Wii-kly Virtual Console Update Provides Us With a Link to the Past
Our Nintendo carrier pigeon brings us some hot news straight from the neighboring Kingdom of Hyrule. This week's Wii-kly VC title is none other than The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past!! While some have expressed disappointment that only "one stinking game" was released this week, it's A Link to the Past, dammit! If you're not familiar, I first slap you, and then provide you with this description:
Fantabulous! While I won't be picking this one up (I still have the original), I highly recommend this title to any Zelda fan or gamer out there. Everyone who had an SNES should have played this game. ...or so I would like to think. For the full press release, make the jump!
Jan. 22, 2007Wii-kly Update: Classic Zelda Game Announced for Wii Shop Channel
Today Nintendo adds one of the most popular games in its library of
classics to the Wii(TM) video game system's Wii Shop Channel. The Legend of
Zelda(TM): A Link to the Past(TM) goes live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo
adds new games to the channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed
Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points
can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets.The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Super NES(R), 1 player, 800 Wii
Points): Return to an age of magic and heroes. When an evil magician named
Agahnim begins kidnapping young maidens in Hyrule in a quest to break the
imprisoning seal on Ganon, a young boy named Link is called upon to stop him.
Link must venture into twisting mazes, dungeons, palaces and shadowy forests
as he searches for the maidens and Princess Zelda. Traversing both Light and
Dark Worlds, he must navigate eight dark dungeons, fighting evil enemies and
huge bosses. Help our hero prevent Ganon and Agahnim from shattering Hyrule
forever.
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 22 January 2007
· Comments (15)
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SHUT UP!!! Yay.
/faint
Nintendo just learned their lesson, really. Instead of releasing 3-4 games, only one of which is worth playing, they just released one game that's worth playing.
I mean, they could very well have released this alongside, say, Mario is Missing and Fighting Street (the TG-16 port of the first Street Fighter), and people would just bitch about having two lousy games keeping the boys from Link to the Past's yard.
//shaking hands up and down squealing
Freaking finally! Something worth my points. Now, if I wasn't haven't a root canal and a temporary crown in two hours...
I'm SO looking forward to my slightly Novacaine influenced trip down this Zelda memory lane.
//back to regular butch
Best Zelda. Ever.
Hurray! One of the best gems of the 16-bit golden age of gaming.
Easily my favourite Zelda game.
This is definitely one of my favorite SNES games, right up there with Chrono Trigger and TMNT: Turtles in Time!!
yay, i never owned a snes but ive played the game almost to the end twice on two seperate peoples systems, and its on of my favorites now ill finally be able to defeat it.
That above anonymous comment was made by me, in case it somehow pissed someone off.
I bring nothing to the table but closure.
So after releasing the Collector's Edition disc on Gamecube with only 80% completion, by "forgetting" the best Zelda game, Nintendo has finally seen the light. A few years too late, but never too little! If you haven't played ALTtP you cannot call yourself a gamer until you do.
Still the best game in the Zelda series, with Wind Waker being my second favorite...what? I haven't played Twilight Princess yet, shut up : P
I still have my original SNES copy, complete with the box and instruction manuels.
Still the best game in the Zelda series, with Wind Waker being my second favorite...what? I haven't played Twilight Princess yet, shut up : P
I still have my original SNES copy, complete with the box and instruction manuels.
Sweeeeet! I heard they were doing this at some point in Jan, so glad it's happened. All we need now is Chrono Trigger and i'll be one happy pup. ^_^
Mmmmm, I'm gonna have to pick that up so that I can play it after I finish Twilight Princess and before I go back to finish Ocarina of Time and start Majora's Mask and Wind Waker.
Looking forward to the eventual release of SMB3 and SMW as long as we're talking about all-time classics.
Best Zelda In The Series...What?!?!...It's Without Doubt The Best Zelda Game On The Wii Aswell, And The Pinnacle Of Nintendos Genius, BEST.GAME.EVER