Where my real niggas at?I played Ocarina of Time in 1999.
I NEVER played it.That's right, I only heard of the infamous water level and nothing else. I'm spoiler free of OoT to this day mUHAHAHAHAAwaiting for a cool moment to play it
>>738809973Probably around 2004. I had the collector's edition on Gamecube.
>>7388099731998. Played it at my cousin's house. Got it myself for Christmas the next year.
2026I'm 30 btw.
>>738810182link dies
>>738810617>I'm 30 btw.OP said no zoomers.
>>738809973probably around 2001 or 2002t. zoomer
2003 on gamecube
2002 on my cousin's N64
>>7388099731999 rented at blockbuster.
>>738809973Played it at my cousins house in 98 and then when the Wind Waker bundle came out on Gamecube it was like heaven had opened up. Fucking hell kids these days just open their soulless fortnite shit and think that's the apex of life,
>>738809973I played it when the 3ds remake came out since I didn't have an N64. It was very mid, so I went back to Link to the Past.
>>7388099732000?Got an n64 as a gift for doing well in kindergarten (my parents probably just wanted one for mario kart lol) and I played this on that...don't know if it came with it or we got it later though, but I don't think the gamecube was out yet?
>>738809973Got a nintendo 64 on my fifth birthday together with the game so Y2K
>>738813129based blockbuster chad
>>73880997398. My uncle got me into Zelda via ALTTP. He preordered this too which got me into buying it as well.
>>738813764same but went to LAI stopped playing both LTTP and OoT at the last dungeon, didn't even given it a try, just completely lost interest in the gamemaybe LA is perfect because it has the maze shit instead of another fucking dungeon, it was lame at first but it seems this is the only way I can complete a Zelda game
I first played OoT from Brawl's Masterpiece demo in 2009. OoT3D on launch would be my first full playthrough of the game. 22-yo zoomer btw, fuck you unc don't tell me what to do
>>738809973In 2009 on wii virtual console. I never grew up with the games outside of the original on NES in the early 90s and wind waker when I rented it from blockbuster. In the US, all the games had the same logo and golden cover so I always thought, "oh, I already have this on nes, why would I buy it on n64/snes/game boy?", yeah I was retarded. When majora's mask came out, I hated how much it was advertised and how all my classmates thought it was cool, I thought it looked lame and gay at the time since you play as a stupid elf boy.At some point I kept getting sick of everybody getting massive nostalgia over it and praising it all the time so I just bought it on the wii just to see what all the fuss was about. It was literally a baby game that I beat in a couple of days. Really soured me on the franchise though the 2d games were pretty good. Now that the pc port is out, I decided to give it another go and I actually liked it more but I think that's more of a reaction to how bad modern games are than anything.Thank you for reading.
>>738809973It was either 1999 or 2000. I had just moved from my small rural town into the suburbs and went over to a kid's house who had it and we played a little and after that I was fuckin hooked and begged my parents to buy it for me until they did.
>>738809973~2020. I never owned an N64, and there's so few single-player games that interest me on the console that it was a very long time before I bothered trying to emulate it.I found the beginning of OoT really boring and dropped it. I had a lot of fun with Mario 64, though.
>>738816126it's ok i accept you
>>7388099731998 Rented it at Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos.
Rented it a bunch of times in '98, then finally bought it used at a Blockbuster in '99. Thankfully it was the 1.1 version before they removed the Fire Temple song & muslim moon mirror shield & red blood for version 1.2.
>>7388099732000. I was genuinely surprised to learn there were more Nintendo franchises besides Mario / Pokemon after picking up Super Smash Bros. and wanted to try them.Took me most of a year to beat it because I got scared by the Stalfos in the Forest Temple. I was 9-10 at the time so I don't know if that makes me a pussy or not. But after I loved it, was happy to know Majora's Mask was waiting for me right after which I played in 2001
>this little replies Thus entire board is full of zoomers now isn't it?
I had the compilation CD thing that came with my Gamecube it had all the main line games and a demo of Windwaker, good times.
>>738809973My parents loved me and got me a PS1 instead, so i never got to play it back in the day, and then never did after that even emulated.
>>738823654It was an amazing game for its time and every game that came after it wouldn't exist without it. However, it's extremely dated by today's standards so I can't fault people for being put off by it.
TP is the better Ocarina of Time.
1998 when it released?
>>738809973I played it early 2004 I think, on the gamecube zelda collection. Absolutely loved it and played it over and over. However, I had no memory card and mom wouldn't let me keep it on over night, so I never got that far. Got really good at the first part though.But ultimately I got stuck because I couldn't figure out how to get lord jabu jabu to open his mouth. After all, whales eat krill, not fish (I was also 9 years old and a bit dumb).Quit the game for over a year before I came back to it, borrowed a friend's memory card and cleared it. Then majora's mask (which I'd already played til the end of snowhead multiple times).
>>738824226My parents wouldn't buy me the memory card either, I'd leave the Gamecube running for days on end and the laser burnt out on mine. I will say I figured out Majora without looking it up.
It's actually so hilarious how insecure you faggots get when someone even suggests OoT is the greatest achievement in human history. You're 30+ still genuinely having melties over a kids game.
>>738809973Probably 1998. Shit game by the way, but I was a stupid child back then and didn't know any better.
2021 after playing through BoTW for the first time. I thought BoTW was great and absolutely adored the little walnut characters I would find. OOT didn't have anything like that.Mid game at best, I guess millennials and boomers who grew up on 2D would of been blown away by that game.
When it came out. I literally camped out the rental store. Rented it like 4 more times so I could finish it.Then I got it for chrirstmas that year.
>>738809973Rented it in like '99 or 2000 probably. Didn't really impress me.
1998. I still remember constantly reading gaming magazines for any news of "Zelda 64" throughout the mid 90s, and when it finally came out and all my friends would come over and we'd work through the game together it was one of the best times in my life. Finally slaying Ganon and rescuing Zelda at the end was a religious experience.
'98. Cool as shit with the rumble pak. Wish my mom got the SF64 bundle when she bought OoT.
>>738809973>I played Ocarina of Time in 1999.same
>>738813324If you had the Zelda Collector's Edition you had>Zelda 1>Zelda 2>Ocarina of Time>Majora's Mask>Wind Waker>Twilight Princess>Four Swords AdventuresAll on the Gamecube. Life was good. Such a great console to grow up with.
>>7388099731997, miyamoto gave me the first ever copy and sucked my dick.
>>738809973i watched my friends play it cause i hated the young link parts. roughly 98 probably
>>738825385Wii was really good to grow up with if you were a virtual console chad and had a model that played gc. Over half of my greatest memories of the Wii were discovering the kino that Nintendo made before I was born.
>>738809973I played it on N64 but after Majora's Mask came out, must've been somewhere in the very early 2000s. I was going to borrow MM from a friend after he showed me how cool it was, but I wasn't sure if my N64 had the expansion pak required to even run it (it did) since I'd never heard of it before, so I borrowed OoT instead and I'm glad I did. MM was a great game too, but OoT should be played first and it remains one of my favourite games of all time.
>>738809973Technically 98 for like three seconds, but after much begging mum and da got me an n64 and the goty second print from 99
>>738809973I would've played it in 1999 but I was only like 5, and it's because my kindergarden friend had apparently won an N64 in a donald duck comic contest, along with Mario 64, and then they had bought Zelda.I just remember bursting into tears when the Stalfos come out of the ground and going home.Then in 2002 or something, I was like "Bro remember that Zelda game? What happens in it? I wanna see it!" because its atmosphere always inspired me.So we played it from start to end. The N64 had one of those worn out analog sticks so Link couldn't even run properly. But we finished it, and moments are burned into my mind. Forest Temple's crazy music, Water Temple having us running in circles until I got a headache, and how moody and eerie parts of it felt.Finishing the game I had a legitimate "oh my god." kind of moment, where it just sank in, and I was thinking about it for the rest of the day. Those last moments in the game are so iconic, and at the end I realized it was the first time I knew a video game that got me through a "journey" that I somehow could feel.Growing older I started really appreciating OoT for its themes and messaging. The game is like Nintendo singing a lullaby to child-gamers about the value of their upbringing, and Link "winning" by being sent back to his childhood, but with no fairy, master sword, no sages and no more "destiny", was very clear to me early on. It's Nintendo saying "Your childhood will be the best years of your life. Growing up comes with darkness as your understanding of the world changes, but you will always be that little boy you once were underneath, and it will shine through when things in our world become too evil to bear."I think something no one talks about is the pacifism of Zelda stories. The games, especially OoT and Wind Waker have clear passages of text where they sort of allude to there having been "a war" but "now we don't do that anymore". To me that is about WW2.
>>738809973I think I first played it in 2006 at an older friend's house.Got my own N64 later on for either my birthday or christmas and played through the whole thing, maybe it was like 2009?>(no zoomers)Too bad
When it came out. I have the 1.0 cart with the original Gerudo symbol, Fire Temple music and red blood.
>>738829151Me too, played it after my brother killed the spider boss.
>>738828997why did you get an n64 instead of a modern console?
>>738829240I liked old games. I was born in 97 but grew up playing PS1 and SNES mostly from ages 4-6, the SNES didn't belong to me though so, when my family moved I lost access to that for a long time and always wanted to be able to play Link to the Past and Mario World again.Years later my mom starts using ebay and I find out you can get old games and consoles on there, so she buys me a SNES, then later an N64, then later a NES (I was mainly interested in the NES cause I watched AVGN, I didn't get as much mileage out of it as I did the other two)I have good memories of going into this store called Books & Music Exchange that also sold retro gaming stuff, so I got a good amount of games from there, the most important one to me being Chrono Trigger, which still has the $45 sticker on it to this day.Its not like I didn't play newer consoles at all though, I did have a PS2, GC, GBA, DS and a Wii.
>>738829763But in 2006 you could've just emulated everything back then. Shit, I remember being able to emulate snes back in 2003 on my parent's shitty work pc.
>>738829880Despite having my own computer my dad bought for me when I was like 8, I did not learn of emulation until a friend showed me how he could play Castlevania Aria of Sorrow on his laptop in 2010, and though I did play around with that game and several others from various consoles, I would not get really into emulating over playing on real hardware until 2017, and nowadays I prefer just having everything in one place to play via emulation on my PC or my hacked Vita
>>738809973i rented it first week, bought a while laterjabu jabu's belly was repulsive, i had a friend do it for me cause i was too grossed out
>>738809973I got exposed to OOT via that compilation disc on the GameCube despite being born in 90 and owning a 64. Not sure how, but I totally passed Zelda by up to that point.
>>7388099732001 on the Gamecube
>>738825712The Wii was a great GameCube lol.
25th of December 1998, I remember it like it was yesterday.
>>738810182Legit it would be cool as fuck if the remake turns out to be the best way to play it and you get to experience that straight up. It's like, even knowing what you can do it still an amazing experience.
>>738809973The now defunct computer store that sold it to me broke the street date so I played it a day earlier than the official release
played and beat it whenever it came out, still have it and my majora's mask 3D special gold versionI didnt beat majora's mask until years later because my sister deleted my save when I was in the water temple, at the time I lost maybe like 50+ hours of work and I was furiousI'm 32, 33 in a couple months
>>738810895OP can tongue my anus.
Christmas 1998. I remember me and my older brother got an N64 with Mario 64, Starfox 64 and OOT for Christmas,
>>73880997398, at a friends house. my friends mom rented him an N64 with the new zelda game for xmas and we played together. it was so much fun it was unreal everything about it blew my mind. My mom saw how excited i was about it and got it for me for my birthday and even randomly let me have it a few weeks early as a surprise.
>>738831127Melo?
1999
never played it. i had a playstation.
1998. My dad worked at EB games at the time and managed to smuggle home the Not for Resale kiosk cart for Christmas. Mine is v1.1, so I got to have some bugfixes but didn't miss out on red blood or Islamic chanting. This is by far my most sentimentally prized game, not just for being NFR but also since it also still has my (now dead) mom's solo file on it.My favorite memory is when my mom pulled me out of school for a fake sick day so I could help her with the Water Temple in our "family" file (I was better at accounting for 3D spaces in games than she was).
>>73880997320123D, even owned the special 3ds with tge oot stickers.
>>738809973I borrowed it from a friend back then in 1999. But I was retarded and never finished it. Not until the 3DS version back in 2014. Now I am playing it on N64 for the first time with my gf. I like the music and atmosphere, but the gameplay is honestly pretty slow and boring. Not a big fan.
>>738837315>not the gold cartridgepoorfag
>>738837469yeah okay
>>738825753You're just like my friend growing up. Actually we trade borrowed OoT and MM since neither of us played the other before then. I did the same with my other friend with SA1/SA2 (I never played 2 and he never played 1).
>>738829151Based gold chad. I only had the 1.1 cart but I was happy just to get the red blood and Fire Temple chants.
>>738830825>Not sure how, but I totally passed Zelda by up to that point.Happens. I wish I got into Ape Escape as a kid but I was a stubborn tendie until 12.
>>7388377731.1 still had the old Gerudo symbol too.
>>738830986The OoT pre order disc for TWW was first created in 2002 in Japan at the earliest so you have to either be mistaken or lying.
>>738809973NeverI don't play kiddie slop
>>738833764Some poor 90s employee must have gotten fired over that blunder
>>738836203I'm OP and I'm 30. We're millennials. I count zoomers as being born in 2000 or later.
>>738837315I own that same cart. Almost got stolen by my cousin too kek.
I didn't get to play it until I got it on that Wind Waker preorder disc with the Master Quest on it, so I guess it was 2002.
>>738837826Yeah I just got lazy typing. I liked seeing that crescent as a shitskin lmao. All the islamic references were cool to me and my brother.
>>738838087>wanting to be tounged by another mananon, that's pretty gay
>>738838087I posted on the IGN boards in 2004 hyping up the new Zelda trailer with the Conan music playing in the background and developing my first erection to Fergie's music videos on MTV. I was born in 1995 and I'm 100% Gen Y and there's nothing you can do about it
>>738837959Gen Z is 1997 and on. you're a millennial, but barely.
>>738809973I could have played it on release but I didn't have an n64 and then I got distracted by pc games.I ended up playing the pc port last year blind. n64 mode for the authentic look but extended fps. It was fun and I get why people liked it, even if it was brain dead easy. Gameplay wise, I was surprised by how similar it felt to dark souls. I think playing it actually helped me rely on lock on less in soulslikesEven though i liked it, I loved majora's mask more. Fucking great, so stylish it's unreal. They don't make games like that anymore.
>>738838341I consneed, though you are two years from being a zoomer.
>>738838361I love being a millennial.>>738838437My nigga.
>>738809973Either 1999 or 2000. I forget exactly when, but it was soon after it came out, enough that I would talk about it with my friends at school.
2001 is the year I was born. First played OoT in 2022 (Wii VC) - kino, but MM is better.>no zoomersFuck you, unc.
>>738809973I played the game in 1999 but according to /v/ I'm a zoomer
>>738809973Early 1999. Absolute kino.
My mom bought it for me on N64 because she saw Link pulling the Master Sword on the back of the box and thought it was a King Arthur game
>>738809973>be American millennial>live in cozy upper-middle class area>soccer mom buys you a Nintendo 64 because The 700 Club told her that PlayStation games have blood>parents can also afford you to buy the entire Rareware library>since you are rich and American, your family are also early adopters of the internet>lo and behold, everyone else online is also a rich American from a Nintendo 64 household>Ocarina group masturbation session ensues>The internet universally agrees that ReDeads are the scariest things ever invented because none of you ever played Silent Hill>Internet gaming culture is built upon the idea that everyone owned a Nintendo 64 and everyone agrees Ocarina of Time is unambiguously the best game ever made>Fast forward 20 years>Euros, Aussies, and working class Americans are now online>You find out that the Nintendo 64 absolutely fucking bombed outside of middle America and nobody gives a fuck about Ocarina of Time>Even in the US the N64 was massively outsold by the PS1, let alone abroad>Persecution complex ensues>"This can't be........did.....did I shit my pants over Wind Waker's graphics for nothing?">Start calling Ocarina underrated due to the fact that people who've played more than 1 fucking game don't think it's the best
>>738840669Zoomers start in 2000 and nothing will change my mind
>>7388099731998, I almost shat my pants at the Deku Tree lol
>>738842321Sounds like you should stop dilating and kys
>>738809973around 2002, some kid at school passed me a badly scratched CD with project 64 and the rom
data mining thread
>>738843727Yes I have to know what year in the 90s you played Ocarina of Time so I can send it to the government
>>738844465That's exactly what they would do, complete with making it seem innocuous and trivial just before booking ya.I plead the fifth
>>738809973Hopefully I'm playing it this year, if not next year at the latest. I was considering playing Ancient Stone Tablets beforehand but having set it up I'm not sure I feel like it anymore.
>>738813324I remember saving up money for this. My dad would give me an extra £1 or 2 every few days thanks to my mum making him and she even cut out a coupon for £5 off at GAME so instead of taking 3 months to save up with weekly pocket money it took a month. Brought it home, put Wind Waker in and then wondered where Master Quest was (because it didn't come on another disc) with my two brothers watching me play it for a bit. Gave it 30 minutes and then stopped to play with a new beyblade my mum also bought me that day too. Funny how being a kid works. Probably didn't finish either Wind Waker or OOT until 2011 despite playing them a fuck ton as a kid, the triforce hunt and the lens of truth filtered me.
Parents rented it from Blockbuster for me so probably like 99-00.
>>738809973I never played it
>>738809973Release day, '98. Had to drive to the closest big city after school to buy it, by the time I got home it was like 9:30pm and I played through the first dungeon until about 1:00am in the morning then had to try to grab a few hours sleep before school again the next day.Yes, I'm old.
>>7388099731998, and it was boring shit back then as well. Tendies have simply never played video games.
>>738849676>Yes, I'm old.You and me both buddy. Glad to still have you around.
