MAX PLAYS: The Legend of Zelda NES...for the 1ST TIME, Completely BLIND! - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
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With Tears of the Kingdom just around the corner, Max thought it was high-time he finally played the original The Legend of Zelda on the NES, but with a caveat: no help from chat and no guides. Armed with only four lifelines and the manual, can this man harness his inner 80s child and beat one of the most notoriously cryptic Zelda games of all time? Let's find out!
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Honestly I really hope Max does more of these retro playthroughs. They’ve been some of the most enjoyable videos on TH-cam as of late, getting to see him experience these childhood classics feels like I’m experiencing it again for the first time.
These retro games have such a chill vibe. That plus Max’s personality make them some of the only playthroughs I can actually work to
Very much this! I don't know how many blind games he has left but these dedication to play blind and with limited lifelines really works
@@JamMac2023 What makes his playthroughs especially good is that while they are relaxing, they are also hilarious.
So you can have his playthroughs on in the background while doing your own stuff and you immediatly hear when things go poorly so you can go back and see what exactly what's got Max shouting.
Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.
A Link to the Past has gotta be the next game he plays. If he had fun playing this one then I’m sure he will love it.
im enjoying this "let's play" era max is going through.
I agree! His dad arc has been progressing nicely so far 😆👍
I def watched 10 hours of Mario 64 that I never intended to
The "emulate the 80s" way of looking for help is honestly a funny gimmick. 😂
Im also convinced that he's just doing this to flex his Retromancy
Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.
@@ihaveaplan.ijustneedmoney.9777 Please explain wtf retromancy is
At 28:37, he accidentally discovers a major glitch that speedrunners use and has no idea what happened, before he has even found the first dungeon, while trying (and failing) to follow the directions to it in the game's instructions. I love it! 😄
So glad you took time to read the instruction manual. A lot of people forget that reading the manual was an integral part of the whole experience, since the games had limited space for in game tutorial information. You have to get it from the manual to have full context for items, as well as the backstory. And they were often full of amazing full color artwork! Such a lost fun thing...
I miss them, it's such a pity modern games did away with them because most games these days are already too hand holdy.
That and it's like they wanted to cut the production cost in any way possible. As if they just want to get rid of physical copies in general while you still pay full price.
I really like that he played with the manual. However I have to say a genuine 1987 experience also involves the fold out map that was included with the game which has the locations of the first 4 dungeons along with question marks (?) and places to search. Only the last dungeon or two did you have to find with no assistance.
The idea that NES Zelda didn't hold your hand is a bit of a ruse. Nintendo very much held your hand through much of the game. However like you said they simply didn't have the technology to do it through software; instead they needed physical maps and manuals to do it. This is after all how table top adventure games did it before video games existed. Nintendo was bringing that table top adventure to your TV screen the best way they knew how to do it.
@Rob_i208 true, I was thinking that when he opened it and it wasn't there. Nice that a portion of it was in the manual tho
You should play Tunic. It is an amazingly good game with the manual torn up and retrievable in-game. As you find pages, you learn more mechanics of the game and uncover new secrets. It's like a modern day NES classic!
@@dunfeeja1 hah, that so cool
Max's understanding of directions is......astounding.
Simmons once mentioned about Max: "I know Max is terrible at geography."
Max is the Zoro of One Piece.
@@CarbonNut "Go east and then north."
"Okay I'll keep going east..... *Five minutes later.* But I never went east!"
Instructions: Go North, East, North, North, North
Max: I went 'North, East, East, East, East' and I didn't find anything! These instructions are stupid!
Navigationally challenged, it's what my friend would call me when I got lost with directions.
Watching Max experience these classics for the 1st time is one of my favourite streams he does alongside FG/character legacies.
Think he could beat Legacy of The Wizard, Battle of Olympus, or Crystalis?
Max has been on a roll with all these retro playtrough
He still has to play the original Metroid, or at least Metroid: Zero Mission.
@DennisTheZZZ I want to see Max try out A Link to The Past, Twilight Princess or Wind Waker.
I'd also love to see him play Legend of Dragoon.
@@DragonHeart613 even though i like legends of dragoon, that game is tooooo long for a casual playthrough
@Luis Guillermo Garcia Max could always do it in parts same as he did with Super Metroid & Castlevania.
as someone who doesnt really play fighting games but likes watching max this has been great for me
The Legend of Zelda: "Beaches in the Breeze" is a cute way of describing Link's Awakening 😂
I thought he was referring to Wind Waker. Lol
Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.
Just that intro alone tells me this one is going to be INCREDIBLE. 🤣
Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.
This was my 1st Legend of Zelda title at age 5 back when this released. I was in Yakima at a mall when my older brother went with my mother to a Kaybee Toy Store to purchase it as I was at the foodcourt with my grandmother. He came back and pulled it out the bag to show me. I was simply awestruck to first see the gold art box, to the gold cartridge, the instruction manual, unfolding the map, to later the game itself. I'm 40yrs old now so there is so much nostalgia packed from every sound I hear to every pixel I see on-screen. Still love beating this game & it's 2nd quest every year or so.
My condolences for being in Yakima
@Turnabout Lol, I vaguely remember it. I grew up in Richland so we used to go through there on the way to Vancouver.
Holy shit... I totally forget about the existence of Kaybee Toy Stores lol
Yo, Kaybee Toys! That was the only place that stocked April O'Neil in my area, if you could find her!
The fact that Max had a literal guide in front of him and still couldn't figure out where to go convinces me that there are just some people in this world that read in between the lines, then ignore the lines.
It’s kind of bizarre how he would read the directions, out loud, and then NOT do what they said.
It was like watching Zoro from One Piece immediately get lost despite the simplicity of the directions he has been given and then after hours he finally stumbles his way into the correct place and then proceeds to complain about the directs he was given as "being bad" and claiming it would have been better directions if they had just said...and then he proceeds to give the exact instructions he was given.
Like I have the manual opened and it seems pretty clear to me, for some reason Max is reading go east twice despite the fact that the first time should obviously be considered a title or bulletin point because from the prior step he knew that it only meant go north once because he ran into a wall. Also it literally shows all 7 screens from start to entering the dungeon.
Honestly if I hadn't seen people in real life situations do this exact thing I would assume he is doing this deliberately.
I just wanna say youre living my dad goals rn Max, just chilling and doing playthroughs of things adjacent to your childhood and era, just in an easy lighthearted completionist type way, its clear its for you more than us but its bonus that we are enjoying you, but I guess thats the fruits of all your hard work. When Ripley is old enough to be playing videogames, youre gonna be like Gandalf or Cave Wizard to her, love to see it❤
True and he should start her off with these old classics and then move up through the generations. She would be way better then any other kids her age that started with modern gen games. lol
"This lake is MASSIVE!"
Max, that's the ocean. LOL
So funny people in chat being like "he finally gets it" when max is continuing to go the wrong way haha. Very entertaining, i loved this playthrough
Yeah. Blind playthrus be like dat
@@esmooth919 nah Its just that chat clearly as clueless as max XD
This is simultaneously the most frustrating and yet joyfully nostalgic thing I have ever seen.
Agreed. I was yelling at the screen wanting to tell him what he was missing. Trying to help him. Haha. But was a great watch. Hopefully he does the rest soon.
This video could also be titled 'Max Forgets How Boomerang Works Every 5 Minutes' and it wouldn't change a thing.
This was wholesome af
I love how Max found Level 3 and still went back to Level 6, lol
I beat this for the first time 2 weeks ago. I have been thinking about the game a lot since. It really is a game made for it's time. A time where kids got 1 game and it had to last them. The secrets serve a great purpose. It is to trade tips and stories with your friends and to discover the game as a community and collectively figure out how to finish it. Your friend might randomly burn some bush and tell you what he found the next day. Everyone would have their own LEGEND to tell and their individual experience about what order they may have beaten it in. We can never relive that, we are just ... getting to try it out and imagine what it could have been like. But it is still a great game today and in the series, I would put it in the top 5 easily.
What's funny is that the manual is telling you exactly how to get to the first dungeon. North one screen, east one screen, north again and one more time. Max is just interpreting it to mean as far north and as far east as possible, which maybe is a result of modern games forcing you to go certain distances until you can't because they are on rails. This is the first truly open world game and they hadn't developed the modern conventions of player guidance.
*guide says north east north*
“I’m going north east east, why isn’t it here”
_it says go north, what are you doing_
“oh wait, I’m reading it wrong”
_yes, just go north-_
“I’m supposed to go east more”
_NOOOOOOO_
"LETS PLAY MONEY MAKING GAME" Dumbledore said calmly
Max is as genuine a gamer as anyone yet it's hugely shocking that up until now he's never previously played such legendary classics as the original Legend of Zelda, Super Mario 64, Super Metroid & Castlevania: Symphony of The Night. Shocking but also for me envious as I wish I could have that experience of playing such classics for the very first time all over again. God Bless You Max.
It’s almost infuriating 😂 especially if you’re around 35 years or older and a hardcore gamer. If a franchise is in its 12th or so iteration or beyond it might be worth it to dig in at some point. Most of the old games (Metroid, Mario, zelda, castlevania) are some of the best games ever made muchless the best of their franchise. To live a life of gaming passing them up all these decades is insane
@@invalidletterdept2662 Those games you mentioned absolutely SHIT on Capcom games.
I think there’s some grade school tribalism with Max. Maybe he wanted to be different and didn’t play all the “popular” critically acclaimed games on purpose.
@@Johnnygga for sure. I love Max but this comes off as intentionally contrarian. Every school yard at the time wouldn’t shut up about super mario 1-3, zelda and a link to the past, street fighter and mortal kombat. To be into video games during that era, when word of mouth was king and everybody was playing those main titles, how did he manage to go decades with playing them?? That’s like being a wrestling fan who’s never watched old matches of Hulk Hogan, macho man and ultimate warrior until today.
@@invalidletterdept2662 well, in a previous video he did state that he was a fighter gamer at heart, so he primarily played those games.
@@invalidletterdept2662 I know a couple of those types growing up 😂 always picked the underdog in every possible thing or topic
Max's inability to understand you go north instead of going east is hilarious.
I'm glad Max realized the value of the boomerang being able to stun enemies, stopping their movement to setup free hits with the Sword. For a fighting game minded player not to spot this connection immediately, I find it a bit incredible. Just because it doesn't do direct damage doesn't make it worthless. It's the utility of being able to do free damage with minimal risk is what makes it great.
This Boomerang can fit so many dropped items 🪃
My god this the most aggravating thing i have ever watched, i can’t believe max has been playing games for this long but can’t register simple game concepts. Blows hole in a wall but doesnt try all walls, moves a block but doesnt try all blocks, goes in dark room but doesnt think to try candle first. He wouldn’t even use his shield most of the time.
This was incredibly entertaining content. Hope you enjoyed your journey as much as I enjoyed watching!
Thanks very much!
I'm loving reliving this with you. Also having fun yelling "NO DUDE! IT'S OVER THEEEERREEEE!" I hope you had fun with one of my favorite games Max.
"This boomerang sucks!"
Actually it's one of the best items in the game IMO.
This!
One of the reason Max is the only TH-camr that I watch play games is because of these extremely long playthroughs. I even watched the entire 10hr Mario playthrough in about a day and a half. I really hope he continues to post these extremely long playthroughs for a long time. Even watched Def Jam playthrough multiple times because I found it so entertaining lol
Max is a Twilight Princess Enjoyer. Damn, only good takes from my favorite FGC personality
You mean Dogs of the Earth
Never played Dogs of the Earth, but it is one of the best Link and Zelda designs.
Yeah it's funny, TP was always my favorite as a kid but everyone at the time only ever talked shit on it, now it's more common to hear people love it. Except for Arin Hanson of course, he still talks shit that doesn't even make sense lol
@@Countdownsmiles Fortunately, Arin's opinion is one that can be safely ignored and nothing of value will be lost.
@@Countdownsmileshow? Everyone I ever talked to was obsessed with that game
(They also hated wind waker for being too cartoonish)
I just want to say, as a classic gamer myself, I truly appreciate your dedication to doing this game justice by doing the following:
1: You are playing on original hardware.
2: You are using the same resources that we all had on our first time playing through the game such as the instruction booklet and “word of mouth”
3: you refuse to rely on internet tips and chat for critical hints.
For me, this allows gamers the privilege to re-experience the feel of playing the game for the first time. It’s not the same though.
Outside of a few hard blocks, the game allows you to create your own path towards the end goal.
With games from publisher From Software you really see and feel the spirit taken from this beloved classic.
Thank you so very much for giving us the feeling of sitting by our good friend’s side as we introduce them to this masterpiece.
I hope he plays a Link to the Past next, love that game!
Wind Waker is unironically one of the best by far, people complained about it when it came out but now that the dust has long settled it ended up being one of the best. Playing it in 2023 it still feels fresh.
It's weird people complained about the three best Zelda games (ww, tp, mm)
That's a hot take if I ever saw one. Guessing that you're a millennial. Wind Waker is boring as shit.
Max- I just want to say that making it that far into Level 6, which is, IMO, the second-hardest dungeon in the game, with five hearts, the white sword, no blue ring and no potions, is one of the most amazing gaming feats I've seen. That was hella-impressive.
LOZ is quite literally my first game. We have footage of me at 2 sitting with my brother playing this on our NES. It was also in my room as an infant so this whole game has been deeply ingrained in my head.
What a goated way to get into videogames
Being born on George Washington's birthday in 1985, I have watched my brother and his friends play this and it would have been fame of the year for its time. With you being born in the decade of Reganomics, I hope at the end of your playthrough you may see it. Same with Ocarina of Time, you had to be there to play it when it first released. Skyward Sword being the very first story in the timeline was epic especially when you fight Demise (I say Ganons daddy). I still haven't played some of the other titles, they all are good in their on right. We will make you a fan out of you yet, lol. Also, I VERY recommend Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity even thought it's not canon...
It must be brutal for chat to bite their tongues for the whole stream. I can tell the player is a gamer (beating so many bosses on the first try), but the lack of clues and the wasted "life lines" hurt to watch. So many nearly discovered but barely missed secrets, so many wasted rupees, and then he somehow manages to figure enough things out by luck and experimentation to keep making progress. When he finishes this run, he should go look at a guide on the web to see it all. This was an enormously entertaining video to watch, but I don't think I could stand to watch it live. 😅
Max not using the boomerang to stun enemies is more annoying than when Oroboro was smashing treasure chests for rubbish in his DS2 run that sob!!!!!
Bruh while the video was loading I was like "Sure I'll watch this. This video is probably 4 years old right?"
*8 min ago*
I love that Max is going through the same gamer's arc that Day9 did a few years ago. If you remember, Day9 used to be "the guy" to watch in Starcraft 2 content, after which he went to casual gaming and started playing various retro games as well. It's really entertaining and exciting to see!
These recent retro game playthroughs have honestly been some of my favourite videos from you Max, please keep doing these
For me this is a nostalgia trip back to December 25, 1987! Unfortunately, as a 3rd grader, I wasn't as talented at naming my Link during name registration.
This was really fun to watch. The game fucking with you was fun to watch. Infuriating as a kid. Hilarious to watch as an adult. Thank you.
This is still the best Zelda game. No silly melodramatic prologue, best music, spooky atmosphere, picking up an item has a one second animation instead of a 30 second one.
49:19
Max fighting wall master: "thats freaky, kinda lame though"
Wall Master: "and i took that personally"
When dealing with the lake enemies, Max sounds like a driller: Spin the block, we outchea! 🤣💥🔫
This video is an absolute treat, really wish I got to see this when he was live. I love how he's doing this just some kid would in the 80's, calling his friends and checking gaming magazines for help.
One of the most, if not the most important video game in the history of gaming.
Max not cross referencing his mini-map with his explored map on the pause screen when looking for hidden rooms is like Cell noticing the one green tile.
It doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother me, IT BOTHERS ME IT BOTHERS ME A LOT
Max, you are an absolute master of wandering aimlessly until you are one screen from your next progression then turning around and heading the exact opposite direction.
1:25:00
These Retro Let's Plays are gems, Max. Pure entertainment, keep em coming man 😂
This is worth to see it if you couldn't watch it live. is really good how he progress, and remember my childhood back in 1993 when I played first time
I remember playing / beating this game for the first time on a 3ds while traveling around japan in 2012. Seeing this footage takes me back :')
the directions in the manual to get to Level 1 are perfectly accurate. It says go up, go right, go up until a bridge. step by step, screen by screen. whatever possessed you to keep heading east? It said east once, then go up. Good thing there was a printed map the entire time
dude im so used to other games and videos making the "its dangerous to go alone" bit in Zelda a troll that when I watch Max play it and he literally just gets the sword with no caveats it actually surprises me
Time and time again, as Simmons said at one point that is true: Max is very terrible at geography!
He said the word "friends" when explaining the lifeline gimmick, but what he REALLY meant is Simmons lol
Dat bois scream at losing money touched my SOUL
I'm proud of you Max for playing old classics, much respect.
I loooooove Max’s retro game play throughs especially with ones he’s never tried before. Cool to see insight from someone experienced with gaming but new to a game style/genre
I like how every time Max thinks he understands something, he doesn't actually understand it. Bravo to all of you who can watch things like this live. I definitely needed to skip a bit now and then...
Wonder if he ever learned he can burn bushes and bomb open caves...
"blue candles are good for one screen only but red ones can light up rooms for several screens."
It's amazing how much misinformation used to be in instruction booklets.
The look on Max's Face after getting grabbed by the Wall master is fuck'n Hilarious.
That chatter got mad at Max for reading the manual, little did they know that he would forget everything he read past the sword and end up lost and dead in the desert
So now I believe it's pretty much a requirement for Max to play A Link to the Past. Can't wait to watch him play it!
That opening with the scream is the best 😂
A Link to the Past is my favorite. It takes everything that's great about the original and fine tunes it. It's the Super Metroid of Zelda games. You owe yourself to play it.
Truth.
Link to the past was the best Zelda hame and sadly was not replicated. The xp and leveling up was so good.
Max is the complete flip side of the coin of DSP
Why do we have to bring him up?
@@mr.awesome6011 DSP is always talking shit on Max. It’s only fair to point out the pig roach is trash. If you don’t like it block me and you won’t see my comments anymore :)
Me literally screaming at the TV - "The manual says go north, east, AND THEN NORTH!"
watching this really does make me admire(despite me being born in the year 2000) on how cool the old school graphics looked! Games now are definitely stars higher but the old school graphics always look cool to me! I just love pixels and colors!
He didn't have to set up these rules and whatnot but i'm so glad he did. Really adds to the immersion and experience since i never played the game either.
Watching him continue to try level 6 before doing level 4, 5, or 6 is maddening.
Max playing old Nintendo games is my new favorite thing and I hope he plays more Zelda. Still waiting on that Metroid Fusion playthrough.
When Max playes all this retro shit, my heart grows
Zelda 1 is a really fun game with an old game guide. On your own though, it’s pretty fun to discover regions or that next secret dungeon location
yeah i did them out of order
@@macuser7048 i honestly recommend doing 6th dungeon or 7 before 5 if you didn't get the secret heart pieces hidden in the overworld because that shit is hard af
@@mat_max There's a few extra heart containers you can nab by then too. It helps.
I have to say this has been a blast to watch. Totally brought back great memories of playing this as a kid in the 80s. Watching a fresh set of eyes play through is a treat.
As someone who's played through this game multiple times, watching someone play through it completely blind is magical. Makes me wish I could re-experience games for the first time again.
I see why this game was a big deal when it came out, a great deal packed into a game of its time. Fun play through.
The point where he is 20 min in, loses all of his rupees in the gambling game while the health distress beacon is simultaneously going off and he silently takes a drink is AMAZING! If "this is fine" was a video game.
Moree Long Form Content on TH-cam! Yes Please! Full streams!! Love it Max.
That intro is so relatable to when I played it lmao! Can't wait to watch the rest
The piling up of nostalgia in this video cannot be described
I remember beating this several times as a kid. Still archaic by today’s standards but it’s still one of my favorite out of pure nostalgia.
These new Let's Plays with the classics of my childhood is absolutely incredible.
I sure hope Max plays more classics like this, very fun playthrough especially with the helplines. I think like 100 people mentioned ALTTP in the chat, so maybe he'll play that eventually. Seeing as he really enjoys the original, it's very likely he'll love ALTTP. Also interesting how in both Metroid and Zelda Max is seemingly more on board for the 2D than 3D games. Also: Tunic is pretty much an inspired love letter to this game.
2:01:35 Max calling Muffin for help and Muffin being absolutely no help at all is still absolutely hilarious to me.
The let's play retro stuff is exactly what I've been missing in my life. Cool to see someone get a first play on something I grew up playing 😁
1:26:06
I love how impressed Max was that it actually worked. Even he didn't believe what he was saying 😆
Max plays the first Zelda!!! This was so fun to watch!!!! 🤣
2:04:00 Al absolutely looked up the answer. He had it so wrong at first then was suddenly like "hold on... here's the answer.. i ThInK"
I love that Max isnt a big Zelda fan, yet has cute nicknames for like half the games lol
At first I thought it wouldn't be his type of game, but after seeing his dedication to playing the game as blindly and "authentically" as possible down to the instruction booklet, I really need to see Max play TUNIC sometime, it's that cranked up to 11 with some modern QoL things to smooth over the experience. It's only INTENTIONALLY obtuse, lol
Level 3's shape is actually a Manji. It means peace and prosperity. That shape doesn't mean the same thing in the East as it does in the West.
Lol. So frustrating watching this. He knows to check gravestones, even says I have to check all the gravestones, proceeds to check only a few of them.
that "lake" was the ocean isn't it? being the edge of map and all
I have these playing continuously Max. This series are absolute gems.
I love seeing people in chat who are seeing all the stuff The Binding of Issac took from the first Zelda for the first time.
This is entertaining but that poor manual survived 40 years in pristine condition until now. There are sites with scanned instruction manuals, so you don't have to ruin your friend's shit next time.
I am a serial lurker but need to say how much I enjoyed this content. More More!
I fucking love seeing you play through these old titles! I seriously just watched that entire video in my car in the parking lot of my work after hours!
I really hope you are daring enough to move on to LoZ2: Links Adventure!