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Dark Dreams

When writing about portals between worlds, I thought about the Dark World from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but that’s kind of a different subject, albeit a related one. And the alternate world with similar geography … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chrono Trigger, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Dragon Quest, Dreams, Edward Einhorn, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Star Trek, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link between worlds, a link to the past, back to the future, back to the future part ii, bender bending rodriguez, biff tannen, bizarro, bizarro world, chrono cross, dark world, darkwing duck, day of the tentacle, dr. john zoidberg, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, dragon quest viii, earthbound, empycchu, final fantasy v, flipside, flopside, fourside, ganon, ganondorf, gosalyn mallard, hyrule, kakariko village, lorule, mirror world, moonside, mushroom kingdom, negaverse, ocarina of time, oracle of ages, paradox in oz, princess lana, rhapthorne, sacred land, simon belmont, subcon, subspace, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super paper mario, superman, through the looking-glass, time travel, triforce, warp zones, white queen |

Conquer Yourself

My wife has been playing Kid Icarus: Uprising, and there’s a character in it called Dark Pit. A little bit of research reveals that there’s also a Dark Samus and a Dark Link, or rather several Dark Links and Shadow … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Comics, Focus on the Foes, Greek Mythology, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged akira himekawa, biolizard, black doom, bowser koopa jr., calatia, clones, coming home, dark link, dark meta knight, dark mirror, dark pit, dark samus, dimension mirror, doppelgangers, dr. eggman, dr. gerald robotnik, dr. ivo robotnik, four swords adventures, ganon, in search of the king, kid icarus of myths and monsters, kid icarus uprising, king charles, king dedede, kirby and the amazing mirror, kirby triple deluxe, link, luigi mario, manga, maria robotnik, mario mario, metroid prime, mirror of truth, mirror world, mother brain, nintendo, nintendo comics system, ocarina of time, palutena, pandora, phaaze, phazon, pit, pittoo, pop star, princess lana, project shadow, putt, samus aran, shadow dedede, shadow kirby, shadow link, shadow mario, shadow the hedgehog, simon belmont, space pirates, spirit tracks, super mario sunshine, the adventure of link, the legend of zelda four swords, triforce, vaati, valiant comics, videoland, waluigi, wario |

Hyrule Tech

For the most part, the Zelda series is set in a quasi-medieval world, the traditional setting of sword-and-sorcery fantasy. There are kings and princesses living in stone castles, and Link fights with swords and rides a horse. There are some … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Urban Legends, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, bombs, hookshot, hyrule, lasers, link, majora's mask, mario kart 8, master cycle, ocarina of time, phantom hourglass, shigeru miyamoto, spirit tracks, swords and sorcery, termina, the legend of zelda, the minish cap, time travel, trains, triforce |

Hyrule on the Hog

Years ago, I wrote a post on how common people turning into pigs is in mythology and fantasy. More recently, this post on Power of Babel also addressed the theme of pig-people, specifically that of orcs with the heads of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Games, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged brothers hildebrandt, bull demon king, chohakkai, chu pa'chieh, david c. sutherland iii, dr. ivo robotnik, dungeons and dragons, four swords adventures, ganon, george macdonald, gnolls, goblins, goriyas, gyumao, gyumao hakkai, journey to the west, king bowser koopa, moblins, ocarina of time, orcs, pigs, sleeping beauty, the wind waker, trident, triforce, zhu bhajie |

Holy Ghost in the Machine

It’s a well-known fact that, back in the earlier days of Nintendo, they censored a lot of religious references in the English translations of games. It’s stated here that their policy was to exclude “symbols that are related to any … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Video Games, Zelda, Zoroastrianism | Tagged a link to the past, alltrades abbey, bible, celestria, censorship, corvus, crosses, devils, divinegon, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest ix, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, farore, fiend, final fantasy vi, goddess, hades, hera, hylia, hyrule, jesus, kabbalah, kefka, nayru, nintendo, odin, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, poseidon, rubiss, satan, sephiroth, sophia, temple of dharma, tetsuya nomura, triforce, warring triad, zenith dragon, zenithia, zenus, zeus, zurvan |

Nintendo in Book Form

I grew up in the heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure books, which allowed the reader to make choices from a list of options at certain junctures in the narrative. A lot of them led to death, because that was … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, Games, Mario, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged brain drain, cheep cheeps, choose your own adventure, dinosaur dilemma, dinosaur land, donkey kong jr., doors to doom, double trouble, dungeons and dragons, flown the koopa, ganon, hammer brothers, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa capers, leaping lizards, link, ludwig von koopa, luigi, magikoopas, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, monster mix-up, morton koopa jr., mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, narnia solo games, nintendo adventure books, pipe down!, princess peach toadstool, super mario world, the crystal trap, the shadow prince, toad, triforce, unjust desserts, wart, wendy o. koopa, wooster, yoshi |

I Can’t Wait to Bomb Some Dodongos!

Maybe the Creationists are right that humans and dinosaurs once co-existed, as per this pictorial evidence: Or maybe video game makers just realize the universal truth that dinosaurs are cool, which is probably why Young-Earth Creationists now prefer to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Monsters, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged ceratopsians, death mountain, dimitri, dinosaurs, ganondorf, gorons, king dodongo, link, ocarina of time, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, stegosaurus, the legend of zelda, triceratops, triforce |

The Wizzrobe of Oz

The fact that The Wizard of Oz is often cited as an archetypal fairy tale is a mixed blessing for someone like me. On the one hand, it’s cool that one of my favorite books has become such a widely … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Characters, Fairy Tales, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged color changing tingle's love balloon trip, cowardly lion, dorothy gale, freshly-picked tingle's rosy rupeeland, king harkinian, link, magic belt, majora's mask, ozma, pastoria, princess zelda, scarecrow, sheik, the lost king of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the wizard of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, tingle, triforce, wizard of oz |

Comics from Calatia

In addition to the Mario and Captain N comics, Valiant’s Nintendo Comics System also included a Zelda series. Like the others, it was influenced by the DiC cartoons, which means we get a lot of Link hitting on Zelda, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged calatia, fairies, ganon, hyrule, link, miff, nintendo comics system, spryte, triforce |

Bringing Ganon Back

Ganon is defeated at the end of pretty much every Zelda game, yet somehow he always comes back to fight another day. Usually the games are silent on how he keeps returning, but both the Oracle games and The Adventure … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Focus on the Foes, Monsters, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, ganon, mother brain, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, princess zelda, the adventure of link, triforce, twinrova |