“Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth.”
I grew up with the N64. Ocarina of Time still holds a special place in my heart. The music and dungeons still hold up. The 3DS version is definitely the definitive one.
It’s still the greatest game of all time. This video brought tears to my eyes thank you. This game was another Super Mario 64 moment. There will never be another transition that compares to the jump from Zelda A Link To The Past to Zelda Ocarina of Time.
I was two years old when the N64 launched. I had brief experiences with Ocarina throughout my childhood. I could tell there was something special there, but I never got around to playing it myself. Fast forward to early adulthood. I picked up a 3DS as a comfort device during the peak of quarantine time in the pandemic. Ocarina was the first game I bought and I beat it for the first time in April 2021. This game helped me get through a rough and uncertain time in my life and I'll always love it for that. It has cemented itself as one of my favorite games of all time. Thank you Ocarina, thank you N64, and thank you 3DS.
@@liammcnicholas918instantly displayed the idea of actual three dimensional physics in a video game. The entire delu tree is a masterclass in dungeon design as far as teaching players a new way to view games
I first played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time via the GameCube port that was a pre-order bonus for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I feel like I was at a good age to play it, I was a teenager around 13 or 14 years old, and you know, the games themes of change as we grow older weren't entirely lost on me, even though I feel like I was still mentally a kid at the time. Heck, I was something of a big baby when it came to the game, a lot of things about it terrified me, like Gohma, the music that plays when your near enemies, the Moblins that patrol the Lost Woods as an adult. It wasn't super intense, but it was definitely one of my first experiences with some scary imagery, which I usually tried to steer away from. The music sticks with me even to this day, this game's "Found an Item" jingle is still the version I think of whenever I think of that iconic Zelda jingle. I'm really glad I had the chance to experience the game the way I did, I feel like if I hadn't and just played it later because of it's reputation and legacy, I feel like maybe I'd be underwhelmed by comparing it to the various gameplay mechanics that have improved upon the template Ocarina of Time set up... but then again, the fact that Ocarina of Time was the one to originally set up these gameplay mechanics to iterate on is impressive in and of itself. Really, 3D action-adventure games owe a lot to what The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time did, and even if it wasn't that good or memorable of a game, this would be enough to celebrate it's 25th anniversary... thankfully, it's also a good and memorable game on top of all that, and we get to reminisce on how this game made us feel the first time playing it like this.
I first heard of this game in 2011, when the 3DS came out. Super Mario 3D Land was the thing I wanted, but I was always intrigued by Ocarina of Time 3D, and after I watched my brothers play through Skyward Sword...I was obsessed with Zelda. I played this game later that year, and I really liked it, but for years, I couldn't beat it. It wasn't until 2019 that I finally decided to fully play it as an adult, and then, I truly understood why it means so much to so many people. There are few things that remind me of everything I love about video games as an art form. The sense of adventure and intricate level design, and the music and sincerity of the emotions really grab me every step of the way. Happy 25 Years to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! 🗡💙
Im 28 years old and when I think of Zelda I think of Ocarina of Time. I remember seeing my sister playing and my 3 year old mind was in awe. This game is some of my most earliest memories. It’s embedded in my DNA. This game is the template for 3d action adventure and also the Zelda series. The iconic music that the franchise continues to use, the great coming of age story, seeing Hyrule change around you. Seeing young link pull out the master sword and become an adult and go on a journey I would never forget is why I’m a gamer till this day
My first Zelda that made it my favorite video game series. Thanks for the video and Happy 25th Ocarina of Time! Maybe one day we get a remake like TotK doesn’t have to be the same scale but could you imagine it with voiced cut scenes I’m looking at you Ganondorf playing that organ 😅
I got Ocarina of Time for Christmas 98, family was on holidays so I had to wait until I got home on New Years Eve just to play the Deku Tree dungeon. I would often be in my holiday caravan during that time reading though the Ocarina of Time Game Manual that came with the Game Box and Cartridge, it was the only way I could get to know how to play the game before finally playing it.
First Zelda game and first video game I’ve ever played. I’m the same age as this game, this will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart and I always go back to it more often than I do any other game. Even kept my old 64 with my original cartridge which still plays to this day!
Ocarina of Time definitely solidified my love for video games. Beating it as a kid made movies and TV feel so archaic in comparison. Experiencing the hero’s journey firsthand as a young lad felt transcendent. I did a 100% run of the game leading up to Tears of the Kingdom, and it is still, in my eyes, the single greatest video game ever created.
ocarina of time is a very special game to me. i heard about it a lot growing up online but i didn't experience it for myself until i emulated it when i was 10 back in 2015 and god did it live up to the hype. i ended up getting the 3ds remake half a year later for my 11th birthday which is how i beat the game for the first time and it really is a magical experience. the gameplay, the story, the characters, the artstyle. it truly is a timeless game imo.
Ah, I remember it well. I followed every single scrap of information that was published in N64 magazine, I saw the graphics change from the DD version to what would eventually become Ocarina - I remember the first shots of young Link and then questions that raised, I remember seeing the reports of the Nintendo SpaceWorld and the ongoing development of the game. I’d been telling everyone on college I wouldn’t be in the day the game was released - day of release I got the game by 10am and didn’t stop playing until after 2am - it was the first time I’d ever seen a day/night cycle, the game blew me away.
Ocarina was my 2nd Zelda game and I have a fun story about how it came to be in my possession. I had rented it from a local Blockbuster when it first came out, played up to the Fire Temple and then had to return it, unable to re-rent it again (I was young, had no money). Months later, my mother had gotten me a copy for my birthday. I was ecstatic, but the biggest surprise was finding out it was the exact same copy I had rented from Blockbuster months earlier. They sold it used and my file was still there and intact, exactly where I left off. Somehow, no one else rented that cartridge or erased my file and I was able to resume my adventure in the same spot!
I was 7 years old when it came out in 1998 and I had no prior knowledge of the Zelda franchise, despite having a Super Nintendo. Then one day I walked into a game arcade (which I subsequently proceeded to basically spend the rest of my childhood in, lol !), having no experience with any 3D games yet, and the first thing that really caught my eye was a kid playing Ocarina of Time, the final fight with Ganondorf, on the owner's save file. My mind was blown at that moment like it never was before or since. Soon after my dad bought me an N64 of my own and I played this game for like a year religiously before I finally managed to beat it somehow, with a few hints from other people, but putting in most of the effort myself. I barely knew any English at the time since I'm not a native speaker (had been taking some lessons in kindergarten) , so the depth of the effect that getting through this game had on my developing 7 year old mind was monumental. Even when I beat it I still kept religiously playing the game for about 3 years and I honestly believe I must have played through it about 20 times in that time period. So many scenes from the game were deeply resonant with me and were forever etched into my memory, from the opening scene with the somber music where Link just rides Epona around, to saying goodbye to Saria as you leave Kokiri forest and of course, pulling out the Master Sword and the time lapse that follows. In a way getting through this game at such a young age empowered me, almost as if it had awakened the Hero archetype, which the game revolves around, within my psyche or at least reinforced it in some way. Video games were pretty much my favorite thing in the world already even before Ocarina, but this game changed my perception of what a video game could be in such a dramatic way. During the time playing it a switch went off somewhere in my mind that made me decide that playing video games wasn't something I was just doing because I was a kid, it was something I would keep on doing for the rest of my life.
So great seeing all these different points of view about this game. OOT will forever be the horsey game. My sister would never let me touch her save file but I was allowed to video Epona in a very specific area and not do any story stuff. It got me curious about the series and eventually helped me fall in love with Zelda.
When it first came out, my gaming experience was pretty limited and I basically had only played platformers. My friend made me try OoT and I distinctly remember being appalled that there wasn't a jump button lol. So yeah I wasn't quite ready for Zelda yet, but I remember what a huge event it was and I was always watching it being played by everyone I knew. Five years later, I played all the way through Wind Waker as my first Zelda. I then went back and beat every previous game including OoT. I just wish I had been able to appreciate it enough to be part of that initial hype train.
There is something very special and homely about this game...I've played console games all my life the older games on N64 or PS2 are the most memorable. They don't make games like this anymore. This game is rated Number 1 in the world for a reason. This was a time before internet, watching this video reminds me of how special those days were, times that young people today will sadly never get to experience... it was a better, more simple life.
I was into Zelda from the moment i got Link's Awakening on the Gameboy as a 6 year old boy. By the time Ocarina was on the map, i had played sections of the also incredible A Link to the Past at friends and i was just fiending for more. I remember the hype in magazines upto release and the first time i actually played it i rented it for a week during christmas holidays.. The title screen and intro music already set the stage for the epic journey it was going to be. Throughout the next year i got completely infatuated with the game, the lore, the artwork.. every bit of information on it (and finding the triforce for years after!) i took to heart and i still remember most of it.. Damn what a time to be alive it was, truly the epitome of gaming and throughout my life i have never ever had a connection with a game unlike that one. It's like your first love, or xtc pill.. nothing will ever compare.
I grew up playing this game on the 3DS and I loved it and it was also the reason why I play video games The legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is a fantastic game and it means a lot to me to this day and i still replay this game every now and then.
Such a pivotal game in my early years, it forever has a legacy that I refuse to let others put down as somehow being irrelevant. Without this game, the games of today and future wouldn't exist... it is foundational and was a template for the LONGEST TIME with a score to match for decades.
this game predates me by a couple years, but i still grew up with it on n64. i remember seeing lake hylia drained for the first time, and thinking how amazing that something like that could even happen. remembering this game from when i was a kid, and thinking about it now as an adult.. it means a lot to me. also, dunno if it happened to other people, but i remember pulling and sheathing the master sword over and over one day and somehow my hearts glitched and showed as blue instead of red. been a mystery for years.
While it's no longer my favorite Zelda, I have so many fond memories of this game ☺️ I didn't play it until the early 2000s or so when I was 7 or 8, but when I did I was blown away. I loved the story, the environment, the puzzles and the epic adventurey-ness of it all! I was lucky enough to find a strategy guide at a garage sale, and I remember reading that thing over and over and over, even on car rides. The art style of the game's illustrations was captivating , and the number of things that I could do in the game I never would've discovered otherwise was awing. Star Fox 64 was my first video game, but Ocarina of Time was my first video game obsession and I'm so thankful to it and it's developers for getting me into the hobby 🙂
I remember actually looking in sale papers to see which places were giving the best buy this game from our store and will give you stuff almost up to the day the game came out. Back then you didn't get pre-order bonuses but that was the closest thing you got because they gave you a T-shirt and a small music CD with three of the songs from the game on it.
I asked for a Nintendo 64 and Pokémon Stadium for Christmas in 2000... My parents got those, and also got me Ocarina of Time My parents have never had any idea about video games, and I have no idea what events led to them buying OoT too... But I probably spent a hundred times more time on OoT than I did on Stadium... and a thousand times more time on Zelda games in general. Somehow my parents accidentally led me on a big part of my life
In my early teens I discovered emulator for the first time and the first game I decided to run on my Window XP computer was Ocarina of Time for N64 (I would like to state that the only game I beaten prior was Wind waker for some reason my copy didn't come with the bonus disk) but regardless of that I loved playing it alot but then the infamous water temple came along and somehow to this day I remember soft locking myself so I couldn't complete the dungeon or the game itself I kinda rage quit and play something else afterward. So fast forward to when I was 17 year old I decided to get the 3Ds port to give it another chance and because I had prior knowledge of how to do the first half of the game I did it kinda quick this time around I didn't softlock myself when doing the water temple but after that everything was new to me and seeing how it ended and seeing those credit roll was closure for me. Plus to this day Ocarina of Time still has my favourite version of Ganon (the beast form) and none other version has come close imo.
I remember playing on my parents' save files of oot on the n64 when I was 5, loved it then I got the 3ds copy and got to play through the game from the start on the ds and it was awesome
Magical childhood, cousins gifted a super nintendo and later mom bought n64 as christmas gift for me and big sister. Spent my allowence buying used n64 and snes games ❤
Hey thanks for this video, this rules. Especially getting to hear peer, who worked at IGN when i was voraciously devouring all of IGN's posts on the game was an amazing get.
My memories from OoT started with watching my friend play. I remember thinking it looked a bit scary and somewhat complicated and difficult. I didn't play it back then. However, when WW released with the bonus disc, I got completely hooked on Zelda and played OoT after finishing WW. Incredible game, even after all these years.
I only played Ocarina of Time for the first time last year, so I can't really say it was an important childhood game for me or that it dramatically changed how I view video games. However, I can say that it was a very cozy experience and that the general gameplay, design, and atmosphere has held up remarkably well considering the era it released in. Sure, I played the 3DS remake and not the original, but from what I can gather, the 3DS version doesn't change a ton gameplay-wise. I can totally see why Ocarina of Time would be a lot of people's favorite game, despite me experiencing it well past the time where it would've been mind-blowing. Fittingly enough, its quality is pretty timeless.
it's amazing to think that we went from 1997, where there really wasn't a 3d world you could explore, was just the levels/enviroments of Goldeneye, Tomb Raider etc. To 1998's Ocarina of Time, giving us Hyrule, with it's feeling of an almost endless, contiguous (if somewhat empty) field connecting together an entire fantasy kingdom. to 1999's shenmue, which gave you a complete japanese town with unparalleled levels of detail to immerse yourself in. and just a few years later, gta would conquer the sales charts forever with its huge (but shallow) cities, but I find the earlier world's of Sega and Nintendo to better capture my heart and imagination.
This was the first Zelda game I played (though Wind Waker was the first I did a full play-thru). While not my fave Zelda, it’s definitely the one I’ve played the most and, like A Link to the Past, had a major impact on the series! Still a classic 25 years later!
I remember when ocarina of time came out, my cousin had the game I remember it came with a pocket watch. I didn't get to fully play until years later and I loved (love) the story.
Ocarina means different things to a lot of people. To me, it was my first Zelda game (the 3DS version) and, after that, I did not only become a Zelda fan, but a Nintendo fan. It showed me that videogames could be more than Pokémon and Mario, and I will never be not grateful to it for changing my life.
Still my favorite Zelda game. Still fighting for it's spot as my favorite game in general. It has aged, but I think even graphically it has aged far better than just about anything else on N64, even if 20fps isn't as easy to look at these days.
This was the first Zelda game(3ds version) I got into and beat it the day before or after I beat Botw. I can't remember which I beat first but it was sometime in 2018.
25 years later, I'm still salty that my local Walmart screwed up the pre-orders and sold the gold cartridges and held the gray ones for pre-order pickups. I can't believe it's been 25 years since this game released. Zelda's been my favorite franchise since I first played the original when I was 6, and that jump from A Link to the Past/Link's Awakening to Ocarina was incredible.
Even though I prefer Twilight Princess. Ocarina of Time is a timeless(pun intended) gem that stood the test of time.(also pun intended). I’m planning to get the 3DS remaster soon.
Played the n64 original (via switch online) a several months ago for my TH-cam series. Still plays very very well, still has a great story, puzzles, combat and overall gameplay. Sure, its pretty clunky compared to modern games, but for a game from 1998 it still plays very well and I imagine at its release nothing compared
I first saw this game on a TH-cam video talking about the 3Ds version. I begged my parents to take me to GameStop and get me that game. Ocarina of Time 3D is one of the best Zelda games ever, and in my opinion, the second best Zelda game behind Majora’s Mask. I hope the rumors about an Ocarina of Time remake are real, because I would actually cry if it’s revealed.
Ocarina of Time felt so big to me as a kid. I was a dumb child and I never got past the Deku Tree my first time playing but when I broke the web and fell to the bottom I felt how huge the world was. I could believe it. Then I spent the rest of my time trying to break bars that could not be broken at the bottom.
Adore playing the instrument, never experienced that in a game until 'Ocarina of Time' released. Me and my sister were invited to a friends home, we managed to play the Simpsons opening track, lol.
I actually did NOT like OOT the first few times I played it. It wasn’t until a friend of mine beat it and basically forced me too borrow it and play it and it grew on me I was disappointed that they took out the main theme, but was super excited when I heard it as the Gerudo desert theme I also think it had the best creative strategy guide ever that read like a story book
I remember, I got the N64 for Christmas with Mario 64. My brother and I never even knew stuff like this existed. We never saw it really anywhere, we never dreamed of something like existing, we were also really little, so we played really clumsy and my dad would often take over when he came back from work. It became a family thing, we'd all sit around and watch my dad play and have the best time. Suddenly we'd finish Mario64, and it felt really empty. My dad decided to take us to the store and buy a new game. My brother and I saw all these colorful games and being so littley that's what we wanted. But my dad saw this golden game just standing on top of the shelf there and grabbed it. I was not impressed "What the heck is Zelda and where are all the colors? I hate gold!" 🤣🤣🤣 Man, this game united us more than anything ever before, we would play for hours and we had the best and most magical time. I cannot. The nostalgia kills. I have a son now and I am not playing no BotW or, even worse, TotK with him. We are playong Ocarina of Time ❤️
3:10 I had to look it up to confirm that it was in fact the 21st. My mind always associated it with the "Twenty-three is number one" puzzle, so I thought it was the 23rd. I also could have sworn I got it on a school night. Maybe it was just the store I got it from.
"You know how in the old Zelda on the original Nintendo, you could go up, down, left and right? Well in Zelda on Nintendo 64, you can also go, like... In... and then, like... come back out toward the screen." This is how I described Ocarina of Time to my cousin because nobody was familiar with the term "Z-axis" back then.
While Ocarina of Time isn't my top 3 or even top 5 favorite Zelda games and I don't agree with many people calling it " the greatest game ever made " or " the best Zelda game ", I can understand how impactful and important the game is. Like Mario 64, it helped the franchise jumping into an 3D game and shows what is capable of. It also might be alot of peoples first ever Zelda game or first ever video games in general. With that, many people holds this game as an special place in there hearts and cherrish it. While it's certainly dated in many areas and too overbloated or lacks any variety with the open world designs or whatnot, it doesn't change the fact for how much it can do and that's impressive. Happy 25th anniversary OoT. You may not be the greatest game ever made like most people will say. But you are very important to the gaming community.
With all due respect, there is a way to say that this game doesn't personally resonate with you while respectfully acknowledging it has its place in history for gaming and Zelda. Your post comes across really dismissive while trying to backpeddle to say also saying the opposite that it doesn't come across as genuine. Perhaps you should rethink how you wanna say it or just say you don't like it and think this honor is overrated.
@MedalionDS9 With all due respect to you as well, you don't tell me how I write these stuff. I don't comprehend that well. So it's hard on what I just commented or say. I didn't say I hated OoT nor I'm not calling people hypocrites for liking the game that's nostalgic to it. I'm just sharing my honest respect and gratitude for the game. Even if I don't like it, that don't mean anyone else shouldn't.
There are two games I say gave me my love of gaming and made me realize a game could be more than just jumping thru levels wiv no context the first is ffvii but the other is of course ocarina of time being a child and I wasn't that good at games but me my twin and my dad did our best Xmas day night to get thru the deku tree we managed to get to the Hyrule hub and realizing this is going to be an adventure I will never forget and many years later and multiple 100% playthrus it still never gets old
The first time I experienced Ocarina of Time was in a store playing the demo that they put out for people to try. I was 8 at the time I think and the television they had it on was insanely dark so I could barely see anything. It was also the first time I had played anything 3-D and the on-screen button prompts confused me. Not to mention the then-awkward method of needing to continue running in order to jump. It felt like such a strange way of controlling the character that when my parents asked me if I wanted the game for Christmas, I replied “Eh, it looks too complicated.” Weirdly, I ended up getting it anyways. While I did enjoy it, it never really hooked me like so many other people. I stopped a few times because I either had other games to play or I got stuck at a puzzle. I made my way to the Water Temple (yup) and that’s where my progress halted for a few years. I would move on to Majora’s Mask, not finishing it for years once again for some reason. Then I picked up the Wind Waker and absolutely LOVED it! I beat that game multiple times and eventually bought the HD rerelease. Meanwhile, I was confused by the droves of Ocarina fans that lauded it as the best game ever. For a long time I wrote OoT as overrated nostalgia. But after years, I went back, started the game over, and beat the Water Temple at last, then subsequently the rest of the game. And… I understand the hype now! I was too young at the game’s original release to really understand its significance, like a kid growing up with a smartphone not knowing how convenient it makes a lot of things. But having played countless other games since then and getting some perspective, it was really an amazing game that I still think holds up pretty well. That scene with Sheik and the well at Kakariko Village stands out as a cutscene that really surprised me on my replay. It felt actually sort of scary and hyped up the boss for that part of the game. I would go on to also beat Majora’s Mask (getting all the masks of course) and playing through pretty much every mainline Zelda game up until the present day. And having done so, I can still say that Ocarina of Time still has enough uniqueness and charm to it to stand out. It may still not be my personal favorite Zelda game, but as far as gameplay, music, design, fun, etc. go, I consider it a 10/10 must-play classic.
I love ocarina I’ve played and completed it countless times. My only criticism is the fact I can’t skip those long cutscenes that I’ve seen a million times before.
It was the first of it's kind as well. Like Super Mario 64 a couple of years prior it was the first time we saw Link and his adventures in 3D. It had been 5 years since a Zelda game also so there was alot of anticipation. I had a very similar experience to Derrick Bitner in this video. I had some recognition of Zelda but not a great deal but I would buy the Official Nintendo Magazine in the build up to the release and they were saying this is a very special game. I got it day of release and it was very special and I would say it was almost liking watching Star Wars for a previous generation for me it was that awesome.
Though i did grow up with an NES, all i would know from Nintendo as a child of 4/5 was Super Mario Bros. And although i got a Genesis at 6, i had a friend who had an SNES and Super Mario World. My surprise when in 1997 i turn 10 and my gift is a N64 with a copy of Mario 64 and i game i had never heard of before called TLoZ OoT. Course i put that game to the side and focused on the game i knew. Played for at least 8 hours, give or take, and thought maybe i should see what that other game is about. I think i played for like an hour and i couldn't for the life off me find the Kokiri Sword. Had the Shield, full Deku sticks, Nuts and Rupees. As i got close to just giving up and going back to Mario, i noticed a small hole on a wall i hadn't seen before. I figured "uhh it has to be there, I've checked every other area the game allows me to go to besides there", now i was not good with scary things in games or movies back then, so when i entered the hole and i heard a weird rumbling on the other side, i panicked, saved the game and never went back to it. It wouldn't be until Summer of that year, during summer vacation that i saw a friend play the game and he showed me what was back there, plus a few more hours past that. After realizing i was a fool for being scared and not really having any other game to play once i went back home, i played nothing but OoT for the next few weeks and it was love at first sight..... play.....? Zelda became my #1 game and Mario had been dragged down a peg. Though the Shadow Temple/Below the Well and Dead Hand were some serious nightmare fuel. Of course after that i needed to play every Zelda that came before and would eventually come after. But I've always wondered, if i hadn't gotten OoT back then, would i had become a Zelda fan later in life? Part of me figures maybe by Wind Waker? as i would have found that style too cutesy to ignore. However i am glad OoT introduced me to a series that to this day holds a special place in my heart, to say i became i die hard Zelda fan is an understatement.
I purchased my golden cartridge of OoT from a CompUSA (!!!) store back in the day. I only played it once as I recall though. I never played Majora's Mask. I eventually purchased the 3DS version but it was difficult to get into it being on a handheld. Unfortunately the N64 games ( including Mario 64 ) really have not aged all that well in my opinion. A Link to the Past is still my all time favorite Zelda game and it still holds up rather well in comparison. But 25 years later, I still vividly recall purchasing OoT. Thanks for the memories.
All you late 90s babies downplaying Ocarina of Time need to sit down. This was before your time and unfortunately you will never understand the scope and impact of this masterpiece at the time it was released. As a 85 baby I will always say this was the greatest game ever made regardless of the superior graphics and technology that we have today.
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“Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth.”
Gonna cost a lot to get that on the tombstone
What a way to bring in some great people for this day! Happy 25th anniversary to Ocarina of Time 🙌
You guys assembled the Avengers for this one
I grew up with the N64. Ocarina of Time still holds a special place in my heart. The music and dungeons still hold up. The 3DS version is definitely the definitive one.
Agreed. Better pick up a copy for the 3Ds.
It’s still the greatest game of all time. This video brought tears to my eyes thank you. This game was another Super Mario 64 moment. There will never be another transition that compares to the jump from Zelda A Link To The Past to Zelda Ocarina of Time.
I was two years old when the N64 launched. I had brief experiences with Ocarina throughout my childhood. I could tell there was something special there, but I never got around to playing it myself. Fast forward to early adulthood. I picked up a 3DS as a comfort device during the peak of quarantine time in the pandemic. Ocarina was the first game I bought and I beat it for the first time in April 2021. This game helped me get through a rough and uncertain time in my life and I'll always love it for that. It has cemented itself as one of my favorite games of all time. Thank you Ocarina, thank you N64, and thank you 3DS.
The Deku Tree web break was an immensely crucial moment in gaming history.
Probably the greatest puzzle in any video game. I love the sense of “I did that”.
@@liammcnicholas918instantly displayed the idea of actual three dimensional physics in a video game. The entire delu tree is a masterclass in dungeon design as far as teaching players a new way to view games
I first played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time via the GameCube port that was a pre-order bonus for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I feel like I was at a good age to play it, I was a teenager around 13 or 14 years old, and you know, the games themes of change as we grow older weren't entirely lost on me, even though I feel like I was still mentally a kid at the time. Heck, I was something of a big baby when it came to the game, a lot of things about it terrified me, like Gohma, the music that plays when your near enemies, the Moblins that patrol the Lost Woods as an adult. It wasn't super intense, but it was definitely one of my first experiences with some scary imagery, which I usually tried to steer away from. The music sticks with me even to this day, this game's "Found an Item" jingle is still the version I think of whenever I think of that iconic Zelda jingle. I'm really glad I had the chance to experience the game the way I did, I feel like if I hadn't and just played it later because of it's reputation and legacy, I feel like maybe I'd be underwhelmed by comparing it to the various gameplay mechanics that have improved upon the template Ocarina of Time set up... but then again, the fact that Ocarina of Time was the one to originally set up these gameplay mechanics to iterate on is impressive in and of itself. Really, 3D action-adventure games owe a lot to what The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time did, and even if it wasn't that good or memorable of a game, this would be enough to celebrate it's 25th anniversary... thankfully, it's also a good and memorable game on top of all that, and we get to reminisce on how this game made us feel the first time playing it like this.
Time for an HD Remaster…
I first heard of this game in 2011, when the 3DS came out. Super Mario 3D Land was the thing I wanted, but I was always intrigued by Ocarina of Time 3D, and after I watched my brothers play through Skyward Sword...I was obsessed with Zelda.
I played this game later that year, and I really liked it, but for years, I couldn't beat it. It wasn't until 2019 that I finally decided to fully play it as an adult, and then, I truly understood why it means so much to so many people.
There are few things that remind me of everything I love about video games as an art form. The sense of adventure and intricate level design, and the music and sincerity of the emotions really grab me every step of the way.
Happy 25 Years to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! 🗡💙
Im 28 years old and when I think of Zelda I think of Ocarina of Time. I remember seeing my sister playing and my 3 year old mind was in awe. This game is some of my most earliest memories. It’s embedded in my DNA. This game is the template for 3d action adventure and also the Zelda series. The iconic music that the franchise continues to use, the great coming of age story, seeing Hyrule change around you. Seeing young link pull out the master sword and become an adult and go on a journey I would never forget is why I’m a gamer till this day
This game had such a strong influence on my life, i named my son Link.
I was 13 when I got Ocarina of Time for Christmas. One of the most amazing gaming experiences I have ever had.
Maybe you'd like my music cover of the market tune.
My first Zelda that made it my favorite video game series. Thanks for the video and Happy 25th Ocarina of Time!
Maybe one day we get a remake like TotK doesn’t have to be the same scale but could you imagine it with voiced cut scenes I’m looking at you Ganondorf playing that organ 😅
I got Ocarina of Time for Christmas 98, family was on holidays so I had to wait until I got home on New Years Eve just to play the Deku Tree dungeon.
I would often be in my holiday caravan during that time reading though the Ocarina of Time Game Manual that came with the Game Box and Cartridge, it was the only way I could get to know how to play the game before finally playing it.
What a treat it is to see Peer Schneider on GVG. The man is a legend.
My God, you just earned yourself another subscriber with this collaboration sir!
First Zelda game and first video game I’ve ever played. I’m the same age as this game, this will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart and I always go back to it more often than I do any other game. Even kept my old 64 with my original cartridge which still plays to this day!
Ocarina of Time definitely solidified my love for video games. Beating it as a kid made movies and TV feel so archaic in comparison. Experiencing the hero’s journey firsthand as a young lad felt transcendent. I did a 100% run of the game leading up to Tears of the Kingdom, and it is still, in my eyes, the single greatest video game ever created.
That opening menu screen KILLED me 😂😂😂
And still the greatest game of all time!! An amazing experience from start to finish
I don't know about the whole " greatest game of all time " thing. But it is an important and impactful game for sure.
@@jaretco6423that’s fair but to me it will always be the best. It set the bar for generations to come.
@@Drizzle68 Fair enough.
ocarina of time is a very special game to me. i heard about it a lot growing up online but i didn't experience it for myself until i emulated it when i was 10 back in 2015 and god did it live up to the hype. i ended up getting the 3ds remake half a year later for my 11th birthday which is how i beat the game for the first time and it really is a magical experience. the gameplay, the story, the characters, the artstyle. it truly is a timeless game imo.
Ocarina was the first open world game I had ever played and the scale blew my mind. I spent hours just exploring the world as a kid.
OOT had such a big impact on me, this was an amazing way to look back on such an influential game. Bravo!
Ah, I remember it well. I followed every single scrap of information that was published in N64 magazine, I saw the graphics change from the DD version to what would eventually become Ocarina - I remember the first shots of young Link and then questions that raised, I remember seeing the reports of the Nintendo SpaceWorld and the ongoing development of the game. I’d been telling everyone on college I wouldn’t be in the day the game was released - day of release I got the game by 10am and didn’t stop playing until after 2am - it was the first time I’d ever seen a day/night cycle, the game blew me away.
Great video GVG team!
Such a cool video, love seeing these new types of videos from you guys.
Ocarina was my 2nd Zelda game and I have a fun story about how it came to be in my possession.
I had rented it from a local Blockbuster when it first came out, played up to the Fire Temple and then had to return it, unable to re-rent it again (I was young, had no money). Months later, my mother had gotten me a copy for my birthday. I was ecstatic, but the biggest surprise was finding out it was the exact same copy I had rented from Blockbuster months earlier. They sold it used and my file was still there and intact, exactly where I left off. Somehow, no one else rented that cartridge or erased my file and I was able to resume my adventure in the same spot!
I love this game. I recently played it with my sons and now they love it too. Great video!
I was 7 years old when it came out in 1998 and I had no prior knowledge of the Zelda franchise, despite having a Super Nintendo. Then one day I walked into a game arcade (which I subsequently proceeded to basically spend the rest of my childhood in, lol !), having no experience with any 3D games yet, and the first thing that really caught my eye was a kid playing Ocarina of Time, the final fight with Ganondorf, on the owner's save file. My mind was blown at that moment like it never was before or since.
Soon after my dad bought me an N64 of my own and I played this game for like a year religiously before I finally managed to beat it somehow, with a few hints from other people, but putting in most of the effort myself. I barely knew any English at the time since I'm not a native speaker (had been taking some lessons in kindergarten) , so the depth of the effect that getting through this game had on my developing 7 year old mind was monumental.
Even when I beat it I still kept religiously playing the game for about 3 years and I honestly believe I must have played through it about 20 times in that time period. So many scenes from the game were deeply resonant with me and were forever etched into my memory, from the opening scene with the somber music where Link just rides Epona around, to saying goodbye to Saria as you leave Kokiri forest and of course, pulling out the Master Sword and the time lapse that follows. In a way getting through this game at such a young age empowered me, almost as if it had awakened the Hero archetype, which the game revolves around, within my psyche or at least reinforced it in some way.
Video games were pretty much my favorite thing in the world already even before Ocarina, but this game changed my perception of what a video game could be in such a dramatic way. During the time playing it a switch went off somewhere in my mind that made me decide that playing video games wasn't something I was just doing because I was a kid, it was something I would keep on doing for the rest of my life.
This was great. Reminds me of the NintendoLife Zion crested about Earthbound. Such a lovely project
So great seeing all these different points of view about this game. OOT will forever be the horsey game. My sister would never let me touch her save file but I was allowed to video Epona in a very specific area and not do any story stuff. It got me curious about the series and eventually helped me fall in love with Zelda.
I had to pause the video 6 seconds in to say, YO THE EDIT?! *chefs kiss*
Brilliant.
When it first came out, my gaming experience was pretty limited and I basically had only played platformers. My friend made me try OoT and I distinctly remember being appalled that there wasn't a jump button lol. So yeah I wasn't quite ready for Zelda yet, but I remember what a huge event it was and I was always watching it being played by everyone I knew. Five years later, I played all the way through Wind Waker as my first Zelda. I then went back and beat every previous game including OoT. I just wish I had been able to appreciate it enough to be part of that initial hype train.
There is something very special and homely about this game...I've played console games all my life the older games on N64 or PS2 are the most memorable. They don't make games like this anymore. This game is rated Number 1 in the world for a reason. This was a time before internet, watching this video reminds me of how special those days were, times that young people today will sadly never get to experience... it was a better, more simple life.
I was into Zelda from the moment i got Link's Awakening on the Gameboy as a 6 year old boy. By the time Ocarina was on the map, i had played sections of the also incredible A Link to the Past at friends and i was just fiending for more. I remember the hype in magazines upto release and the first time i actually played it i rented it for a week during christmas holidays.. The title screen and intro music already set the stage for the epic journey it was going to be. Throughout the next year i got completely infatuated with the game, the lore, the artwork.. every bit of information on it (and finding the triforce for years after!) i took to heart and i still remember most of it.. Damn what a time to be alive it was, truly the epitome of gaming and throughout my life i have never ever had a connection with a game unlike that one. It's like your first love, or xtc pill.. nothing will ever compare.
I grew up playing this game on the 3DS and I loved it and it was also the reason why I play video games
The legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is a fantastic game and it means a lot to me to this day and i still replay this game every now and then.
Such a pivotal game in my early years, it forever has a legacy that I refuse to let others put down as somehow being irrelevant. Without this game, the games of today and future wouldn't exist... it is foundational and was a template for the LONGEST TIME with a score to match for decades.
Fantastic video. Better than GX. there’s editing and a script put into this, plus interviews with so many great people in the industry
I still remember wget I got a link to the past for Christmas in the early 90s ❤️ best Christmas ever
this game predates me by a couple years, but i still grew up with it on n64. i remember seeing lake hylia drained for the first time, and thinking how amazing that something like that could even happen. remembering this game from when i was a kid, and thinking about it now as an adult.. it means a lot to me.
also, dunno if it happened to other people, but i remember pulling and sheathing the master sword over and over one day and somehow my hearts glitched and showed as blue instead of red. been a mystery for years.
While it's no longer my favorite Zelda, I have so many fond memories of this game ☺️
I didn't play it until the early 2000s or so when I was 7 or 8, but when I did I was blown away. I loved the story, the environment, the puzzles and the epic adventurey-ness of it all!
I was lucky enough to find a strategy guide at a garage sale, and I remember reading that thing over and over and over, even on car rides. The art style of the game's illustrations was captivating , and the number of things that I could do in the game I never would've discovered otherwise was awing.
Star Fox 64 was my first video game, but Ocarina of Time was my first video game obsession and I'm so thankful to it and it's developers for getting me into the hobby 🙂
I was 12 at the time this game was released and I was obsessed with it. It was nothing like anything I had ever seen.
Dude that 25th anniversary OOT fan Ghibli video is WILD.
Happy anniversary!
I remember actually looking in sale papers to see which places were giving the best buy this game from our store and will give you stuff almost up to the day the game came out. Back then you didn't get pre-order bonuses but that was the closest thing you got because they gave you a T-shirt and a small music CD with three of the songs from the game on it.
I asked for a Nintendo 64 and Pokémon Stadium for Christmas in 2000...
My parents got those, and also got me Ocarina of Time
My parents have never had any idea about video games, and I have no idea what events led to them buying OoT too...
But I probably spent a hundred times more time on OoT than I did on Stadium... and a thousand times more time on Zelda games in general.
Somehow my parents accidentally led me on a big part of my life
In my early teens I discovered emulator for the first time and the first game I decided to run on my Window XP computer was Ocarina of Time for N64 (I would like to state that the only game I beaten prior was Wind waker for some reason my copy didn't come with the bonus disk) but regardless of that I loved playing it alot but then the infamous water temple came along and somehow to this day I remember soft locking myself so I couldn't complete the dungeon or the game itself I kinda rage quit and play something else afterward. So fast forward to when I was 17 year old I decided to get the 3Ds port to give it another chance and because I had prior knowledge of how to do the first half of the game I did it kinda quick this time around I didn't softlock myself when doing the water temple but after that everything was new to me and seeing how it ended and seeing those credit roll was closure for me. Plus to this day Ocarina of Time still has my favourite version of Ganon (the beast form) and none other version has come close imo.
I remember playing on my parents' save files of oot on the n64 when I was 5, loved it then I got the 3ds copy and got to play through the game from the start on the ds and it was awesome
This game was my childhood, it influenced me more than any other game ever has and probably ever will.
Magical childhood, cousins gifted a super nintendo and later mom bought n64 as christmas gift for me and big sister. Spent my allowence buying used n64 and snes games ❤
Hey thanks for this video, this rules. Especially getting to hear peer, who worked at IGN when i was voraciously devouring all of IGN's posts on the game was an amazing get.
And this was back when IGN wasn’t the joke it is today. The Internet was also quite primitive during those days too
My memories from OoT started with watching my friend play. I remember thinking it looked a bit scary and somewhat complicated and difficult. I didn't play it back then. However, when WW released with the bonus disc, I got completely hooked on Zelda and played OoT after finishing WW. Incredible game, even after all these years.
I only played Ocarina of Time for the first time last year, so I can't really say it was an important childhood game for me or that it dramatically changed how I view video games. However, I can say that it was a very cozy experience and that the general gameplay, design, and atmosphere has held up remarkably well considering the era it released in. Sure, I played the 3DS remake and not the original, but from what I can gather, the 3DS version doesn't change a ton gameplay-wise. I can totally see why Ocarina of Time would be a lot of people's favorite game, despite me experiencing it well past the time where it would've been mind-blowing. Fittingly enough, its quality is pretty timeless.
it's amazing to think that we went from 1997, where there really wasn't a 3d world you could explore, was just the levels/enviroments of Goldeneye, Tomb Raider etc.
To 1998's Ocarina of Time, giving us Hyrule, with it's feeling of an almost endless, contiguous (if somewhat empty) field connecting together an entire fantasy kingdom.
to 1999's shenmue, which gave you a complete japanese town with unparalleled levels of detail to immerse yourself in.
and just a few years later, gta would conquer the sales charts forever with its huge (but shallow) cities, but I find the earlier world's of Sega and Nintendo to better capture my heart and imagination.
This was the first Zelda game I played (though Wind Waker was the first I did a full play-thru). While not my fave Zelda, it’s definitely the one I’ve played the most and, like A Link to the Past, had a major impact on the series! Still a classic 25 years later!
It was the first 3D Zelda game and just an incredible experience never played it. But man Ocarina of Time looks incredible.
I remember when ocarina of time came out, my cousin had the game I remember it came with a pocket watch. I didn't get to fully play until years later and I loved (love) the story.
OoT was the first Zelda game I ever beat, and it will always be my favorite
Ocarina means different things to a lot of people. To me, it was my first Zelda game (the 3DS version) and, after that, I did not only become a Zelda fan, but a Nintendo fan. It showed me that videogames could be more than Pokémon and Mario, and I will never be not grateful to it for changing my life.
Still my favorite Zelda game. Still fighting for it's spot as my favorite game in general.
It has aged, but I think even graphically it has aged far better than just about anything else on N64, even if 20fps isn't as easy to look at these days.
This was the first Zelda game(3ds version) I got into and beat it the day before or after I beat Botw. I can't remember which I beat first but it was sometime in 2018.
25 years later, I'm still salty that my local Walmart screwed up the pre-orders and sold the gold cartridges and held the gray ones for pre-order pickups.
I can't believe it's been 25 years since this game released.
Zelda's been my favorite franchise since I first played the original when I was 6, and that jump from A Link to the Past/Link's Awakening to Ocarina was incredible.
Even though I prefer Twilight Princess. Ocarina of Time is a timeless(pun intended) gem that stood the test of time.(also pun intended). I’m planning to get the 3DS remaster soon.
Best game of all time. So glad to see peer here!
Played the n64 original (via switch online) a several months ago for my TH-cam series. Still plays very very well, still has a great story, puzzles, combat and overall gameplay. Sure, its pretty clunky compared to modern games, but for a game from 1998 it still plays very well and I imagine at its release nothing compared
I first saw this game on a TH-cam video talking about the 3Ds version. I begged my parents to take me to GameStop and get me that game. Ocarina of Time 3D is one of the best Zelda games ever, and in my opinion, the second best Zelda game behind Majora’s Mask. I hope the rumors about an Ocarina of Time remake are real, because I would actually cry if it’s revealed.
4:20 no you do not get into 1. person mode when drawing bow and arrow in botw or totk.
Yeah you do the camera goes first person, the only difference is you are not locked to only camera movement in BOTW/TOTK
Ocarina of Time felt so big to me as a kid. I was a dumb child and I never got past the Deku Tree my first time playing but when I broke the web and fell to the bottom I felt how huge the world was. I could believe it. Then I spent the rest of my time trying to break bars that could not be broken at the bottom.
Adore playing the instrument, never experienced that in a game until 'Ocarina of Time' released. Me and my sister were invited to a friends home, we managed to play the Simpsons opening track, lol.
I suffered from really bad eczema as a kid. No lie, the only thing that really relieved the symptoms... was playing this game.
The overworld Music kills me everytime
I actually did NOT like OOT the first few times I played it. It wasn’t until a friend of mine beat it and basically forced me too borrow it and play it and it grew on me
I was disappointed that they took out the main theme, but was super excited when I heard it as the Gerudo desert theme
I also think it had the best creative strategy guide ever that read like a story book
I remember, I got the N64 for Christmas with Mario 64. My brother and I never even knew stuff like this existed. We never saw it really anywhere, we never dreamed of something like existing, we were also really little, so we played really clumsy and my dad would often take over when he came back from work. It became a family thing, we'd all sit around and watch my dad play and have the best time. Suddenly we'd finish Mario64, and it felt really empty. My dad decided to take us to the store and buy a new game. My brother and I saw all these colorful games and being so littley that's what we wanted. But my dad saw this golden game just standing on top of the shelf there and grabbed it. I was not impressed "What the heck is Zelda and where are all the colors? I hate gold!" 🤣🤣🤣 Man, this game united us more than anything ever before, we would play for hours and we had the best and most magical time. I cannot. The nostalgia kills. I have a son now and I am not playing no BotW or, even worse, TotK with him. We are playong Ocarina of Time ❤️
_The Song of Time echoes through the years..._
3:10 I had to look it up to confirm that it was in fact the 21st. My mind always associated it with the "Twenty-three is number one" puzzle, so I thought it was the 23rd. I also could have sworn I got it on a school night. Maybe it was just the store I got it from.
"You know how in the old Zelda on the original Nintendo, you could go up, down, left and right? Well in Zelda on Nintendo 64, you can also go, like... In... and then, like... come back out toward the screen."
This is how I described Ocarina of Time to my cousin because nobody was familiar with the term "Z-axis" back then.
While Ocarina of Time isn't my top 3 or even top 5 favorite Zelda games and I don't agree with many people calling it " the greatest game ever made " or " the best Zelda game ", I can understand how impactful and important the game is. Like Mario 64, it helped the franchise jumping into an 3D game and shows what is capable of. It also might be alot of peoples first ever Zelda game or first ever video games in general. With that, many people holds this game as an special place in there hearts and cherrish it. While it's certainly dated in many areas and too overbloated or lacks any variety with the open world designs or whatnot, it doesn't change the fact for how much it can do and that's impressive.
Happy 25th anniversary OoT. You may not be the greatest game ever made like most people will say. But you are very important to the gaming community.
Breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom are extreamly overrated and in my opinion they are not good games and they are not real zelda games at all
@12feettall6 Ok. I didn't say anything about BotW & TotK. But whatever. I'm not an fan of those games either. But still. Weirdo.
@@jaretco6423 well i guess i am a weirdo
With all due respect, there is a way to say that this game doesn't personally resonate with you while respectfully acknowledging it has its place in history for gaming and Zelda. Your post comes across really dismissive while trying to backpeddle to say also saying the opposite that it doesn't come across as genuine. Perhaps you should rethink how you wanna say it or just say you don't like it and think this honor is overrated.
@MedalionDS9 With all due respect to you as well, you don't tell me how I write these stuff. I don't comprehend that well. So it's hard on what I just commented or say. I didn't say I hated OoT nor I'm not calling people hypocrites for liking the game that's nostalgic to it. I'm just sharing my honest respect and gratitude for the game. Even if I don't like it, that don't mean anyone else shouldn't.
There are two games I say gave me my love of gaming and made me realize a game could be more than just jumping thru levels wiv no context the first is ffvii but the other is of course ocarina of time being a child and I wasn't that good at games but me my twin and my dad did our best Xmas day night to get thru the deku tree we managed to get to the Hyrule hub and realizing this is going to be an adventure I will never forget and many years later and multiple 100% playthrus it still never gets old
great video thanks dude
Great job on the video, Steve!
The first time I experienced Ocarina of Time was in a store playing the demo that they put out for people to try. I was 8 at the time I think and the television they had it on was insanely dark so I could barely see anything. It was also the first time I had played anything 3-D and the on-screen button prompts confused me. Not to mention the then-awkward method of needing to continue running in order to jump. It felt like such a strange way of controlling the character that when my parents asked me if I wanted the game for Christmas, I replied “Eh, it looks too complicated.”
Weirdly, I ended up getting it anyways. While I did enjoy it, it never really hooked me like so many other people. I stopped a few times because I either had other games to play or I got stuck at a puzzle. I made my way to the Water Temple (yup) and that’s where my progress halted for a few years.
I would move on to Majora’s Mask, not finishing it for years once again for some reason. Then I picked up the Wind Waker and absolutely LOVED it! I beat that game multiple times and eventually bought the HD rerelease.
Meanwhile, I was confused by the droves of Ocarina fans that lauded it as the best game ever. For a long time I wrote OoT as overrated nostalgia. But after years, I went back, started the game over, and beat the Water Temple at last, then subsequently the rest of the game.
And… I understand the hype now! I was too young at the game’s original release to really understand its significance, like a kid growing up with a smartphone not knowing how convenient it makes a lot of things. But having played countless other games since then and getting some perspective, it was really an amazing game that I still think holds up pretty well. That scene with Sheik and the well at Kakariko Village stands out as a cutscene that really surprised me on my replay. It felt actually sort of scary and hyped up the boss for that part of the game.
I would go on to also beat Majora’s Mask (getting all the masks of course) and playing through pretty much every mainline Zelda game up until the present day. And having done so, I can still say that Ocarina of Time still has enough uniqueness and charm to it to stand out. It may still not be my personal favorite Zelda game, but as far as gameplay, music, design, fun, etc. go, I consider it a 10/10 must-play classic.
I love ocarina I’ve played and completed it countless times. My only criticism is the fact I can’t skip those long cutscenes that I’ve seen a million times before.
I can relate so much to not knowing that you had to cut the spider web to go down to the basement in Inside the Deku as a kid.
It was the first of it's kind as well. Like Super Mario 64 a couple of years prior it was the first time we saw Link and his adventures in 3D. It had been 5 years since a Zelda game also so there was alot of anticipation. I had a very similar experience to Derrick Bitner in this video. I had some recognition of Zelda but not a great deal but I would buy the Official Nintendo Magazine in the build up to the release and they were saying this is a very special game. I got it day of release and it was very special and I would say it was almost liking watching Star Wars for a previous generation for me it was that awesome.
6:45 if you play it on an emulator with high resolution and wide screen it is perfectly fine.
No one here got to first play Ocarina of Time on the Collector's Edition for the Gamecube like I did?
The magic is still their. 25 years and nostalgia is still in full effect.
I was born the same year Ocarina of Time released. Kinda cool.
That intro was so cool!
Ty! Perfect timing
Though i did grow up with an NES, all i would know from Nintendo as a child of 4/5 was Super Mario Bros. And although i got a Genesis at 6, i had a friend who had an SNES and Super Mario World. My surprise when in 1997 i turn 10 and my gift is a N64 with a copy of Mario 64 and i game i had never heard of before called TLoZ OoT. Course i put that game to the side and focused on the game i knew. Played for at least 8 hours, give or take, and thought maybe i should see what that other game is about. I think i played for like an hour and i couldn't for the life off me find the Kokiri Sword. Had the Shield, full Deku sticks, Nuts and Rupees. As i got close to just giving up and going back to Mario, i noticed a small hole on a wall i hadn't seen before. I figured "uhh it has to be there, I've checked every other area the game allows me to go to besides there", now i was not good with scary things in games or movies back then, so when i entered the hole and i heard a weird rumbling on the other side, i panicked, saved the game and never went back to it. It wouldn't be until Summer of that year, during summer vacation that i saw a friend play the game and he showed me what was back there, plus a few more hours past that. After realizing i was a fool for being scared and not really having any other game to play once i went back home, i played nothing but OoT for the next few weeks and it was love at first sight..... play.....? Zelda became my #1 game and Mario had been dragged down a peg. Though the Shadow Temple/Below the Well and Dead Hand were some serious nightmare fuel. Of course after that i needed to play every Zelda that came before and would eventually come after. But I've always wondered, if i hadn't gotten OoT back then, would i had become a Zelda fan later in life? Part of me figures maybe by Wind Waker? as i would have found that style too cutesy to ignore. However i am glad OoT introduced me to a series that to this day holds a special place in my heart, to say i became i die hard Zelda fan is an understatement.
Oh thank god. I thought I was the only kid who played stock market 😮
I purchased my golden cartridge of OoT from a CompUSA (!!!) store back in the day. I only played it once as I recall though. I never played Majora's Mask. I eventually purchased the 3DS version but it was difficult to get into it being on a handheld. Unfortunately the N64 games ( including Mario 64 ) really have not aged all that well in my opinion. A Link to the Past is still my all time favorite Zelda game and it still holds up rather well in comparison. But 25 years later, I still vividly recall purchasing OoT. Thanks for the memories.
Best game ever made
All you late 90s babies downplaying Ocarina of Time need to sit down. This was before your time and unfortunately you will never understand the scope and impact of this masterpiece at the time it was released. As a 85 baby I will always say this was the greatest game ever made regardless of the superior graphics and technology that we have today.
LMAO 0:04-0:09. I love it! 😁
A phanomenal game. =)
Ocarina Of Time is my favourite video game... of all time.
Me too
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