In my childhood years, I had two friends that I did everything with. The three of us were inseparable and when we all got together, the creative juices were always flowing. A lot of the time, we would play ‘Stranded,’ which, in short, was a game where we would act as Nintendo characters stranded on…
A couple of hours into Phantom Hourglass, the concept of who Linebeck was as a person no longer came as a shock. He was greedy, selfish, cowardly, conniving, and cowardly. “Cowardly” warrants the repetition. All of this in mind, when the time came for me to rescue him from the fury of a vengeful warrior,…
When I was younger, I loved reading tales of knights and fantasy heroes, but none captured my attention quite the same way that King Arthur did. For a few years, I spent hours with my nose in such tomes as The Once and Future King and Le Morte d’Arthur. The lessons of chivalry and responsibility…
It’s funny how memories work. I cannot remember the first time I rode a bike or my first day of school. I cannot remember the first time I saw snow or even my first holiday. But I do remember the first magical moment that I found The Legend of Zelda, or rather it found me.…
As a child, the vast majority of my game time was a performance, as my two younger siblings often watched me play, trying to cadge some time with the controller. Even when they couldn’t convince me to relinquish the game pad, though, playing time often resembled a group effort. We were a highly theatrical family,…
It’s always been fun for me to build costumes and dress up as my favorite characters and I do it every chance I can. In August 2019, I went to a convention, last minute of all things, just because I wanted to cosplay again. Specifically, I wanted to cosplay as Ravio. This convention was primarily…
I met a number of wonderful characters during my time playing The Wind Waker. Tetra with her sass that tried to cover up all her sweet, the little plush of adorable that was Link’s sister, the wrinkled plush of adorable that was Link’s grandmother, and the ever-noble Quill were a number of characters that made…
Although I’ve played video games on a regular basis for literal decades now, my earliest days with the medium were quite casual, as I was restricted to playing whatever was available at friends’ houses or what I could find in the arcades. I knew Mario and Sonic and the Mortal Kombat crew, along with staples…
Seeing as how there are about as many editions of Monopoly as there are Korok Seeds in Breath of the Wild, it’s only right that The Legend of Zelda should have its own version of the beloved board game. As soon as that version released in 2014, I made sure to grab it right away…
Death Mountain. In later Zelda titles, the fear inspired by this name would lessen as it became just one more location in the vast land of Hyrule, but in that very first Legend of Zelda, approaching its 8-bit peaks invoked a sense of creeping dread. The instruction booklet had told us that Death Mountain was…
I remember the first time that the notion of a Legend of Zelda movie grabbed my attention. It was April 2008 and IGN had just released a trailer for the up-and-coming Legend of Zelda film, claiming the hopeful hearts of fans from all over the world, including myself. For its time, it was a professionally…
Growing up in front of an old cathode-ray TV, sitting a controller cord away from the warm glow of the monitor, I was rarely alone in my video game playing time. As the oldest of three siblings, and in a house with a limited number of televisions to go around, I often had an audience…
Given all of the things I could be doing out of compulsion, I don’t think my game collection is really all that big. Call it an obsession if you must. I keep all my games, but I never buy any without intending to (eventually) play them, if that helps to make it sound reasonable in…
I guess you could say that I always sought adventure when I was younger. The Zelda series scratched that itch for me, but when I was around twelve years old, I found another type of game that also helped me fulfill my virtual wanderlust: the point-and-click adventure game. LucasArts was the king of the genre…
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is not only one of my favorite Zelda titles of all time, but there is so much history in this one little cart that helps bolster the game’s staying power in both my heart and in my memory. The game had an epic story that a younger me…
