![]() ![]() There were 3rd party games with pastel cartridges or what not, but Zelda was 1st party, and bold! The publishers had confidence and once you played, you knew why. It went on to become probably my most-played NES game, and remained the coolest-looking box/cart in my stack of games back then. Sun 6th Aug taken, but in 1986 when I had seen an enigmatic Zelda TV commercial or two, heard from a couple friends about the game, and then saw that gold-on-gold box on the shelf, it beckoned to me.So we never actually saw the boxes themselves until the game was paid for and in our shopping bags. And I should note that I typically bought my games at Toys R Us which had this bizarre system of selling games, which had a picture of the front and back of the box inside this plastic flap, and then a “ticket” below that for buying the game that you took to their game counter/booth in the front of the store. If it hadn’t been for that, I would not have given that game a second look in such a basic box. For me, I had the Nintendo Power Magazine which did a huge feature (complete with maps and extensive strategy) on the Zelda game in their premiere issue in 1988, so seeing that made me aware of what I was buying. Seeing a basic or generic looking game box in the store with little to no other info available on a game made it a hard sell. I had to thoughtfully consider which games were worth blowing my small paychecks on (considering I made about $3.75 an hour back then!). And games were quite expensive back then, usually averaging around $40-$50 USD for NES games. Sun 6th Aug I was not only here in the 80s but also working. ![]()
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