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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

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Originally Recorded/Aired On May 21st, 2022

After 5 months, Proterova and I made it to the end of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on #SuperOldGameSaturday and, in our finale of this Nintendo 64 staple, we showed off why you don't buy the Giant's Knife, how you can't beat the running man and head into Ganon's Castle for the final showdown with Ganondorf. However, we ran this game so efficiently over the past 4 parts that we only had a little over an hour of the game left for this part, so we used this opportunity to spend some more time with Virtual Chess 64, Titus's 1998 N64 game that I'd previously looked at a few years ago with Proterova in the chat for it, but given his expertise, it really made sense to come back to it with him on the show with me. As such, most of this part was of Virtual Chess 64, where we showed off the very bizarre opening that resolution changes previously prevented me from showing, as well as got a crash course on chess from Proterova (who teaches chess and that shines through here), him and I played a game and we dove a bit deeper into the game's robust tutorial mode as we learned more about its features (including a 4-player mode) AI and chess engine than when we previously played it. So yeah, this wasn't exactly the end of Ocarina of Time that you may have been expecting, but we did tie off our 100% play of that game with great discussions with the chat and Proterova while also giving you a unique bonus that the chat seemed just as intrigued by. Also, I must thank Proterova for joining us for Ocarina of Time to make it such a great experience with the game, as well as sharing his love and knowledge of chess here, and I'm looking forward to our future plays (the next of which with him with be Goldeneye 007 on August 27th). Next up for Zelda, though, will be The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, which TheCrochetNerd and I will be starting on June 11th, and until then, hope you enjoy the finale of Ocarina of Time, as well as our revisit to Virtual Chess 64 (and if you like what you see here, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag each Saturday at 7 PM EST to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week)!

Also, here is the Link List, which contains links to everything we referenced on this show:

The #SuperOldGameSaturday playlist for our play of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which also includes links for parts 1 through 4 of this game:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y-KsnLOhUcFVVKEs9dR6SaO

The #SuperOldGameSaturday playlist for our play of Virtual Chess 64, which also includes a link to our first look at this game back in December of 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y-ebRg4V4uuGbRs9ebYEeyP

Good Blood's Ocarina of Time: A Master Class of Subtext, which dives deep into the game, psychologically speaking, as we've did in our play of it (and was frequently cited by Proterova):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyUcwsjyd8Q

Information on Magnus Carlsen, the 31 year old current world chess grandmaster from Norway, referenced by Proterova and courtesy of Chess.com:

https://www.chess.com/players/magnus-carlsen

A clip from the 2016 Mira Nair film, Queen of Katwe, showing the concept of the Smothered Mate and containing additional information about the figures in that "based on a true story" film, referenced by Proterova and courtesy of Basavaraj Patil on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZimpdCK4No

Information on Benjamin Finegold, an American grandmaster chess player, teacher and streamer, referenced by Proterova and courtesy of Chess.com:

https://www.chess.com/players/benjamin-finegold

A history of the Chessmaster video game series, the long-running chess franchise that got Proterova into chess, courtesy of Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessmaster

The YouTube site of Gotham Chess, the popular and well-respected chess stream run by Levy Rozman and shouted out to by Proterova, which is well worth checking out for more great chess information, insights and games:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GothamChess?app=desktop

A video of 1983's The Trooper by Iron Maiden, the classic metal song about the Battle of Balaclava from 1854, as referenced by me and courtesy of Iron Maiden on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOiNj0OHRlA

A video of Agahnim/Ganon's theme from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, which Ocarina of Time remixes on the approach to Ganondorf, courtesy of Solid Sokolov on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5iRzoSLWMM

A link to Tortoise Beats Hare, the classic 1941 Merry Melodies Bugs Bunny and Cecil the Turtle cartoon, referenced by me and courtesy of b98.tv:

https://www.b98.tv/video/tortoise-beats-hare/

A link describing the game-breaking bug added to the Switch version of Kirby 64, courtesy of NintendoLife.com:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/05/game-breaking-bug-reportedly-discovered-in-switch-online-version-of-kirby-64

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