Zelda!

Every once in a while I go through these moments of extreme doubt about my job. The weight of the real world feels super heavy and making video games doesn't feel like a very noble profession.

I think it's obvious that this time around it was triggered by Erick's death.

Whenever I feel like this there's always this one memory that I come back to. When I was about 8 years old my brother and I saw what can only be described as a completely fucking insane ad on tv for The Legend of Zelda. (side note: I would love to talk to someone that had a hand in this over at Nintendo of America... wtf?!?) We were kind of tired of Super Mario and we were hungry as shit for something new to put in the most holy of video game consoles, the Nintendo Entertainment System.

This part always gets fuzzy... but I think that our Dad matched our money dollar for dollar with a most generous donation so that we could scoop Zelda within the first few weeks of its launch. The game was such a huge mystery... no one knew what to expect. I just know that as an 8 year old boy the anticipation and joy that I had when first firing up Zelda was overwhelming. And holy shit... the game did not disappoint. It consumed me for months... just an amazing innovative work from Miyamoto.

So if I can help make one person in the world feel the way that I did when I first slapped that golden cartridge into my NES, then it seems to me that I accomplished something worthwhile in my life. And working at Double Fine I really feel that we're not only making great games, but we have a chance to make someone's favorite game ever.

Sorry for this totally emo and self-indulgent post. I've been cooking up some other topics about some crap that bothers me about the industry right now but they all seem kind of weak at the moment. Maybe next week. :D!

-Brad!