(Saw this question asked on another popular link aggregation website and it got me thinking)
If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would you choose? This might be because you want to do it all again, or because you don’t think you got enough out of it the first time. It could be experiencing the game exactly as you were back then, or experiencing a game with what you know now.
For me, it’s Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, experienced exactly as I was back in 1991.
Nothing comes close to how jaw-droppingly amazed I was by that opening sequence. The epic orchestral score, the cinematic rainstorm, creeping around in the dark… it was a generational leap above anything I’d played on 8-bit computers and consoles, and even the Megadrive. I’d love to play it again without thirty plus years of Nintendo/Zelda knowledge, or without knowing about the dark world.
MM3 - I loved that so much, we built our own MM3-based engine to walk around in such a landscape & had a map editor. Too bad as teens we didn’t have the endurance to finish the adventure game based on that that we were dreaming of.
Need to Google if I can find it. I’d actually play it again
I think it’s available somewhere as abandonware, maybe on games of gold? Otherwise: PM me (on vacation, might take a while to respond)
I found the executable, tried running out using vDos but it wouldn’t launch. Gonna try Dosbox later this week.
Sorry for the late response (as announced :D) - I was running it on Dosbox, that definitely worked for me.
“I am Sheltem, guardian of Terra. Twice now you have defeated my tests, thinking yourself worthy of invading my world…”
Still gives me shivers of joy :)