Awful CD-i Zelda games get remixed
by Kyle Orland 
{ Sep 9th 2006 at 2:45PM }
While checking out Something Awful's recent, videogame-themed Photoshop Phriday contest, we couldn't help but notice a link to the site's latest Flash Tub feature, which actually manages to make something good out of the eminently forgettable CD-i Zelda games. Apparently, some SA forum members took audio clips from the games' hilariously bad dialogue and remixed them into some maddeningly catchy techno songs. They even went so far as to create a so-bad-its-good Flash animation for one of the songs, which has a hook that will have you mumbling "I can't wait to bomb some dodongos" all weekend.Click the read link to view the video and download MP3s of some of the remixes, or continue reading for some hilarious YouTube video of the source material.
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PSWii360 Fanbot @ Sep 9th 2006 2:53PM
Yeah those games truly sucked
Madikai @ Sep 9th 2006 3:03PM
*shivers* I remember beating both Link: Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon as a kid... can't these things just die as gracefully as abominations such as they can? *sobs* the nightmares are returning... can't they let me sleep?
PSWii360 Fanbot @ Sep 9th 2006 3:06PM
But that flash remix is great!
canebi @ Sep 9th 2006 4:47PM
I won...
The last thing he says is "I won"?
WTF was that! That has t be the WORST animation i've ever seen. EVER.
Nintendo?
potato @ Sep 9th 2006 4:06PM
it's like they are doing sign language when they're talking
LongshotX @ Sep 12th 2006 7:04PM
Easily one of the worst games of all time.
Breserk @ Sep 16th 2006 7:43AM
All the remixes were excellent! Great laughs.
Squeedom @ Sep 9th 2006 5:24PM
and that ladies and gentlemen is why there are no voices in the legend of zelda series.
kevinski @ Sep 9th 2006 5:48PM
Hahahaha...Gux's is great. As for the animation, I thought that it was pretty well-done. It's nothing like the animation in the CD-I games, for the record (and that's a good thing).
Kyou @ Sep 9th 2006 6:40PM
NOOO, THE NIGHTMARES ARE BACK!
Actually, when you're a kid you can't really tell good games from bad games most of the time. You just play whatever is in your reach... The worst part of it was probably playing with that stupid CD-I remote control. Ugh... it's like playing any other videogame with your standard remote control.
Don Jose @ Sep 10th 2006 3:20AM
Wow. All those shitty games, and no mention of Majora's Mask? That was easily the worst (read it again if you think you're mistaken) of the Nintendo Zelda games. It was so awful that it created an entirely new realm of bad: Somewhere below getting fired and above eating 10-day-old carrion.
rockintom99 @ Sep 10th 2006 5:09PM
Crap, that was horrible (the games, not the flash remix. that was great). How the hell could Nintendo let such horrible things be made?
Psaakyrn @ Sep 9th 2006 11:09PM
to #6 Squeedom
Actually, I thought it was the "excuse me, princess" thing which made Nintendo decide to make Link mute, but this works too. c.c
Tom @ Sep 9th 2006 11:33PM
"Great! I'll grab my stuff!" ~ Link
hahahahaah LMAO!!!!
Teri @ Sep 10th 2006 3:43PM
Just for the record, those games were NOT made by Nintendo. They're the putrid remnants of a business deal that didn't go through. Long story short, Nintendo licensed the Zelda characters to Philips when the two were in the midst of creating a CD add-on for the SNES. When the Sega CD went under, Nintendo got spooked and pulled out of the deal. Philips went ahead and released what became the CD-i and then made liberal use of the Zelda license they'd temporarily acquired.
Ugh. I'd never actually seen them in action...but it is truly a horrific site. After watching all 4 of those videos in a row, it will take me the rest of the weekend to get the taste of vomit out of back of my throat.
(The flash video was amusing though.)
quicksilverzxc @ Sep 10th 2006 12:45AM
I never played the CD-I games, and now I'm glad. Did Nintendo really make them? I never heard of the console besides from these Zelda games, what was it?
B-Mo @ Sep 10th 2006 1:15AM
The hand movements while talking! Is THIS what inspired the same thing with resident evil? "I can't wait to bomb some dodongos!" becomes "Wait! don't open that door!" ...It saddens me that those games were ever made. Poor link, they would've been so much better if they would've used clips from the Cartoon show. That would've been pretty cool... with some "Well Excuuuuuuse me, Princess!" going on.
Thy Freak @ Sep 10th 2006 1:32AM
@12
Those abombonations are not made by the Big N they were made by Philips because the CD-I was suppsoed to be a CD attachment for the SNES but Nintendo wanted out but they screwed up and Philips had the rights to the Nintendos games
kite @ Sep 10th 2006 12:43PM
*slaps don jose*
I hope you played it untill the end, and not with the slow-time-function :D
I found it pretty good. Except from the easy bosses (not the fish, he was evil), it was a damn good game. I really liked the fresh concept of 3 days time, and no more.
Exbzurg @ Sep 10th 2006 10:47PM
"How the hell could Nintendo let such horrible things be made?"
like all companies, the big N was under the control of the big $...
thankfully the've learned the error of their ways...
*looks at tingles's rupee land zelda spin off* uhhhhh riight..
Don Jose @ Sep 11th 2006 3:09AM
kite: yes, I played it through. Can you name one of the Nintendo Zelda games that was worse (excluding Game Boy; I haven't played any of those). And don't say Wind Waker. That's such a pathetic purist cop out.
Drat @ Nov 28th 2006 2:27AM
It's one thing to read that they're bad. It's another entirely to actually see the footage. That transcends the bounds of bad.