‘Ello ‘Ello!
I hope life has been good to everyone this weekend,
It has for me, but i come bearing a dilemma, of sorts, with the lack of a certain APP on the iphone now or even in the near future im sure.
When i was 8 years old The Legend Of Zelda : Ocarina of Time came out on the still fresh N64 game console. I remember getting it for christmas the month after it came out. The actual storyline to the game, at first glance of the back of the box description, seems very cliche “hero saves the princess from a terrible evil”.
Once you play the game for little over 30 minutes though you begin to realize the depth and mystery to the unfolding story of a kingdom plagued by its own control over time and the greater divine forces that govern the world. Even as an eight year old i could sense while i was playing the beginning portion that some very intense, and for lack of a better phrase, EPIC events were about to come forth and shoot through my unsuspecting sponge of a mind, and forever change my views as a person (though i didn’t realize it til about high school when i got into philosophy and all that). With some of the most intense dungeons, baffling mazes and puzzles, and the most surreal landscapes and songs that will stick with you for years (im listening to one right now!) as well as an endless supply of unique characters and sub-stories behind each one, this game is by far one of the best games of this and last decade. Truth is, the greater meaning behind the game that you will discover at the end (or even a couple of plays through) will blow you away ten times more than the actual game play will, though im more than sure you wont be able to leave your TV for at least 2 hours between each session.
Little do people know that the creator of Mario Bros. is the same creator of the Zelda series. He has also stated that though they both were created at the same time and are closely related (as you see in Zelda games, i.e. Mario pictures hanging on the walls of the castle in Hyrule, or in Paper Mario you can see the hero of Zelda laying in a bed in the mushroom village), he decided to take Mario in a more linear direction, with lots of movement and time restrictions, while making Zelda a complete opposite game of free adventure and endless play time.
Whats funny is that Mario became a much more world known household name, but zelda to this day (which has just half as many games out as mario bros.) holds the title for the best nintendo franchise for a game, though sadly only one out of every 20 people i meet have even heard the name Zelda.
So please, lets all come together and bring light to this problem.
Someone out there needs to make a cool APP to play an iphone version of Zelda somehow, because everybody knows (nerds like myself) that computer emulators just ARE NOT the same thing as our beloved consoles. Though an ipod APP wont do it full justice.
Wheres the love for Zelda? mine is on my left arm, where is yours?
your friendly neighborhood friend,
Mike 2.0
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My brother Dominic was really into the Nintendo 64-bit version of Zelda – I could never see the appeal – except that boomerang thing – that was state-of-the-art graphics back then, man.
/abm
it’s all about link to the past!
yes!! im so glad half the work place knows about Zelda. Brings a tear to my eye.
and ya link to the past was the most epic of them all, no question
I was a fan of zelda as when i was little and am exploring and figuring out how the iphone actually works. Now if you go to cydia their is already a entire n64 emulator, however zelda runs slow, and lags, also the emulator only works on the iphone 3gs or ipod touch 3rd gen. I will try to format legend of zelda so it works on the iphone 3g. Since the processing power of the iphone 3g is extremely slow, i have already made an external accessory that speeds the processor up. however i am trying to find out a way that the zelda game could work without the accessory. If you have heard about the game Rayman 2 it is form the n64. but has been formated to run on the iphone, I don’t know how gameloft made it run but i am trying to do the same thing, after getting nintendos permition (which will be difficult to get and if i cant do it ill put it on cydia) i will try to publish it to the iphone app store.
Zelda Iphone SDK CEO: Mr.Chaudhry