RetroGaming

One of my favourite games, it was a very impressive title for the Game Boy at the time. It had an interesting development story, it started as a Game Boy port of Link to the Past, developed in off hours as a sort of passion project.

I remember having to download a text file guide, with dungeon layouts drawn in ASCII art, to get through a couple of the tricky bits.

The Switch port is worth checking out too, the graphical style is adorable.

Congrats - Links Awakening is truly a masterpiece and yes, they really worked hard to get a whole Zelda onto the GB.

I’ve never played a 3D Zelda before so I am looking forward to OoT

In case you go the emulation route and don't use the version on Nintendo Switch Online (or a virtual console version on older Nintendo consoles), you should also take a look at Ship Of Harkinian. They decompiled OoT and ported it to run natively on several platforms. In contrast to other versions, you can play it in wide-screen, with unlocked framerate (instead of 14-20fps of the original) and you can also enable several QoL features (everything optional). You only need to provide a ROM file, but in case you plan to go the emulation route, you'd need that anyways...

I've always wanted to know this from someone who beat the game for their first time as a grown adult:

I beat the game when I was 10-ish and the sad ending hit me so hard that even today hearing that end credit song makes me feel morose. I used to think it was because of what a masterpiece the game always was and how masterfully they've made that ending, but was it just because I was too young? How does that ending hit to an adult?

I haven't had much time to dedicate to it, but I've been playing this for the first time as well.

The only Zelda game I've played before has been Link to the Past. It's been very enjoyable so far, especially for a Gameboy game! I'm in the palace with the Pegasus boots and I got the boss key, but I'm short one of the regular keys, so I got pissy and stopped for now.

Posting on Superbowl so much means I get the Koholint owl posted back at me regularly, so I decided it was finally time to check it out.

Lucky you, time to move on to Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, the best 2D Zelda games in my opinion.

I’d love if you all would leave a hint or a message on the map I created, if you have the time. I think it’d be something really cool to share with new players, and it would make the hours I spent taking screenshots trying to figure out were Marin was feel less wasted (I was convinced she had something to do with the flying rooster)

At least it sounds like the weather cock had a good time.

For real though, great work. I played through the original Link's Awakening on Gameboy when I was but a wee lad, and have played through various re-releases. It's a blast every time.

Have you played the Switch remake as well? I'm wondering if it is worth playing the original. I actually like Gameboy graphics, but the music is hard to get used to.