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Picture credit to my persona copy of The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia. |
When I was nine years old I developed my first crush. Granted I was only nine, but that’s when girls
start thinking about boys. The trouble
was that my guy was not your typical crush.
He was tall, pale, with dark brown hair and ears that were more pointy
than normal. He didn’t live around here; he was from…very far away. He was quite the heroic lad, always running
around saving damsels in distress and breaking clay pots while scaring
chickens. He killed monsters and slashed
at bats with boomerangs and swords, fished in lakes and dungeon crawled for
gems of all colors as he looked for clues to solving the puzzles that would
save the world. He was also a bit of a
lazy and loud mouthed slob at times, but that only made him more charming to
me. Did I mention that he was a cartoon
character from a video game that I had played since I was six? I guess I left that part out…
Nintendo originally existed as a company that created
trading cards. Most notably, cards that
included the face of a now famous Italian plumber we know and love. When they expanded into the video game world
they gave us the ability to have a new realm of reality and a new gamer geek
level of awesome. Of the many games they created,
two icons stuck out: our lovable, high
jumping plumber Mario, and a green clad elf.
This elf would become Nintendo’s most famous adventurer and live on in
many games, timelines, age ranges, and alternate realities. Thanks to the game titles, many non-gamers
call him “Zelda.” That would be his lady
fair. His name is Link, and for a dude
that wears such a weird hat he is scary tough, man.