Lamp oil? Rope? Bombs? You want it? It’s yours, my friend… as long as you have enough rubies.
So, chances are, if you’ve spent a large enough time on the internet, you’re familiar with the Zelda CD-i games. For those not familiar, these Zelda games, which were terrible, were made as part of a deal Nintendo made with Phillips instead of partnering with Sony to make a disc ad-on for the SNES; the deal with Philips, coincidentally, also fell through, though Phillips still had the license to make several games with Nintendo’s IP. And thus, the PlayStation was born. That said, most don’t know these games because they played them back in the day. They know them from memes, or more importantly, YouTube Poops. A few of my favorites to use footage from these games:
That said, thanks to the diligent work of a fan, two of these games are no longer consigned to the decaying CD-i machines. Dopply, a fledgeling game developer, decided to work on tow projects as a means of learning Game Maker. And those projects were remakes of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. He spent four years recreating these games in Game Maker, and the fruits of that labor are now available; both games are playable on the PC. And, he offered them for free (naturally, given the copyrighted material) over on his Twitter:
As Dopply notes, these aren’t 1:1 recreations of the games; rather, they’re meant to capture the spirit. Which is probably a good thing; anyone that’s played them on the CD-i notes that the worst part is mostly the CD-i remote, which was ill-suited to games like these.
Source: PC Mag
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