so he could get big! On a somewhat similar note to Super Mario Bros however, there was a health bonus/penalty: if you took a single hit, you lost the ability to throw flashing swords. That's how I saw the ability to shoot beams: Something completely normal, but a lost privilege if you weren't at full health. Naturally, I was always scrambling not to get hit, and quite often this kept me roaming in safe areas, and clear out of dungeons. I do remember the very first time I ever actually went into a dungeon, wasn't scared of the music, and actually beat it though: It was a very terrifying feat for me at that young age (I was a very young toddler at the LEAST), but when I found the Triforce, I felt like I'd just beaten the game. In fact, I probably thought I did beat it. I'd done something I'd never done before, and as far as I was concerned, I'd seen all of Hyrule (I hadn't: I'd only explored roughly a sixth of it!)
I never beat the game until I was about 13 years old. By now, there had been several Zeldas out, and I'd toppled those challenges, but the first game still beckoned to me. What's most awesome? I beat it on the same day that I had gone to the local renaissance festival (dressed as Link)! This was an awesome way to end the day. :)
Talk about this first game, in whatever incarnation you originally encountered it. I'm assuming we're all familiar with this game in some form or another, so I thought it'd be an easy start. :) If it looks good, I (or whoever wants) can maybe try some threads for games they wanna topic on. It's a really simple thing for a board, but on the other hand, nobody's doing it. So I'm gonna be the guy to do this and just get some healthy talk going around back and forth about elements and memories and whatever from the game.
This game was one of the very first waking memories I had in life, right after Super Mario Bros. I know this to be true, because when I saw Link in the game, I thought he needed a mushroom like Mario, so he could get big! On a somewhat similar note to Super Mario Bros however, there was a health bonus/penalty: if you took a single hit, you lost the ability to throw flashing swords. That's how I saw the ability to shoot beams: Something completely normal, but a lost privilege if you weren't at full health. Naturally, I was always scrambling not to get hit, and quite often this kept me roaming in safe areas, and clear out of dungeons. I do remember the very first time I ever actually went into a dungeon, wasn't scared of the music, and actually beat it though: It was a very terrifying feat for me at that young age (I was a very young toddler at the LEAST), but when I found the Triforce, I felt like I'd just beaten the game. In fact, I probably thought I did beat it. I'd done something I'd never done before, and as far as I was concerned, I'd seen all of Hyrule (I hadn't: I'd only explored roughly a sixth of it!)
I never beat the game until I was about 13 years old. By now, there had been several Zeldas out, and I'd toppled those challenges, but the first game still beckoned to me. What's most awesome? I beat it on the same day that I had gone to the local renaissance festival (dressed as Link)! This was an awesome way to end the day. :)