I LOVE this game, so you don't have to - Zelda II The Adventure of Link part 1 

Those old school sound effects were great.

Very cool. I had a similar experience. Games took way longer to figure out before Internet walkthroughs. When the newer Zelda games came out, I had to stay off RU-vid or else I'd get spoiled.

I used to be better at avoiding them, but that's just one of the skills I lost through age. :D

@@dionelr would it be fair to assume that you were saving the task of completing palaces for extra lives? That was my usual strategy, along with repeatedly killing the flying eyeballs in the palace surrounded by water (using the fireball spell that is). Haven't played the game in quite a while.

@@WilliamScavengerFish I always forget the trick in palace 5 with the eyeball. But yes, I save them for later to save time getting those higher levels.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. 👍

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Oh interesting. I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the tip.

@@dionelr Thank you so much! I dropped a link to it in your part II.

ooh. Not what I was thinking but that brings back some memories. They don't make spy shows like that anymore.

I totally get that. It would have been better to develop these mechanics for some other property.

I too have a soft spot for Zelda II. Several games followed shortly after Zelda I with more full blown RPG mechanics (Final Fantasy, etc.) they used not only more RPG elements (XP) but a more zoomed out overworld with a cut to side view for turn based combat. This model gave the games an even “grander adventure” feel because the world could be much larger. I feel like Nintendo wanted to chase these ideas for Zelda after seeing those other series, but knew that real time combat was too key to Zelda to make the game turn based. In retrospect it was not the right move for the series. The success of subsequent games makes it feel like an even more wrong decision than it seemed at the time. But the game also has a lot of really good things, and I feel like a lot of what they tried to do with the story, levels, enemies, etc was a really good idea, but doesn’t translate well until you can do a full over the shoulder 3D. Reimagining any other Zelda game feels like sacrilege, but I feel like you could fairly easily re-imagine this game in a BOTW style, softening a few of the RPG aspects (replace the XP system with a rupee economy for upgrades, etc) and this would make the game much better and fit better with the rest of the series.