Thursday, February 23, 2006
Happy 20th Birthday!
That's right, the original Legend of Zelda is now twenty years old. Twenty years ago, on February 21, 1986, Japanese gamers first ventured into the Land of Hyrule.
Forget Lord of the Rings - this was the epic 80s childhood fantasy that is forever ingrained in the brains of my generation, where we proved our fell prowess in reuniting the eight fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom in all its 8-bit glory, to rescue the beautiful Princess Zelda from the sinister hands of Ganon, and restore peace to the Land of Hyrule:
And then, the few and the proud rose above the rabble and defeated him again in the Second Quest, and we wouldn't let octoroks nor Aquamentus stand in our way.
Remember: always keep your boomerang as default on button B and always swap back to it after you use the first serving of the healing potion.
Read 1up.com's retrospective on the series:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3148112
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Zelda_series
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In response to your question, "William can cook now?"
The correct answer would be, "Well, William cooks now regardless of ability." Actually--he did a great job. He's learning that cooking is an art and at times a challenge, and that in the beginning cooking is being able to follow a recipe. Then cooking becomes the ability to substitute if necessary when you don't have all the ingredients, and cooking without always having to use a recipe. And then today, he said that cooking is being able to just "throw stuff together and have it taste good." He was referring to my homemade chicken noodle soup. I'm trying to decide if that was really a compliment.
--gm
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The correct answer would be, "Well, William cooks now regardless of ability." Actually--he did a great job. He's learning that cooking is an art and at times a challenge, and that in the beginning cooking is being able to follow a recipe. Then cooking becomes the ability to substitute if necessary when you don't have all the ingredients, and cooking without always having to use a recipe. And then today, he said that cooking is being able to just "throw stuff together and have it taste good." He was referring to my homemade chicken noodle soup. I'm trying to decide if that was really a compliment.
--gm
