My parents were big fans of the original on NES... there's an old family video of my uncle repeatedly turning the camera back towards the tv while my mom plays with a baby (either me or my sister, hard to tell) in her lap. ALttP, however... I don't know why, but they didn't seem to like it. I don't think they actually bought it, just rented it, but they didn't get far in the game. Who knows why.
At that point, they were really into action games, and liked to show of by beating the first level of Contra 3 while running perfectly in sync, so that it looked like they were a single flashing purple many-armed character. Maybe ALttP was too slow or too cartoonie for them, or maybe they just wanted to play more multiplayer games now that their youngest was in preschool. I remember that when Mario 64 came out, they were disappointed and annoyed that it was a single-player game.
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My parents were big fans of the original on NES... there's an old family video of my uncle repeatedly turning the camera back towards the tv while my mom plays with a baby (either me or my sister, hard to tell) in her lap. ALttP, however... I don't know why, but they didn't seem to like it. I don't think they actually bought it, just rented it, but they didn't get far in the game. Who knows why.
At that point, they were really into action games, and liked to show of by beating the first level of Contra 3 while running perfectly in sync, so that it looked like they were a single flashing purple many-armed character. Maybe ALttP was too slow or too cartoonie for them, or maybe they just wanted to play more multiplayer games now that their youngest was in preschool. I remember that when Mario 64 came out, they were disappointed and annoyed that it was a single-player game.