This year marks no more and no less than 36 years since the release of the first The Legend of Zelda for NES. A milestone that Nintendo itself is already in charge of reminding us with tributes, special editions and the like. Luckily, there is no need for official anniversaries to celebrate Link’s existence because the community is already taking care of putting these wonderful adventures in their place.
Fill your life with online quests
As we told you, although Nintendo has its calendar of celebrations with new releases and tributes to the saga, the community goes it alone and is one of those who believes that any day is a good one to honor the memory of one of the best video game franchises in history. history. All you have to do is pick up the Zelda Classic and start programming a quest to expand the universe with new adventures.
Zelda Classic is an engine with more than 20 years behind it that is used by the community to create what are called quests . That is, extra missions graphically and plot-inspired in any of the first Zeldas that appeared on both the NES and the Super Nintendo or Game Boy. Hence, it is very common to find extraordinary works that some use the base of graphic elements of the first Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System, while others go further to try to emulate the visual style of A Link to the Past or Link’s Awakening of SNES or Game Boy, respectively.
And why are we telling you all this? Well, because until now all that quest work was a bit scattered on the internet and to collect it all you had to jump from one community website to another, but now, a user, Connor Clark, has been around for the last two months. of 150 hours, compiling all that material to put it online so that you can play it freely from your computer’s browser. Quite a wonder.
Choose the quest you want
Although the so-called The 7th Quest will appear as standard, one of the most memorable titles of this scene that exists around Zelda, you will be able to choose from the window any of the ones that it brings , simply by moving the mouse to the upper left part of the window of the browser and choosing Quest List . A column of text will appear and by clicking on each of these extra missions you will get a description, a sample of what their graphic style is like thanks to a screen and a Play button in the upper right.
Tap there and you can jump right into one of the community-created adventures for this compendium of hours and hours of fun this Connor Clark initiative can provide. Without a doubt, a huge preservation job , in this case the work of The Legend of Zelda fans, and we don’t know if it will ever be recognized by Nintendo itself.
Something complicated if we take into account that the Japanese are quite allergic to users, in general, touching their creations and, worst of all, endangering that Virtual Console business that has been exploding on Wii, Wii U and somehow also on Switch.
