My buddy Adam called me one time and he's like, hey I got something amazing you got to come over to my house and see this.

How can you argue with that? So I ran over to his house and he's

grinning and he's holding up this thing that looks like a Nintendo cartridge but it was

gold. I don't make those out of gold. I mean what are we doing? He's like this is that

Zelda game I was telling you about.

Well, pop it in, let's see what happens.

And so we put the thing in, and there's this incredible music that fires up and graphics that are way

better than anything we'd ever seen before at that point. And you enter your next. and you're

enter your name and you hit start and the screen scrolls up tchtch tchtcht tcht tchtchtcht bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah b This is iconic music and from the beginning you're hooked it feels epic and like an adventure

and you realize really quickly I can go wherever I want it's not like a side scroller where I have to go in this very predictable route and fight the exact same enemies in the exact same order.

There is way more going on. This is more like real life.

And I remember in that moment being overwhelmed with

wonder and joy and I know that sounds ridiculous if you've been raised around

video games or even if you don't really like video games it probably sounds absurd

but to me in my lifetime that was groundbreaking and the first thing you do on the

legend of Zelda the original one is you just go into that obvious cave that's

right in front of you.

Like well maybe there's something good in there and you go in there and sure enough

there's some old dude in a robe and I guess he's just been hanging out in there forever

waiting for somebody to come by but whatever the case is like hey is dangerous to go alone

take this and he gives you a sword that perfectly matches your outfit,

and you just go out and you start fighting monsters and you wander wherever you're going to wander,

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