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The original Zelda Rap by 5-3 Federation + lyrics

03/07/201701/08/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

As a kid with such software available to my hands as Napster and a love for Nintendo, it didn’t take long for one of the terms I searched for would be “Zelda” and sure enough I was able to find something. Zelda Rap by 5-3 Federation. I downloaded it and after 20 minutes or so I got to listen to it.

The rap uses the original The Legend of Zelda intro as the beats as he raps about the game and making random geeky references. This was more than a decade from when geek culture was “cool” so it really was done for the passion for the game. There are tons of zelda raps now but this is the original and if you ask what an odd choice well remember that the original commercial had a zelda rap, though I guess that would make it the original, nevertheless check it out:

The Legend of Zelda: Wands of Gamelon & The Faces of Evil & Adventure CDi secret movies

02/17/201701/08/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Secret Movie

As you know The Legend of Zelda CDi games has given us many things..from the first voice acting, continuing the Zelda II Adventure of Link gameplay to countless youtube parodies. Now those infamous custscenes have really outlived their original purpose with everything that’s been done about them but I unironically like the cutscenes in their original form and always have even when finding said clips was difficult to do on the net.

What makes these so interesting to me is that it was one of the first times we saw the world of Zelda a little more fleshed out. Like the The Legend of Zelda cartoon it uses elements from fantasy that fit very well since the games were still rather basic at that point. In fact the game seems to be inspired by the Zelda cartoon in its tone even if it doesn’t really fit with it. The Arabian nights look of the games is just great and gives Zelda a rather nice character design, easily the only good one in the two games.

Nintendo Animated Universe Cartoons of the 90s: Captain N, Mario Bros, Zelda, Crisis on infinite Continuities

02/11/201701/08/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Crisis on infinite Continuity

Shared and cinematic universes are all the rage now thanks to Marvel and their MCU but they’ve existed for quite a long time and Nintendo of all companies had an animated shared universe during the NES and even SNES eras.

Zelda Breath of the Wild story trailer piano cover

01/29/201701/07/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Music Match, Video Classic

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild had a nicely done trailer for the Nintendo Switch presentation and a lot of that was because of the music. Here we have a piano cover of the BOTW story trailer by Tim de Man.

Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon & Link: Faces of Evil Remake

01/15/201701/07/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Video Classic

The infamous Phillips CDi games were at one point an obscure trivia footnote you found out about in the early days of the internet if you frequented the The Legend of Zelda fandom which eventually became very well known because of the rise of youtube. So enjoy this trailer for the remaster/remake/reboot of the now classic Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Link: Faces of Evil if full HD.