S2E10: The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past -or- Top Down Downright Done Right

The Old SwitchAroo: Gaming Retro with Mike and Jaymo |A Nintendo Switch Online retro gaming podcast

Zelda streamers RiRiYells and SSJ3Butch return to clash swords with Mike and Jaymo discussing The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES, 1991) and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords (GBA, 2002), continuing their epic quest to research and review every retro game in the Nintendo Switch Online catalog!

In this episode, we’ll take our first step into trying to understand the wild world of Zelda randomizer runs, try to figure out if Link to the Past is better on the SNES or Game Boy Advance in NintenDISorDAT, and the best and worst of Link to the Past’s cavalcade of enemies.

Thanks for listening, and a very special thanks to Kristal Fields of The Lazy Circles for our catchy new theme song! Subscribe to The Old Switch-a-roo to get more retro goodness delivered straight to your feed! You can also join the fun on ⁠⁠https://www.theoldswitcharoo.com⁠⁠, where you'll find access to our Discord, voicemail, and so much more!

Game on, everyone.

(0:00) Intro

(1:19) Welcoming RiRi

(1:51) Welcoming Butch

(5:02) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

(44:32) Mini-Game Minute

(1:01:13) NintenDISorDAT

(1:28:19) Four Swords

(1:44:22) NintenDO or NintenDON’T

Follow RiRi on Twitch at RiRiYells (https://www.twitch.tv/ririyells)

Butch on Twitch at SSJ3Butch (https://www.twitch.tv/ssj3butch)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past manual: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals/common/pdf/CLV-P-SAAEE.pdf

The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past and Four Swords manual: https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Legend-of-Zelda-A-link-to-the-Past-Four-Swords-Game-Manual.pdf

Discussion Between Miyamoto & Horii - originally from Game Staff List Association Japan: https://glitterberri.com/developer-interviews/miyamoto-horii-discussion/

The Top 100 Games of All Time (2007) | IGN: https://web.archive.org/web/20080917190825/http://top100.ign.com:80/2007/index.html

IGN (2007) The Top 100 Games of All Time - Readable list | Video Game Canon: https://www.videogamecanon.com/lists/ign-2007/

Special Bonus Contest - Nintendo Power Issue 16 (September/October 2007): https://archive.org/details/nintendopowerissue016septemberoctober1990/page/n11/mode/2up

Gallery: A Link to the Past Enemies | ZeldaDungeon.net: https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Gallery:A_Link_to_the_Past_Enemies

Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past SNES Japanese Commercial #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpHzLYHkwA