Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
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Of all the games to be reissued as part of the NES Classic line for Game Boy Advance, Zelda is the no-brainer of the lot. It's easily the most sophisticated of the ten games on offer, and the only one that really offers something more than a quick gameplay fix. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Zelda singlehandedly justifies the existence of the entire remake series, but it certainly is worth owning on its own. For twenty bucks, it's a genuine value -- you'd have to fork over almost that much at Funcoland for a scruffy copy of the NES cart with no packaging, a fading battery and some stupid kid's name scrawled all over the back in sloppy Sharpie pen. If the cart and box were gold and it came with a full-color fold-out map, this would be a perfect rekindling of gaming nostalgia. As it is, it's simply irresistibly great.

♦ The original classic now on Gameboy Advance.

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