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Zelda Bundle For GameCube Confirmed
Thanks to IGN Cube for confirming that the GameCube hardware will soon be bundled with a Legend Of Zelda bonus disc, containing multiple classic Zelda titles. According to the piece, which comes with "recently released artwork to retailers" as proof of the (pre-Xmas?) bundle: "The disc will feature The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and a demo of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker." It's currently unknown if the disc will be offered stand-alone, though IGN speculatively "...hope we'll also see it as a bonus for those who order The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords."
I'm not a Nintendo fanboy, but the games they make *are* good. I wonder if bundles like these are enough to boost sales of the GC... If the price cut wasn't good enough... what is?
Too bad they didn't include Zelda 3 in the package. That was the best zelda in my opinion, however the games included are good... I think it would be neat if they remade zelda 1 and 2 with updated graphics, sort of how Square did with its Final Fantasy re-releases for the playstation.
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GCN + Game Boy Player + Bonus Disc + A Link To The Past + Wind Waker = Holyfarkingcrap, some of the best gaming in the last 20 years in your hands.
I'm a little disappointed that Link To The Past (or even Ura Zelda, which was on the other bonus disc) wasn't being included, as most of the sales of the GBA port that they're going to get have probably been sold. With the addition of that game to the bundle, only two little CDs could've contained SIX great Zelda games (as opposed to "only" 5).
Even though I already have a Cube, if a hardware order is the only place to get it, I'd be tempted to get another one.
No, the other zelda games were on the CD-i. The first CD based system that had a bunch of "edutainment" crap and cost like your left arm (literally, you had to chop it off)
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IMHO pretty much every game company is guilty of this to some degree.
I think it's great that Nintendo & others have started giving away these old-school freebies. I can't say I've played the OOT Master Quest yet, but it is nice to know I have it sitting there waiting.
Disney movies survive the re-release thing well because they find a new audience every decade or so. Kids love that stuff, it's timeless. Games are not quite the same, hence they are thrown in as bonuses.
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That would be true, if they weren't giving them away as package deals. I got OoT: Master Quest for free with my preorder of Wind Waker, you can't say the same for Disney rereleases.
Man, just when the gf and I finished getting all the games in this collection- she just bought Majora's Mask, and I bought her Ocarina of Time for her birthday in April. Great games, OoT is probably the best- game- ever- at least as far as both of us are concerned. It'd be great to have all of them in one place, though.
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And a friend of ours is going to buy a GCN this week- but probably too early to get in on this deal. Heh- we convinced him to get a GCN. Why do humans do that? It's not like it'll benefit us, and hell- we don't even have one ourselves. (roomate does, and so did former roomate) But, it's like Mac vs PC. Except in this case, the "Mac" is cheaper than the "PC" analog. We believe in the supremacy of the platform, we believe in Nintendo. Nintendo has soul, spirit, personality- MS is "M$" and Sony is Sony, just big companies who see something profitable in gaming.
Yes, we're early-mid-20s. Raised on the NES, jealous of friends whose parents got them an SNES. Bought an original GameBoy [1] with hard earned kid-money. Can you blame us for loving Nintendo, having given us so much electronic joy in our youths? What did MS give me- at that age, they gave me DOS. And that's about all I've recieved from them. And Sony? Sure, younger brother got a PSX for Xmas in 1996 or so, but it wasn't a member of the family in the way an NES is.
6 or 8 months ago, I bought a Dreamcast. It was a steal at a piddly $40 on half.com. It was a lot cheaper than getting another NES along with the games I still didn't have, were broken, or couldn't find anymore in storage over at grandma's house. So now, on one CD (with only a couple dozen MBs taken up) I have a good 400 NES games, ones I'll never play and ones I'll play over and over.
[1] And still have it- the GB itself and ~10 games for $20 to first person who emails me - revaaron {AT} hot_mail DOT com. Eh, fix that to get the email addy. Ok, maybe that's too much- make an offer. If it comes down to it, I'm willing to let it fo for free plus shipping, as long as the recipient plans on actually using it.
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Did you really just post a link to a geocities on slashdot? I understand that it is the games section but still...
Time to buy somebody a gift is what I'm thinking. "Here's a GameCube, there are lots of great games out there. Oh no, I bought it for you before the bundle came out. Sorry."
I just got a GC last week! WTF?!?!?
I sure as hell hope they offer it separately or else there's gonna be a bunch of seriously pissed off Zelda fans.
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Will the NES games just be straight ports, or will they involve a graphical and aural overhaul, making them 2.5-D and look like something out of SSB Melee?
Momentarily, my head was spinning with autoexploding acid drooling aliens going toe toe with Rastafarian space hunters in an old time NBA hoops match starring Moses Malone and basketball stars of yore. A match to be remembered for all time.
Yes, indeed, that would have been quite a memorable game.
I'd almost buy a gamecube... Zelda and Mario are the only things good for the gamecube at the moment...
Nintendo just convinced me to purchase a Gamecube. Between being able to play the old favorites (NES Zeldas), Gameboy favorites (the WHOLE library) and giving it away with a new, dirt cheap ($100) platform, they have officially won my business.
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I give up! I'll buy a GameCube!
Now I just need a TV....
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I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I really hope that they release this as a stand-alone product. There are lots of Zelda fans, myself included, that already have a GameCube. I went so far as to pre-order Wind Waker so I could have the OoT Master Quest. Heck, that's the main reason I got a GameCube: so I could have that preorder disc.
Nintendo, keep this in mind, there will be a lot of angry Zelda fans if you don't release this as a standalone product. If you don't... well, hopefully I'll be able to find it on ebay.
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