@Brian Jones, yep, we 80s kids won't forget those games. My best friend was addicted to Tyson's Punch out. Zelda, Super Mario Bros 1 and 2, Metroid, and Castlevania were the ones I was addicted to in the late 80s
We 80s kids won't forget that gold cartridge. I used to play this game for hours. It took constant playing for about 2 months before I mastered it and finished it like in this video
As a kid what attracted me to this game was the gold cartridge. I remember giving-up within an hour of game play because i didn't know where to go or what to do lol
I was the first soldier to finish this game at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1987 501st Signal Battalion. I loved watching it snow outside my barracks window while I stayed up all night eating pizza, drinking Mountain Dew and playing this game. About half way through the game other buddies started buying the console and game and playing it. Before I finished I had every room on the third floor playing this game and the sounds of Zelda could be heard at all hours of the night! Zelda my first true love!
Indeed, but I left out a part of the story. I finished the game way before anyone else and everyone would come to my room to ask me how to get past this or that or where to place a bomb. They would even wake me up at 3am pounding on my door begging me to tell them something about the game. One Soldier even brought the game and a small television out to the field and set it up covertly in his communications truck. Makes me smile thinking about that.
What a cool story. That's what video games are about to me is the memories you make with them and how just a sound or one part of a game can make you remember that good or bad moment in your life.
I played this game for hours upon hours. My mother-in-law loved it too and drew maps of the upper levels. She passed about 20 years ago, and would have loved to see walk-throughs on RUclips.
I just turned 41 and was born in 1980 so this is nostalgia at its finest. A month ago I was cleaning out my garage and I knew i had a Nintendo with about 25 games stashed in there somewhere. Sure enough I found it. Took apart the Nintendo and cleaned it out along with the games with some Qtips and rubbing alcohol. Everything works great. After trying each game a little bit for the first 2 weeks I've been playing Zelda for about a half hour 3 or 4 nights a week for the last few weeks and have the game about half completed. Surprised it's saving my game and how well the Nintendo still works. My wife thinks it's hilarious but I caught her playing Tetris last week lol. We don't have kids but my 5 year old nephew stayed over last weekend and I introduced him to Nintendo and let's just say Super Mario Bros was played for about 8 hours that weekend. Good times the 80s were!!
This is the most graceful speedrun I've ever seen. Shows the full beginning and ending of the game, takes it's time to show you every item being used, still is faster than 90% of every other speedrun of this game here on youtube. Props to: 6:43 - Reinhard Klinksiek (right corner of the screen). He's a master of this game.
My dad first played this game when it came out originally. Years later, in 2002, he gave 5 year-old me his old NES, Game Boy and SNES with most of his games including all Zelda titles. I became a die-hard fan of the franchise and even decided on a career path that led me to videogame level design. We would sit together during the weekends and play for hours, since I was a child and English wasn't my mother tongue, my dad guided me through all my playthroughs and explained the plot and what the items were, he was very patient. When BoTW came out, I would only play it whenever I was at home with my dad so we could both experience it and it was my turn to be patient with him since his finger joints are not what they used to be. Most of my life and the happiest memories I have are linked to this franchise and I couldn't be prouder.
Your story warms my heart. Both your dad and yourself sound like wonderfully patient people around those you love, knowing that time spent with a loved one is never time wasted. I am sure you will cherish those memories forever!
For me Zelda1 the worst Zelda game, I never managed to even reach the first dungeon. Too maze like overworld and too powerful enemies. Golvellius on SMS is much better. Zelda 3 is the best game of all time, imho.
@@RaptureMusicOfficialThe original Zelda is easily one of the best Zelda games, right up there with Breath Of The Wild, Ocarina Of Time and A Link To The Past. I find the first Zelda to be the most interesting of the franchise.
Amazing. This is the smoothest play I can remember ever seeing. I can't even play the game without dieing, and you beat it without even hearing a warning beep.
it is not that hard to beat the game without hearing a warning beep honestly, but doing it that fast, that is skill. i, myself am capable of completing it without the warning beep, but it would take a few hours at the least to complete seeing as i do not have the lvl 8 and 9 dungeons memorized, those alone will take me about an hour each if i am lucky. i did learn of a few new things watching this speed run though.... i did not know there was a third 100 rupee secret, but i knew of a secret neat the lvl 1 dungeon that was never burned. which down 1 and left all the way from the zone to the right of lvl 1.
This dude is an amateur. I beat this game with out using a sword until you need it for Gannon. And I did it faster and with more efficiency. I watched another dude play and to this guys credit, he’s much better than the other guy. Damn that other guy was weak as hell 😂. It’s still fun to watch other play though. Makes me want to kick Gannon’s ass again.
It says right in the opening scroll, read the manual... Link, holding manual high in the air, as if it were a prize, worthy to behold. It had a map and all sorts of useful tips and hints. What was the first thing we did, tossed that shit in the garbage!!!!
I’ll never forget being 5 years old watching my older sister play this game when she came over to visit and brought her Nintendo. I was mystified, it was the most epic and satisfying thing I ever seen.
I remember it taking me a month to figure the secrets out of this game, he made it look simple . Lol. I loved this game. Looked foward to blowing into the cartridge a few times, pushing it in, banging the top of the console, and off to Zelda land...ahhh memories...
Whenever I get frustrated with a video game these days, I think about older games like this, and remember how much more difficult games seemed to be then.
Audiomancer the second quest of this game is difficult without the aid of the internet. I made it half way through until I looked up videos on the net.
After 30 years this game retains one of the strongest music ever created in a video game. This was way too ahead of its time. I can't believe how well this game sustain today in 2020.
"hello everybody this episode is sponsored by surfshark *cringy loud 3d intro*so the first thing you wanna do is check that you have the game and speed runed it now back to the video like i said this video is sponsored by..."like this?
I remember playing this as a kid, and trying to burn every, single bush... Good times. I wish kids these days knew what it was like to play a game, and if you didn't like it, you had to suck it up.
Raun Smith 😂!!!!! I went through that damn game even with a RUclips guide and still was missing 9 fucking seeds !!! Jesus fucking Christ that kissed me off!!! I haven’t been able to play that game again, so many fucking hours going through with the video and still missed some of those fucking seeds. I can’t do that again to find the missing seeds. That shit took too long!
Brings back memories like you say. It was so hard to find everything on the second quest. Took forever to find level 7 and so many bombs looking for level 8 and 9
Brian Jones I had the game when it came out before there was a strategy guide or even the internet. We had no choice but to try to burn a tree leave the screen and come back and try to burn another tree. I couldn’t even guess at how long it took to find certain levels in the second quest.
you got a map when you bought the game with a few spots shown, but had to find secrets and take notes, i was born in 1980 and my dad loved this game, he got so good he would beat it with minimum gear, ya, my dad was like 46yrs old owning this game, lol, my parents had kids late
It IS a *Huge* game when you consider trying to burn every tree, bomb every wall, push every rock and buy every item without getting any help. No phone hotlines, Nintendo power or internet. Just you vs the game. Playing this game legitimately does make the game big. I think it took me over a year to beat for the first time.
This was my favorite game of all time! playing this game for hours & hours!! gave me the Thinking strategy that i have today!! just hearing the Theme song takes me back to Good old times with that Iconic GOLD Cartridge!!!!!
The gold cartridge was popular at the time. And the paper manual was thick. I would go to my cousins house and read the manual while he played. "Can I try?" "No." I had a Sega Master System at the time and was playing some titles for it. But I played "Link To the Past" a few years later. Good times.
Shame you feel that way. You had a great system. I don’t know where you come from but over here in Europe, your experiences with your cousin would be reversed. Everybody had a Master System. Plus you’ve played Golden Axe Warrior. It’s basically the Master System Zelda.
Bellocks1 I just watched some dude play that game through level 2, imitation as hell 😂 it’s like Zelda blended with dragon warrior with weaker music and graphics. It is like imitation meat, it will do if you owned a weak ass sega, but it ain’t the same.
We accidentally kicked/banged the NES and WIPED OUR FUCKING SAVE POINTS TWICE, and had to start over from the beginning. THEN one night we were in the final dungeon and some a-hole hit a pole nearby and knocked out power, we were raging... fortunately it didn't zap our saves, but that shit sucked!
lolol I was the one that had Nintendo Hot Line on speed dial. Hey, I was working full time and when I had time to myself (wee hours of the morning) it was Zelda non stop. For years.
I must say I'm impressed.You moved through the map like A well oiled machine..Done in less than an hour..I played this Back when it first came out seemed like it took me forever to do it...
I know it took me more then 55 minutes to play Zelda. In fact my sister and I melted our first game cartridge we played it so much. Thanks for the walk through, it was great!!
It seemed so vast when I last played it some 35 years ago. I spent months trying to figure it out. Loved every minute. Seeing this kind of shattered the illusion of how endless it was, but in a good way. Everything seems bigger when you're a kid.
It’s a great game for it’s time. However, the games of today are far more immersive with incredible story lines. I’d say that this is the greatest game of its era.
Bring me back memories when i was under 12 and parents told me many times at late hour to go sleep, and i was saying "10 more minutes and i go sleep" "10 more minutes and i go sleep" "10 more minutes and i go sleep" "Please 5 more minutes i need to check this level" :D Also this music... will never forget it :) Love Zelda
Man. Legend of Zelda has to have one of the best 8 bit intros into a game ever created. Such a great song, makes you want to go on an adventure. The only intro in a video game I haven't pressed the start button to end. If I moved to a desert island and could only bring five games, Legend of Zelda would be on the list. Link to the past is boss as well.
Wow honestly I have tears in my eyes knowing how far this game has come..... Compare this to the newest one breath of the wild, the creators have put so much effort into these games and they never fail to succeed, always stealing our hearts everytime!
Seriously, Breath of the wild is so damn good... definitely the best game to date: great game play, great storylines, great music, great graphics, great great great great great great. Even so, still love this game!
I have beat this game many times. I got curious what would happen if you didn't rescue the princess after you defeat Gannon. Nothing happens. I left room and game back the princess was still waiting.
And to think we had to figure it out all on your own, maybe get some tips from your friends that was it, and now I have a step by step video....amazing.
Link is the characters name. The player was named Monty. The great thing about Legend of Zelda was that you could save three separate games at once (which was kind of a big deal back in the 80s).
*dungeons and items are hidden in walls you'd never guess unless you read Nintendo Power* I remember this game! It was soo fun and I love it so much!!! *press up and down* I remember being stuck on that segment for HOURS. I literally refunded the game. It still haunts me to this day.
This brings back so many great memeories where my brother and i figured this game out juat like this. Took us a loooong time. 30 yrs later..my kids and i believe most kids dont have the attention to brute force figure things out like that anymore, or maybe just less of them.
Thanks. My days are saved now. As a kid growing up I just had the game cartridge. No manual. No magazine. Now with RUclips this game is actually a lot of fun. Even finding all the coins. Those blue monsters that have the shields are hard as shit. I'm on castle number 5 or dungeon. Anyways. This is one of the best games on the NES. I'm happy I still have the game.
The magic wand thing was always my favourite item in the game when I was younger! I wish game makers these days still put the creativity into making games that they did in the late 80's and early 90's. NES and N64 were the best systems ever! After that it almost entirely went downhill.
we all used to make up names for the enemies didn't we? The pols voices were bunny heads, the darknuts were fox knights, the lynel were scottie dogs, gibdo were grimace mummies, and gels were hershey squirts.
First video game I ever owned... And it was brand new at the time! Thank you for the childhood dream come true and getting to the damn end finally! 😛🤘🏻
I remember playing this when I was little. Every time the save was lost for some reason I tried to get the white sword again but couldn't remember where it was. Also if you shoot one of the npcs they retaliate with energy balls but they can't hurt you if you have the big shield.
Respect !!!! J'ai joué Étant petit, j'ai galerer à le finir en ayant peu de cœur et sa fait plaisir de voir tout ce que tu as fait :) J'ai regarder les, 55 minute en buvant des coup !!!, Merci !
I just finished this today with some help from your video. I played ALTTP as a kid but was too young at the time to play the Original. Gotta say, it feels good. How could I be a Zelda fan without going back to were it all started?
Wow, this video brings back a lot of memories! Great gaming, though when the lady told you to "Buy medicine before you leave" and you walked away I was like "WAIT, GO BACK!!" Evidently, not needed. LOL, Great Job and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I hear you. I remember 6 year old me learning this the hard way. It's amazing 39 year old me still remembers. Games like these are like learning to ride a bike. Once you learned, you never forget.
been wondering: Zelda literally has only 4 ingame soundtracks: overworld, dungeon, Ganon's dungeon, and when you get a triforce piece. yet we never see nor hear about anyone complaining the game's music being repetitive. I suppose the game is just that good it makes you forget that it only has 4 soundtracks.
that's what struck me last night--i watched this video after not seeing the game for almost 30 years, and i was struck by how truly genius the music is, (esp in the underworlds--it's just insanely brilliantly and simply crafted). Tetris on the gameboy was similar, i remember...
This is happiness. Just 1 look at it and it's so much more inviting and fun than the 3d environments that give me headaches. Isn't this the first video game where you could save your progress? So many reasons this is the best ever.
I've just been skipping around but at 49:37 Link strikes the air and is rewarded with a bomb pickup. How does that work? There also seems to be alot of kills rewarded with bomb, fairies and hearts compared to my experience. What does it say in the upper right hand corner at 53:46. It seems the game is adjusted. Is this done just to show the walkthrough? It all seems a little fishy if it supposed to be some trophy style run through the game.
Not trying to doubt as you've obviously put in a ton of time and maybe help to go through the game in this fashion. Maybe you're so beyond my ability level. I'm playing through for the first times 30 years later.
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The sounds take me back to Xmas morning. I’ll never forget opening that box to find a gold cartridge...
@Brian Jones, yep, we 80s kids won't forget those games. My best friend was addicted to Tyson's Punch out. Zelda, Super Mario Bros 1 and 2, Metroid, and Castlevania were the ones I was addicted to in the late 80s
We 80s kids won't forget that gold cartridge. I used to play this game for hours. It took constant playing for about 2 months before I mastered it and finished it like in this video
@@alvexok5523 dude its all over, all the kids nowdays have the NES mini.
@@Lubin-md4ml, yep. These Nintendo games, Zelda, Metroid, etc., are for us nostalgic 80s kids. Kids today want the latest and most updated games
As a kid what attracted me to this game was the gold cartridge. I remember giving-up within an hour of game play because i didn't know where to go or what to do lol
I was the first soldier to finish this game at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1987 501st Signal Battalion. I loved watching it snow outside my barracks window while I stayed up all night eating pizza, drinking Mountain Dew and playing this game. About half way through the game other buddies started buying the console and game and playing it. Before I finished I had every room on the third floor playing this game and the sounds of Zelda could be heard at all hours of the night!
Zelda my first true love!
a great story!
Indeed, but I left out a part of the story. I finished the game way before anyone else and everyone would come to my room to ask me how to get past this or that or where to place a bomb. They would even wake me up at 3am pounding on my door begging me to tell them something about the game. One Soldier even brought the game and a small television out to the field and set it up covertly in his communications truck.
Makes me smile thinking about that.
What a cool story. That's what video games are about to me is the memories you make with them and how just a sound or one part of a game can make you remember that good or bad moment in your life.
What's your favorite Zelda?
The original without question my emotional attachment to that game is unequaled. That's not to say that it is the best game just my favorite.
i remember a friend and i got so tired of getting lost in this game that we made our own map. that was back before we had Internet. good times!
That’s dedication 😂
@@goldwolf0606, without the internet, it was easier to use your imagination
awesome :)
My buddie had this as a kid. He was always playing it.and showing me new games.he had tons
:,)
I played this game for hours upon hours. My mother-in-law loved it too and drew maps of the upper levels. She passed about 20 years ago, and would have loved to see walk-throughs on RUclips.
1:30 begins
2:27
bombs
2:40 heart
3:17 heart
4:01 paper
5:30 sword
6:20
dungeon (heart, bow, boomerang)
9:50
blue candle,
big shield, key
10:20 potion
10:46
dungeon (heart,
raft)
13:40 meat, blue ring, key
14:16 dungeon (
stairs)
17:42 heart
19:21
big shield, bombs, arrows
19:35 heart
19:47 heart
20:49 dungeon (heart, magic boomerang)
23:09 big shield meat
23:51 dungeon (heart, flute)
31:06 secret
31:42 magic sword
32:08 dungeon (heart, ¿magic wand, wand, magic thing?)
38:12 dungeon (heart, red candle)
42:44 dungeon (heart, book, the KEY)
48:05 potion
48:20 dungeon final (red ring, light arrows)
55:09 epilepsy
I watch this video when i was playing this game the legend of zelda cuz i need to know how to beat the game then after 4 hours i beat this game
@@hassanabdulkarim6331 emm ok?
What?
Why do everyone say ok to me then i comment
@@hassanabdulkarim6331 no se ingles
That music when you used to enter the dungeons used to give chills especially at night.
Such a great game with a ROM size of only 131kB. Still stands as my all-time favorite video game.
I just turned 41 and was born in 1980 so this is nostalgia at its finest. A month ago I was cleaning out my garage and I knew i had a Nintendo with about 25 games stashed in there somewhere. Sure enough I found it. Took apart the Nintendo and cleaned it out along with the games with some Qtips and rubbing alcohol. Everything works great. After trying each game a little bit for the first 2 weeks I've been playing Zelda for about a half hour 3 or 4 nights a week for the last few weeks and have the game about half completed. Surprised it's saving my game and how well the Nintendo still works. My wife thinks it's hilarious but I caught her playing Tetris last week lol. We don't have kids but my 5 year old nephew stayed over last weekend and I introduced him to Nintendo and let's just say Super Mario Bros was played for about 8 hours that weekend. Good times the 80s were!!
It is dangerous to go alone. Take this!
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*Link Holding Item Theme Plays*
Just a stick sword? That's weak!
Take this sword instead of that
O---|=========================>
The longest sword ever in Hyrule
@travis the maxus "It's a secret to everyone"
@travis the maxus: Don't you mean "It's lonely to go alone. Take this."? in that case.
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This is the most graceful speedrun I've ever seen. Shows the full beginning and ending of the game, takes it's time to show you every item being used, still is faster than 90% of every other speedrun of this game here on youtube. Props to: 6:43 - Reinhard Klinksiek (right corner of the screen). He's a master of this game.
+Tense agree with you!
That’s not a speedrun dude
1) This is not a speedrun, doesn't even look like one
2) It is not faster than any speedrun, it would never rank well in any cateory
Oh my, I'm almost in tears just listening to the intro music. I remember being 9 years in the late '80s and playing this. Those were the days!
My dad first played this game when it came out originally. Years later, in 2002, he gave 5 year-old me his old NES, Game Boy and SNES with most of his games including all Zelda titles. I became a die-hard fan of the franchise and even decided on a career path that led me to videogame level design. We would sit together during the weekends and play for hours, since I was a child and English wasn't my mother tongue, my dad guided me through all my playthroughs and explained the plot and what the items were, he was very patient. When BoTW came out, I would only play it whenever I was at home with my dad so we could both experience it and it was my turn to be patient with him since his finger joints are not what they used to be. Most of my life and the happiest memories I have are linked to this franchise and I couldn't be prouder.
Your story warms my heart. Both your dad and yourself sound like wonderfully patient people around those you love, knowing that time spent with a loved one is never time wasted. I am sure you will cherish those memories forever!
one of the greatest games of all time. still love it to this day
For me Zelda1 the worst Zelda game, I never managed to even reach the first dungeon. Too maze like overworld and too powerful enemies. Golvellius on SMS is much better. Zelda 3 is the best game of all time, imho.
@@RaptureMusicOfficialThe original Zelda is easily one of the best Zelda games, right up there with Breath Of The Wild, Ocarina Of Time and A Link To The Past.
I find the first Zelda to be the most interesting of the franchise.
Ok no prob, to each their own. :) @@kurdt1012
Amazing. This is the smoothest play I can remember ever seeing. I can't even play the game without dieing, and you beat it without even hearing a warning beep.
it is not that hard to beat the game without hearing a warning beep honestly, but doing it that fast, that is skill. i, myself am capable of completing it without the warning beep, but it would take a few hours at the least to complete seeing as i do not have the lvl 8 and 9 dungeons memorized, those alone will take me about an hour each if i am lucky. i did learn of a few new things watching this speed run though.... i did not know there was a third 100 rupee secret, but i knew of a secret neat the lvl 1 dungeon that was never burned. which down 1 and left all the way from the zone to the right of lvl 1.
This dude is an amateur. I beat this game with out using a sword until you need it for Gannon. And I did it faster and with more efficiency. I watched another dude play and to this guys credit, he’s much better than the other guy. Damn that other guy was weak as hell 😂. It’s still fun to watch other play though. Makes me want to kick Gannon’s ass again.
these archival videos can use save states. Its not a speedrun.
Watch lackattack. World record at 28 minutes
*dying*
took me 18 months to finish this godamn game
😂
You’re a champ man 😂
I played for 1 moth and I am at level 6
Took me like 20 years🤣🤣 but i have played a lot of different games, never even finished mario 1 for nes...
It says right in the opening scroll, read the manual... Link, holding manual high in the air, as if it were a prize, worthy to behold. It had a map and all sorts of useful tips and hints. What was the first thing we did, tossed that shit in the garbage!!!!
I’ll never forget being 5 years old watching my older sister play this game when she came over to visit and brought her Nintendo. I was mystified, it was the most epic and satisfying thing I ever seen.
This game takes me back in time to where I feel like that innocent kid again. Just the music is enough to do that.
I remember it taking me a month to figure the secrets out of this game, he made it look simple . Lol. I loved this game. Looked foward to blowing into the cartridge a few times, pushing it in, banging the top of the console, and off to Zelda land...ahhh memories...
Whenever I get frustrated with a video game these days, I think about older games like this, and remember how much more difficult games seemed to be then.
Audiomancer the second quest of this game is difficult without the aid of the internet. I made it half way through until I looked up videos on the net.
thank you so much for making a walkthrough without talking through the whole thing like so many people do.
After 30 years this game retains one of the strongest music ever created in a video game. This was way too ahead of its time. I can't believe how well this game sustain today in 2020.
"hello everybody this episode is sponsored by surfshark *cringy loud 3d intro*so the first thing you wanna do is check that you have the game and speed runed it now back to the video like i said this video is sponsored by..."like this?
28:36 The same sound that plays when Mario uses the Warp Whistle in SMB3...
29:00 ...apparently with the same results.
I remember playing this as a kid, and trying to burn every, single bush... Good times.
I wish kids these days knew what it was like to play a game, and if you didn't like it, you had to suck it up.
@Raun Smith Or how if you didn't know what to do, you had to figure it out. We didn't have "youtube"
I, unfortunately, used a map of the overworld and level 5 but I did the other dungeons legit.
Raun Smith 😂!!!!! I went through that damn game even with a RUclips guide and still was missing 9 fucking seeds !!! Jesus fucking Christ that kissed me off!!! I haven’t been able to play that game again, so many fucking hours going through with the video and still missed some of those fucking seeds. I can’t do that again to find the missing seeds. That shit took too long!
Brings back memories like you say. It was so hard to find everything on the second quest. Took forever to find level 7 and so many bombs looking for level 8 and 9
Brian Jones I had the game when it came out before there was a strategy guide or even the internet. We had no choice but to try to burn a tree leave the screen and come back and try to burn another tree. I couldn’t even guess at how long it took to find certain levels in the second quest.
As a kid, it seemed like a huge game. Although lots of games seemed really big, when they actually wasn't. That was the magic of the NES.
you got a map when you bought the game with a few spots shown, but had to find secrets and take notes, i was born in 1980 and my dad loved this game, he got so good he would beat it with minimum gear, ya, my dad was like 46yrs old owning this game, lol, my parents had kids late
It IS a *Huge* game when you consider trying to burn every tree, bomb every wall, push every rock and buy every item without getting any help. No phone hotlines, Nintendo power or internet. Just you vs the game.
Playing this game legitimately does make the game big. I think it took me over a year to beat for the first time.
I used to get so psyched when I heard the boss in the next room screetching!
Ha I know that was otherworldly.
My first life introduction to anxiety
Oh, so that's what that sound was...
*screeching*
What room
This was my favorite game of all time! playing this game for hours & hours!! gave me the Thinking strategy that i have today!! just hearing the Theme song takes me back to Good old times with that Iconic GOLD Cartridge!!!!!
Thank you YT algorithm for letting me see this gem of a video almost 11 years later! Such a great run. The double hit at 20:57 was epic!
Yes!
This game was SO AHEAD OF ITS TIME it's ridiculous !!!!!
Not anymore now it sucks ass
Nice trolling
It's one of the all time greatest.
Phantasy Star was even more so ahead of its time..its even more ridiculous..
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This was all this game needed to be; beautiful in its simplicity.
The gold cartridge was popular at the time. And the paper manual was thick. I would go to my cousins house and read the manual while he played. "Can I try?" "No." I had a Sega Master System at the time and was playing some titles for it. But I played "Link To the Past" a few years later. Good times.
Shame you feel that way. You had a great system. I don’t know where you come from but over here in Europe, your experiences with your cousin would be reversed. Everybody had a Master System.
Plus you’ve played Golden Axe Warrior. It’s basically the Master System Zelda.
Bellocks1 imitation Zelda games are not Zelda games. Sega sucks, that’s why they disappeared from the face of the earth.
Bellocks1 I just watched some dude play that game through level 2, imitation as hell 😂 it’s like Zelda blended with dragon warrior with weaker music and graphics. It is like imitation meat, it will do if you owned a weak ass sega, but it ain’t the same.
I remember playing this in the 80's and calling the nintendo hotline begging my parents to pay for the call to get tips in the final stages.
Micro transactions beginnings...All i took was a $12 game mag to get ahead of the nest year for that game....
We accidentally kicked/banged the NES and WIPED OUR FUCKING SAVE POINTS TWICE, and had to start over from the beginning. THEN one night we were in the final dungeon and some a-hole hit a pole nearby and knocked out power, we were raging... fortunately it didn't zap our saves, but that shit sucked!
MyoclonicJerkCough loll
lolol I was the one that had Nintendo Hot Line on speed dial. Hey, I was working full time and when I had time to myself (wee hours of the morning) it was Zelda non stop. For years.
ProfessorKA0S Nintendo Power 🤣
I must say I'm impressed.You moved through the map like A well oiled machine..Done in less than an hour..I played this Back when it first came out seemed like it took me forever to do it...
You highlighted the A and B. The buttons on the gamepad. Good play sir
That is a tough game to complete like this.
Wild 1980’sGamer spotted!
Although you forgot to max out your bombs for another $100 in level 5, your playing is wonderful! Your fingers are like lightning!
I know it took me more then 55 minutes to play Zelda. In fact my sister and I melted our first game cartridge we played it so much. Thanks for the walk through, it was great!!
😂you are a dedicated soldier!
Sooooooo many memories! Im so glad i grew up playing these! I still have my NES and the games.
that theme song...definitely one of my top 3 favorites.
It seemed so vast when I last played it some 35 years ago. I spent months trying to figure it out. Loved every minute. Seeing this kind of shattered the illusion of how endless it was, but in a good way. Everything seems bigger when you're a kid.
Obviously the greatest game ever
I have this game at home and the original Nes
It’s a great game for it’s time. However, the games of today are far more immersive with incredible story lines. I’d say that this is the greatest game of its era.
ocarina of time, twilight princess and breath of the wild are all better zelda games.
911Gameover obviously
911Gameover It was a pornograph :(
I’m not ashamed to admit that sometimes when I can’t sleep I play this video as white noise and it is very helpful.
Still have the game, brings a tear to my eye.
i like the music in those old games
probably the only cause i keep watching longplays
man i miss my c64
Bring me back memories when i was under 12 and parents told me many times at late hour to go sleep, and i was saying "10 more minutes and i go sleep" "10 more minutes and i go sleep" "10 more minutes and i go sleep" "Please 5 more minutes i need to check this level" :D Also this music... will never forget it :) Love Zelda
The Zelda game that started it all
Man. Legend of Zelda has to have one of the best 8 bit intros into a game ever created. Such a great song, makes you want to go on an adventure. The only intro in a video game I haven't pressed the start button to end. If I moved to a desert island and could only bring five games, Legend of Zelda would be on the list. Link to the past is boss as well.
Oh, how I miss the Nes grammar.
Wow honestly I have tears in my eyes knowing how far this game has come..... Compare this to the newest one breath of the wild, the creators have put so much effort into these games and they never fail to succeed, always stealing our hearts everytime!
Seriously, Breath of the wild is so damn good... definitely the best game to date: great game play, great storylines, great music, great graphics, great great great great great great. Even so, still love this game!
I have beat this game many times. I got curious what would happen if you didn't rescue the princess after you defeat Gannon. Nothing happens. I left room and game back the princess was still waiting.
And to think we had to figure it out all on your own, maybe get some tips from your friends that was it, and now I have a step by step video....amazing.
this is why the old school games are still epic in their prime days.
not that you needed it but you missed a bomb upgrade in dungeon 5 but a good run
It took DAYS for my brother to beat the game!! Now at 42 it looks so much easier lol!!
It took me like a month to beat it
I can't beat 10% without help
A normal game takes days lol
Well because at first you’re still exploring and don’t know where all the secrets are :)
This game is STILL amazing. Wow.
Made me smile..good shit..I miss being a kid....these were the days
this game is awesome - the music is incredible
Nothing gives me more nostalgia then this original Zelda theme.
ohh the nostalgia...wish i could go back in time
Link is the characters name. The player was named Monty. The great thing about Legend of Zelda was that you could save three separate games at once (which was kind of a big deal back in the 80s).
Micah Williams I know! Nowadays none of these games give you 3 saves or even 2...
*dungeons and items are hidden in walls you'd never guess unless you read Nintendo Power*
I remember this game! It was soo fun and I love it so much!!!
*press up and down*
I remember being stuck on that segment for HOURS. I literally refunded the game. It still haunts me to this day.
I'm impressed you made a mockery of Ganon and his dungeons
Back when life was simple is what this reminds me of. Wish we had it back
so fast paced yet so complete, 10/10 performance, it's an upvote from me
Dear Apple, Google and Samsung... This is 80s tech and guess what... never required an "Update".
Add Microsoft and Sony to that matter.
It's also a hell of a lot simpler in terms of code. Apples and oranges.
Dear Sir Michael: yours is perhaps the smartest comment I've read on the internet in all my life
thanks : )
Seriously. Brilliant. Back when the end product WAS the final product.
Not sure what you are asking, but if you put your name as "Zelda" in this game, it will rearrange the levels and be different dungeons.
This brings back so many great memeories where my brother and i figured this game out juat like this. Took us a loooong time. 30 yrs later..my kids and i believe most kids dont have the attention to brute force figure things out like that anymore, or maybe just less of them.
"Thanks Link, but the Princess is in another castle!!!" How great would that be?
That’s when you play the second quest 😂
Thanks. My days are saved now. As a kid growing up I just had the game cartridge. No manual. No magazine. Now with RUclips this game is actually a lot of fun. Even finding all the coins. Those blue monsters that have the shields are hard as shit. I'm on castle number 5 or dungeon. Anyways. This is one of the best games on the NES. I'm happy I still have the game.
Eindrucksvoll (durch)gespielt. Respekt guter Mann!
Brings back many hours of frustration in the 80s but completed it in the end. FUN TIMES!!!
The magic wand thing was always my favourite item in the game when I was younger! I wish game makers these days still put the creativity into making games that they did in the late 80's and early 90's. NES and N64 were the best systems ever! After that it almost entirely went downhill.
Dude, the Wii is bad ass. Go play Zelda twilight princess on the Wii.
I spent whole summers trying to figure this game out when I was a child. Watching it now makes me wonder how I didn't see some obvious paths.
best lp of the game ever made props bro from a true zelda fan!!!
perhaps the greatest RUclips video of all time
My parents played this together back in the day
we all used to make up names for the enemies didn't we? The pols voices were bunny heads, the darknuts were fox knights, the lynel were scottie dogs, gibdo were grimace mummies, and gels were hershey squirts.
Brought back many memories while i was cooking tonight .TNX for posting...
What about the second 'I bet you'd like to have more bombs.' In level 5? Great run through
First video game I ever owned... And it was brand new at the time! Thank you for the childhood dream come true and getting to the damn end finally! 😛🤘🏻
I remember playing this when I was little. Every time the save was lost for some reason I tried to get the white sword again but couldn't remember where it was.
Also if you shoot one of the npcs they retaliate with energy balls but they can't hurt you if you have the big shield.
Respect !!!!
J'ai joué Étant petit, j'ai galerer à le finir en ayant peu de cœur et sa fait plaisir de voir tout ce que tu as fait :)
J'ai regarder les, 55 minute en buvant des coup !!!,
Merci !
I just finished this today with some help from your video. I played ALTTP as a kid but was too young at the time to play the Original. Gotta say, it feels good. How could I be a Zelda fan without going back to were it all started?
Wow, this video brings back a lot of memories! Great gaming, though when the lady told you to "Buy medicine before you leave" and you walked away I was like "WAIT, GO BACK!!" Evidently, not needed. LOL, Great Job and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Finally someone who actually played the game straight through without using glitches
Thanks for the video, took me 3 hours on my first try, you’re amazing.
30 years later I still remember what Bush to burn and what wall to bomb. I can't remember what I did five minutes ago but that I still remember
This.
I hear you. I remember 6 year old me learning this the hard way. It's amazing 39 year old me still remembers. Games like these are like learning to ride a bike. Once you learned, you never forget.
Man this brings back so many memories.
Time for the 2nd Quest :-D
I was hoping you would of got the map for the last dungeon. It cracks me up to see that it's shaped like a swastika.
brings back so many memories
been wondering:
Zelda literally has only 4 ingame soundtracks: overworld, dungeon, Ganon's dungeon, and when you get a triforce piece.
yet we never see nor hear about anyone complaining the game's music being repetitive.
I suppose the game is just that good it makes you forget that it only has 4 soundtracks.
that's what struck me last night--i watched this video after not seeing the game for almost 30 years, and i was struck by how truly genius the music is, (esp in the underworlds--it's just insanely brilliantly and simply crafted). Tetris on the gameboy was similar, i remember...
I’m shocked about 4:24. I never knew about that!!
MrShanester117 3 total 100 rupy spots in the first quest.
Planting that bomb while striking with the sword against the first boss is the closest thing I have ever seen to Akuma's signature move in Zelda.
So many memories, best game ever period...
Its amazing that shore lines can turn in right angles like that
This is happiness. Just 1 look at it and it's so much more inviting and fun than the 3d environments that give me headaches. Isn't this the first video game where you could save your progress? So many reasons this is the best ever.
Si no te gusta los juegos actuales en 3D, (a mi tampoco me agradan) juega The Binding Of Isaac Rebirth.
Yupp first game to save , such a epic for its time
I miss this game. I had it back in either 1992 or 1993 when I was about 10 years old. I never beat it but it was fun.
@22:49 why the secret jingle? Its clearly a staircase in plan sight. I never finished the game myself, so I can't say for sure
This has got to have the most random intro I've ever seen in my 16 years of gaming.
Thanks for playing this. I never had the patience to do it myself.
I've just been skipping around but at 49:37 Link strikes the air and is rewarded with a bomb pickup. How does that work? There also seems to be alot of kills rewarded with bomb, fairies and hearts compared to my experience. What does it say in the upper right hand corner at 53:46. It seems the game is adjusted. Is this done just to show the walkthrough? It all seems a little fishy if it supposed to be some trophy style run through the game.
Not trying to doubt as you've obviously put in a ton of time and maybe help to go through the game in this fashion. Maybe you're so beyond my ability level. I'm playing through for the first times 30 years later.
Just replaced my gameboy sp shell to a nes classic shell im about to get my zelda on!!cant wait