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Omg it's Bio-oh wait- 😂😂 Omg I love the cat! 🥰 Turbo that's so cool how he was gifted his SNES by his babysitter! 🙏 And some sweet finds from his mom at the thrift store :] I can definitely relate to how it felt to conquer dungeons as a kid. Whenever I'd reach a new area in a game I considered really challenging, I'd always feel like I was super far... even though that was not always the case 😂 That's dope how this is one of Turbozone's favorite games :] I'm super inexperienced with this one, but after putting a little more time into this one, I can understand why he loves this one as much as he does. I really enjoyed A Link Between Worlds, also :] I wanna see Bunny Link from A Link to the Past in more Zelda games! 🙌🙌 Fun interview, guys!

yep, it's a great game

Id suggest checking out dragon buster. Thats where zelda 2 got alot of its mechanics.

I totally forgot about having to hand the toys R us game room dude those slips. you could peek back there when they opened the door. I always wanted to go back there.

My mom bought the nes the year after she graduated high school in 87 while pregnant with my older sister. At around 95 me and my brother dug it up rummaging thru her closet. She had around 15 games two of which were super mario bros 1 and zelda. I was about 4. She soon after she took us to funkoland to pick out two games each. I choose zelda 2 and gremlins 2 and my brother picked out ikari warriors and superman. Ill never forget how I was amazed I could control something on the tv. Before then I never knew video games were a thing. She soon after bought us a super Nintendo with around 30 games from a garage sale for about 50 bucks. And there were some of the big name common titles. Later the next year my mom surprised my brother for his bday with the ps1 and n64. Our mom was a gamer herself. We have been playing thru zelda 1 recently and im so glad we get to share that with eaxh other. Shes a great mom.

Great video concept! However, the theatrics at the beginning were a bit difficult to watch.

"Pay me for the door repair charge" Bruh I'm 6

I actually don't like the version of the Kakariko theme from this game, something about the strings and flute on the melody... it's too shrill, and they don't seem quite in tune with each other. Hyrule castle, though... still my favorite version of that piece to this day. Amazing game, used to be my favorite, but as I've gotten older and replayed it, I've begun to notice its flaws. These days I actually prefer Link's Awakening, where those quirky, strange characters and more solemn atmosphere started to develop.

My favorite Zelda-like-likes: Anodyne & Anodyne 2- if Link's Awakening was more surreal. The second one has 2D and 3D and is my favorite Indy game ever. Pheonotopia is like Zelda II, but with elements of the whole series. Fantastic game. Blossom Tales 1 & 2- Basically a 2D Zelda reskin. Also fantastic.

guardian legend is one of my favorites on NES as well. it does feel like top down zelda with a gun but i can see the resemblance to blaster master

49:21 :D hey, thanks for the shout out! Yea, any tree in the darkworld that has eyes that follow you, firstly will spit out a bomb when you touch it's mouth, but then you can talk to it. There are many trees in the darkworld you can talk to. And yea, sprinkling magic powder on the anti faeries is one of the most useful things in the game

Loving this part of the series! I love zelda 1 and 2, but a link to the past is the most special to me 😊

Zelda 2 is one of the best NES games, and any other opinion is wrong. I will die not understanding the hate this game receives. We got *one* 2d zelda. Instead of complaining that it isnt like other zelda games people should be praising it as their only 2d zelda adventure.

I remember coming home from school and i found the gold Zelda 2 in the kitchen table with a note. “Hey kiddo, do your homework and give your fox a bath cause she is a little stinky. Then try this game mommy found at the store. Have fun. Mommy will be late tonight.” So I did my homework and gave my pet fox a bath….and then popped this into my Nintendo…..oh shit i was in love very fast. It was amazing! I didnt understand too much as i was 8. But i knew i loved this game. I played on our 14 speaker surround sound system on the 32 inch living room monitor which for a monitor, 32 inch was huge at the time…..and seeing link so big while hearing it all in 14 rumbling speakers was….one hell of an experience.

Me and my cousins use to go to my grandmother’s pool during the summers, great times. That would have been cool to have dark link in this game.

8:50 dungeon 7 in fact, but you were close ;p

The Ice rod in general is why the game isn't linear. You can grab it at the beginning. Also you can get a lot of items in the village. Also there was one time I got annoyed at losing in the Desert Palace and beat the Tower on the mountain first.

These games should actually have been called. 1. The adventure of Link 2. The adventure of Link, the sleeping princess. 3. The adventure of Link, Power of the gods. 4. The adventure of Link, The awakening. 5. The adventure of Link, Ocarina of time. 6. The adventure of Link, The windwaker. 7. The adventure of Link, Oracle of seasons 8. The adventure of Link, the dminish cap. 9. The adventure of Link breath of the wild. 10. The adventure of Link, tears of kingdom. All these names makes sense. Legend of MEANS THAT IT'S PRIMARLY ABOUT THAT PERSON.

Only Alex can reference Full House in a Zelda video.

ALTTP deserves its praises for being the progenitor of so many beloved Zelda conventions.

Yeah we were all fooled by Zelda at least once. Adventure is supposed to mean freedom but in Zelda there is no freedom to go where you want. The only reason you will end up roaming around to begin with is figuring out what the only correct direction is. Zelda is linear and cryptic which is the worst kind of combination. I cannot stand it. Zelda betrayed me.

Zelda II is one of the first games I had for the NES, and at the time it was amazing. In my neighborhood we had a bit of a mutual-game-lending thing going on and for a year or so Zelda II was pretty much always in demand.

Wow this turbo zone guy is a dummy

My first memory of Link to the Past was in a daycare in 1993 as a child… maybe 1994… I loved the colors and the fighting of random enemies in the fields but I was 5 or 6… I couldn’t read. I didn’t know all that. All I liked was walking around Hyrule and fighting different monsters

My beef with the criticism of Zelda 2 is when the people who have never played it, and the younger generations who don't take the technology limitations of the past into consideration when 💩ing on it. I would love to see them make videos comparing / 💩ing on the Hindenberg versus the Concord, the Ford Model T versus the Lexus LFA, the Steam Locomotive versus the Mag Lev Bullet Train, etc...

Hover Bat did an awesome job of expanding Zelda 2. All Zelda 2 lovers should check it out.

6:01 AVGN LIKED Zelda 2 and said it was a good game!!!

yes. I will agree that the impact of Zelda: A Link to the Past is important and needs to be acknowledged. I also feel that it should be left there, in the past as a piece of important history. my perception of nostalgia has become very, "I don't care for nostalgia at all, please move on and make new games and new franchises". Stop relying on the oldie goldies for your bread and butter.

Yeah, you can't go everywhere. And it's annoying unless you are expert breaker

"Donkey Kong is best SNES game!" *clutches my Rainbow Sword

not ashamed to admit that it took me until I was 22 to beat this game and still had to use a guide.

This was a dope interview! Lmao unlike RPG Archive, I can't talk about this game seeing as that I didn't grow up with it, and the one time I played through it from beginning to end, I struggled quite a bit 😂 Hahaha omg RPG was the voice of Miyamoto?? I can see why people absolutely love this game, though. It has a lot going for it. The visuals, music, and gameplay are all fantastic, and it continued to build on what the franchise is today. I know I'm super biased and completely wrong, but I like the original more hahaha. I'm shocked to hear RPG despises Link's Awakening! I feel like it's super charming and accessible :] Minish Cap! I still need to finish that game!

When it was released it wasn’t a big deal cause it was only the 2nd one. Everyone I knew liked it even though it was super hard. Not unbeatable like many NES games. But I only beat it like twice as a kid.

I had the gold zelda 1 and gold zelda 2 cartridges. If i could only go back in time.

If you like the original Zelda, try Spiritual Warfare -- it's a surprisingly good zelda-like on an unlicensed NES cart. The Bible theme is great, too - you unlock the Fruits of the Spirit to bash your enemies, and when you excorcise a boss demon you recover a piece of the Armor of God. But the thing that is so great about Spiritual Warfare is, in lieu of a series of dungeons, most of the game takes place in the overworld. So it has a much bigger map. The settings are varied and interesting, and there are nine regions if I recall correctly. Definitely worth checking out if you like NES Zelda 1

Zelda 2 was fucking amazing. When it came out, everyone loved it. I was like 5 years old, but I remember. The fact that it has been unfairly maligned in the years since its release is a reflection on other cultural elements

I enjoyed this interview! I do like that perspective, that ALTTP is an amazing game, but I might not wanna rush off to go play it-I can see that angle. I'll say for me, the soundtrack, and also trying different routes, is what I've grown to play the game when I can. It's very humbling to revisit it after not playing it for a long time-you can get sidetracked in the dungeons lol I would love to see another 2D Zelda game, in the style of ALTTP, on console. It was great to see A Link between worlds though!

James Rolf's influence over the NES nostalgia boom and the online discourse of the 00's and 10's cannot be understated and it's hilarious because he was satire and not meant to be taken so seriously and yet...

My favorite in the series. 🥰

I feel like most complaints about Zelda 2 are preferential... people don't like the scrolling and platforming, or they don't like the art style, or they just think the game is too old. When it comes to actual design concerns, I feel like there are only three significant issues: death pits and hit knockback, cryptic puzzles, and difficulty spikes. And even then, those issues were perfectly acceptable (and honestly done EXTREMELY well by Zelda 2) in the 1987. In the 80s, games were about $60, which is closer to $160 today due to inflation. And we didn't have the internet to look up solutions. So the games would pad their playtime by throwing in difficult challenges and vague instructions. Knockback into pits: Future Zelda games do this a lot better where you are just warped back to the beginning of the room and you lose a few heart containers. While I think that knockback into pits is a cheap way to insta-kill Link, it was a way to warp back to the beginning, to make you have to walk all the way back around to where the challenge was (hopefully getting extra experience along the way). As cryptic as Zelda 2 gets, EVERYTHING can be figured out with some patience and trial and error. NPCs tell you basically everything you need to know, with a few caveats: some NPCs won't tell you anything until you annoy them enough, and some NPCs will change their dialogue after you have completed certain tasks. Beyond that, I would say there are five puzzles that aren't explained well, but you can stumble into them. The game wants you to walk on every tile, step into every room, and cast every spell when you are stuck. And it wants you to take notes. Fortunately, your options are pretty limited on what you can do at any given time.

If you haven't played the Zelda II Remake by hoverbat yet, it totally made this game so much more enjoyable for me and has a ton of extra features that really makes it feel new while still being quite difficult, don't miss it!

I remember this game but more so 2. Dang I’m old haha

I feel the link to the past is the pinnacle of the classic Zelda games. They refined it from the first two. Ocarina of Time was a great jump forward for the series and brought a lot of new great elements. So much so Ocarina of Time feels as Zelda entered into a new beginning for the series.

I had a copy at release. There was no internet. Only magazines. And word of mouth so.... if you weren't there. I can see how it wouldnt be fun. Show my note to river man was way too cryptic for sure. And if you can't make it through death mountain. You suck. I've completed it on emu. 3DS. NES. Game cube. Not yet on switch. Finish it before you say a single word.

The difference between now and then is back then those where the first game like that no one knew what to expect now there's kajillion games similar and the accumulated experience and knowledge is vast plus internet it is easier to figure things now

I got dragon quest free as part of a nintendo power promotion- it became one of my favorite games.

I had this game as a kid. I had FINALLY beaten death mountain. My neighbor powered off the console without holding the reset button and my game was gone forever.