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Zelda 20th Anniversary

Tomorrow (the 21st) is the 20th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. Yes, 20 years ago Japanese gamers were jamming brand new disks into their Famicom Disk Systems. Americans/Europeans would get their turn a year later in 1987.
I can think of no better way to spend tomorrow than firing up your NES/emulator and giving the classic a run-through. If you're like me, you'll be surprised at how much you remember. Ah, to be seven again...

Thanks for the reminder, Minna ni naisho dayo.

Edit: More Zelda Love
Polygone posted this .gif charting the evolution of Link on GAF.


Also, peep this totally def Zelda CM.

Edit: Even More Zelda Love
While that last CM was totally def, this one is the best Zelda CM ever.

Also, 1up.com has Two Decades of Zelda: 20 Years, 20 Reasons Link Still Rocks.

New Tetris DS Movies

The British Gaming Blog has posted the first movies of Tetris DS in action. Those of you unaware of Nintendo's update to the classic may be wondering why you should care - Classic Nintendo Characters and WiFi internet play. That's why.
Tetris is always near the top of the many "best games ever" lists and for good reason. It's perfect. Not just close to perfection, it is perfection.
This will go great with the DS Lite.

"Cargo Cults" actually exist

The newest issue of Smithsonian Magazine has a fascinating article about a group of South Pacific villagers that worship an American named John Frum.

The island’s John Frum movement is a classic example of what anthropologists have called a “cargo cult”—many of which sprang up in villages in the South Pacific during World War II, when hundreds of thousands of American troops poured into the islands from the skies and seas. As anthropologist Kirk Huffman, who spent 17 years in Vanuatu, explains: “You get cargo cults when the outside world, with all its material wealth, suddenly descends on remote, indigenous tribes.” The locals don’t know where the foreigners’ endless supplies come from and so suspect they were summoned by magic, sent from the spirit world. To entice the Americans back after the war, islanders throughout the region constructed piers and carved airstrips from their fields. They prayed for ships and planes to once again come out of nowhere, bearing all kinds of treasures: jeeps and washing machines, radios and motorcycles, canned meat and candy.

I really thought this was the kind of thing that only happened in movies.
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