I never really thought about it before but it's kinda ironic that the guy who dropped out of high school never drinks and has never smoked and the guy who went through college smoked weed for years
@@nintendokings people who experiment with drugs are infinitely smarter than those who never open their eyes to more than what the “real world” allows us to see
The crab thing around 51:56 looks like it is just a smiley face and when it opens it eye it looks like it is opening his mouth and has a single tooth :D
Whether you read this or not, I want you to know I was watching your videos before bed and I had a weird dream that ended with with someone saying you just got Game Grumped. I woke up to hear Danny talking about urination. I couldn't just lie there and not pee.
+Chelsea Petersen That happens to me when I watch Joel play bootleg games before bed. I dream I'm in a bootleg game and then I hear Joel talking about food when I wake up.
No, Arin, Like Likes _don't_ take your boomerang. They eat your shield. (Although, in the original LoZ, they only ate Magical Shields, leaving you with a bog standard Wooden Shield.)
Haha love that about the Baseball. When I was playing T-Ball I felt the same when playing short-stop. I would stare through my glove into the sky but one day almost had a ball connect with my head... I heard everyone gasp and I turned around and everyone was staring at me. All I could think is, "What the fuck are y'all looking at?!" haha.
So, I just learned that left-handed people have the tendency to go left when want to go right. I'm right-handed and yet I tend to mix up left and right. Sometimes, I also mix up east with west.
I honestly find the original Zelda to be one of the most perfect games ever. If I had any comments on how to improve it (other than obviously helping the early translations to English from NES games) would be to somehow incorporate the bombable-wall sword tap sound from Link to the Past here--for both walls and bushes. However that could be done, it would be infinitely helpful.
7:20 I'm not entirely sure what Arin's talking about here, how other games have "gray area", but it does make his preference for simple, 2D games more apparent.
...Yknow the main reason why everyone remembers this game so fondly is because they had or knew someone with a guide. Which is fine, but most people who say the game itself is fantastic need to remember how their first main experience with it was like. AKA Manual/NP or no guide?
NeutralGuyDoubleZero ive just beat a link to the past recently and while i enjoyed it it felt like the game hada lot of obtuse things in it, probably not as much as earlier games and i guess people couldn't afford many games back then what with the prices being higher
Funny story about lvl3 from my childhood. My grandparents had a book with a swastika on it in their library(I don't know what book it was. I was vehemently NOT allowed to read it. They are also very not racist, btw.) but I wanted to read it because I played Zelda A LOT and my 6 year old mind was all, "Hey that's the lvl3 map from Zelda." Grandmama actually yelled at me for asking to read it.
So many people get the Lvl3 map shape wrong & it caused Nintendo so much grief. The map shape is actually the original Hindu based symbol with the arms flat like the map shape (called a hindu swastika ) symbolizing surya ('sun'), prosperity and good luck. The bad one is turned 45 degrees giving it a slant. You would think Dan being Jewish would know the difference.
Never fully understood why Arin thinks that an open ended game where you're just plopped into a world pants or not is better than basically any game with a story.
36:40 There exists video of me "playing soccer" that's very similar to Dan's! In roughly 1990 at 5ish years old I was on a laughable co-ed YMCA team with all my friends + two girls. Apparently I liked holding hands with one of the girls and, every 5 minutes or whatever I'd stop what I was doing, leave the field, go pick dandilions I'd spotted, and bring them back on to the field to give to one of the girls... _completely_ ignoring everything soccer related. XD This apparently was like clockwork and happened even if it meant walking away from the ball I was in control of. My team learned very quickly to ignore us. The best/worst part was my dad on said VHS tape getting FURIOUS with me! Instead of just shrugging off that his son wasn't an athlete, he liked to scream at me that he was never going to come to any of my games EVER again unless I actually played and ignored the damn blonde. I didn't play much soccer as a kid... or any sports ever. I wonder why....
Your “do a little match” was my method for getting rid of unwanted erections in the middle of class in high school. I used that, and thinking about wrestlers crashing through tables for some reason
I can only take so much of these old NES games before I have to quit, especially the ones that zap all your health when you die & come back and don't give you an easy way to regain it. In the process of getting my health back up I die, get booted back to the starting point, and bash my head against the proverbial brick wall over and over and OVER until I finally get a break and move on to the next dungeon or whatever... only to die in the next screen or two over. And then I ragequit. If it weren't for savestates, I'd never have beaten the likes of Zelda or Castlevania. I know the stigma around savestates, but these games are just too frustratingly hard for me otherwise.
+Sir Quaffler I don't blame you for using savestates. I still think the game is awesome, and I've played through _most_ of the game without save states, but savestating through these older games is totally understandable. We live in a different world now, where most us have more than one or two games we can play over the course of a year and also, once you grow past a certain point in your childhood, the repetition becomes pretty difficult to handle. I could only beat Zelda II with savestates. A lot of savestates. Like, if I managed to get a hit in on a boss without getting hit back, I'd save a state so that I wouldn't have to repeat that single hit. That game is tough.
can someone ask the game grumps if they have ever had to pee or poop so bad and held it in so long it would not come out but still doesn't hurt anymore?
I once made the mistake of asking a big girl when she was due and she got mad "I'm not pregnant!" I played of as "huh? my psychic powers are a little off today" lol
Figgy yea. once, me and my friends when through the temple to go to a fishing spot. They saw the symbols and they thought it was a nazi temple. Kinda awkward looking at the swastika after that
+Alpha Facepalm Yeah, it's pretty awesome. A lot of indie games take very direct inspiration from classics like this one. While I could be all old and annoying and chastise you for not knowing, I'm just glad that new games are coming out that can help younger people who missed this part of gaming have some context for why it was so cool. I'm young too, by the way, in my early 20s, so these games came out before I was born. I just happened to be two generations behind when I was growing up due to my family not having a ton of money so I got to experience these games as if I was a kid born in the 80s. I'm actually really happy things turned out that way, having an appreciation and nostalgia for this stuff is really fun.
Always hated it. Played it in 91 and just despised it. Preferred Zelda 2, then the GB/GBC games. Hated everything else. So don't worry, you'll be FAR less hated than me.
I would say that it's an extremely overrated game, along with Ocarina of Time, but even an overrated main series Zelda game is a good game. Z2, on the other hand, is an extremely _underrated_ entry in the series and doesn't get the credit it deserves for the things it brought to the series.
The Legend of Zelda is not a well made game, even by 1986 standards. Having to try a single use per screen item to burn every single bush on the overworld to find a game-mandatory dungeon isn't good game design
I’m Arin I don’t understand GRAEEEEEEEEEEPHIIIIX. All these pixuls maek moy oyyyyyyyyys huuuuurt ;~; Also, anyone who calls this game punishing isn’t remembering it properly. This game is less punishing than dark souls. It’s less punishing than Zelda II for god’s sake. /rant
It's interesting how Dan sounds so much more... aware of the fact that he's on a show. He sounds like he's putting on a voice here.
"It's like 'thank you old wise lady' and you walk out the door and she's like 'RAISINS?!".
The origin of "CRANBERRIES"?
Cranberries +Raisins=Cranraisins (sp?)
I am totally gonna name my first born child Spiarmf.
+KingBoo64 LET THE QUEST OF SPIARMF BEGIN!!
Sir Raptor Like with God Avidan, imagine school rollcall. "Susie, George, Spiarfm..."
+KingBoo64 He'll/She'll either hate you for giving them such a weird name, or love you for making them unique.
Thou shalt not nameth thine firstborn Thy Sacred Name Spiarmf
Here for the update
emperor palpatine, where did you get all of this weed? Grew it!!
Emperor Palpatine, what race is Dan? "JEWISH"
Remember Hardware store B & Q's slogan?
You can do it when you B AND "Q it"
Wow, amazing how early we learned that Dan’s nemesis for years to come would be menus.
2:48 little did they know, breath of the wild would exist.
We got a lot of good Dan's dad stories during this play through
I never really thought about it before but it's kinda ironic that the guy who dropped out of high school never drinks and has never smoked and the guy who went through college smoked weed for years
McJohanson you’ll find that people experimenting with drugs (but not addicts) are often intelligent.
nintendokings Dan was a CRAZY addict. He had a whole year where he'd play Martowind and take bong hits and that's it.
@@nintendokings said every person whose used drugs.
Nerd NC There's loads of research backing up my statement, just Google it.
@@nintendokings people who experiment with drugs are infinitely smarter than those who never open their eyes to more than what the “real world” allows us to see
The crab thing around 51:56 looks like it is just a smiley face and when it opens it eye it looks like it is opening his mouth and has a single tooth :D
The "RAISINS" thing gets me every time.
Whether you read this or not, I want you to know I was watching your videos before bed and I had a weird dream that ended with with someone saying you just got Game Grumped. I woke up to hear Danny talking about urination. I couldn't just lie there and not pee.
+Chelsea Petersen I hope you got up before you peed. :/
+Chelsea Petersen That happens to me when I watch Joel play bootleg games before bed. I dream I'm in a bootleg game and then I hear Joel talking about food when I wake up.
@@GeneralPatton89 Interesting how the Grand Dad is not an old man, but in fact a prehistoric plumber
Did you do a little math?
Same thing happened to me! This isn't an episode to sleep to
No, Arin, Like Likes _don't_ take your boomerang. They eat your shield. (Although, in the original LoZ, they only ate Magical Shields, leaving you with a bog standard Wooden Shield.)
9:40 Arin's laugh with accidently Aquamentus' voice is the best
4:08 the moment i will always remember
“If you hate Nazis please like, comment, and subscribe.”
Little did Dan know how controversial that statement would be in the year 2017.
Oh, you think it was controversial in 2017? Greetings from 2021.
Hi
Still probably the least controversial take ever unless I'm missing something
Haha love that about the Baseball. When I was playing T-Ball I felt the same when playing short-stop. I would stare through my glove into the sky but one day almost had a ball connect with my head... I heard everyone gasp and I turned around and everyone was staring at me. All I could think is, "What the fuck are y'all looking at?!" haha.
So, I just learned that left-handed people have the tendency to go left when want to go right. I'm right-handed and yet I tend to mix up left and right. Sometimes, I also mix up east with west.
same
As a lefty, I can confirm this. When I mix up my directions, I'm typically mistaking right for left more often than the other way around as well
for east and west just remember we
East? Ohhhhh I thought you said "weast"
I have zero internal compass XP I couldn't tell you which way the cardinal directions are to save my life.
Oh my god I have the same fear that Arin has.
Same
It's so weird but I also have it a bit
I've been in a dark room where I'd hear a phone and get creeped out moreso than silence
Same I have to make a different sound when it happens to counteract the fear
BRING ME A FOOTBALL HELMET FILLED WITH COTTAGE CHEESE
+Sack fu Airheads reference?
+Jordan Pritchard and naked pictures of Bea Arthur.
JoeCnNd Are we degenerated? And if we are, are our minds vegitated?
Thank you, I love these compilation videos.
I honestly find the original Zelda to be one of the most perfect games ever. If I had any comments on how to improve it (other than obviously helping the early translations to English from NES games) would be to somehow incorporate the bombable-wall sword tap sound from Link to the Past here--for both walls and bushes. However that could be done, it would be infinitely helpful.
+frozenaorta GENIUS!!!!! XD
7:20 I'm not entirely sure what Arin's talking about here, how other games have "gray area", but it does make his preference for simple, 2D games more apparent.
...Yknow the main reason why everyone remembers this game so fondly is because they had or knew someone with a guide. Which is fine, but most people who say the game itself is fantastic need to remember how their first main experience with it was like. AKA Manual/NP or no guide?
NeutralGuyDoubleZero ive just beat a link to the past recently and while i enjoyed it it felt like the game hada lot of obtuse things in it, probably not as much as earlier games and i guess people couldn't afford many games back then what with the prices being higher
Figgy I dont mean link to the past. I mean the original LOZ specifically.
NeutralGuyDoubleZero i know, and while ive not played the original and alttp is probably a lot better there is still some obtuse stuff in there
NeutralGuyDoubleZero NP only covered the second quest
Captain Quacer Channel Its not like the second quest completely reorganized the dungeon and overworld layout.
Funny story about lvl3 from my childhood. My grandparents had a book with a swastika on it in their library(I don't know what book it was. I was vehemently NOT allowed to read it. They are also very not racist, btw.) but I wanted to read it because I played Zelda A LOT and my 6 year old mind was all, "Hey that's the lvl3 map from Zelda." Grandmama actually yelled at me for asking to read it.
Omg, I still have this game from when my parents played it. . . I played it too, but I was too young to understand it. XD I think I'll play it now!
Next has to be Earthbound.
this and zelda 2 legend of link are by far the most incredible games ive ever played
59:00 "When you have that black spot on your right eye" wtf, I have a black spot on my right eye xD Does that mean I'll die soon ? xD
That math thing is really effective while trying to pee btw
TAAAAAAAANKS
Im in love with the game grumps intro
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Skip to 4:15. It has the crab reference
Yup! No problem
Jackson Brodo you are honestly a god
Dan at 36:15 is my favorite.
"If you hate the nazis like comment and subscribe." -Danny Sexbang
"FUCKING JEEEEWs!" -Danny Sexbang
aw dude cut him some SLACKarie
25:30 the most part of gamegrumps history were it made the most sense
AHH WHAT I DIDNT KNOW THEY KNEW WHAT FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST WASS
"READY STEADY CANT HOLD M' BACK"
x'D
Ahhh I'm such a nerd
The part when Danny is talking about the concert he went to and he was like "Are you having fun?? Me toooooooooo"
***** They mention anime all the time. How couldn't they know a famous one
I didn't know that.. whoops.
They do lots of stuff on amine- arin 2015
16:57
Meanwhile, in Majora's Mask...
So many people get the Lvl3 map shape wrong & it caused Nintendo so much grief. The map shape is actually the original Hindu based symbol with the arms flat like the map shape (called a hindu swastika ) symbolizing surya ('sun'), prosperity and good luck. The bad one is turned 45 degrees giving it a slant. You would think Dan being Jewish would know the difference.
oh man lol this sounds so strange before they got the new mics lol
Never fully understood why Arin thinks that an open ended game where you're just plopped into a world pants or not is better than basically any game with a story.
Because Arin has no attention span
@Perfect Shrek that would work of Arin didn't complain about the game not telling him what to do when that happens
Arin would probably have a hard time playing Portal with his fear of Monotones.
Miss you man
36:40 There exists video of me "playing soccer" that's very similar to Dan's! In roughly 1990 at 5ish years old I was on a laughable co-ed YMCA team with all my friends + two girls. Apparently I liked holding hands with one of the girls and, every 5 minutes or whatever I'd stop what I was doing, leave the field, go pick dandilions I'd spotted, and bring them back on to the field to give to one of the girls... _completely_ ignoring everything soccer related. XD This apparently was like clockwork and happened even if it meant walking away from the ball I was in control of. My team learned very quickly to ignore us.
The best/worst part was my dad on said VHS tape getting FURIOUS with me! Instead of just shrugging off that his son wasn't an athlete, he liked to scream at me that he was never going to come to any of my games EVER again unless I actually played and ignored the damn blonde.
I didn't play much soccer as a kid... or any sports ever. I wonder why....
Dude, if I had a son who'd rather give gift to girls than play sports I'd think he had his priorities in order.
You, had your priorities straight.
EYES. GOHMA.
What is the name of the band for FullMetal Alchemist?
Lark NCL is what I kept hearing
L’arc ciel
Wait, why does it say "Thank's Link" in the end when they named their character Spirarmf?
Because they didn't use the save file name for the character until Z3.
I don't think Dan is going to be an athlete.
Your “do a little match” was my method for getting rid of unwanted erections in the middle of class in high school. I used that, and thinking about wrestlers crashing through tables for some reason
R A I S I N S
Drink game: every time Danny says "like" take a shot.
I don't want to die, you monster!
Manji, not swastika.
"Manji" is literally just the Japanese word for "swastika"
I can only take so much of these old NES games before I have to quit, especially the ones that zap all your health when you die & come back and don't give you an easy way to regain it. In the process of getting my health back up I die, get booted back to the starting point, and bash my head against the proverbial brick wall over and over and OVER until I finally get a break and move on to the next dungeon or whatever... only to die in the next screen or two over. And then I ragequit.
If it weren't for savestates, I'd never have beaten the likes of Zelda or Castlevania. I know the stigma around savestates, but these games are just too frustratingly hard for me otherwise.
+Sir Quaffler Hey, I'm with you, yo.
+Sir Quaffler Zelda wasn't even that hard though, just go get a fairy or something if you need health, should've resorted to a map before savestates.
+SacredArts If you can look at a room of 10 darknuts/mages your first time playing and say "not that hard, though," you have problems.
+Sir Quaffler I don't blame you for using savestates. I still think the game is awesome, and I've played through _most_ of the game without save states, but savestating through these older games is totally understandable. We live in a different world now, where most us have more than one or two games we can play over the course of a year and also, once you grow past a certain point in your childhood, the repetition becomes pretty difficult to handle. I could only beat Zelda II with savestates. A lot of savestates. Like, if I managed to get a hit in on a boss without getting hit back, I'd save a state so that I wouldn't have to repeat that single hit. That game is tough.
But... Z1 wasn't that hard. Like, at all. Even by my standards, and I *suck* at video games.
My urinations have become sentient
Satoishi Wa means "I'm Sorry" in moonspeak.
can someone ask the game grumps if they have ever had to pee or poop so bad and held it in so long it would not come out but still doesn't hurt anymore?
If you can't go, solve for pee
Whats the song they talking about? Its the boys? Please i cant find it
Pissed this one , home run
I do dislike Arin's assertion that any linearity and any story is an objectively bad thing in all situations.
1:53
[Insert the rest of the song here]
will they do or have they done link to the past?
what's that one zelda game where dan is trying to make a point with an enemy and the enemy like glitches into the level and Dan is just silent
That was Zelda II but I am not sure what episode
9:30 🥺
I love these fuckers
Me Chinese
Me play joke
Me go pee pee in your coke
this is like the binding of Isaac
RAISONS!!!
51:12
Barbie was originaly a fuck dull at the very beginning, think about it, they made a fuck dull into a toy dull xD
Doll?
23:57 Wow... Almost every word of that was wrong...
I will beat you Figgy! You are so funny and only have heard you for 5 seconds what state are you in?
11:04 18:38 25:32 28:56 51:20 1:00:02
I once made the mistake of asking a big girl when she was due and she got mad "I'm not pregnant!" I played of as "huh? my psychic powers are a little off today" lol
I just sing tenacious D, 1 and 1 make 2 and 2 and 1 mak three its just the way it was ment to be, its destiny, aaah heres the pee.
I looked up that Cathleen tuner girl.......
raisins!!!!
JEEBUS!!!, 18:43
Umm figy... where u at?
wow, i didn't know binding of isaac was based off this!
+Alpha Facepalm btw it isn't a swastika its a symbol in buddhism I think. I seen it in a temple near my house
+Alpha Facepalm yeah the swastika was based off it and kinda ruined the original since it's more well-known
Figgy yea. once, me and my friends when through the temple to go to a fishing spot. They saw the symbols and they thought it was a nazi temple. Kinda awkward looking at the swastika after that
+Alpha Facepalm Yeah, it's pretty awesome. A lot of indie games take very direct inspiration from classics like this one. While I could be all old and annoying and chastise you for not knowing, I'm just glad that new games are coming out that can help younger people who missed this part of gaming have some context for why it was so cool. I'm young too, by the way, in my early 20s, so these games came out before I was born. I just happened to be two generations behind when I was growing up due to my family not having a ton of money so I got to experience these games as if I was a kid born in the 80s. I'm actually really happy things turned out that way, having an appreciation and nostalgia for this stuff is really fun.
*WRASENS*
31:20 ford kia?
48:50
Liked and Commented because I hate Nazis, and because you know Aaron and Dan are cool as fuck.
29:32
I hate Nazis!
Haha, I know this isn't the 'right' video, but.. oh ell! Liked, commented, subscribed!
That’s a manji, not a swastika
(31:30) I miss that show.
Please don't kill me, but am I the only one who absolutely hates the NES zelda?
Always hated it. Played it in 91 and just despised it. Preferred Zelda 2, then the GB/GBC games. Hated everything else. So don't worry, you'll be FAR less hated than me.
I'm not going to kill you, it's aged poorly. I am going to kill the guy who perfered Zelda 2 to the original.
I would say that it's an extremely overrated game, along with Ocarina of Time, but even an overrated main series Zelda game is a good game. Z2, on the other hand, is an extremely _underrated_ entry in the series and doesn't get the credit it deserves for the things it brought to the series.
"If I were to make a game it would be based on this one."
(makes a mediocre dating sim)
:3
amine
The Legend of Zelda is not a well made game, even by 1986 standards. Having to try a single use per screen item to burn every single bush on the overworld to find a game-mandatory dungeon isn't good game design
Ff
I’m Arin I don’t understand GRAEEEEEEEEEEPHIIIIX.
All these pixuls maek moy oyyyyyyyyys huuuuurt ;~;
Also, anyone who calls this game punishing isn’t remembering it properly. This game is less punishing than dark souls. It’s less punishing than Zelda II for god’s sake.
/rant
Yeah, but early Nintendo is really fucking convoluted and esoteric. Especially the first two Zelda games.
o great job you stole other peoples content
14:16