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5:48 This feels very much like Minecraft. Unlike Zelda1, where someone with a manual could potentially figure it out on their own, Minecraft is impossible without outside help, at least the older versions are.

Love the hat

Still my all-time-favorite game, 30 years later. I play it at least once a year.

Honestly if Nintendo just re-sold the gameboy micro just on their website with no changes it would absolutely sell out. Hell they can re-release physical NES carts with no changes and it'll sell out, I don't get why they don't just cash in on the retro collecting community. Also Imagine how crazy it would be if the re-release they gba pokemon games. So many opportunities to make so much more money but they dont do anything with it. Please Nintendo, I dont want to pay hundreds for a micro and for gba pokemon games

Hey there Bill, i was the guy next to you while we were waiting in line at the beginning. Its funny that the reason i found you, was me noticing the street-pass message on my 3DS.. kinda, heh. Really great video and i hope to meet you again next time :)

Great video! I actually think you made a great advertorial for RGBPi project. I also use it and am very happy tbh. The team is working on a PI5 support with ReplayOS and they are going to have a new dac device. Worth folowing, as PI5 much more powerful. RTA has many progress videos on his channel for those interested.

You younglings, always assuming your viewers are only 40! In months fewer than 12 I'll be *gasp!* 50!!! Ageism is real and active! 😄

Just starting the video and I just wanted to say: if Bergsala isn't mentioned in this video I will be very disapointed. Cheers.

I made my own hand drawn map of the entire game when I were a kid back in the 80s. Well I did that with many games though. But to make an exact handmade map of the entire game felt good. That says a lot of how much I loved this game.

Thank you for visiting us, great video, glad you had fun and some good finds :)

What a fun little jaunt that was. And well done for winning a magazine you already own. Thanks for sharing.

The NES was my first console. But by the time I moved to the UK from the US as a teen, I had moved on to PC so I didn't really see a lot of this stuff when I lived there. I go through console phases from time to time, just for a bit of variety but my focus as a collector is on PC. I was good at Mario Kart 7. Shame it is offline now. The chances of me buying newer Nintendo hardware is nil at this point. All of their heavy handed legal actions have turned me off the idea of giving them any more money. Emulation has been repeatedly vindicated in US courts over and over as legal so they basically bought judgments in their favor. It really clashes with their family friendly vibe. It is also the same sort of nonsense that ruined Metallica's career for 20 years. Not good business decisions. Literally proven to increase piracy, not decrease it. And I'm not interested in getting sued for trying to set up a Mario Kart Wii or Mario Kart 7 server so I don't think I'll ever get to play MK online again. IDK, maybe I'll trade for a Switch Lite at the local used media shop. Also, I eventually played BOTW and it just didn't resonate with me. I got bored. Game was too long. I'd prefer to just enjoy classic Nintendo games. Now if Nintendo would join the 21st century and offer their games on PC, I might reconsider my opinion of them. But they won't. They wrongly think it will lead to more piracy. I just have a problem with buying a console for $3-400 that uses an APU less powerful than the one in my old Galaxy Note 4.

I've never been to a con before but that actually looked pretty great. Though I'd come out of there broke too, lol. Nice haul!

See i did beat this as a kid in the 80s... because i had friends who played and we swapped info. Was a fun way to play

It'll never hold up to the latest survival horror game: being alive in 2024!

RIP Jeremy

You should try Ghosts n Goblins and Kid Icarus

I beat it in 87-88 13 years old. Didn't use a guide never played it in a friend group. Just by trial and error. Of course at school on breaks or lunch there were ideas being shared

Engagement.

Wait... Turok had a story?!?

I had a file that allowed you to play Doom on a scientific calculator on my BBS back in 2016/2017. I have it around here somewhere and can dig up the files if you're interested. :D Loving the channel btw!!!

Dear God, if you thought beating the first quest was bad without a walk through, you should do the second quest. When I first beat it back in the pre-internet days it took me a literal MONTH to find Level 7. 😂

Loved this video! I can definitely relate. My fiance had a Sega Master System with Wonderboy for about a week before it was taken away because her and her gazillion siblings would fight over it. Beyond that, she has no childhood gaming experience.. it's been a joy introducing her and her kiddo to the classics :D

I didn't get a Nintendo until 1990. But my friends and I discovered it like it was a brand new game. Working together to explore - the truths and myths traded around on the playground.. those were great days. I beat it a year or two later. The internet ruined that for people now. It's kind of like the old PC RPG games. The point was to draw a map of your travels - I had all sorts of random sheets of graph paper laying around the computer mapping out a random town, or dungeon, or whatever... the internet has everything mapped out for you - like a GPS with Eddie Murphy from Delirious narrating the navigation. I miss those good ol' days.... Great video! Subscribed!!

You didn't need a big crew. Just Nintendo Power and patience which many people had because they were having so much fun trying to get through it. Having the option go online and watch walk-thrus is an option for every game these days. I would think most people only do that on the parts where they are stuck at.

The Gutenberg line made me think we were going to talk about how vital the manual was to the self discovery experience of TLOZ. For anyone who hasn’t played it yet, Tunic is an amazing game, very much a spiritual successor to TLOZ. It even has an in game manual that you collect pages of that reveal more information and secrets of the game.

I have very fond memories of playing the original Zelda. Plus it had a randomizer built in. When you entered the name "Zelda" and link would have a sword icon at the selection screen and the map was rearranged. I tried to have my kids play the game and they hate it. I think this video helped me understand why. Thanks for the video.

The Legend of Zelda is not an RPG.

I'm a Doom fanatic, and I enjoy this port quite a lot. I like the use of colors, and obviously the soundtrack. And unlike the Jaguar or 32x version, which also don't have Saving options, when you die on SNES Doom, you can re-start the level keeping all the items.

I got the game when it first came out and there wasn't any issue beating it. Yeah, took like 3-4 weeks to beat it over the summer, but it was totally doable (no guides, no help, etc). This was back in 1986. I was still in grade school. I completed the 2nd quest too that same summer.

Im 25 and i started collecting retro games this summer. I was always a zelda hater for a lot if reasons you described, but i saw a copy of this game at a shop and knew i had to pick it up. Something about playing it on the original cartridge is so different than the ported versions. My friend and I ended up giving a chance and we ended up immediately loving it and we went through and beat the whole game using knowledge we picked up over the years. So intead of a friend telling us at school, it was us remembering zelda references from 20 year old AVGN videos. We were strict with not using the Internet, but we did have to look up one thing to find a dungeon. Still, I feel like we did capture some of the magic of playing this game in the old days. The fact that you can enjoy it today for different reasons is a testament to its greatness.

The battery in mine still works.

I played this in 87 when I was 9 and could not have finished it without my mother. She drew a full size map taking up half my bedroom with every screen of the game on one A4 paper. It had every bush, rock and enemy. She would go out and play the game burning every bush, bombing every rock, pushing every stone and that's how we found every item. I would do all the fighting and finally beat ganon. So grateful for that wonderful time adventuring in Zelda with my mother

Hey, I stumbled upon your Zelda video and now I'm progressivly watching your other stuff (and subsctibed, of course!). These are really good videos and I liked your speach about nostalgia, philosophy (childhood, the human confition, etc....^^) Keep on the good work and thank you for making these videos! BTW: I always loved Fischstäbchen, when I was a child^^

Completed it in the 80s. The OG game came with a map.

You can always not read the guide.

I spent nearly a year in the hospital when I was little. The staff was kind enough to bring me a NES and many games. Zelda being the one that caught my interest the most because they told me no one they knew had completed it. I had took it as a challenge, spending most of my time exploring and making notes and maps of various things I had explored. Even down to what npcs I had spoken with said when I last talked to them. Took me nearly 8 months but I completed the game. There were no ways outside of calling the Nintendo tip line which I couldn't do from the hospital anyways. Remains my most fond/agonizing memory to this day!

When I got Zelda , I was floored . A Golden Cartridge to start and the game just throws you in. “ Here’s a sword , good luck . “ 😂😂😂 I played this game for hours at a time. When I finally beat it and went on to 2nd Quest I was even more amazed. Such fun memories. 😊

metroid is awesome and it's good to see you enjoyed the game the way it should be played. i remember being like 10 years old and playing metroid over and over and over and just getting more badass with every run. unfortunately i can't play it anymore as the sound effects kind of haunt me now as i heard them far too much as a kid as for zelda, i kind of think it is impossible for people to play these days as we are so used to games being easy to play... but back then games were different. i still fondly remember playing castle wolfenstein and working my way around maps trying to find secret doors on every piece of wall just to find a new little room and the dopamine rush that came with it... but that sort of thing would never work in modern games especially as we don't seem to have the time anymore as we've all grown up. yet back in the day, the game set out to do what it needed to do perfectly, give us a solid challenge which took months, maybe even years just to finish and i'm sure my mother thought that she was getting her moneys worth - something which i rarely feel i get from games these days

I can totally relate to not bringing your Gameboy Micro outside, because it's too valuable. I even kinda feel that way with a GBA or NDS even though they aren't as high priced as a GBM. But getting something in good condition if your unit gets lost is quite a hassle and still can get pricey. Pretty much the reason why I only take Emulation Handhelds with me.

I never really enjoyed Zelda 1 or 2, I think Link to the Past was the first good Zelda game. Also, the Link to the Past/Super Metroid randomizer proves that a Zelda that combined Top down gameplay with 2D platformer gameplay in some segments (like dungeons) could work.

Another cracking video Sofa-man. Always interesting to see Nintendo from 'our' POV and how they were just a fraction late to get dominance. Oh and that red jacket 👌

Nintendo's worst console was also its biggest success. Nintendo Wii was the only bad mainline Nintendo console that saw mass production. It was so bad that nobody bought the follow-up Wii U which was actually a phenomenal platform.

Came for goldeneye, stayed for cat.

I think these days the Game Boy Micro is mostly a collectors item. I've never understood why anyone would want one. The screen is tiny, it doesn't support backwards compatibility, and doesn't work with many peripherals. Like, if you're going to make an argument for the Game Boy Advance as Nintendo's best handheld, ok, sure. But the Micro specifically? I don't get it at all.

put all the "Quality of Life" fixes into the original Zelda games and you wont have a game left... you talk a lot about not having time to play the game... but if you're loading up a Zelda game and you don't have time to play it, i question what you're actually doing or trying to achieve. these games are about solving puzzles... which just so happens to takes time we used to have a saying, if you're stuck in Zelda or Metroid then you just haven't tried hard enough, go back and try again.

This video is pointless. And yes, the original came with a map and minimal instructions. Back then there were lots of printed game magazines, and all of them ran zelda walkthroughs at some point or other. The obscurity you're nostalgic about never was as an imprenetable mystery you make it out to be. I never finished it either, bugs me to this day. The game has a special place in my heart, 0 impulse to revisit it. A randomised version is even less inviting then finding time to play the original.