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Saturday Morning Scrutiny – The Legend of Zelda (Season 2)
The initial run of the cartoon adaptation of The Legend of Zelda ended in 1989 after one season as the special Friday edition of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Both Link and Zelda would show up occasionally in the second season of Captain N, which provides some closure to the plot of the original series, but that was the…
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Saturday Morning Scrutiny: Captain N: The Game Master (Season 1)
Back in the 8-bit era of video games, a lot of imagination was required to fill the gaps between a game’s box art, and the low-detail, pixelated mess that was on screen. Even the box art wasn’t always reliable. Mega Man’s North American box seemed to imply that the title character was a helmeted, middle-aged man in the midst of…
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Saturday Morning Scrutiny – The Legend of Zelda
It’s funny to think that there was once a time when video games were looked at more as something for the kiddies, rather than the “serious business” it is today. It was yet to be seen as a medium ripe for storytelling, and I can only imagine that few people thought their works would blossom into the titanic franchises they…
