Zelda

When Nintendo first came out with this game, I believe it was “Link”. But, I ended up playing “Zelda”; the game known by all my friends as the “Golden cartridge” game. It quickly became one of my all-time favorite games to play. It actually got to the point that I was playing more of it than actually doing my middle school homework; but it was so well worth it. To me, “Zelda” was actually the spark that ignited the series of many other role-playing games to come and which possibly ended up giving us the games we play today such as “World of Warcraft” or “Two Worlds”.

I enjoyed the ability that the game offered such as not having a difficult setting to choose from. It took many hours of game play to beat certain dungeons and there were not any cheats for the game neither; possibly because the internet wasn’t developed yet. Next, I loved the different items you had to search for in order to get passed certain dungeons. Basically, if you didn’t have these items; you almost most certainly would not be able to advance to the next dungeon(s). A lot of the item’s you needed to for the next dungeon or item to advance your character stats, were scattered across the game world and even hidden in area’s that you would not even looked. It usually took for me playing the game later to find these hidden items. At the same time, while you were in search for the item’s you needed, you had ended up traveling almost all over the world. I mean you could go ahead and advance to the next dungeon without the item’s you may need to complete it and use what you already have to conquer it; but in the end, it was more difficult than imagined to do. I guess that is why I played it a second time around to see if I could beat the game without every item needed that you would have gotten, having traveled the world to get them.
Lastly, I believe that this game was basically the best game ever created from Nintendo. Yeah, earlier versions of “Final Fantasy” were similar in feel and game play to “Zelda”; but Nintendo in my opinion, sparked the gaming world to something great. True, the missions you had to complete in “Final Fantasy” meant more items and much more, but again, if it had not been for myself discovering “Zelda” for NES, I probably wouldn’t ever played that game or many others to come afterwards either.