{"id":744,"date":"2011-02-20T21:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:12:28","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-you-are-the-hero-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/744\/retro-scan-of-the-week-you-are-the-hero-link","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Legend of Zelda at 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"You<\/a>Click above for double page scan.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Legend of Zelda<\/em> turns 25 today, having been released on the Famicom Disk System<\/a> in Japan way back on February 21st, 1986.<\/p>\n

Here’s a page (two if you click above) from the lengthy “Tips & Tactics” instruction manual that shipped with every copy of Nintendo’s famous adventure game (at least in the early days). This booklet contained maps and hints to help players navigate through a wholly new gaming experience in the video game console realm at the time.<\/p>\n

It is hard to relate today — to those who did not experience it first hand — the feeling when we first encountered The Legend of Zelda<\/em> upon its release in 1987 (over here in the ‘States). It was epic. Magical. Awe-inspiring. Zelda<\/em> continued a trend of groundbreaking NES gameplay that started for many with Super Mario Bros.<\/em> a year or two before.<\/p>\n

Those first gaming experiences on the NES — rounded out by titles like Metroid<\/em> and Kid Icarus<\/em> — are what won Nintendo’s first console a place in the hearts of an entire generation of kids around the world.<\/p>\n

For more on the anniversary,<\/strong> check out my The Legend of Zelda Oddities<\/a> slideshow over at Technologizer.<\/p>\n

[ From The Legend of Zelda Instruction Booklet, 1987, p.6-7 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Tell us about the first time you played The Legend of Zeld<\/em>a. What was the experience like? How old were you at the time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click above for double page scan. The Legend of Zelda turns 25 today, having been released on the Famicom Disk System in Japan way back on February 21st, 1986. Here’s a page (two if you click above) from the lengthy “Tips & Tactics” instruction manual that shipped with every copy of Nintendo’s famous adventure game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,21,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}