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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: Slayer on March 13, 2008, 12:46:09 AM
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Playing my Game Boy Color for the first time in almost a decade feels as an amazing experience. My classmates and I used to play Game Boy Color back in the fourth grade, and one of the games we loved besides Pokemon was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, my favorite of the GB games. I didn't have DX, since I had the older one from when I played the carts on my original, and then pocket, Game Boy. Playing Link's Awakening for me is like being able to visit my imagination of my earlier years, my childhood. Back then, these simple, crude visuals depicted an epic adventure for those who played it on their non-backlit, low-resolution, low sound quality, two button systems. Other children would often come to me asking for how to beat certain dungeons, or how to beat a certain enemy, with such determinance to complete their quests it was almost as if they were actually in this world. At the end of the game, when we found out that the world was nothing more than a dream, an experience which only directly effects the mind of one person, it was a revelation; everything we had held in our minds, in our hearts, about the dungeons we trespassed, the weapons we fought with, the characters we met, everything about the quest we grew attached to, was nothing but a dream. This experience was one that I for one held deeply in my thoughts, despite it being from a game which we would now consider technologically inferior.
Games were never about violence back then. They were never about the complexity. They were never about graphics. They were never about realism.
They were about the experience.
They are about the experience
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In Reply To #1
I know how you feel.
About 3 months ago, I bought a couple of used gameboy games for my GBC which works perfectly.
I bought Mario Land 2, which I had never played and I bought Wario Land because I loved it as a kid.
Oh and also Donkey Kong Land 2.
It really did bring back good memories and made me feel kinda fresh.. in a way.
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Link's Awakening was a fun game. I liked the throwbacks to other Nintendo games in it, too (The Kirby-like enemies, etc.) Though I actually thought they did the Mario-like side-scrolling levels too many times. It started to feel a little odd seeing Goombas and Parana Plants so often. Still a fun game though.
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I still have a lot of my old Gameboy games. I wish the DS would play them, dammit.
GB Mega Mans 3-5 = superb.
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In Reply To #1
I still have my old game boy color and the original zelda.
Zelda links awakening was the first rpg game i ever played!
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I played my fat-green gameboy last week. Good-times.
I still use my sp for RE-Gaiden.
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Yeah I've still got my old silver pocket, I love that thing. I also have a big original toaster one but that's only to complete my gb collection, I hardly ever play it, cuz the pocket's better and the screen doesn't get blurry when you move your characters.
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Ah the memories of the original gameboy. The thing was my best friend for a long time. Except those times when there just wasnt enough light to see whats on the screen especially when in a vehicle.
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Ah the memories of the original gameboy. The thing was my best friend for a long time. Except those times when there just wasnt enough light to see whats on the screen especially when in a vehicle.
Yeah that always sucked, I'd go to turn on one of the car lights and my dad would be like "don't do that I can't see", so I started bringing a small plastic keychain flashlight and used pipe cleaners and tape to position it above my old gb, good times, good times. I remember getting a special gb light for christmas one year too back in about 1992 I think when the first ones started to hit the market, it was big and slid on the front of my gameboy and on top of the screen it had two built in bulbs and worked great only prob was they were regular light bulbs and no flourescent since flourescent bulbs were in their infancy back then and huge. So about two weeks later the light goes out. So's I'm all like okay must need new batteries since it only ran on two AA's, so I go to replace them and it still don't work. So about a week later my dad takes it back to target and one of the employees there is explaining how it was probably the bulbs not the batteries that were creating an issue and there's currently no way to replace them w/out buying a new lighting device.
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In Reply To #9
That was really bad!
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In Reply To #9
That was really bad!
Yeah I refused to get another lighting product for years after that. In fact it wasn't until I picked my GB pocket up and they started coming out with flourescent clip on lights for 10 bucks that I finally broke down and bought one.
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ahh the memories.. I agree with post #1 and indeed zelda was a great game.
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I still have my clear Gameboy Pocket. I felt I was king of the world with that thing, because you could see inside. Blew my mind away.
Those were the days Pokemon Blue or Red was the usual fare.
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ahh the memories.. I agree with post #1 and indeed zelda was a great game.
Yeah links awakening used to be my fav. one when I was younger because of the amount of cool new items and innovations the game possessed. I played that game into the ground back in the day. I remember the first time I got the Master Sword after getting the 20 seashells I was all exstatic that I jumped up to help my Grandma with the dishes! ;D
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How i long for the old days, playing with the GB Castlevania adventure and Zelda! Growing is a terrible think.
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In Reply To #15
Holy crap that game got hard in the later dungeons. It took me an extremely long time to figure out that in one of the final dungeons you had to BREAK the pillars so the entire dungeon would change a bit. I got lucky and had the DX version or whatever, and beat the extra dungeon *with color O.O*.
This is my favorite Zelda game next to OoT and the obvious A Link to the past.
The way you found those seashells and upgraded your items was damn awesome. A lot of things about this game was epic, especially the huge scope of the game on a little GB cart.
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In Reply To #16
I still remember when i went for the first time at the final stage, inside the egg and i was wandering without to know where i was having to go for a week about, until i found that you were to find the magnified glass and read the book inside the library to find the secret path for the final boss! Best game ever!! ;)