Zelda!

[Myke]

whats your favorite zelda game?

mine is Ocarina of Time, that game is so incredible.

[Fuzzylogic]

I still love the original and the one on the Super NES with the dark universe or mirror universe.

[vanselus]

My parents got seriously addicted to the original zelda. Every day when I came home they would play it until bed.

The funniest part is that they never did beat the damn game :D

[HRGraham]

My brother got really into the Zelda games. I can't stand them.

[Dalfiuss]

Link to the Past, with Ocarina of Time in a close second.

[SnakEyez]

I agree with Dal. Link to the Past is one of the best games ever made. Ocarina of Time was good but it wasn't as ground breaking.

Link's Awakening for Gameboy (the original one, good old black and white), had to be great for an original game boy game, given the graphics, but those game boy versions all lost the original storyline and only confused me about what I was trying to do.

And just to comment on the others:

-The original Zelda is the original, it cannot be replaced
-Zelda 2: That was too odd for me, hated the left to right movement
-Majora Mask - WORST ZELDA GAME EVER!
-Wind Waker - great graphics, story was pretty good, actual gameplay was horrible. I mean there were not enough levels compared to ALL other Zelda's.

[Dalfiuss]

A thing I disliked about Wind Waker was all of the sailing. It was fun for the first 5 minutes, but then going back and forth between places became busy work.

[Myke]

my 2nd place is link to the past

[vanselus]

maybe i'm a sentimentalist, but i still like the first one the best.

of course, i haven't played the other ones as much...

and now that i mentioned it, mario/luigi superstar saga kinda reminds me of zelda.

[SnakEyez]

I have to agree with you there. Mario seemed to reach his peak with Mario 64. That was about it. The original was great (and I still have it along with the original Nintendo).

The 2nd was horrible.

The 3rd was awesome.

Super Mario World was great because of Yoshi.

Mario 64 was great.

The Gameboy ones were ok.

Luigi's Mansion is the worst Mario game ever.

The Wario games, well, are they really even Mario?

Mario Sunshine has nothing to do with Mario whatsoever since you wonder why you are facing your enemies children, and Mario seems to have not aged a day? And the missions were stupid.

And Mario Party I never really got into that game.

[Dalfiuss]

I just got my Zelda Promotional Disc in the mail (for registering 2 select cube/gba games)

It has the original Zelda, Zelda II, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask. It is going to be fun to play through the first three of those again on the cube, not sure if I am ever going to play through majoras mask again.

[intricate]

Im not sure wat zelday game it was for but it was the first one for Nintendo 64. Man that game was awesome, it was way ahead of its time and it transformed gameplay too this date.

[Dalfiuss]

That would be Ocarina of Time, the highest rated game of all time according to gamerankings.com

[Winston]

I loved the Mario games. I wish they had a good one out for the GameCube now, kind of dissapointing they don't. Zelda has always been a favorite of mine as well. Always well crafted and just overall awesome games.

Of course a good game of DUCK HUNT never hurts now and then..lol :)

[vanselus]

Wow... duck hunt. I had totally forgotten about that game! Are there any games out now that have an actual gun to shoot the screen with, like DH?

[Winston]

I can't think of anything out there now. Although if I think back around 5 or 6 years ago, the game Lethal Enforcers for various systems came with a gun I think. I don't remember which systems they were for, but I can almost remember seeing it in the stores. I think duck hunt was way advanced for its time, seeing how it came out in the beginning of Nintendo. I don't even know if they made any other games for it, but the accuracy on the screen was amazing for 1985.

[vanselus]

Ok pardon my ignorance, but how did the gun work on duck hunt? I'm assuming that the gun itself sensed something on the screen?

[Winston]

I would have to look it up (I have come across it before somewhere)...I'll post it if I ever find it again.

[Fuzzylogic]

Originally posted by vanselus
Ok pardon my ignorance, but how did the gun work on duck hunt? I'm assuming that the gun itself sensed something on the screen?

All the sensing was done by the gun.

There are different ways of doing it, two of the more popular ways being that you either flash your target white on the screen. If your gun was pointed at the target when you pulled your trigger then the gun will pick up the light and the game scores a hit. However, if you have multiple targets this may not work as well.

The other way they often did this was to flash the entire screen white, since TVs have to "print" across the screen in a certain pattern it takes time for the TV to draw the entire screen. So knowing this the game system will start counting how long it takes for the gun to first see the light. Once the gun registers it the game system then knows where the gun was aimed at the TV and goes from there.

[vanselus]

Right, the white flash - I remember that in the tv show Captain Power. Remember that? Where you'd point your little toy at the screen when it flashed and the toy would register the hit.

Short lived though.

[Fuzzylogic]

They had interactive toys for Captain Power?

Now see I'm suprised they don't do that now, kids would LOVE that.

[vanselus]

In theory they were really cool, but in practice they sucked pretty bad. It gets kind of pointless when you're pointing a toy at the tv and knowing exactly what's going to happen. They were made really cheaply too, with lots of parts that fell off.

However, I'm sure there could be really cool things to do with that same kind of technology.

[Isis]

The original LEGEND OF ZELDA for NES is still the best zelda of all time. I'll go back and play a ROM version of it on lazy sundays all the time. One of my all time favorites.