In his two newest Zelda Month videos, PeanutButterGamer decided to tackle the second Zelda game for the CD-i console, The Wand of Gamelon. As I’m sure you’re all aware, these games are famously awful in every way, from the flawed gameplay to the hilariously bad animated cutscenes that portray nearly every character as an incoherent idiot.
As this is kind of a long game, Austin had to split it up into two parts: one released last Saturday, on schedule, and the second released earlier today.
These videos are a sort of continuation of…
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Dale DeSharone was one of the lead developers at Philips and helped craft the contract between Nintendo and Philips. This contract is what led to the trilogy of CD-i Zelda games, games most of you haven’t played but are generally considered to be really terrible – even if they did provide endless amounts of meme material. In fact, it’s almost as if those games practically founded the concept of YouTube poop. What’s really interesting however is that Philips did reach out for feedback and input out of Nintendo, and Nintendo did, in fact, give some. However, the focus…
Hyrule Historia was meant to be a book providing a comprehensive history of all things Zelda. At first glance, the art book includes just about every Zelda game we’ve ever seen. What was not included, however was a certain trilogy that Nintendo has tried hard to forget. The games Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and Zelda’s Adventure are all missing from the book, developed by the electronics company Phillips for the CD-i.
