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On this date exactly 25 years ago – A timeless legendary masterpiece was released
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“The flow of time is always cruel… ”
“It’s speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it… ”
“A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days…”
“Time passes, people move. Like a river’s flow, it never ends.”
i got it that xmas… my brother beat it in 3 days but i said fuck this shit when i got to the water temple
25 years later and still one of my favorite games ever.
Still remember leaving the Kokiri forest for the first time and my mind being blown by the cinematic where it panned around to show the open Hyrule fields.
Instant classic.
Playing thru the game as kid link, get to the castle, holy shit ganon I can’t wait to beat them what a great game!
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN IM AN ADULT NOW; WHAT THE FUCK
I replayed it several times but on my last return it felt dated to me. A Link to the Past is my personal forever Zelda. Maybe it’s like SNL and I you like the cast from when you were young.
The greatest video game ever made
25 years ago?? *Gagging sounds* Christ I’m old.
Funny enough I wouldn’t play this game until a good few years later. I was poor growing up, I barely even knew there *was* a Nintendo 64 when it came out. I don’t think I played Ocarina Of Time until 2002.
And ever since I’ve related Thanksgiving to playing Zelda games
I played it 25 years ago when I was 5 and played it at the start of this year at 30.
Timeless!
This game. THIS F’IN GAME. The GOAT. The father of 3D action adventure games. I remember all the anticipation I had for it. I played through the beginning of the game at a Walmart kiosk, all the way through the Deku Tree dungeon, but then held myself back from playing anymore cause I was getting it for Christmas. I got too much love and respect for this game and what it did for gaming to ever put another game above it, even though games came along after that are better graphically and control-wise.
And nothing has topped it since
#HEY HEY HEY!
1998 was an incredible year for gaming: Ocarina of Time, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Pokemon, Banjo-Kazooie, Starcraft, Thief, Turok 2, Resident Evil 2, Unreal, Baldur’s Gate, Commandos, and many more.
Played it again recently. Shocked at how well it held up. The atmosphere is still there and the sense of progression from dungeon to dungeon (hey, remember Zelda dungeons?) remains strong.
I played for 16 hrs straight
Half Life, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Unreal, Star Craft, Resident Evil 2, Metal Gear Solid. All from 1998. It was kinda a good time for gaming lol.
Still my favorite game ever to this day too
Most games we look back with rose tinted glasses, this game we do not.
I miss old Zelda days of lots of temples and purer metroidvania mechanics personally. Maybe im just old
Jesus I am such an old fuck…. When did I become 35. Wasn’t I just taking turns playing this with my brother last week?? I’ma actually need an Ocarina of time for myself so I can turn back the clock to when life was easy fun and enjoyable… Now my back has been hurting so bad I can’t even sleep right… I don’t even want to fathom another 10 years….. Ugh 😩
Owning that game when it came out was peak social currency, just like Goldeneye, at least for a 7th grader like me.
Weird. So you mean it took me until Tuesday to notice? I could have been playing this all weekend? Also weird they were all still in stock. When I asked why my game was grey instead of gold the Walmart employee snapped at me saying I should have preordered.
Link to the past is better
This and final fantasy 7 will always mean so much. I can sit and listen to this title song for hours
Jesus fuck I’m old. Also that game was easily the greatest game of my childhood and only Halo came close
I was there. Worked at a store called Babbage’s (competitor to Electronics Boutique pre gamestop takeover) and someone broke street date. I got to work at like 3pm and was told to call everyone and tell them we could sell it.
From then until 9pm was like the best day ever where loads of people came in super pumped to get their hands on the next Zelda game.
I worked there through a ton of huge releases that we all hold pretty nostalgic. Some great times working there.
They had advertisements for this game as movie theater trailers if you all recall.
the GOAT. and theres no competition.
For some reason i never knew that zelda oot and half-life were released with just a few days apart until now. Both changed gaming forever… And both some of the best games i’ve ever played!
Before I clicked the thumbnail my mind assumed this was for A Link to the Past 😭
I was 20 when this came out. I went to EB Games in the mall exactly 25 years ago today. Cool to think about. Thanks for the post!
OK, so. I loved NES Legend of Zelda as a kid, but never had a N64. Is it worth going back to play Ocarina at this point?
It was such a jump forward from what we had at the time, it pioneered the 3D action-adventure genre while introducing some industry staples such as lock-on targeting.
The combat system is basically an N64 dark souls before that even existed, the puzzles are well designed, each dungeon and area is distinct with it’s own atmosphere and now iconic music. The story is simple and yet has a real emotional resonance to it especially when you jump into the future to see the desolate world that was once cheerful and optimistic.
Taking it as a product of its time I believe it’s near flawless and is still the greatest game to be made, and I will die on that hill.
I can’t get past the damn maze in the beginning. Feel like an idiot.
I recently finished Tears of the Kingdom.
For the last part of the game my go to outfit was the Hero of Time set. I thought it was fitting.
“Timeless”
“Ocarina of Time”
Pick one.
Jeez I’m old.
25 years and some people still haven’t played this masterpiece. I think every gamer should experience it.
Of all the “it’s been 25 years” this one feels the most “understandable” age wise
That’s awfully sweet of you to say, but I’m a bit older than twenty-fi… oh. Yes, a masterpiece, indeed.
I said it once before, and I’ll say it again.
Ocarina of Time defined gaming as an art form.
From its intricate and deeply woven together story: https://youtu.be/GyUcwsjyd8Q?si=rKj3_LZRPKt1Wg2t
To its intricately woven music and themes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4rx7GrY_xH9QJiP7K4MwI3upgVkYkMuS&si=WxngVRBl2b2PPm-H
To the diverse and unique way Koji Kondo overcame limitations: https://youtu.be/_SeY_Gss2CY?si=bPGqrHstnq6WEsk7
I’m not on my PC, so I can’t even get all the links and videos I want to elaborate and delve into the basis of my opinion. I used to scoff at a game from 1998 being the greatest ever, but I’ve come around slowly over time at just how much this game defined the entire medium, not just the genre.
I remember getting this my birthday month, opening up that gold cartridge….memories.
I counted down the days. I printed off blurry alpha screenshots. I preordered the gold cart. I drew pictures of Link on the back of my school papers. I was convinced this would become my favorite game of all time.
I was right.
Everything about this game really is perfect. It’s Nintendo’s masterpiece and no other game will ever pull all aspects of art, sound, story, and gameplay together like it it did again.
One of the first games I remember playing. Being 5 years old and seeing the deku tree, going out to hyrule field, felt like I really was in another world.
On a bright and beautiful sunshiny morning, I cant help but hear the music of hyrule fields as you first step out into the fields or the music of kokiri forest when walking through woods specially when butterflies are everywhere. The way this game rewired my brain is very interesting.
I have so many memories of this game. I used to watch my older brother play on his N64 when it came out, tried to help him out with everything from pointing out suspicious walls, “I think I hear a skully, search around!” or just trying to help whenever he got stuck. I probably annoyed him more than Navi tbh, a little 8yr old shouting out the obvious every few minutes but he never complained. Generally, I was having a blast just watching, then one day he let me make my own save and he became my helper when I explored Hyrule myself for the first time. Such a great game.