When I first picked up The Legend of Zelda on the NES, I said to me "Could this game get any better?" Then, I find out t
The game is an overall great game, which was the first game in its kind to be dubbed "adventure" and the first to include a battery backup (able to save your file to the cartridge). Even though other NES games have been remade for several other Nintendo consoles, including Super Mario Bros. remade for the SNES, and most recently Metroid was remade for the GBA (Metroid: Zero Mission) which even added new power-ups and a completely added on bonus at the end of the game continuing the story after it ended in the original. This game could see the very same thing, maybe remade and bundled with The Legend of Zelda for the cube in 2005. I don¿t care, as long as Nintendo does something new with this game, I¿m fine. Some will say "but this game was remade for the SNES!" yea, I know. That¿s the BS Zelda only in Japan on the Stellaview thingie, which the servers closed down quite some time ago. But they completely took the game out of context there, adding a timer, redoing all dungeons, and even replacing Link's sprite with a baseball cap wearing weirdo.
This game is a great game in its entirety, and any Zelda fan should pick this up. It shows how much games have advanced over the past 20 years. We went from an 8-bit game to character models having over 600,000 polygon counts. The GBA does a great job and running this game perfectly, but the game will slow down if there are too many sprites on screen at a time (just like it did 20 years ago). The price is a little steep for a NES-GBA port title, $20. They could¿ve had it brought down to $10 or $15, but $20 for something like that? A normal GBA game is just $30-35. The sound is played perfectly, 8-bit bleeps and bloops all that retro goodness. If you want classics without the classic hardware, buy the NES Classic Series games for the GBA. If you love adventure and Zelda, you MUST snag this game, if you haven¿t already. This game should up there on peoples "Most wanted list" for classics.