The hero of Hyrule

[gfish]

I just beat Legend of Zelda. Yes, the original. Yes, for the first time. I'm 20 years late, but it's something I've been meaning to do. I did resort to using a walk-through a couple of times. This Google Maps based view was also helpful, but a bit spoilerful.

Overall, I quite liked it. A surprising amount of depth to the world design, for something that could fit on an NES cartridge. It must have been a very frustrating game before emulators and 'save state', though.

Comments

[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

Um, actually, I think Zelda was about the first home cartridge-based game that *did* let you save your state. In fact, *digs in box* I actually still have a copy of Zelda, and a working original NES. I believe it had a lithium battery inside, and I seem to recall that you had to be somewhat careful to prevent the memory from getting wiped out.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

You could save games, sure, but you couldn't save the entire game state to disk, letting you start back up immediately before you died.