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A Look At The Legend of Zelda Animated Series
The site Gamers with Jobs has up an article discussing the merits of the Legend of Zelda TV series DVD set, and reflecting on the show itself. From the article: "As a rational inquirer who is interested in my own role in the world, I am forever bound to the task of describing just what factors make me what I am. I am therefore thankful for this DVD release; for I am indeed a product of my time, and, in spite of my more conscientious wishes otherwise, I cannot deny that this animated Zelda series represents an important formative component of my own personal history. For anyone who can say the same, the modest purchase is a no-brainer." Totally worth sitting through Captain Lou Albano for.
"Well excuuuuuse me, princess!"
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Having seen Link repeatedly try and fail to cop a snog off Zelda in this cartoon before acquiring Zelda II, I found the ending to that game (in which Link and Zelda seem to embrace, and ostensibly kiss, behind a curtain) oddly satisfying.
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I found this a few days ago on google video and assumed it was some animation student's perverted joke. I really had never heard of this show at all, but it was so obviously a drug-induced giggling wank.
But it was actually real? It was intended as a children's show? wtf?
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Wasnt that Super Mario Bros? I thought Zelda was in the half-hour block with Captain N and Super Mario Bros was a separate show
Could they have written a more pretentious, self-absorbed, histrionic ass-kiss of a review? The quoted article text pretty much says it all.
Folks, it's A TV SHOW. About a VIDEO GAME. You're buying a DVD, not curing cancer or joining the Peace Corps.
Jesus. I liked the show too, but I'm not about to tell everybody what wide-reaching implications my purchase has for giving my life some meaning.
When I was a kid I used to hate it when Zelda interupted my Mario Bros show. That said, Zelda still brings back a good sense of nostalgia, and I'm sure my tastes have changed in the last 15 years or so (I actually somehow liked the Rambo game better than Zelda2 as a kid...).
PS: I also hated the live action part of the Mario Bros show even more. I'm sure I'm not alone there.
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As a rational inquirer who is interested in my own role in the world, I am forever bound to the task of describing just what factors make me what I am.
Note to self: Excessive introspection may be stopping me from achieving higger goals. I will study this idea later.
If I remember correctly, there are 13 episodes, all of which are rather short. I hope they take the road that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD's did, and have a $10 price point. I'm not going to shell out twice or three times that for pure nostalgia.
Someone call me when the Milli Vanilli episode of the Mario 3 cartoon is on DVD.
Bury me in mashed potatoes.
Heck yeah. I learned so many things from even the original Legend of Zelda. Among them are the following:
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There are some cartoons I just LOVED from my youth that I've since realized are not quite as good as I remember them being. I downloaded some Captain N and Thundercats about a year ago and never realized just how bad those shows really were. I'd hate to see Zelda fall to that same fate. I'd like to remember Zelda as the cartoon that I fondly watched just before going to the video store for my weekly video game rental each Friday, not as I'd see it today if I watched it.
According to an old story I posted, Yahooligans! used to have episodes online. It appears Yahoo! took them and many other cartoon series down. :(
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It's scarry. I actually remember watching this series all those years ago. But I would rather know when Captain N and Voltron (among others) are coming out on DVD.
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Captain Lou Albano is more than worth sitting through Legend of Zelda for.
When I was younger, I used to look forward with baited breath to Friday when Zelda would replace Mario. For some inexplicable reason, only 13 episodes were produced. Yes this show would never win an emmy, but it was pretty cool how it tied into what was my favorite game at the time. The question I have is why Nintendo does not bring Zelda back. No, it would not have to be in anyway associated with the 1980s version. However, there are several different ways they could approach it. One could be with the Wind Waker Link and Zelda style with a more humorous approach. For an older audience, they could go Twilight Princess style with less humor and more action. Either way, they have a built in audience of Zelda lovers. Look at the video games. They sell like hotcakes no matter how bad they suck. Even if not Zelda, how about creating some new Nintendo cartoons? Bring back Mario perhaps or maybe a Metroid cartoon. Dare I say it... an Earthbound cartoon? Nintendo has created a lot more characters since the 80s. Certainly at least one is worthy of a cartoon besides Kirby (which I'll at least give credit to Nintendo for that one). (Please do not mention Pokemon. That's for preschoolers)
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I always thought myself that the resemblance of Mother Brain to Tammy Faye Baker was striking.
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Actually, depending on just how bad the video was, what you may have actually seen was a clip from one of the two really badly animated Zelda CDi games. There was a third game too (for only God knows why reasons), but I've heard that it was differently animated. I dug up this thread on one of the games through Google Images.
I remember liking the Zelda cartoons when I was a kid. On the other hand, I remember liking Thundercats and Silverhawks, so I obviously had no freaking taste.
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I found the zelda series quite poorly made and quite lame really, i assume it didn't have much success due to the small amount of episodes produced. The games on the other hand bring back great memorys, i still play them (bar OoT and MM: I really dont like those two).
Yup, that's the Zelda series we're talking about. Not the CD-i game, which I haven't seen live, but even the still were far more awful than this series.
Yeah... no, that's the TV series. Great. Another beloved childhood memory destroyed.
Were there ANY cartoons made in the 80s that don't cause agony to watch when you're older?
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