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cathoderaydude
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that's right COMPILE, the absolute bastards who decided that "zelda clone" should mean "copy it pixel for pixel, change the palette and release it. BAM that's a twelve inch record"

In case the timestamp gets lost on the link above I want to be as clear as humanly possible that they carbon-copied zelda

the sword stab animation is identical to link's

the overworld tiles are nearly identical, and the way they're used and the way the world is designed is identical

when you walk down stairs you disappear into the bottom of the tile while the noise channel plays a "tch, tch, tch, tch" sound

the dude in the underground room, which is a black void surrounded by a one-tile wall, floats in the middle and his text appears over his head one letter at a time

i cannot overstate the fact that Compile, an established developer of japanese computer games who would later become known for their immense number of quality shmups, simply decided to carbon copy The Hyrule Fantasy: Zelda no Densetsu, a massively popular nintendo blockbuster, so precisely that you could recognize it from a city block away, and most likely started work on this no more than eight months after the game first came out

i have never seen anything this egregious, and even their later Master System port toned it down just enough to seem at least minimally contrite. this, however, has hallmarks that suggest that the devs looked at each other and said "computers are still only for nerds, right? okay good. nintendo absolutely will not know we did this. let's fuckin go boys"

edit: i forgot to mention that they made it much worse and less fun


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