I am 62. Been playing Zelda off and on 30yrs.

I will never forget that I learned about the second quest from a friend at junior high. I had just assumed that the sword in Link's hand was a kind of trophy, and had no idea how different the second quest was from the one I'd just beaten. After telling me, he also informed me he couldn't find the entrance to the 6th dungeon in the second quest. So I spent that night catching up to his progress, and on the phone with him helping him search for it for much of the night. I accidentally found that in the second quest, the recorder could reveal passages, and we found the entrance that night. We also managed to complete the seventh, and we discovered the eighth after starting to bomb every wall segment in the overworld. You can't buy experiences like this.

The Zelda title screen music is one of the finest pieces of music ever composed.

I'm a massive Zelda fan....I thought that there wasnt anything left for me to discover. The Deep Purple thing just blew me away. Instant subscribe!

17:51 This is because timers keep running during the pause while the whistle plays. The curse lasts a certain amount of time, and that time passes during the whistle song. By the time it finishes, the curse is also over.

Oddly yesterday I searched and rewatched the NES Super Mario Bros declassified, and then a notification for The Legend of Zelda in the morning! Great way to start the day!

22:00 This is almost right. One detail though, the Roocorder glitch (named after its discoverer, rooslugs) happens not because Link is moved in both directions per se, but because after the whirlwind starts taking Link to the right, the raft reorients him so he's facing up. Then, it is true that he moves diagonally up-right, but the key thing is that he reaches the edge of the screen facing up. Link's facing direction is what determines the scrolling direction. The way the recorder does the teleportation is that it normally triggers a screen scroll to the right, so in order to reach the correct destination, it also sets Link's position to be one screen left of the destination. Because the screen now scrolls up instead of right, the result is that Link ends up one screen up and to the left of the intended destination.

Interesting. Learning something new about a game I've played a thousand times is cool. Thanks.

Holy cow, the amount of research you put into this is astronomical. I had a blast watching this, thank you NESComplex!!

That 80s artwork is so kino. Immediately invokes a feeling of adventure that never came through in the post NES era promo art.

“Trenches full of water and… lava. Only, it isn’t lava.”