Adam ConoverAbout to embark on a project I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: I’m playing through The Legend of Zelda, on an NES hooked up to a CRT, with only the manual and original map to guide me, just as though I were a kid in 1987. Wish me luck!
Going to turn this into a thread as I play through. This cartridge I picked up from a local shop already had a save file for “BUTT”. Looks like the person died 17 times and made no progress. No way I’m deleting that - I’ll save my file in slot 2.
I completely forgot about these screens where the camera suddenly shifts to being from the side rather than top down. Thought they only did this in Link’s Awakening! Also wild that you get BOTH the bow and the boomerang in the first dungeon, but if you actually want to USE the bow, you have leave the dungeon entirely, grind for money, and buy an arrow for 80 rupees! Wild game.
Finding the first dungeon was easy - it’s right on the map that comes with the game! One of the reasons I never made progress on this when I was a kid (in addition to being too young) is that I didn’t have the original manual or map. They give you SO many hints on where to go and what to try, it makes the game far less intimidating than I thought it was, and much more exciting to explore.
Andres@adamconover Wait, the map came with the game? I'm pretty sure I had the manual, but not the map when I was a kid. And I bought it from the store, in the original box. 🤔
グレェ「grey」@Andres4NY Indeed, though you will note that the map is incomplete.
There is a more detailed over world map, as well as more dungeon maps in the "Official Nintendo Player's Guide" but even it left some things out. A sort of "spoilers, but not spoiling everything" methodology.
After all, Nintendo had a "Nintendo Power Hotline" to upsell to gamers for $1.50/minute! ;)
Which meant: I often got random calls from kids at school asking me for tips, because: I was not a toll call. ;( @adamconover
