im enjoying this "let's play" era max is going through.

@cthulhu888

Жыл бұрын

I agree! His dad arc has been progressing nicely so far 😆👍

@shawnmohare

Жыл бұрын

I def watched 10 hours of Mario 64 that I never intended to

@ihaveaplan.ijustneedmoney.9777

Жыл бұрын

The "emulate the 80s" way of looking for help is honestly a funny gimmick. 😂 Im also convinced that he's just doing this to flex his Retromancy

@Dracobyte

Жыл бұрын

Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.

@Gr00t

Жыл бұрын

​@@ihaveaplan.ijustneedmoney.9777 Please explain wtf retromancy is

Honestly I really hope Max does more of these retro playthroughs. They’ve been some of the most enjoyable videos on KZread as of late, getting to see him experience these childhood classics feels like I’m experiencing it again for the first time.

@JamMac2023

Жыл бұрын

These retro games have such a chill vibe. That plus Max’s personality make them some of the only playthroughs I can actually work to

@alternateA

Жыл бұрын

Very much this! I don't know how many blind games he has left but these dedication to play blind and with limited lifelines really works

@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs

Жыл бұрын

@@JamMac2023 What makes his playthroughs especially good is that while they are relaxing, they are also hilarious. So you can have his playthroughs on in the background while doing your own stuff and you immediatly hear when things go poorly so you can go back and see what exactly what's got Max shouting.

@Dracobyte

Жыл бұрын

Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.

@Muz__27

Жыл бұрын

A Link to the Past has gotta be the next game he plays. If he had fun playing this one then I’m sure he will love it.

At 28:37, he accidentally discovers a major glitch that speedrunners use and has no idea what happened, before he has even found the first dungeon, while trying (and failing) to follow the directions to it in the game's instructions. I love it! 😄

So glad you took time to read the instruction manual. A lot of people forget that reading the manual was an integral part of the whole experience, since the games had limited space for in game tutorial information. You have to get it from the manual to have full context for items, as well as the backstory. And they were often full of amazing full color artwork! Such a lost fun thing...

@meteorain2940

Жыл бұрын

I miss them, it's such a pity modern games did away with them because most games these days are already too hand holdy. That and it's like they wanted to cut the production cost in any way possible. As if they just want to get rid of physical copies in general while you still pay full price.

@rob_i208

Жыл бұрын

I really like that he played with the manual. However I have to say a genuine 1987 experience also involves the fold out map that was included with the game which has the locations of the first 4 dungeons along with question marks (?) and places to search. Only the last dungeon or two did you have to find with no assistance. The idea that NES Zelda didn't hold your hand is a bit of a ruse. Nintendo very much held your hand through much of the game. However like you said they simply didn't have the technology to do it through software; instead they needed physical maps and manuals to do it. This is after all how table top adventure games did it before video games existed. Nintendo was bringing that table top adventure to your TV screen the best way they knew how to do it.

@matttyree1002

Жыл бұрын

@Rob_i208 true, I was thinking that when he opened it and it wasn't there. Nice that a portion of it was in the manual tho

@dunfeeja1

Жыл бұрын

You should play Tunic. It is an amazingly good game with the manual torn up and retrievable in-game. As you find pages, you learn more mechanics of the game and uncover new secrets. It's like a modern day NES classic!

@matttyree1002

Жыл бұрын

@@dunfeeja1 hah, that so cool

Max has been on a roll with all these retro playtrough

@DennisTheZZZ

Жыл бұрын

He still has to play the original Metroid, or at least Metroid: Zero Mission.

@DragonHeart613

Жыл бұрын

@DennisTheZZZ I want to see Max try out A Link to The Past, Twilight Princess or Wind Waker. I'd also love to see him play Legend of Dragoon.

@luisguillermogarcia3724

Жыл бұрын

@@DragonHeart613 even though i like legends of dragoon, that game is tooooo long for a casual playthrough

@DragonHeart613

Жыл бұрын

@Luis Guillermo Garcia Max could always do it in parts same as he did with Super Metroid & Castlevania.

@15kalas15

Жыл бұрын

as someone who doesnt really play fighting games but likes watching max this has been great for me

Max's understanding of directions is......astounding.

@cardinmalone4974

Жыл бұрын

Simmons once mentioned about Max: "I know Max is terrible at geography."

@CarbonNut

Жыл бұрын

Max is the Zoro of One Piece.

@BigHailFan

Жыл бұрын

@@CarbonNut "Go east and then north." "Okay I'll keep going east..... *Five minutes later.* But I never went east!"

@KantiDono

Жыл бұрын

Instructions: Go North, East, North, North, North Max: I went 'North, East, East, East, East' and I didn't find anything! These instructions are stupid!

@selay333

Жыл бұрын

Navigationally challenged, it's what my friend would call me when I got lost with directions.

Watching Max experience these classics for the 1st time is one of my favourite streams he does alongside FG/character legacies.

@macuser7048

Жыл бұрын

Think he could beat Legacy of The Wizard, Battle of Olympus, or Crystalis?

The Legend of Zelda: "Beaches in the Breeze" is a cute way of describing Link's Awakening 😂

@nedlog05

Жыл бұрын

I thought he was referring to Wind Waker. Lol

@Dracobyte

Жыл бұрын

Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.

Just that intro alone tells me this one is going to be INCREDIBLE. 🤣

@Dracobyte

Жыл бұрын

Please give Tunic a try! It is an indie tilke inspired by Zelda with tons of secrets, as well as secrets within secrets.

This was my 1st Legend of Zelda title at age 5 back when this released. I was in Yakima at a mall when my older brother went with my mother to a Kaybee Toy Store to purchase it as I was at the foodcourt with my grandmother. He came back and pulled it out the bag to show me. I was simply awestruck to first see the gold art box, to the gold cartridge, the instruction manual, unfolding the map, to later the game itself. I'm 40yrs old now so there is so much nostalgia packed from every sound I hear to every pixel I see on-screen. Still love beating this game & it's 2nd quest every year or so.

@Turnabout

Жыл бұрын

My condolences for being in Yakima

@umang6771

Жыл бұрын

@Turnabout Lol, I vaguely remember it. I grew up in Richland so we used to go through there on the way to Vancouver.

@Dang3rMouSe

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit... I totally forget about the existence of Kaybee Toy Stores lol

@KillYounglings

Жыл бұрын

Yo, Kaybee Toys! That was the only place that stocked April O'Neil in my area, if you could find her!

I just wanna say youre living my dad goals rn Max, just chilling and doing playthroughs of things adjacent to your childhood and era, just in an easy lighthearted completionist type way, its clear its for you more than us but its bonus that we are enjoying you, but I guess thats the fruits of all your hard work. When Ripley is old enough to be playing videogames, youre gonna be like Gandalf or Cave Wizard to her, love to see it❤

@Minister596

Жыл бұрын

True and he should start her off with these old classics and then move up through the generations. She would be way better then any other kids her age that started with modern gen games. lol

So funny people in chat being like "he finally gets it" when max is continuing to go the wrong way haha. Very entertaining, i loved this playthrough

@esmooth919

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Blind playthrus be like dat

@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu

Жыл бұрын

@@esmooth919 nah Its just that chat clearly as clueless as max XD

This is simultaneously the most frustrating and yet joyfully nostalgic thing I have ever seen.

@ZrowFoxGivn

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I was yelling at the screen wanting to tell him what he was missing. Trying to help him. Haha. But was a great watch. Hopefully he does the rest soon.

I love how Max found Level 3 and still went back to Level 6, lol

I beat this for the first time 2 weeks ago. I have been thinking about the game a lot since. It really is a game made for it's time. A time where kids got 1 game and it had to last them. The secrets serve a great purpose. It is to trade tips and stories with your friends and to discover the game as a community and collectively figure out how to finish it. Your friend might randomly burn some bush and tell you what he found the next day. Everyone would have their own LEGEND to tell and their individual experience about what order they may have beaten it in. We can never relive that, we are just ... getting to try it out and imagine what it could have been like. But it is still a great game today and in the series, I would put it in the top 5 easily.

The fact that Max had a literal guide in front of him and still couldn't figure out where to go convinces me that there are just some people in this world that read in between the lines, then ignore the lines.

@brandon-butler

Жыл бұрын

It’s kind of bizarre how he would read the directions, out loud, and then NOT do what they said.

@GAHAHAHH

3 ай бұрын

It was like watching Zoro from One Piece immediately get lost despite the simplicity of the directions he has been given and then after hours he finally stumbles his way into the correct place and then proceeds to complain about the directs he was given as "being bad" and claiming it would have been better directions if they had just said...and then he proceeds to give the exact instructions he was given. Like I have the manual opened and it seems pretty clear to me, for some reason Max is reading go east twice despite the fact that the first time should obviously be considered a title or bulletin point because from the prior step he knew that it only meant go north once because he ran into a wall. Also it literally shows all 7 screens from start to entering the dungeon. Honestly if I hadn't seen people in real life situations do this exact thing I would assume he is doing this deliberately.

This video could also be titled 'Max Forgets How Boomerang Works Every 5 Minutes' and it wouldn't change a thing. This was wholesome af

Max not using the boomerang to stun enemies is more annoying than when Oroboro was smashing treasure chests for rubbish in his DS2 run that sob!!!!!

This was incredibly entertaining content. Hope you enjoyed your journey as much as I enjoyed watching!

@Maximilian_Dood

11 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

Max is as genuine a gamer as anyone yet it's hugely shocking that up until now he's never previously played such legendary classics as the original Legend of Zelda, Super Mario 64, Super Metroid & Castlevania: Symphony of The Night. Shocking but also for me envious as I wish I could have that experience of playing such classics for the very first time all over again. God Bless You Max.

@invalidletterdept2662

Жыл бұрын

It’s almost infuriating 😂 especially if you’re around 35 years or older and a hardcore gamer. If a franchise is in its 12th or so iteration or beyond it might be worth it to dig in at some point. Most of the old games (Metroid, Mario, zelda, castlevania) are some of the best games ever made muchless the best of their franchise. To live a life of gaming passing them up all these decades is insane

@Johnnygga

Жыл бұрын

@@invalidletterdept2662 Those games you mentioned absolutely SHIT on Capcom games. I think there’s some grade school tribalism with Max. Maybe he wanted to be different and didn’t play all the “popular” critically acclaimed games on purpose.

@invalidletterdept2662

Жыл бұрын

@@Johnnygga for sure. I love Max but this comes off as intentionally contrarian. Every school yard at the time wouldn’t shut up about super mario 1-3, zelda and a link to the past, street fighter and mortal kombat. To be into video games during that era, when word of mouth was king and everybody was playing those main titles, how did he manage to go decades with playing them?? That’s like being a wrestling fan who’s never watched old matches of Hulk Hogan, macho man and ultimate warrior until today.

@CarbonNut

Жыл бұрын

@@invalidletterdept2662 well, in a previous video he did state that he was a fighter gamer at heart, so he primarily played those games.

@Johnnygga

Жыл бұрын

@@invalidletterdept2662 I know a couple of those types growing up 😂 always picked the underdog in every possible thing or topic

I'm loving reliving this with you. Also having fun yelling "NO DUDE! IT'S OVER THEEEERREEEE!" I hope you had fun with one of my favorite games Max.

Max is a Twilight Princess Enjoyer. Damn, only good takes from my favorite FGC personality

@masterjoda999

Жыл бұрын

You mean Dogs of the Earth

@ShintaTakama

Жыл бұрын

Never played Dogs of the Earth, but it is one of the best Link and Zelda designs.

@Countdownsmiles

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's funny, TP was always my favorite as a kid but everyone at the time only ever talked shit on it, now it's more common to hear people love it. Except for Arin Hanson of course, he still talks shit that doesn't even make sense lol

@masterjoda999

Жыл бұрын

@@Countdownsmiles Fortunately, Arin's opinion is one that can be safely ignored and nothing of value will be lost.

@technounionrepresentative4274

Жыл бұрын

​@@Countdownsmileshow? Everyone I ever talked to was obsessed with that game (They also hated wind waker for being too cartoonish)

These recent retro game playthroughs have honestly been some of my favourite videos from you Max, please keep doing these

*guide says north east north* “I’m going north east east, why isn’t it here” _it says go north, what are you doing_ “oh wait, I’m reading it wrong” _yes, just go north-_ “I’m supposed to go east more” _NOOOOOOO_

I loooooove Max’s retro game play throughs especially with ones he’s never tried before. Cool to see insight from someone experienced with gaming but new to a game style/genre

I hope he plays a Link to the Past next, love that game!

I have to say this has been a blast to watch. Totally brought back great memories of playing this as a kid in the 80s. Watching a fresh set of eyes play through is a treat.

These Retro Let's Plays are gems, Max. Pure entertainment, keep em coming man 😂

Happy to see you coming to the Zelda series!

One of the reason Max is the only KZreadr that I watch play games is because of these extremely long playthroughs. I even watched the entire 10hr Mario playthrough in about a day and a half. I really hope he continues to post these extremely long playthroughs for a long time. Even watched Def Jam playthrough multiple times because I found it so entertaining lol

this was sutch a treat to watch honestly, i hope max does more of this retro checking stuff. it's incredibly fun. espessualy if you know the answers to the things he is having trouble with LOL.

That intro is so relatable to when I played it lmao! Can't wait to watch the rest

This is worth to see it if you couldn't watch it live. is really good how he progress, and remember my childhood back in 1993 when I played first time

Great fun watching this Max - thank you!

Wind Waker is unironically one of the best by far, people complained about it when it came out but now that the dust has long settled it ended up being one of the best. Playing it in 2023 it still feels fresh.

@hylianro

Жыл бұрын

It's weird people complained about the three best Zelda games (ww, tp, mm)

@-Devy-

Жыл бұрын

That's a hot take if I ever saw one. Guessing that you're a millennial. Wind Waker is boring as shit.

"This lake is MASSIVE!" Max, that's the ocean. LOL

"This boomerang sucks!" Actually it's one of the best items in the game IMO.

@brandonvaughn3139

3 ай бұрын

This!

The let's play retro stuff is exactly what I've been missing in my life. Cool to see someone get a first play on something I grew up playing 😁

I'm glad Max realized the value of the boomerang being able to stun enemies, stopping their movement to setup free hits with the Sword. For a fighting game minded player not to spot this connection immediately, I find it a bit incredible. Just because it doesn't do direct damage doesn't make it worthless. It's the utility of being able to do free damage with minimal risk is what makes it great.

@ellagage1256

7 ай бұрын

This Boomerang can fit so many dropped items 🪃

LOZ is quite literally my first game. We have footage of me at 2 sitting with my brother playing this on our NES. It was also in my room as an infant so this whole game has been deeply ingrained in my head.

@mat_max

Жыл бұрын

What a goated way to get into videogames

That opening with the scream is the best 😂

These retro playthroighs are brilliantly hilarious!

It must be brutal for chat to bite their tongues for the whole stream. I can tell the player is a gamer (beating so many bosses on the first try), but the lack of clues and the wasted "life lines" hurt to watch. So many nearly discovered but barely missed secrets, so many wasted rupees, and then he somehow manages to figure enough things out by luck and experimentation to keep making progress. When he finishes this run, he should go look at a guide on the web to see it all. This was an enormously entertaining video to watch, but I don't think I could stand to watch it live. 😅

This is one of the funniest run throughs of this game I have ever seen. Watching Max play is like watching my little brother play this game

Moree Long Form Content on KZread! Yes Please! Full streams!! Love it Max.

I have these playing continuously Max. This series are absolute gems.

the directions in the manual to get to Level 1 are perfectly accurate. It says go up, go right, go up until a bridge. step by step, screen by screen. whatever possessed you to keep heading east? It said east once, then go up. Good thing there was a printed map the entire time

I fucking love seeing you play through these old titles! I seriously just watched that entire video in my car in the parking lot of my work after hours! I really hope you are daring enough to move on to LoZ2: Links Adventure!

These new Let's Plays with the classics of my childhood is absolutely incredible.

I remember playing / beating this game for the first time on a 3ds while traveling around japan in 2012. Seeing this footage takes me back :')

That was a fun stream, very nostalgic and you had me laughing quite a bit

One of the most, if not the most important video game in the history of gaming.

Max playing old Nintendo games is my new favorite thing and I hope he plays more Zelda. Still waiting on that Metroid Fusion playthrough.

I just want to say, as a classic gamer myself, I truly appreciate your dedication to doing this game justice by doing the following: 1: You are playing on original hardware. 2: You are using the same resources that we all had on our first time playing through the game such as the instruction booklet and “word of mouth” 3: you refuse to rely on internet tips and chat for critical hints. For me, this allows gamers the privilege to re-experience the feel of playing the game for the first time. It’s not the same though. Outside of a few hard blocks, the game allows you to create your own path towards the end goal. With games from publisher From Software you really see and feel the spirit taken from this beloved classic. Thank you so very much for giving us the feeling of sitting by our good friend’s side as we introduce them to this masterpiece.

Max- I just want to say that making it that far into Level 6, which is, IMO, the second-hardest dungeon in the game, with five hearts, the white sword, no blue ring and no potions, is one of the most amazing gaming feats I've seen. That was hella-impressive.

I'm proud of you Max for playing old classics, much respect.

That chatter got mad at Max for reading the manual, little did they know that he would forget everything he read past the sword and end up lost and dead in the desert

As someone who's played through this game multiple times, watching someone play through it completely blind is magical. Makes me wish I could re-experience games for the first time again.

Man there is really not much 2d games i consider you to play but i think a link to the past is a must. Expanding on all elements from zelda nes. Nice to see you go through this retro games

Max plays the first Zelda!!! This was so fun to watch!!!! 🤣

Love these retro playthroughs.

dude im so used to other games and videos making the "its dangerous to go alone" bit in Zelda a troll that when I watch Max play it and he literally just gets the sword with no caveats it actually surprises me

I am a serial lurker but need to say how much I enjoyed this content. More More!

Can't wait for Part 2!

Me literally screaming at the TV - "The manual says go north, east, AND THEN NORTH!"

He didn't have to set up these rules and whatnot but i'm so glad he did. Really adds to the immersion and experience since i never played the game either.

Bruh while the video was loading I was like "Sure I'll watch this. This video is probably 4 years old right?" *8 min ago*

I sure hope Max plays more classics like this, very fun playthrough especially with the helplines. I think like 100 people mentioned ALTTP in the chat, so maybe he'll play that eventually. Seeing as he really enjoys the original, it's very likely he'll love ALTTP. Also interesting how in both Metroid and Zelda Max is seemingly more on board for the 2D than 3D games. Also: Tunic is pretty much an inspired love letter to this game.

This man never cease to make me laugh!

Max is the complete flip side of the coin of DSP

@mr.awesome6011

Жыл бұрын

Why do we have to bring him up?

@germ187

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.awesome6011 DSP is always talking shit on Max. It’s only fair to point out the pig roach is trash. If you don’t like it block me and you won’t see my comments anymore :)

I hate i missed this stream.... i hope he does more zelda games ❤

The piling up of nostalgia in this video cannot be described

Can't wait for part 2!

I just started playing the legend of zelda on the nes and it is definetly ahead of it’s time with level design

Been watching of the max plays lately, he is choosing good games and is making it fun and interesting. Hope he does more retro titles...

I can't believe I watched 4 hours of this. Need MOREEEEE!

When Max playes all this retro shit, my heart grows

Zelda 1 is a really fun game with an old game guide. On your own though, it’s pretty fun to discover regions or that next secret dungeon location

@macuser7048

Жыл бұрын

yeah i did them out of order

@mat_max

Жыл бұрын

@@macuser7048 i honestly recommend doing 6th dungeon or 7 before 5 if you didn't get the secret heart pieces hidden in the overworld because that shit is hard af

@macuser7048

Жыл бұрын

@@mat_max There's a few extra heart containers you can nab by then too. It helps.

I've always thought the original Zelda was boring to play and even watch, but as always, you made it entertaining and I can actually appreciate this game for what it is. Good job Max!

1:26:06 I love how impressed Max was that it actually worked. Even he didn't believe what he was saying 😆

Dang! This was impressive progress for a blinf play through. Kinda speaks of how well designed the game actually is. Level 6 is BRUTAL tbh. I usually clear Level 7 before Level 6 when I replay the game.

I remember beating this several times as a kid. Still archaic by today’s standards but it’s still one of my favorite out of pure nostalgia.

The look on his face in the first dungeon after the wallmaster takes him to the beginning of the dungeon. 😂

Watching him continue to try level 6 before doing level 4, 5, or 6 is maddening.

watching this really does make me admire(despite me being born in the year 2000) on how cool the old school graphics looked! Games now are definitely stars higher but the old school graphics always look cool to me! I just love pixels and colors!

Got to watch you do this live, im new to watchin you buy a lot odlf respect for you man much love! ❤

I love that Max is going through the same gamer's arc that Day9 did a few years ago. If you remember, Day9 used to be "the guy" to watch in Starcraft 2 content, after which he went to casual gaming and started playing various retro games as well. It's really entertaining and exciting to see!

A Link to the Past is my favorite. It takes everything that's great about the original and fine tunes it. It's the Super Metroid of Zelda games. You owe yourself to play it.

@robertbouley7697

Жыл бұрын

Truth.

@celuiquipeut6527

Жыл бұрын

Link to the past was the best Zelda hame and sadly was not replicated. The xp and leveling up was so good.

This is still the best Zelda game. No silly melodramatic prologue, best music, spooky atmosphere, picking up an item has a one second animation instead of a 30 second one.

I LOVE the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire music when he's using his lifelines 😂

So now I believe it's pretty much a requirement for Max to play A Link to the Past. Can't wait to watch him play it!

Loving your Nintendo content Max!

Always has been my favorite streamer and will always be fan for life max!

enjoyed the Reading Rainbow with Max in this stream.

that "lake" was the ocean isn't it? being the edge of map and all

49:19 Max fighting wall master: "thats freaky, kinda lame though" Wall Master: "and i took that personally"

2:01:35 Max calling Muffin for help and Muffin being absolutely no help at all is still absolutely hilarious to me.

I admire your dedication to the 80s experience. I'd like to see you try this with Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest.

40:06 quite possible the best line of this whole FP 😂😂😂

I am laughing so hard watching you play dude. Brings me back 35 years ago to when I first started Zelda on my NES 😂