This book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game.

Link can travel freely between the two time periods by replacing and taking the sword after purifying the Forest Temple. This is the original version of the game, and is mostly identical to the initial Japanese release, aside from removing the standard enemy music from Ganon's Castle and recognizing a 64DD (as well as the obvious translation into English). Majora’s Mask didn’t try to re-enact its predecessor's heroics.

The same excitement, the same sense of adventure, the same disappointment when you track down 100 Skulltulas and all you get is a frickin’ gold rupee (the game isn’t perfect, okay?). Ocarina of Time was first shown as a technical demo at Nintendo's SpaceWorld trade show in 1995. Version 1.0: Almost all gold cartridge games. Although much of the game is spent in battle, some parts encourage the player to use stealth to sneak past guards a then-uncommon situation for the series, which would later be integrated on a larger scale in future installments.

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