Nintendo Store link
Release date is Nov 5 2026. I believe the physical release is an actual physical release and not a game key card.
Nintendo Store link
Release date is Nov 5 2026. I believe the physical release is an actual physical release and not a game key card.
Never played the orig (never had a console after the Atari 2600), but as much as I’ve hears of the zelda-games, it’s probably worth a shot?
A pirated ROM will probably do fine too? Before even thinking of giving nintendo a single Buck.
Thanks either way!
Haven’t played it as well, but according to metacritic it’s the best game ever:
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/
Sounds solid. Hopefully it aged better than the 2600 games 😁
Other people already answered your question, so gotta ask. What’s your favorite 2600 game? I gotta go with Missile Command if I had to pick.
In hindsight I don’t really know how we could justify paying 50€ for 10 pixels and two beeps 😁 but I’d say pacman? Was my first beside pong.
Still have the cartridges in my cabinet 😍
Okay so. A primer on the Zelda franchise:
Nintendo dislikes video games with stories, and they nakedly hate video game franchises with overall lore. Nintendo wants to make video games that are mechanically fun, “it’s fun to jump on the thing.” “It’s fun to swing a sword ad the thing.” “It’s fun to throw a ball at the thing.” Look no farther than their primary flagship franchise, the Mario series, for games with an excuse plot and highly polished primary gameplay loops. You can tell they truly, madly, deeply resent their secondary flagship franchise, the Zelda series, for being a more narrative driven adventure saga that attracts gamers who like deep overall lore.
Ocarina of Time is the most important game in the Zelda series’ deep overall lore.
The best example of this mentality is the release of the Hyrule Historia timeline, immediately followed by Aonuma going “sure we’re totes paying attention to the timeline for BOTW, so it’s totes obvious where it should be”, before eventually admitting that they did nothing of the sort.