Zelda Majora Mask

[the dark side]

Freindly bit of advice Syronix, if you want To play Retro Titles, you are going to have to learn how to cope with challenge, back then, games were designed to challenge the player and reward them with success against insurmountable difficulty, challenge was considered fun, its only been about since 2004 that games have become the hand holding tutorial fests that offer no difficulty at all and even give you an "acheivement" for pressing the X Button that we know today.

i Am sorry if this sounds rude or Dismissive, but, if you are not willing to put up with overcoming challenging difficulty, dieing a lot, forcing to restart whole levels due to one mistake, getting no help from the game at all, and genuinly being put through the mangle, then, it may be best for you to stick to todays extended tutorials, because retro gaming is not going to be for you.

Gaming back then ran on the Developers principle of "challenge is fun" not the Lowest Common Denominator Focussed Fast Buck obsessed marketing department idea of "the mass market will only accept instant gratification" that we have today, so most games, Especially Nintendo published ones (its where the oldschool gamer term "Nintendifficult" for VERY challenging games comes from), were designed to be as hard as possible.

So, if you are going to get into retro gaming, and beleive me, you should try to get into it, as many classic games are just so much more fun than modern games, longer, better stories, harder, and with far better production quality (they wont fritz out every 3 seconds... unlike some modern games, cough, the run, cough). once you get into retro games, you will probably find modern games very easy, very short, very boring, and very unreliable compared to the finest examples of the classics, so its worth persevering with the difficulty of the older titles, but, you have to ask yourself "am i ready to accept challenge?" as Zelda isn't all that hard compared to many other classic titles, it was after all designed to be enjoyed by kids as well as grown ups, so, if you are not ready to accept extreme difficulty, it may be best to avoid retro gaming until you are older and more used to challenge in life, as it probably frustrate you to the point of madness otherwise.

Beleive me, i am not tryng to put you off retro gaming, the more converts we get to it, the better, as i think gaming is heading for a Major hiccup that is going to obliterate the console market, and move casual gaming onto the phones, with PC returning to the "hardcore" days of yore, before 2013 is out, and the more sales the next generation of "throwback" PC games get, from old gamers and converts to retro gaming, the sooner it will become as strong as it was in the 90s, i just want to warn you that you are in for a serious challenge with old games, and i want to make sure you are ready for it, as i have, personally, seen people literally sent mad (im talking full bore nervous breakdown) by how hard classic games often are compared to todays hint fests.

so, are you ready? i hope so, or you are going to miss out on some Seriously good games, both from the past, and possibly, to be seen in the near future.