
This is something I cut from an ebay auction for the original Legend of Zelda game. What the hell? There ain't no horses in Legend of Zelda.
Description
Embark on a quest to find the Triforce, slay Ganon and save Princess Zelda in the timeless adventure game from Shigeru Miyamoto that invented the genre. Originally released for the Famicom Disk System in Japan, the game arrived in the US on cartridge in 1987. In an ingenious marketing ploy, Nintendo released the game on a gold cartridge, so if you hadn't heard about the glory of Zelda, the shiny cart would definitely catch your attention. And since Zelda originated on the Disk System, the US version also included the ability to save your game status via battery back-up -- a first for the NES. The game's release heralded the end of the days when console games were all about linear quests and never-ending twitch gameplay with small level variations or increasing speed settings.
Special Features
Horseback riding is a new and key element in the game play. A great deal of combat takes place on horseback enabling Link to bump his adversaries off their war-horses. Shifting camera system that allows for views behind the back and from above. Camera can be locked during battles. All new characters.
The only sense I can make of this is that it is the work of the "Order of Chaos," aka "The Pizza Guys," an avant-garde, millennium group that despite their own self interests, puts out bogus or nonsensical information to confuse the public. I dread the dark future (that Leonard Cohen heralded) when there are enough of these societal destroyers at work that you won't be able to trust anything from public signs to ebay auctions to statistics you find online, for fear this group is creating mass misinformation.
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