Tag: The Legend of Zelda

  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

    The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

    (Review archived from January 16, 2015) This isn’t my first play through of Link to the Past by any stretch of the imagination, but it is my first in quite a number of years. In many ways this was the first game in the Zelda series to have begun the process of codifying the lore…

  • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES)

    Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES)

    (Review archived from December 5, 2014) It’s been quite a number of years since I played through this game, but it’s one that I’ve always been fond of.  The first point people tend to make about this game is how different it is from the first game (and indeed the entirety of the rest of…

  • The Legend of Zelda (NES)

    The Legend of Zelda (NES)

    (Review archived from November 18, 2014) For me this was the game that started all.  I received a shiny new NES console along with this game on a fateful Christmas morning in 1987 in the form of a gift from my Mom.  I had never really been bitten by the arcade craze partly due to…