Can I have some advice on getting through Zelda 1? I understand you have to bomb walls and find caves to progress, but the buying bombs part makes it seem like an excruciating grind. don't want to look up a guide
Just use a guide if you actually get frustrated and lost. Why try and solve problems you haven't run into yet?
damn, zelda used to look like that? my copy must've yellowed with age
>>12091995The instruction manual it came with is basically all you need (or just the online pdf if you don't have original manual). If you still struggle, just look up a couple things if you can't figure it out, just think of it as shit you would have heard on the playground back in the day.
>>12091995Simulate a whole weekend where you live like its the olden days. Order milk to your front door, knock on your friend's front door without texting them ahead of time, listen to classic rock radio, then drink beer and play some zelda. Don't think too hard about it. Imagine its the only game you have. Put your entire life on airplane mode. If you get truly ball-bustingly stuck, ask a question to us here, or to a friend. Just have fun, man
>>12092014>Order milk to your front doorWhat service does this?>knock on your friend's front door without texting them ahead of timeDon't have friends >listen to classic rock radioBest I can do is youtube uploads>drink beerDon't drink>play some zeldaI'm on /vr/, I don't play video games. Just complain about them
>>12092021>What service does this?Back in the day, you could just lean out the window (games usually had a "pause" function for moments like this) and holler, "oh milkman!"
>>12091995You can force enemies to drop specific items depending on what you've killed before. From the start of your game, don't kill anything, you can go and find Blue Octorocks, kill them first, and you'll immediately get Bombs from them. There's a whole chart that shows what enemy drops at what kill-count, but there ends up being a lot of extra bits that don't really matter.
>>12091995The more enemies you kill without taking a hit the better item drops you get. There’s way more to it but keep that in mind when you need rupees and bombs.
>>12091995How about a better question, did people dislike the grey cart rereleased of this games due to not being gold, I didn't care for em in the past, around 2009 or 2010 or so saw one in the wild and pass it by.Then sacrificed my old pcb for an Nesreproductions title that sadly got stolen by Mexican customs, got a refund.Then years later a decade ago I got a purchase from an awesome anon for Zelda II and even a nice extra GBC game.
Never mind this whole thread, I'm retarded. I just needed to download the manual
>>12092053Accidentally block the "still".
>>12091995I have a trick that will solve your bomb and rupee problems. Go to the western graveyards. When you enter the screen there is a single ghost. First find out how many swipes it takes with your current sword to kill it, it will save you a lot of grief. When you enter a new screen of the graveyard, slice the ghost until he's one slice away from death. Then, touch as many of the gravestones you can to spawn in new ghosts. Spawn in as many as you can, then kill the original ghost. This will kill all ghosts on the map instantly. You will get a lot of rupees very quickly. I believe they drop the occasional bomb too.Here's a video demonstrating the trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHnx__tFaLA
>>12091995The original Legend of Zelda, like a lot of NES games at the time, was a multimedia experience. The whole “Burn every bush, bomb every wall” cliche came from people just playing ROMs of the game without the original manual and map. It tells you everything you need to know, even the most cryptic parts like the entrance to Level 7.Download a PDF of the manual and you’re good. Use the map only when necessary. The original map had a plastic seal that said something like “break the seal as a last resort”
>>12091995Just engage your brain and you'll hardly waste a single bomb.
If you are only going to play the 1st quest like the majority of players, there is ONE bush you need to burn to access LVL 8, and ONE wall you need to bomb to access Death Mountain(LVL 9).The bush stands out like a sore thumb, being the only bush blocking the walkway and preventing you from traveling to the other side of the screen. Find a screen where a single bush blocks your progress, and you've found LVL 8.The wall you need to bomb also sticks out a bit, and the game also gives you a hint on where you are supposed to look. Given the all high-level enemies in the area, it's also a bit obvious it's the end-game area.Everything else you can find through burning bushes or bombing walls is mostly rupees, with the exception of some additional heart containers. You can use them to get the 2nd sword before you even complete LVL 1 if you know where they all are, but you don't need them to beat the game.If you are going to play the 2nd quest, either play with maps or make your own maps and bomb every wall and burn every bush. The locations of some of the levels aren't exactly obvious, or even hinted at. And the dungeons themselves are a pain to navigate even with maps.
>>12092839>The whole “Burn every bush, bomb every wall” cliche came from people just playing ROMs of the game without the original manual and map.No, it came from the rental era, when people only owned 2-3 games total by 88 and their entire experience came from from rentals, or buy a clearance rental copy with no book. Rental copies of games had no map or manual. Zelda sold ok but far more people rented it than owned it and they went in blind. Game magazines didnt cover zelda until summer 1988 with the first issue of nintendo power, and that issue only dealt with the second quest. You could buy a guide book though.The emulator crowd played the ROM in the gamefaqs age. They were never stuck for more than a few minutes and relied on handholding. They had no reason to bruteforce the game through hours of trial and error bush burning.
>>12092032youd have to move the hot pie cooling on the window sill first
>>12092918SPECTACLE ROCK IS AN ENTRANCE TO DEATH
>>12092919Either way, there’s a good argument to be made that the base game is incomplete without the extra material. The game itself tells you to read the manual, and it lays out everything you need to know.
>>12092931This was the norm at the time. They didn't have any extra space on the game for tuturial bloat.
>>12092021>What service does thisIronically, there are modern day delivery apps where they can literally ship groceries (and milk) to your front door. You can even make the delivery person yell out Milkman as they leave it at your door.
>>12092923Yes, this was crucial. If you knocked mom's pie off the sill, she was within her legal rights to kill you. This was before the obama administration systematically sissified the penal framework of the nuclear family unit. Bombing walls and burning trees were never an actual bottleneck because you were only allowed to play 15 minutes of electronic games a day, otherwise, you risked death. Thankfully, a single 18 yo male could afford an apartment on a shoeshiner's salary so that wasn't a problem in every case
One of my weirdest fondest memories was that one day I came home from school and my mom had marked off dozens of places to bomb and bushes to burn on a Nintendo power map of Hyrule from LOZ1. I asked her if she did this and she said "Yep, I play it sometimes while you're at school. I beat the second quest too." Then she went back to folding laundry. I just stood there dumbfounded. I had never seen her play a video game once in my life. And I never saw her play one after that either. She was never a particularly warm parent, but I always felt loved. This memory welled up in my brain after she passed a few years ago and I realized she had done more selfless things like this growing up than I paid attention to. I miss her.
>>12092014Bro, you forgot about taping songs that play on the radio, using a physical TV guide, watching Saturday morning cartoons, eating lunchables, and stopping by the convenience store to buy bubblegum tape when riding your bike to your friend's house where his dad has a calendar with topless women in his garage
>>12091995Here's my advice, kid.1. Download zclassic. It comes with zelda built in.2. Make a new zclassic game. Title it whatever you want. You don't need to make any levels, just checkbox the feature to use maps by hitting the map button. 3. Start your own game, save and quit, and delete the game. 4. Retitle the built in zelda1 game to be the name of your game with maps enabled5. Load that save again. Now your playing zelda1 with maps enabled.
