My Secret Geek Shame
By Matt Baker, December 5 2011
I’ve never played Zelda. There, I said it. I know, it’s hard to believe. Not even one. Yeah, that includes Ocarina of Time. I have never held a controller from any gaming system and used it to move Link around or stab a ghost or whatever the heck it is you do in Zelda. No, I don’t really know why, I just never have. I didn’t even know Zelda is the princess until I was in University. Dude, get off my back. They just looked boring, alright?! I remember watching my cousin play The Legend of Zelda on his NES and it just didn’t look that great. I mean really, does this look fun?
Well it didn’t to me, so shut up. And then, after my NES, I didn’t get another console until my PS2. By the time I got an N64 it was used and they weren’t making games for it any more so I wasn’t exposed to the hype of Ocarina of Time (and playing N64 at my friends’ houses in high school was always Goldeneye or drinking and crashing in Rush 2, not a single player game like Zelda). I was too busy playing games on my computer to worry about sequels to some lame looking game my cousin used to play. Granted, I’ve just checked some screen shots and OoT looks pretty sweet.
Perhaps I’ll try the 3D version when I get around to buying a 3DS. Or maybe I’ll just pick it up for my N64 now. Who knows? I could also borrow Twilight Princess from Roz (who hasn’t spoken to me since the coffee break when all of this was revealed this morning – apparently I’m not the man she thought I was) and then I could try out some Wii Zelda action. On that note, I could even go out and get Skyward Sword. But I think I should start a little earlier, familiarize myself with the basics a bit. Carmen (a tech in our lab) tells me I should start right at the beginning and work my way through all of them, but I think that is a little excessive. Anyway, now I’ve revealed the biggest, geekiest shame I have. What’s your secret geek shame?
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