The Holy Triforce of Gaming: -Super Mario Bros. -The Legend of Zelda. -Tetris.

User Rating: 10 | The Legend of Zelda NES
The Legend of Zelda(NES), the First game in the Greatest Gaming series of all Time(along with Mario of course), Miyamoto's 2nd masterpiece on the console represents a milestone in Gaming History:one of the first games(if not the first) to use a battery backup for saving your progress & also one of the first RPGs ever made(or probably the first one).Inspired after the game Adventure from the Atari2600 & probably from Robin Hood too, the Legend of Zelda involves RPG, action, adventure, fantasy & puzzle, a game ahead of it's time, considering it was first released in 1986.Links first adventure ever is also one of the best, probably in Top 3 in the series.The game is very hard, but not as hard as the first 2 sequels for example.It's not too short nor too long it has a perfect lenght consisting of 8 Dungeons(the infinite number)+The 9th one where you fight Ganon for the first time ever, a monster that looks very much like a Wild Boar.Ganon stole many years ago the Triforce of Power.The princess Zelda had the Triforce of Wisdom & she divided it into 8 parts to hide it from Ganon.Now Link must find the parts placed in each of the 8 Dungeons in order to access Ganons Lair to defeat him, get the Triforce of Power back & save the princess.The overworld of this game is just right, not too small but not too large either.Here you don't have any markings on the map of the overworld like in ALttP for example, but considering that this game is not as hard as the one mentioned above, it's something normal.
Link collects rupees, which represents the currency of India so it makes me believe the action of the game takes place in a parallel, fantasy Indian Universe where Link is a combination between an Elf & Robin Hood, lol.The total number of types of items that can be found is somewhere around 35-36.If i'm not mistaking, it's the only game in the series where you have 2 types of candles:blue, the simple one & the red one that fires multiple flames.The music made by the recorder is mythical, i can recognize it out of 100 sounds, it remains in your head for a long long time,the soundtrack of the game is also highly recognisable & memorable.This whistle has been ported to SMB3, it's exactly the same item.The series reached maturity at the 3rd instalment in the series where everything is bigger but also harder.That is not so good, when things get complicated too much, the fun is diminished as the frustration takes place...now, i've spotted another flaw in A Link to the Past, a bad habit exactly that is perpetuated in later instalments:you can enter everyones houses & take whatever you want, for free, for granted.This is a bad example for the younger players, for children especially.When they see that they can take everything for free from peoples houses they might think it's a good thing & apply it in the real life.In the first game, there is no such thing, moreover, it educates you.For example:when you enter a cave or a shop whatever, an Old Woman wants to give you precious information but in exchange for a certain ammount of rupies.If you give her only 10 rupies, she says it's not enough.If you give her too much, she will laugh & take your money away saying:"Boy, you are rich", without giving you any information.There is also an Old Man inside a tree that invites you to the "Money Making Game", in other words he invites you to gamble.The best method is to stay away, to ignore his game.Another example:if you attack the persons that give you hints, they will counter-attack-it wants to say, never betray your friends as they could become your worst enemies.The Legend of Zelda(NES) is a very educative experience, it represents the quintessence of ideas in the series, some of them "ported" to other games in the series.Now i really don't know what to say, which is the best in the series but since everybody says Ocarina of Time is the best, then i must follow the trend.
It has a Good to Great Replay Value & the best way to describe the graphics of this game is to say that it represents a bunch of rough pixels that circulate on the screen-well, these rough pixels create one of the most legendary games ever created.Miyamoto is clearly the Greatest Game Creator of all Time.Imagine this world without him:there would have been no Mario, no Zelda & the industry of gaming dead or in a coma since 1983.