CGQ Flashback Ep. 3 - The Legend of Zelda
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In October of 1987, my dad came home from work and surprised me with a Nintendo Entertainment System "Control Deck" set as an early Christmas present. The Legend of Zelda was also on my Christmas wish list, and he brought that home too. Although I didn't quite "get" it at first as I was accustomed to arcade games, The Legend of Zelda would go on to become one of my all-time favorite games.
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I was an Atari, Commodore and Sega kid, my best friend Diego was a Nintendo and ZX spectrum kid. We were always together, always playing. I often go back at that time with my memories to regain strenght.
A lot of my friends got Zelda for Christmas in 1987. After being turned off by the commercial with the crazy guy calling out "Zelda!" I had pretty much dismissed it. Watching my friends play it that Christmas break got me hooked and I eventually hounded my mom into getting it for me around Valentine's Day 1988.
Me and my son have been playing this together taking turns. It’s our tradition, we swap after a death, or after 20 mins with breath of the wild.
I think it shows how good this is that it’s still fun for an 11 year old today. Luckily the internet means we are never stuck for long, I don’t think any of his school mates are playing it to get tips from.
Buying Nintendo games in the late 80's and the early 90's was always such a crap shoot. It was like buying new music that you didn't know in late 90's and early 2000's. You just looked at the cover and picked the coolest looking one and hoped it would all pan out.
Man you just gave me an anxiety flashback to going to Blockbuster and judging a game by it's cover art. I always had to pick a game by the time my parents were done choosing a few videos to rent. I rented more bad games than good lol but when I found a good one I would rent it multiple times.
remember crazy eddie's? I (and the rest of the world) were looking for double dragon-it was impossible to find. i went to crazy eddie's, asked do you have double dragon? the sales guy said uhh no...but we have gradius.. im thinking ok, at least it must be similar...wasnt til later I realize he was just being a good salesman but for awhile i was still baffled why he recommended a shooter when i wanted double dragon.
FUN FACT: The guy in the Zelda commercial is actor John Kassir better known as the voice of The crypt keeper from the HBO Series ;)
Thanks! I did not know that. Makes sense, though. The guy has a voice-actory voice.
And Buster Bunny and many other cartoon voices.
In those days Zelda wasn`t my fav game I got lost for hours without knowing where to go. Later I started to like Zelda being older. Thanks for your videos, they are reallt good and nostalgic for our generation.
I didn't get an NES until the Christmas of '88 and I had the exact same thoughts about The Legend of Zelda when I first saw the commercials. I thought it was some sort of single screen arcade game and didn't get what was supposed to be so great about it. I finally got to play it after my older brother borrowed it from one of his friends in the winter of '89 and after he showed me how the game works, I was hooked and couldn't put it down! Playing that game is one of my greatest childhood gaming memories. I wish I could go back and relive it.
I love coming back to the beginning of Flashback and re-listening to the episodes!
I got my Nintendo Christmas 89, and Zelda. I remember at that time the cartoon was in regular rotation on TV and the merchandise was everywhere. I opened the box and just read the manual over and over looking at the artwork. It took me a long time to beat it (4 months I think).
Zelda and Zelda II are some of the first games I remember playing, and Zelda still holds up for me. I remember waiting for my siblings to go to school so I could play Nintendo, because when you're little you only get to play when the older kids let you lol. Perhaps it 100% nostalgia, but every few years I put in the original Zelda and try to go through both quests from scratch, and it is still beyond fun to me. One day I shall try to the no sword attempt.
P.S. I also used to pause the game and see the different color Link's.
This game was one that I had to fight with my mom to play because she loved it so much. It continued on into Zelda 2, although I didn't like Zelda 2 as much as she did. Link to the Past was really the moment when I fell in love with this series and that's continued to this day with the 3D games. But without this original game, that love for the franchise never stood a chance. Funny thing is my mom is the one who decided to give this game a try as I had never heard of it and knew nothing about it. Really dig these retrospective videos a lot.
The Gradius franchise is my favorite franchise. Gradius V is what got me back into getting all my old gear back. Cause I had lost all my stuff to Hurricane Katrina. But my thinking was, if I didn't even know that Gradius V existed, what else did I miss?
Ah, Legend of Zelda, have found memories of this game it was before i knew any English besides "how do you do and count to 10", but I do remember how the game was set up you did not need to read much (or I just imagined what was said). Neither me or my parents could afford a console back then, but it was possible to rent at the local video store and me and my brother would play for hours drawing maps and explore new places.
I totally understand the atmospheric feeling you got while playing the game back in the day, from the sound of the ocean, to the eerie dungeon vibes. Great episode man--As you talk about these games, I take a trip down my personal memory lane as well and it brings back "the feels". Looking forward to the next episode, as well as a future episode on Zelda II.
Having a great Sunday streaming this. Scratching an itch! Very cool vid. I remember the first time I played this game. Literally remember it. It blew my mind as a kid. This is the game that made me want a console. And then I got a Master System. Poor technically superior Phantasy Star never stood a chance because it wasn't The Legend of Zelda. Great vid.
It was Dana Point, around late summer of 1987. At night, at my uncle's girlfriend's house. She had a son, Tim; and there controlling "Link" is where my life gained purpose.
Good videos, it's nice to reminisce. That Zelda commercial totally took me back!
Yessir. Once I learned that burning bushes was a thing I did start burning them all
So true about Nickelodeon, simply put...You Can't Do That On Television. One of my favorites to be sure. Yes, the Zelda commercial was beyond strange. I didn't join the NES revolution in 1987, probably late 1988 for me. But I distinctly remember when my cousin got his NES, and when I first saw that classic gold clad Legend of Zelda game. Great memories to be sure!
I should think of a reason to talk at length about Nickelodeon in a video.
I'm bummed that Rygar didn't get a shout out for July of 87. I've always had a huge soft spot for that game.
I love this! I'm also glad I found your new channel as I pretty much watched everything on the previous one. It is nice to see people of my age who went through the exact same excitement and anxiety with this game. I received Zelda for Christmas one year and still have the same copy today. Looking forward to more content. Thank you for doing this!
Thanks for coming over, Michael!
man I love your channel, been watching the magazine videos lately, such a great look back into my childhood. Thanks for all your content, it's great
Thanks! Glad you like the channels.
It’s interesting to hear what made Zelda so revolutionary when it came out, especially the part about single screen arcade games being the norm back then and “scrolling” games on the NES breaking that convention. “Day zero” of my gaming history was the NES, meaning scrollers like Mario and so forth have always existed in my world. It leads me to take them for granted and lose perspective on why they were so sophisticated when they came out.
Also, I used to like the sound the boss made when you were in the next room. I always thought that was a cool detail at the time
You're on fire with these releases. I could get used to this. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, but definitely don't get used to the upload frequency. I had some free time yesterday so I made these last two vids. I want to make the next episode of Flashback, but I am also trying to get the N64 launch vid out by later this month.
Thank you for your nostalgic memories its great to reminiscing about these classic games they were the first games I truly enjoyed I had an Atari 2600 but I hated the look and sounds of those 4bit - 8bit games, when the nintendo came along it felt so great and the games like zelda really excited me to enjoy the NES even more...
Thanks for another great video, and I enjoy the talk about what you remember or felt from the game. I never owned the game, but one of the random things I can remember playing it with the neighbors was thinking the enemy popping up out of the water was like some submarine/boat coming up and shooting laser balls. My young mind wasn't used to these fantasy games and was in more of sci-fi mode or something.
Looking forward to more!
Thanks for all the quality content. Really cool to hear someone else's recollection of the Zelda commercial. I already had a nes and the commercial was just so weird and mysterious I had to see what this game was. Three glorious days is what it was.
These days its stellacept online for android/iOS. But Zelda started everything.
don't know if this has been metioned but i imagine holding the reset button before turning of your console was to ensure the game wasn't accessing the memory when you cut the power which would avoid corrupting your save.
Very possible.
You have a 100% valid point when you say "How was anyone supposed to know without the use of a guide that you were supposed to burn that one exact bush in the game to reveal a staircase underneath it?"
My example would be getting 105% completion on "Crash Bandicoot: Warped" where how is it REALISTIC to expect someone to know in the road rash level that crashing into the Alien head sign would warp you to that Hot Coco secret level?!
If memory serves me correctly as well I think there's another level where you can walk off of a metal platform and suddenly these kind of like steps appear out of nowhere so you can walk across to a secret area of that level - BUT SAME THING HOW WOULD ANYONE KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT WITHOUT USING A GUIDE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!
I truly enjoy your stories, it makes me remember my own video game experiences growing up. I enjoy the unscripted CGQ+ stuff more than the main videos, we really get to see your personality and humor. You've made me laugh out loud a few times already.
Thanks, Luis! To be honest,
I enjoy making these videos more than the ones on the main channel...
By the time I was playing NES games in early 89 just about everyone had one, I actually ended up getting Zelda for free when someone lend it to me and suddenly they stop showing up to elementary school because they had moved out! ...and most games I would end up buying were ones I would borrow, like, and would either buy up used, or go out and buy new...btw excellent vid really enjoyed your story👍
Really enjoying these videos! Sounds like our experiences as kids was _very_ similar even though I grew up in Canada. I'm playing through LoZ on Switch and so far I'm on dungeon 5 and have not had to look anything up yet. I've never beaten it before (never owned it as a kid), and want to do it without any guides. It's a perfect break from Breath of the Wild which I've logged over 390 hours in so far! Thanks again for these videos. Looking forward to more.
Great video as usual. I am happy to see that your putting up new content frequently. Thats one of the advantages of this extra channel, the content doesn't take as long to produce.
Yeah, exactly. It takes so long to make those launch videos that I think people start to wonder if the channel isn't dead.
I just used your 2 Heart hints in my current play through. Thanks!
I'm around the same age as you (Born in '77) and I was lucky to have a dad that spoiled us 4 kids with video games.
1981 first console Intellivision
1983 second console 2600
1984 Colecovision Adam Computer and a Generic Pong Console
1987 NES
1990 Genesis and Gameboy
1992 SNES (from here on my brother and I paid for our own consoles)
1993 Sega CD
1994 Atari Jaguar
1995 Playstation
1998 N64
1999 Dreamcast
I didn't get The Legend of Zelda either at first. An open world adventure was a foreign concept to me and I gave up on it. It took watching my older cousin playing it and working out what it was to get me to understand it. Of course I came to love it and played the hell out of it.
Definitely you need to do a Flashback episode on Nickelodeon as I watched a ton of shows on Nickelodeon, especially Nick at Nite.
That would be cool, but I just wish I could show clips of the shows. But that would get me into copyright trouble.
@@CGQPlus yeah, unfortunately that is most likely :(
Just found this series after watching your fan mail episode on the main channel. I'm really enjoying this so far, you're good at telling stories so that makes it great as well.
the "does this guy even do research" card was hilarious. Keep up the videos coming!
Thanks. I get a lot of people accusing me of not doing research, just reading Wikipedia articles in my videos, etc. So I just think it's funny to poke fun at that because nothing could be further from the truth.
CGQ+ I have to say I've never felt that way with your videos. You come across to me as up front, honest and academic. As a history major (if that means anything) a large amount of what I did in university was sniffing out the good sources from the bad and I know there's a lot of garbage data out there.
Thanks, dude! And being a history major definitely gives you more cred as far as I'm concerned.
@@CGQPlus Lol
Don't feel bad, I didn't get Zelda at all either in the day. What made it worse for me was that I rented the game and at that time if you were lucky it would come with a badly photocopied manual. No such luck with me for Zelda and I had NO idea what the hell was going on. I fumbled around for the weekend and managed to find a couple of dungeons but wasn't too torn up about having the return the game. To be frank, I kinda thought the game sucked at the time.
It wasn't until the late 90's and Nesticle (nes emulator for those not in the know) along with the internet where I could find scans of the manual and map that I finally got immersed into the game and understood what all the hype was about a decade earlier.
I can't even imagine trying to play Zelda back in the day with no manual at all. I would have been utterly lost, and probably would have just wandered around killing enemies until I got bored.
Hey Chris,
Great video and I'm really enjoying the series. I think you're underselling how entertaining you doing a let's play style of videos with these games would be. You have some really interesting stories, history, and insight and a good wry sense of humor that really hits your target demographic here. Plus, these games are all pretty short once you know what to do so I don't think they'd be too many parts.
Anyway, just some food for thought. If that's not your thing then that's cool, but it might be worth it.
Thanks. I'll think about it. I think I just prefer to concentrate on one thing at a time. When I'm just talking to the camera, I can properly focus on doing that. I think that if I'm trying to talk and play games simultaneously, I'll basically do two half-assed jobs instead of one whole-assed one.
I wanted Zelda in spite of that ad. If they had created an ad that gave the real feeling of the game I'd have been even more nuts about it. Same with Metroid. The actual 8-bit games had 100x more atmosphere than the US commercials.
Totally felt the same about mario 64 when it came out. Absolutely loved super Mario world then to go 3d was just odd. Like the game now but remember feeling the way you felt when it debuted.
"I think it's the best Zelda game. It's certainly my favorite."
I whole-heartedly agree. The Legend of Zelda stands at the top for me because of the true adventure nature of the game. It doesn't hold your hand. It doesn't tell you where to go. It gives you a world and demands that you adventure and discover its secrets on your own. Some of this, naturally, is owed to the time of the games' release. Yes, gaming has evolved and technology has advanced since then which has allowed so many other games to surpass what The Legend of Zelda was technically capable of. The Legend of Zelda at THAT point in time was breathtaking and so engaging. The graphics, the controls, the story/lore, the characters, the adventure, the polish... the music. Stunning! A true masterpiece.
A Link to the Past is a ridiculously good game which added additional depth and utilized the power of the Super Nintendo to make a more vibrant and technically breathtaking Zelda game but didn't entirely retain the same raw adventure nature present in The Legend of Zelda. It introduced small hand holding features which have become more and more prevalent in almost all of gaming as we've move forward to the present. These features do make the game a bit easier to work through but also rip away a reasonably significant portion of the "magic" which made The Legend of Zelda so amazing and engaging.
I am an oddball as I find most 3D Zelda games to be severely lacking but openly admit to Breath of the Wild being a solid return to form of Zelda in the 3D gaming space. Breath of the Wild is the first and only 3D Zelda, in my opinion, which captures the adventure, exploration and combat which made the beginning of the series so memorable. Being allowed to go where you want and to explore/investigate whatever catches your attention while also keeping the world full of enemy encounters and things to do sets Breath of the Wild firmly at the top of all 3D Zelda games. I pre-ordered Ocarina of Time, brought it home on day one and played it non-stop until I beat the game, however, I was never truly impressed with it when viewed through the lens of a Zelda game. I have never held Ocarina of Time at the same level of prestige as the industry at large but I do know and understand what it did for gaming on a technical and design level. Everything released between Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild were just small improvements on Ocarina of Time but were still all just going int he wrong direction. Breath of the Wild is what Ocarina of Time should have been but, clearly, this wasn't possible in 1998 and that is ok. From 1998 to 2017 I felt justice was never properly given to the Zelda franchise and am truly grateful Breath of the Wild was finally created.
Breath of the Wild is the only 3D Zelda game I've played through more than one time and loved spending so much time exploring and adventuring the beauty that is this game. I've beat A Link to the Past hundreds of times and have been playing it since it was released in 1992 and still love it to this day. While both do an amazing job of being a Zelda game neither of these games quite compare to The Legend of Zelda. The Legend of Zelda was the start of one of the most amazing and important video game franchises ever created. The Legend of Zelda stands at the top of the list of Zelda games all these years later. Other games have made various graphical and gameplay improvements which The Legend of Zelda simply couldn't achieve back in the 80s, however, each and every one of these other Zelda games dropped various parts of the entire Zelda formula present in The Legend of Zelda and because of this subtlety simply do not hold the same power The Legend of Zelda does. I'm looking forward to the sequel to Breath of the Wild and am truly hoping it takes the final step to become the 3D version of what The Legend of Zelda was over 30 years ago.
For now, The Legend of Zelda is the best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be.
FYI, the "Hold reset as you power off" thing was generally unnecessary. I very rarely held reset and don't remember ever losing a save game. My understanding of the issue is that when the NES is powered off, it essentially sends a burst of random static (in the form of electrical signals) into the pins of the cartridge. In the vast majority of cases, this random data will be meaningless static, but there's a very slight chance it could energize the pins in the same specific way that the NES intentionally does when writing save game data. If anyone wants to elaborate, or correct me, I'd appreciate more info.
UP and A at the same time on controller 2 will let you save the game.
Looking 4ward for ep 4!
Thanks! I am going to try to make it this weekend. I had to order a game that I didn't realize I had gotten rid of, so we have to wait for that to get here.
... ... still waiting! :-)
Love this game even though I have never beat it. I had a friend who had the walk through so I have seen most of the game but it has been a long time ago. Looking forward to the next episode.
I like the new channel! Good job
I'll never forget the first time I played Zelda. I was pretty young and was at my cousin's house and they had this game in the system. I started it up and had no idea what to do, I thought it was a game about picking apples so I just kept going up to each tree on the screen to the right of where you start an continually tried pressing up against the trees to collect apples and kept getting killed by the monsters. I got fed up pretty quick and just went do something else.
It was not until a while later when I got my NES Christmas of 1988 that I played this again. My Dad never played games but for whatever reason he was intrigued by this game and I remember him picking this up with me at a Target the summer of 89, I thought the gold color of the cart was so awesome! He an my Mom played the crap out of this game, it's the only video game I saw him ever play outside of Free Cell on the PC.
What made you think that you needed to pick apples? Your parents sound awesome.
Keep in mind I was young at the time and what limited video game exposure I had consisted of simple Atari games so I could not really fathom something like Zelda. I had very little NES experience before trying out Zelda. As you mentioned in the video I had no idea I needed to go into that black square box to get a sword. The trees on the right screen had dots on them that I thought were apples and I just assumed I needed to pick apples to get points while avoiding the monsters.
Great video!
I didn't get a Nintendo until Christmas of 1990.
Years prior I was totally aware of the Nintendo and what it was, and I did want one, but the concept of owning one was inconceivable to me because in my head a Nintendo was only something rich kids had.
That said, one of the first games I played was Metroid...talk about a steep learning curve and having no idea what you were supposed to do.
That was not much of a problem, as the NES kind of reincarnated in 1990. I call the NES until 1989 NES 1.0, and after 1990 NES 2.0. The games that came out for NES 2.0 are the best of the best, and compete head to head with similar SNES releases and are in most cases better, that is amazing considering the age of the platform. The ROM size increased massively, programmers started to get the hang of the depths of power available, and so they managed to deliver higher sprite counts and thus more on screen action than on the SNES, a system that was build with the hand brakes on it.
man i have to say, i'm really enjoying these videos, keep them coming!
PD: you have an amazing voice.
Thanks, Sam.
I thought I was the only one who preferred Mario as a 2D platformer, I guess I don't talk to too many people who are my age who played games as much as I did, or if they did they were slightly older and left the gaming seen slightly before a 3D Mario game or their younger and were not as attached to 2D Mario.
I see how someone could love Mario 64 but the brilliance of Mario originated from the simplicity of moving in 1 direction with possibility of going back and having some exploration however mostly having a definite destination. It was challenging yet you knew where you were going mostly besides hidden exits (Mario 3) the button timing and rythm was key. This was the heart of Mario however like I said if I was 10 when Mario 64 came out I totally get the love and admiration for that game as well.
You're a few years older than I am. I played Zeldas on NES but never understood them. Link to the past was the first one I beat, then Links awakening on GBA. I have never finished Zelda 2.
I remember 1 year I got a fisher Price
3 in 1 game table it had air hockey,ping pong and pool , do you remember those 😂💯
My first weird Nintendo game that I didn't know how to play or didn't understand what was going on was Final Fantasy... WTH was an RPG back then? I didn't play that game (Final Fantasy) again until a few months later. I didn't get into RPG games until the SNES came out.
Same here. I bought a loose copy of Final Fantasy and couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do.
On my birthday as a kid I had a choice to buy Bob and his Blob or The Legend of Zelda. Based off box art I went with Boy and his Blob. 😔
Arch Rivals came out on the NES
The "Hold reset" advice is probably because the NES doesn't have any circuitry to keep the CPU in a reset loop if the electricity is outside the CPU's operational range. When you turn the system off, the power doesn't go out instantly, instead it dribbles away over perhaps a millisecond. But in that time the voltage drops below the CPUs operating range- but that CPU is still executing. The concern, then, is that since the operation of the CPU outside it's voltage range is undefined, it can write to errant memory locations during that time and do random stuff, which meant for games with saves it could possibly write to the SRAM and corrupt it. The advice basically makes the user hold the CPU in a reset loop while turning it off. to prevent this. I think some later game releases added some protections to the cartridge itself. Of course one might wonder why the NES was designed that way- I guess games that had saves wasn't on their to-do list yet and they figured "well, the game is being shut off, who cares if we write to random memory locations?"
Thanks for the comment, Michael! Excellent insight. You're probably right that they didn't design the hardware with battery-backed game saves in mind.
Michael Burgwin I actually lost a save file because I didn't do that once. I can't remember what game, but I always did it properly afterwards.
dude I remember hand-drawing an overworld map for Zelda when I was in... I want to say ... grade 8 or 9 (and Im about the same age as you - 38 as of writing this comment)
It was so much work, but so much fun at the same time :-)
Ok I'll answer your question because I just heard it around the 25 minute mark. You asked if anyone really went around burning every bush looking for secrets... well I came closed to it. As a kid, I would spend hours burning bushes and setting bombs looking for secrets! I was a kid so I had nothing but time on my hands. As an adult, I'd probably just look up a guide and move on with my life. Lol
"It seemed like he had schizophrenia."
LOL! He did.
i agree atari was like coleco were mostly acade games
I actually passed the "cave" (black box) the very first time I tested this game out on the Christmas of '87.
And while the original Zelda will be my all time favorite, *most* of the games in the series are masterpieces (with some flaws, of course). And this is coming from someone who thinks FF7 is better than Ocarina of Time.
And yeah, dude! My sister and I would pause it when we got the stopwatch. That's funny.
Once you get 5 hearts you can go get the white sword.
I always have preferred Tecmo NBA Basketball to Double Dribble. It controls much better and there's much more depth to it. My dad, who recently passed away, and I used to love playing that against each other. It was one of the few games he really enjoyed playing.
As far as Zelda goes, to this day I still get creeped out by Wallmasters in Zelda games because of this game. Haha!
I'll have to give Tecmo NBA Basketball a try.
+CGQ+ Definitely! It's not very challenging once you get it down (which doesn't take long), but it's a lot of fun especially playing with or against another player. Plus, it's one of the only games from back in the day (aside from Jordan vs. Bird) that you could actually play as Michael Jordan.
I always thought that the hold reset warning in the nes battery save games was stupid. So I never did it, and never had a problem. A span of over 30 years and no lost saves. Then, last week while playing through this game for the first time(didn't play it as a kid), I beat dungeon 8, saved some rupees and bought a healing potion, died, then saved my game. Just power off, no reset. The next day I got all ready to complete the first quest, and my save was gone. There was still another save on the cart, just mine was wiped. So from now on, I'll do the reset thing. Apparently there's a slight power surge when you power off, and it can wipe the save from the memory. Blah
~29 min: YES!!!!!! thank you for saying that. i cant stand it when people spend so much energy on shit like that. i hate it when folks get worked up about timelines too. who cares, if the game is fun.
School year 1987-1988 was the first year with solid sales in the US, just above 5 million decks, and the year after 1988-1989 they sold more than 9 million, the top year. Here in Europe the NES did really bad, the best year was 1991-1992(!) and not even a quarter of the US sales (and those included Australia and such as well). Guess we lived on home computers back then, like the Speccy, C64, Amiga, MSX and such, and I think Sega was the main player here.
Back to Zelda, it was a first, and due to the limited memory looks pretty bland IMO. I like how Nec picked this up and created IMO the best Zelda 8-bit ever made: Neutopia II. It is kind of polished up Zelda 1 with phenomenal music (much better than LttP) and very nice graphics, while not being as big and over-designed as LttP.
That exact Zelda commercial is the reason I never played TLOZ on NES. It made the game seem spastic and 'extreme', and judging the game solely by the art style shown in the footage in the commercials, looked ugly compared to other NES titles I enjoyed (in hindsight I think the look of the game relates more to compromises made fitting a huge game onto the cartridge, as well as how long it took to create).
LoL the Zelda commercial guy had schizophrenia!
Let's play jet set radio!!!!
20:09 lol
I look forward to a talk about nickelodeon, and have you considered playing a single screen game? I suggest Arkanoid.
What are those 18 NES games in your game organizer?
I agree 2D to 3D has been a let down for me as well.
there was a nickelodeon in the 80's? God damn...
Yeah, man. Nickelodeon has been around for a long time.
I want to say that this game was cheap, too. like 28 bucks or something. Maybe I'm wrong. I remember my mom buying it for me at Wal Mart.
NO SNES??? 2004??? Dude, u missed out so bad...
I don’t remember this commercial but I remember the Zelda II commercial with the wizard in the tower talking about Zelda. Also, the Saturday morning cartoons were awesome! I would say I stopped watching when I went to college in ‘95 and I regret it. 😢 A few weeks ago it hit me that I haven’t turned on the local channels in years on Saturday mornings for cartoons and I was disappointed. What happened to the cartoons? We had cartoons on from 5-6am until 12pm with nature show being on closer to 12pm. Now a few “weird” cartoons were on between 7-8 and a few educational shows on for an hour after that. Really disappointed. I remember watching smurfs, scooby-doo, D&D, widget, the snorkels(or something like that), the little, the show with the creepy hippo and something animals and some humans, and a slew more cartoons. So disappointing. I wish there was a tv channel that would recreate the Saturday morning cartoons. Kids that weren’t from the 80’s and early 90’s don’t know what they are missing.
Essentially, the "what happened" to Saturday Morning Cartoons is the same thing that happened to most of television since the 1980's and early 1990's. In the mid 1980's there were essentially three television networks in the US, those being CBS, NBC, and ABC. Soon after, the Metromedia stations were consolidated into the newly established Fox Network. Over the next several years the networks were hemorrhaging viewers due to the rapid rise of cable television. Kids realized that their favored kinds of entertainment were no longer ghettoized into Saturday mornings, as suddenly there were options such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network to cater to them 24/7. Other electronic entertainment options such as video games and prerecorded video tape rentals also competed for kid's time.
This was all a drop in the bucket compared to what happened next. That of course was the rise of the internet, and the replacement of broadcasting itself with 'narrowcasting'. I've come to find that the antidote to melancholy over what we've lost, is to think about what we've gained instead. Gathering around the TV every Saturday morning is a nostalgic memory of great times, but the part we're not remembering is the bitter truth that if it WASN'T Saturday morning you literally COULDN'T watch cartoons. Saturday morning cartoons were only a tradition because our favored form of entertainment was ghettoized by corporate executives in an effort to wring a few dollars out of an otherwise essentially worthless block of television broadcast time. Saturday morning cartoons as a shared experience are gone, but that's only because things have gotten BETTER and today's kids have MORE options. They can, and DO, watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. They ALSO watch them at any other time of their choosing. And when they do, chances are the show is actually good. It's likely produced and written by people who know and respect kids, and don't talk down to them. Just like anyone else, kids like to watch content tailored to their specific interests, at the time of their choosing.
Unique and interesting content the likes of Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, South Park, Rick and Morty, etc would definitely not exist if the decisions were being made by a handful of executives at the big three TV networks. We'd live in a world with a hell of a lot more "New Adventures of Scooby Doo" mass marketed, cookie cutter content and super low quality Hannah-Barbara style art and animation. (Nothing personal against H-B cartoonists and the passion they put into their work... but H-B is NOT a good product when you look at it side by side with literally anything else from any other studio. It was never intended to be good, only to be cheap to produce and profitable.) With the options available to them, today's kids might even be the ones MAKING and broadcasting their own content online. I'd rather be a kid nowadays than at any other time in human history.
ShadowPresident 420 I will have to disagree. There were TONS of cartoons that weren’t on Saturday mornings. I would come home from school and watch blocks cartoons. And to be honest, yes, there are not cartoons to on the major networks nowadays but there are not many on other channels and what is on is 5 straight hours of Sponge Bob and the like. Back then, a different cartoon every hour on three networks.
P.S. Hanna Barbara was quality cartoons.
@@chrisvanderhoef9885 Yeah, you're right about there being other blocks of cartoons that were available to watch. I too watched the "Disney afternoon" type of cartoon blocks. I'm not sure about the timeline, but I feel like there was a big difference between, say... 1987 and 1993 in terms of there being options outside of Saturday morning.
It's not that Hannah Barbara cartoons were absolutely god-awful. I'm not suggesting I could do better or anything. But put up a Disney show like Ducktales or Tailspin, or anything by WB such as Tiny Toon, Animaniacs, etc... side by side against Laff Olympics, Yogi Bear, etc. I personally don't consider them at all in the same league in terms of writing, animation, characters, backgrounds, voice acting... ANYTHING. Even as a young kid who didn't know anything about the industry or animation, I noticed a scene (in a Yogi bear cartoon, I think) where there was an ape or something swinging through the trees, and there were literally only two different trees that were cycled through over and over and portrayed as if he's going on this epic journey through the jungle. Obviously it's a matter of opinion though, and more power to you for enjoying H-B cartoons.
I think most of Zelda 1 is pretty self-explanatory. Certain things look suspicious (like bushes off by themselves) and you have the candle, so you just try it. And same with bombs. But you are right in that Zelda 1 is one of the best Zelda games. ALTTP feels too much "on rails" and I think it's boring. I didn't play it until after I had my SEGA for 5 years, so I was in the same boat as you. I'd rather play Zelda 1 than ALTTP. And I'd rather play Link's Awakening than ALTTP.
Seconded!
CGQ+ HOW About MAKE A VIDEOS ALL ABOUT GAMES .THAT USE GUN.. .
FIRSTED !
You win.
I love you'r perspective man but boy do you like to talk 😛😛
Yup, that's kind of the point of this channel.
Also, I used to like the sound the boss made when you were in the next room. I always thought that was a cool detail at the time
Also, I used to like the sound the boss made when you were in the next room. I always thought that was a cool detail at the time