"The Legend of Zelda 35th Anniversary!"

[kane_magus]

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"The Legend of Zelda turned 35! We discuss the historical importance of this legendary game!"

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And... there we go. The last hold out on the shilling has finally stopped holding out. (If Pat and Ian have done this before, I don't recall seeing it, and I don't watch every podcast segment video they put out, so it wouldn't surprise me if they'd done it in the past.) Now, all but one Youtube content creator I watch has, at some point or another, shilled some vapid product that I don't care about. *weary sigh* (The exception being John Oliver, because he has HBO money and doesn't need to shill for random shit like that. Of course, HBO has the asinine annoyance of region-locking to make up for the lack of annoyance with the random shilling.)

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Anyway, as to the actual video.

My first memories of The Legend of Zelda... it was either watching The Super Mario Brothers Super Show, because the Friday Zelda segments were, to me, always better than the Mario stuff (and, later, when Link and Zelda, with the same voices from the Mario show, appeared on Captain N: The Game Master, that fucking blew my mind)... or it was when I went to the home of one of my fellow Cub Scout troop members and played Zelda for like five minutes or so. Pretty much the only thing that I recall from that is that they told me to not use the bow and arrow, because it used a rupee every time you shot it.

I don't think I ever fully played through either The Legend of Zelda or Zelda II until... hell, probably a decade or more after I'd played Link's Awakening on Game Boy and A Link to the Past on SNES (in that order), and even that was via an emulator. I've never played more than maybe an hour or so of the NES Zelda games on the original hardware.

Comments

[owsf2000]

Yeah Pat and Ian shilled like that before. I think they've been attaching a segment like that to one of the videos per podcast for a while now - meaning one video per 2 weeks or something? I personally find it a bit hard to blame'em when youtube keeps finding ways to adjust their algorithms to fuck content creators over as much as possible. Doesn't mean I particularly like it though. Some avoid it by adding a patreon and the like, although others will do both.

As for Zelda, I played the original two games back when I was growing up. Had them both completed back then as well. Actually, looking over my Game Complete list it looks like I haven't re-completed Zelda II. Perhaps I'll add that to the list of games to play this year.

The list shows most every game I've completed since starting the list - I just made a decision when I started it not to add anything I had completed before the list began for simplicity and to give me an excuse to play them again.

[kane_magus]

I have so many unplayed or only slightly played games on Steam (the vast majority of which I'll probably never play to completion) that a "games completed" list would be pretty much unfeasible for me, especially if I started new and didn't add games I'd already completed. It's part of the reason I abandoned Backloggery, too... >_>;;

[owsf2000]

I don't even think about my actual collection while doing this list. It'd be a bit depressing really if I did. Instead I use the list as a badge of effort showing I'm still gamin' it up.