The Legend of Zelda (NES Classic) (Game Boy Advance)

I love free exploring this game!
I was the first in my family to beat this game...OH GOWD! I still gotta do the second quest!!!!

The purest and the best
Simplicity is the name of this game, the finest of the Zelda series. Unlike the latest Zelda games, Zelda I is completely player-driven, meaning that there is no pushing or shoving from the narrative. This can make exploration difficult at times, but also far more rewarding when the solutions are found. In the meantime, the action-oriented gameplay will challenge and satisfy any on-the-go swordsman. There's no lock-on targeting, combos, or parry attacks, but a battle against a room full of darknuts is nevertheless a true test of dexterity. If you never had an NES, you poor, deprived soul, you'd best jump into this game to see how the Zelda craze began. Even if you've played and beat the game several times over, it's worth picking up, because you'll be surprised at much you've forgotten.

Classics At Their Best
When I first picked up The Legend of Zelda on the NES, I said to me "Could this game get any better?" Then, I find out that, yes, yes it could. in the game, you could play through again on a much harder challenge, everything redone, very similar to the OoT Master Quest (Ura Zelda) released on the cube. Later, itâ??s released on the cube in a collectorâ??s edition, in all its 8-bit glory. Then, itâ??s thrown onto the GBA, along with several other NES classics and a revamped GBA SP color scheme to match that of the NES console and controller.

The game is an overall great game, which was the first game in its kind to be dubbed "adventure" and the first to include a battery backup (able to save your file to the cartridge). Even though other NES games have been remade for several other Nintendo consoles, including Super Mario Bros. remade for the SNES, and most recently Metroid was remade for the GBA (Metroid: Zero Mission) which even added new power-ups and a completely added on bonus at the end of the game continuing the story after it ended in the original. This game could see the very same thing, maybe remade and bundled with The Legend of Zelda for the cube in 2005. I donâ??t care, as long as Nintendo does something new with this game, Iâ??m fine. Some will say "but this game was remade for the SNES!" yea, I know. Thatâ??s the BS Zelda only in Japan on the Stellaview thingie, which the servers closed down quite some time ago. But they completely took the game out of context there, adding a timer, redoing all dungeons, and even replacing Link's sprite with a baseball cap wearing weirdo.

This game is a great game in its entirety, and any Zelda fan should pick this up. It shows how much games have advanced over the past 20 years. We went from an 8-bit game to character models having over 600,000 polygon counts. The GBA does a great job and running this game perfectly, but the game will slow down if there are too many sprites on screen at a time (just like it did 20 years ago). The price is a little steep for a NES-GBA port title, $20. They couldâ??ve had it brought down to $10 or $15, but $20 for something like that? A normal GBA game is just $30-35. The sound is played perfectly, 8-bit bleeps and bloops all that retro goodness. If you want classics without the classic hardware, buy the NES Classic Series games for the GBA. If you love adventure and Zelda, you MUST snag this game, if you havenâ??t already. This game should up there on peoples "Most wanted list" for classics.

classic gameplay on the go
FINALLY, they made this game for the gameboy advance. ive been waiting for it to happen and now it did. its the exact same thing as the one on the nes, so yea its still hard as shit ><. if you love zelda and have a gmaeboy then go and buy this.

It's Pretty Good
The Legend of Zelda classic was a great port of the original(almost arcade-perfect)and was good overall. Speaking as a die-hard Legend of Zelda fan I think that this game captured the true spirit of the original game and the series itself. There are some flaws in the game that I would like to point out:

-The map system was not very good
-The sound card left a lot to be desired
-It did not do a good job of pointing you to the next dungeon

Those points aside I think the game is still good and that's why I gave it an 8 out of 10.