I’m currently watching a video on the history of video games by YouTube user applemctom, and my wife, Joyce, keeps asking me why I know majority of the games featured in the video. I guess my video games addiction is finally showing, eh? To test my mettle, I tried to list down in order all the games shown in the two-minute footage. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them all. Before I show my list (rather, before you take a look at it), watch the video and try listing down in order all the games that you see. Let’s compare notes later.

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Right… Seriously now… What the Christ?
Just watch these videos and then we’ll go over this again. The videos are from the two Zelda games to be released on Philips’ ill-fated CD-i system back in the days when Nintendo clearly didn’t give a damn about what other companies did to their licensed intellectual property and their reputation.
The first is the intro movie from “TLoZ: The Faces of Evil”, which features the thinnest excuse for a plot outside of a Van Damne movie. Link is a teenager and an abhorrent voice actor, and from the instant he appears on screen you want …read more