Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Remember YOUR Zelda Game? - Remember Blank FREE PATREON EPISODE

Episode Date: August 20, 2023

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your favorite Final Fantasy memory, your favorite street fighter memory, and oh, so much more we need you for future episodes. So write it for free at kind of funny.com slash remember blank. today's headline is ripped from the kind of funny games cast review of the legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom we are saying let's remember your Zelda

game it is always one that I leave open to interpretation to him so when I say Tim tell me about your Zelda game what do you do I love that question I love being on the show my very first time ah what an idiot Jack guess bye Barrett thanks for joining us

thank you Barrett You're an audio list here. Tim has spilled LaCroix on the table. But it's okay. It's nicely congealing in this little area here. Thank you so much. It is not running to the hills. Sitting right there.

You know, this leads into Wind Waker, a lot of water. But no, Wind Wai just not my answer. Not my answer. My answer, when you ask that, like my first gut instinct is probably not what you'd expect. Thank you. I honestly have no idea. I have no guess from you on what it's going to be.

The Oracle Games. Oh, Oracle season as such? Yes, I would say that those are, are my, my Zelda. They were, they were really the first one that I got into

because I think that, uh, Pokemon kind of eased me into the understanding of that type of game. Because when we were little kids, uh, Kevin and I,

like really first got into video games because, uh, his mom would take us to garage sales and we would, uh, growing up in the 90s, um, it was the best time to, to get into video games because all the people with the NES were moving

on to college and stuff. Yeah. And getting rid of it. So we both scored, massively by being able to get an NES with like just every every game in the catalog to be able to play and popping in, of course, there was something

tantalizing about those gold cartridges, you know, you see them, they stood out so much, you're like, yo, this is awesome, let's try out Legend of Zelda and immediately were overwhelmed. There was words, there was, like, was an action heavy as you jump straight into it. Yeah, kind of a lack of

direction, especially with the first one, even the second one. The platforming stuff felt a bit familiar, but like it was very, very open in a way that was, was intimidating. So Zelda, I kind of put on the back burner, but because of playing Pokemon on the Game Boy, I was like, oh, I'm into this, like, seeing the Oracle games kind of get promoted heavily back in, like, 1998. I was like, I'm here. I'm here for these ones. And I liked the two different versions. And again, I think there was a nice Pokemon through line to me to

follow the sense of familiarity with, like, a lot of, like, the same kind of, like, character designs and things like that for Pokemon, for sure. So, so, yeah, Oracle really got me in, and it wasn't until the GBA version of the port, linked to the past, where I played that on my whole baby. This is where it's really good. But yeah, my first answer, the Oracle games.

You're far from alone. Dear Sixth lit wrote into Kindof Funny.com slash remember blank just like you can and says, Oracle of ages and seasons. I adore these Zelda games and consider it funny that Capcom made the best Zelda games. Just super fun and creative with great sprite work, songs,

I played these so much as a kid and bought them on the 3DES e shop the day they got ported. I need a Link's Awakening style remake for it, hopefully including the cut Oracle of Secrets content. They are just charming and delightfully underplayed Zelda games. Frankfurter agrees and says The Legend of Zelda, Oracle of Ages slash seasons. I never finished the game when I had it back when I was a kid. However, I loved getting lost in that game. I even had a choose-your-own-adventure book based off the game. It holds a special place in my heart.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Barrett, when I ask you to tell me about your Zelda game, what do you say? I don't think I have an answer. I've been kind of thinking about this last night because, yeah, I think this is also my first time, like, official on Remember Blank and not just, you know, part of the background there. And so I was thinking about this last night. And I don't, yeah, I don't think I have like one answer because I is heavily associate certain games with like different parts of my life. Sure. Right. And so it's hard to just like just choose. one. Like, you know, shout out to one of my earliest memories of getting the see-through green

N64 with K-64 for Christmas. And, like, because I got that in 2000, I already had, like, you know, a wide breadth of library to play from. Wild. Yeah, it was wild.

And so, yeah, like, I heavily associate, like, the early days of, like, Ocreen of Time, you know, playing Link to the past with my babysitter. And then like, yeah, I would say like the kind of gap for me is like I never owned a GameCube, but I remember like playing through Windwaker like a friend's house like over a period of like

weeks or months or whatever it was. And then yeah, like I remember in high school playing Skyward Sword and like borrowing a friend's weed to play through Skyward Sword and like that sticks out to me because that was the first time I was ever playing through a game and I was like, I need to look up reviews for this. Yeah. Because I'm not viving with this game at all. And then, yeah, to see all the, like, the tens. And, yeah, and, like, all of the praise for this game.

And I felt like I was the, I was the weird one. I was the weird. Yeah, you're the outline. And then coming back to the franchise in 2013, maybe, 2014 for a link between worlds on the 3DS. And that felt like the kind of moment of, like, kind of recapturing my love for the series. And then, you know, Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda. a Zelda game to come out when I was in the industry like I was five months at IGN

and so yeah I heavily associate like that era of my life with with Breath of the Wild and then Skyward Sword weirdly like again when I did Zelda in review right that was the first game that I played for that because I wanted to do in the weird complicated timeline order and that's Skyward Sword kind of starts it all off right and to kind of go back to Skyward Sword

after like almost a decade and fall in love with it for different reasons. Like I still had like my qualms with like gameplay and design and things but appreciating more of the story and the lore and the characters. And so yeah, it's just like a weird

like I don't know if I have like just one game that I could identify as my Zelda game just because the franchises lived as a whole throughout my entire life in different phases. Shout out to the link to the past comic that I had for the longest. I think I still have it at home.

and it's like for a longest time that was like my Zelda thing like I loved reading that thing back to back and it was weird and goofy and I think Link's personality because they made him a non-silent protagonist it's like somewhere in between of like what you think is like Cool Link and like the CDI game link but yeah I like adored that just for like the art and all that stuff and yeah there's a point where like I liked reading that more than like playing some of the games and I don't know it's a it's a complicated answer Gregie I love that there is a complicated answer to You know, for me, it's easily Ocarying of time. And it's because, of course, I was a Sega kid, right? I think my Zelda knowledge before that was probably limited to seeing occasionally on shows. I remember, like, you know, back in my day,

there'd be the TV show where the kids had to play through stuff fast on TV. I remember that's where I've learned about Mega Man. That's where I did all the stuff. I don't think it was Dick Arcade. It was syndicated on like WFLD, Chicago, Fox 32. I was catching kids playing Mega Man or whatever the hell these competitions were at the time. And so, you know, I remember,

I remember being at my cousin's house. I came over to visit when we must have been like 5, 6, 7, somewhere in there. And, uh, you know, my older cousin was like, I got there and he was like, hey, hi, bye, I'm leaving. And my, my york was like, you know, don't you want to hang out? Like, guys never hear whatever. He's like, he picked up the gold cartridge for his L to NES and he's like, but whatever. Brandon next door has a game genie. Don't you want to see this game get beaten?

And he left. And he was like, we're finally going to get revenge on this game and beat this game. Love that. And so you jump to, yeah, you know, N64. I was in high school. N64 was the fun machine. You know, I think at this point I already bought mine

and was, you know, playing no mercy or well, WCWNW Revenge, probably at the time. Playing that, playing golden eye. Like, you know, I was going to people's houses. And I remember for Mike O'Brien, what a huge deal it was when Ocarine of Time was coming. And when it finally dropped, he got the gold cartridge.

You know, we'd go over there on Fridays to watch wrestling and eat Sir Nick's pizza and party or whatever. And party is like, you know, you did it's like, you know, getting dropped off by your mom. and then eventually driving over there. And I remember, like, there just being this huge argument

between Mike and Jay all the time about if it was Gannondorf or Gannondorf. Love that. And they went back and told a dude, Kakoriko or Kakarok. And it was like, Gannon, Oh, Gondorff. Oh, Gondonov.

Come over here and do this. Gondor. He's like, you're an idiot. Like that. But I remember watching it and talking some vague shit to it or whatever and, like, never really doing it. And I remember, like,

I went, a blockbuster was closing because even then blockbusters were closing. And I went to a sale. and they were selling all these games, the loose cartridges, and they had a whole bunch of the gold Ocarina Times, and I didn't buy it.

And I told Mike, and he's like, you're a fucking idiot. Like, you're going to regret that decision. He was. And so at the end of that school year, I was getting ready to take the ACT.

And it was like, shot to the ACT. Not the SAT. Not the ACT. Take them both. Why not? Mike's like, listen,

you're going to love this game. Just try it. And he gave me the cartridge and the guide or whatever they had for it. And I was like, okay. And it was that thing where I started it the night before the ACTs,

and I played it's like three in the morning. You know what I mean? Like not the smartest decision, but I was so enamored with the game. Yeah. Like that was my Zelda. That was my first time learning any of this. And like,

you know, I think it's so funny to play Zelda's now and it is like, okay, you're Link and you're this, so you're the fearless boy or whatever. You know, they're building on it,

but for it to be fresh, you need to know none of it. Like they know nothing about it. Like that was such an awesome way to jump in. And like, you know, the other story I've told before I know, but I actually don't talk about Zelda. I feel as much as I talk about everything else.

You know, was always going to be that I was in English class in high school. They were like, you know, you have to write an, we're doing sample college essays. You have to write an essay comparing and contrasting two different time periods. And they gave you the list of books you could use. And I had read none of those books. But I had played Ocreen of Time. And so sure of shit, I wrote this essay about like what it was like to go there is Youngling,

get the master's word, right, pull it out, come out and have the Temple of Time right and have it be all the zombie mummy people and all that stuff. And like, I got to be on it. He was like, listen, you need to read more books, but this is really well done. And, you know, you can run. That's great. That's that, in the Majora's mask, right, which was awesome. Like, for me, again, never having played a Zelda.

Like, oh, cool. We're getting a sequel to this link. I didn't really understand it, but I was, like, so into it because it was my link. And, like, what a time to be off. It's funny you say that. And then, you bring it up the link to the past comic book of like that kind of being your Zelda thing. Like, so I, with Oracle of Ages and all that and seasons, I got so into it.

And I loved, I loved Zelda. At that point, I was like, I want more. I want more. but like it's not today where you couldn't just like oh I want to play an old game and you just play the old game right and even going back to the old NES ones they still I still didn't love them I still was like oh this

this is not what I'm expecting from the experience and I didn't have access to Ocarina my best friend Curran it was one of his Final Fantasy 7 in Ocarina where like his favorite games ever great taste and I just had never never played it I didn't get to play Ocarina really until in the lead up to Wind Waker

there was a if you pre-ordered Wind Wendaker you got a promotional disc that had done one to Ocarina and MasterQuest? Master Quest? Yeah, I remember that. And so that was like my first time really playing that. And so before then, I remember in the lead up to Majora's Mask,

I would every single EGM or Nintendo Power about Majora's Mask, I would read every single detail, even though I had not even played Ocarina yet. And I wasn't going to be able to play Majors Mask because I didn't have an expansion pack by N64. So like, I didn't play Majores. You needed to get that C-3-Rena. N64 that came with it. Exactly.

But there was just something about Major's mask that was so cool. Like the purple, the darkness. Very creepy. The design of that mask is awesome.

I was obsessed with drawing Major's Skull Kid and all that when I was a little kid and I hadn't even played the game. So then Wind Waker

as that was coming out, I was really excited for and I played through it and I loved it but there was something about it like because of the tenor of how everyone was talking about the game at launch.

It didn't feel that special. It didn't feel like what we were. what we wanted. Yeah, and that's why with me being so young at the time, like I, like, I'm not fucking paying attention to what everybody else is saying.

Like, I don't even know if at the time I really knew anybody outside of my friend who had the GameCube that really talked about Zelda. Because I remember it was, the first time I played Wind Waker wasn't at his house. It was, it was at a Toys R Us with the video game section. So it was the demo of Winwaker.

And yeah, you got to sneak around. And I remember just. being like head over heels immediately for the art style, tune link, yeah, the creepy, like, like the design, the fucking awesome design of, I forget what that temple is, but when you have to go there for the first time and you don't have the sword or anything, you feel so powerless. And any time one of the, the cobblins sees you, it's like immediately, like, you're getting

captured and kicked off. And then when you come back later and you all powered up and you're just, like, breezing through it is, like, one of the coolest things. And so, like, I remember getting to that part for the first time I played Wind Waker. Like, after playing the demo and playing it at my friend's house, but I never remember, like, fully beating it. Like, like, all of, everything probably passed the second time you go there was all new to me when I, like, went back to it in Zelda in review. Yeah. Winwaker, again, was like, you know, the buildup to it, right? It's the next one after the N64 ones that I fell in love with, right?

And my Winwaker memory is I also don't remember the Scuttle Butter on. I don't think I was, it's weird because I was reading EGM, obviously. I was online, but I guess I wasn't on like forum as a message boards to really get the audiences of take as much as like, oh, like, whatever shoe thinks of this is, you know, whatever. And so maybe there was respectful debate there. But I thought it looked cool. And again, I had no attachment to the series. There's my third game in it. Like, what's up?

Let's go. This seems neat. And what my memory for that will always be is that I had my TV in college in my room, obviously. And then we had a common space where we'd play cart and we'd play Toadstool. tour and play everything out there or whatever. But like that, I had bought my own GameCube for Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes and you know, R.E. and stuff like that.

So I had it in the room and when I got Winwicker, that was like when all the antlers like who were just like coming by to get a beer, do whatever, they would pile into my room and just watch. It was like the first theater like let's play experience I had for me where it was that I would just sit there and play. And I remember Greg Stottler sitting there drinking a beer and be like, oh my God. How are you do? What is this puzzle?

Well, do this during that and do it. I was like, this is so fucking cool. Yeah, man. It's funny because, like, I was, when Wind Waker's coming out, it must have been like 10, 11, 12, somewhere around there. And that was when I was like, like, addicted to EGM and reading everything and being on game facts, being on forums and stuff. And EGM, like, they had a fairly anti-game cube slant, I would say, for the, for a while.

And like, a lot of the opinion I had about the potential of Wind Waker was led by what other people were saying as opposed to getting my own hands on it. And again, I ended up really enjoyed. in the game when I played it. But it always felt because of the conversation, like it was lesser than, like it didn't matter as much, which we all now know is silly looking back.

But because of all that, that meant that for me being more like 13 to 16 in the lead up to Twilight Princess, like going back to your question of great, or Tim, what is your Zelda game? It's like, it is Oracle of Ages and Seasons

in terms of what actually got me into the franchise. Twilight Princess is my game in the sense of like every piece of information. I was scouring the screenshot reading every single thing. There wasn't breakdowns to watch, but I would have watched them all. Every gameplay thing,

clip that was released, I watched a thousand times. My desktop wallpaper was the art of Wolf Link and, like, I was obsessed with Twilight Princess and the leading to that. Very cool game. That was an amazing time. You know what I mean?

The buildup and it was going to be the Wii version, right? It's going to be this new cons. It's going to be this new thing. You know, this is like, I am not professionally covering video games, but I am kind of, this is after the Tribune had given me,

my video game column and blog. So I was covering the Wii and it was a big deal. And so the buildup to that, like, again, coming off of, man, three for three amazing Zelda games, I can't fucking wait, yada, yada, yada. And I remember, you know, Twilight Princess, I don't remember fondly. I don't remember negatively. It just didn't hit the way the last three had done. My Twilight Princess memories are, of course, the Wii getting it, thinking it would be

when we played every day when in reality it was Wii sports because it was like, what the fuck is this? And everyone in the house, everybody wanted to do it, right? But then it was also the fact that for Twilight Princess, that was when my ex sat next to me and, like, quietly got sick of watching me fail and, like, looked at a guide on, I guess a laptop, not even her phone, right? It was like, well, I gave out the fake things for a little bit. And I was like, well, what about that thing? I was like, and then she also called the bad guy fringe fingers because he did this. Yeah, yeah.

Drape fringes. And I was like, that's funny as hell. Zant, I think his name. Yeah. Chatted to Zant. He's such a pathetic sweep. Oh, shit. I was going to say something about Twilight Princess and I blanked on it.

We can kick to somebody else if you want, because let me tell you, everybody wrote in about everything, and I love it. We have so many diverse things, but a million it goes. And we'll go to Tyler Washington, who writes into kind of funny.com slash remember Lincoln says, Twilight Princess will always be my Zelda for multiple reasons. I had always been a Link Main and Smash, but never completed a Zelda game,

even though I'd play everyone from Link's Awakening until that point in time. So, as a challenge for my friends, they said either I rent Twilight Princess, RIP Blockbuster, beat it in a week or get a new main because I was a fake fan and too good. I'd go on to beat Twilight Princess in five days with time to spare and still a link made to this day.

But the memories and adventures I had as the elf man in green will last a lifetime. Here's hoping tears of the kingdom will run on our switches. I do remember what I was going to say and it's all kind of credit to you, Tim, of kind of the road that got me down to in review eventually was I remember In the first couple months of me being here

It's kind of funny, you shared a video Probably on like internet explorers or something From Goodblood And it was a video breakdown of why Ocarina of Time is the saddest Zelda game And it was... Very up your alley. Yes.

And but it was really... Yeah, it was really that video That got me into the lore of everything More so than I'd ever like really been into. Like I liked the separate stories and a little teases here and there of how games connect, but it was really of like watching that good blood video, really like diving

deep into like the really just dark things that Ocarina kind of covers, but is like a little bit more of the subtext really. And then that eventually got me down the rabbit hole of watching YouTubers like Zeltic and becoming super obsessed with lore and then like finding all of these like really vague like Easter eggs and Breath of the Wild like shouting out like all of these different games. So it was like that that really like led me down to like just being obsessed with how all the games in their connect in the timeline which led

to in review. So it's your fault. It's my fault. It's your fault. I made that four hour video. I love it. Everyone should go check that out. If you want more Zelda stuff, more hype leading into Tears of the Kingdom. Yeah. This is going to be the slowest fucking week imaginable. So yeah, like you know, kill four hours there. Ben M writes in about Twilight

Princess and I thought this was a sweet one. It's not even really the game, but the fact that I would get stuck on a puzzle and I would explain it to my mum and somehow she would always help me solve the puzzle. Shout out to Mom for always put up with her ramblings. I love that idea. You know, there is something about Zelda that I was saying earlier that

I was too young to really understand the first ones, but I think Zelda is a great family game in a lot of ways where like being able to play with adults and them kind of helping out and like you get to have fun but then it becomes a communal experience. I know a lot of people that like Curran really bonded with his

older sisters because they kind of like helped him play through Ocarina for the first time. And I just like, I know a lot of people with those stories. And like that's not necessarily unique to Zelda, but in the same way you're saying like everyone's writing in about every game. Like Zelda has been around for so long, like since essentially the dawn of video games as we know them now. And there's been important revolutionary entries every couple of years.

And that revolution means something to every generation in a different way where, you know, flash forward 10 years like people are going to be talking about Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild in the same way we're talking about arena and links of the past and they're probably going to be talking about like whatever other weird ones

end up coming out. It's what makes it special. I think and it is the fact that you know, it's always going to start the same way, you know, give or take, I'm not trying to, it's not like I'm insulting the franchise,

but it starts the same way and then it is this grand adventure, right, of saving the princess, stopping the ultimate evil, there's going to be puzzles, there's going to be dungeons, there's going to be cool stories. and like it ebbs and flows into what that looks like

and how that works and where you go, but you're still going to have those moments, right? I think of Zelda's, Zelda has wow moments that always stand out, right? Like for me, of course, it's a tired one, I think for everybody who played it, but when you opened up into Hyrule Field in Akrona, right? And you're like, what the fuck?

And it's just in front of you, right, and that way out. In the same way of Breath of the Wild when it was, you jump off the plateau and you're there. First time you find the divine beasts, these giant things, lumpering through the world. world. You're going to go in there and fighting it. My first chill for

Breath of Wild, because, yeah, I was at IGN. I remember, like, I didn't have a code. Like, I think at the time, like, Nintendo sent IGN three codes for Breath of the Wild. One was the reviewer. One was guides. One was, I think, for the gameplay team. But I wasn't the one on the

gameplay team actually, like, playing the game, recording clips. But, like, everybody would send me their shit to, like, schedule out of, like, okay, like, this is Embarger Time. Let's have all these clip. So I was like editing a lot of footage. So I saw a lot of this stuff before I actually got to play it.

And so like that first like major hour or so like when you're on the Great Plateau I was like okay this is cool but I've like seen this a little bit before and all that stuff. So the big moment for me personally when I finally got to play Breath of the Wild is when you're kind of when you go past

the dueling peaks and then you hear like the remix of a Pona's song and then you find the horse table because I had not seen that in any gameplay that I had edited. And that was like, oh, like,

holy fuck, this is awesome. I'll never get that memory out of my head. And then, yeah, to talk about family a little bit, like, my dad's not,

like, a huge, like, gamer, but he is always, like, he's a Nintendo kid, essentially.

And, like, he was a late bloomer when it came to Zelda, because he was more into, like, the fun collect-a-thon 3-D platformers,

DK-64, uh, Mario-64, all of that. But outside of Link to the past, like, he didn't really get into the other Zelda games until probably like I was already living here and in high school and like him and I would like

be on phone calls every once in a while and he's like hey do you know how to get this like this chest that I'm trying to figure out um and so like I love that he's like also had this like resurgence in like the last like decade and like always going back and like replaying them and that's why like I'm so fucking excited for him to get here so I can give him my switch old lead and like be able to give him breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom and then also because like I already have like I made him him an account and I've added him to my family plan so he'll also get like the super Nintendo games then 64 games and all that so um yeah time to be your dad yeah uh Chris truck sess writes in to kind of funny dot com slash remember blank just like you can and says the OG

i got it on a sick day in elementary school and was completely blown away I don't even remember how I had even heard of it just remember getting that ticket at Toys of Russ and going to that weird closet to pick it up gameplay just being able to save your game was an innovation. John, that's where the weird Toys R Us Closet. I want to give the original Do you remember the Weird Toys R Us Closid? Oh, I live the original

Pesor Us Closet. Do you? Because I would have thought that would have not been gone by the time you were there too. I mean, do you have the tickets? Like off the I don't remember the tickets, but I just, I remember the closet and was like, just being able to such a weird way to check out for games. So you go there with your ticket. If you don't remember

because you're young, I understand. It would be that there was giant glass cases of video games. This is, oh, my thing. I've always slamming my finger against it when I saw Ghostbusters in there. And then there'd be the little tickets hanging on a little, in a little plastic like basically name badge. You'd pull that, you'd go there, you'd get there, they'd scan it, that your parents would pay for it,

then you would go with your receipt to the little weird cabinet where a guy would look at it and give you whatever Game Boy NES, any super NES game you were going to get. It's so special, man. So special. It's like such a, maybe I had like a remnant of it because I, yeah, I don't remember the whole ticket system, but I remember that setup. So, I don't know, like.

It might, I mean, they might have changed it by that, you know, by the time you were in there getting stuff or whatever. Yeah, the two things for me, like the 90s gaming buying experience was, it was one of three things. It was either Toys R Us with the slips, you just go to Blockbuster and you rent it. You're not actually going to buy it. That was such a way people played games then. And the last one would be at Funkoland, which was like used, what turned into GameStop essentially.

And they have this newspaper every month that they would release that had the price of all the used games. Would they pay for it? And also what they would pay if you turned your games in. You have that and you'd have your piece of paper and your pencil and you'd write in the margins. Like if I had all this. If I had this, you highlight it. It was just a trade-a-thon of like constantly doing it. And it was so funny because like I remember there'd be points where like Super Mario and Duck Hunt like the combo card, it'd be nine cents.

You could buy and you're like, why even sell it? Yeah. What a time. Your parents are like, hey, are you, you know, practicing for your math test? Like, no, I'm just trying to do it. I mean, that must have been one of those first times we were all using math. Oh, for sure. you do something with us, you know what I mean, not hating it.

Kai, also known as Arval Crianid, writes in and says, The Legend of Zelda, Links Awakening, the OG Game Boy version. I've only had the original Game Boy since 1991, and Link's Awakening was one of my games for it. I fell in love with the beautiful island of Koholint. Am I saying that right? Would you want? I doubt it.

Yeah, yeah. And it's magical wonders and beautiful melodies. Looking at you, the Ballot of the Windfish, one of the most beautiful chip tune pieces of music of all time. Back in the day, we had this free magazine called Club Nintendo here in Germany, which I think was basically a German version of Nintendo Power. I think it was monthly or bi-monthly magazine, and they had regular walkthroughs in their magazines long before there were IGN guides or YouTube walkthroughs.

Anyway, once Link's Awakening came out, they printed the maps of co-holent piece by piece, so at some point I took all the magazines with me to some local shop with a copy printer, made a copy of all the sub-maps, and pasted them together in one large piece of scrap-paces. like Charlie Dave. Right? Well, at that point,

Photoshop was still something from the future, and some of the copied maps were not scaled correctly towards each other. And so the stitch panorama was not well aligned. But I had it then,

the beautiful map of coholyth in its entire glory. I think I was 14 at the time, but I was quite happy about this. Now, 30 years later, it's actually quite funny because there are dozens of sellers who sell coholy maps

or posters on canvas screens at Etsy. I never had this kind of connection to any other Zelda game. Therefore, this is my Zelda game. Video games are cool, man. Love it. Cool.

Yeah, of course. It's going to be interesting to see like you're talking about if in, well, not even if, when in 10, 20 years later, whoever's doing kind of funny content has grown up listening to Barrett Talk will be the old man. Ben Jr. Yeah, Ben, Ben's already had a son. And they're talking about, yeah, Tears of the Kingdom was my Zelda game. You know, my dad, Ben.

Yeah. The 18, the 19 month old. Got it and showed it to me. did all this stuff and yeah. Video games are cool. This is what I love so much about sitting there and talking about all this stuff. Yeah.

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