Zelda

I can remember playing this game on the Nintendo entertainment system or NES as it is known many many years ago. I was already addicted to playing on my Sinclair Spectrum 128 playing all the classics on there such as Dizzy the Egg, Frogger, The Running man and hundreds of other classics that I can't even remember. I spent hours of every day on that thing. Then I was only about 8 or 9 years of age when I got my first NES.

I played a few of the games like Fester's Quest and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I thought the graphics were amazing, the best that computers could ever produce. Ha! how funny that seems now. But every game I had ever played on that console was absolute rubbish as soon as I laid eyes on The Legend of Zelda. It comes in a supreme golden box and cartridge, as soon as you open it you now it’s something special. I started to play it and soon realized that it was not like any other games that I had ever played. It predecessors, but combines the games styles of many games action slash 'em ups and final fantasy series spring to mind.
But there are no battles with points being involved no. Instead you are on a quest to save your princess, looking from labyrinth to castle looking and acquiring new skills and weapons and tools as you move on. Each has to be used at the exact right moment in the game otherwise it is impossible to complete. The idea of a free roaming game was something brilliant for me. Reminding me only of perhaps the Dizzy Series. Which I also love.
Most other games from this era in time are confined to simple tracks and were normally rigid 2 dimensional walking from left to right hopping over enemies and pressing a button the cut them up or something (as they promptly flash and vanish) but Zelda is better than that, fair enough nowadays the graphics look just as shoddy as any game from that time, but at least it gave the feel of being 3 dimensional. The puzzle seemed very challenging at the time, I am not sure if they would today now that I’m 25 years of age but this was the only game on the Nintendo entertainment system that had given me anywhere near the value for money that the £35 or 40 pound price tag should have done, now it seems you can download it for the AMIGA, enjoy!