![]() ![]() It’s so cosy in there with the radiator or underfloor heating on in winter months.Įveryone else must still have theirs in pro grade sealed storage boxes - loads of them holding various SNES, Gameboy, mega drive, microcomputers mags. My youngest wanted a picnic room: artificial indoor grass “carpet”. I even allocated money to them for me to hire work people to do the rooms up as they wanted. The kids each have a few rooms to make as they please. I still keep my collection of all my mags in sealed boxes in… embarrassing I don’t know which storage room they’re in! My house is pretty giant and I have many spare rooms at this point. They used new publication technology that let them build pages as we build PDF files these days. And thanks for giving us a reason to read old games mags, too. You changed the landscape of gaming forever, and we love you for it. Happy 30th birthday, The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. We wouldn't have Ocarina of Time or Breath of the Wild without ALTTP, let alone all the other brilliant, non-Zelda games that have been inspired by Link's Dark World adventures since. It's not only a great game, but it was the blueprint for Zelda games from then on. Nothing shocking, of course - we were kind of hoping for some surprisingly negative review that we could laugh at with the benefit of hindsight, but of course everyone loved A Link to the Past. Not much of a buyers guide, though, is it? It's basically just a back-of-the-box blurb, and we could have just, you know, looked at the back of the box. He must be strong though, because he can carry a quite unfeasibly large amount of stuff in his magic pockets."Ī lot like Nintendo Power, the Super NES Buyers Guide is more of a "how to play" than an actual review, but it seems to give potential players the information they need (difficulty level, format, genre, etc.) and lets them decide for themselves. This causes no end of problems for the hapless Link, as he's the one who always has to bail her out. Zelda is a smart and sexy little princess who spends most of her time getting kidnapped by evil magicians. The game features the exploits of a small elf named Link. "Zelda! To some people, this is the definitive RPG and now it appears in its third incarnation on the Super Famicom. The other thing about this review is that it's almost comedically British '90s stuff. Sounds: 87/100 - "spot-on", whatever that meansĬVG's review is a little muted, especially with the modern knowledge that "Zelda III" is considered a masterpiece, but we admire their work in getting the Japanese import to play early.Zelda: "A smart and sexy little princess" (ew).Link: "A small elf" and a "strong lad" who is "dead brave".It's fascinating not only to look back at the general perception of a game that would eventually make its way onto "greatest of all time" lists, but to see exactly what game critics felt was useful to their readers in 1992. It was only the third Zelda game, and although Zelda was obviously very popular, it wasn't anything near to the cultural saturation of today, where a Zelda game can sell millions in its first week of release, and reduce grown men to fits of rage if it's not quite what they want. Plus, the magazines say it's really good.Īnd now, 30 years later (to the day!) we've combed through magazine archives to find a handful of those magazines, to examine what the gaming world was like back then - and how people really felt about A Link to the Past. You're just excited to get a new Zelda SNES game for your birthday, and we don't blame you. It's the first time that a Zelda game would introduce the concept of a geographical and/or temporal dichotomy, but let's be honest - it's 1992, and you don't know what any of those words mean. This new game, though, promises more colours, more story, and unbeknownst to you, an entirely new world separate from the Hyrule you know and love.
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