noveltune Chapter 56 I Don't Want to Buy NES Teeth!
Chapter 56 I Don't Want to Buy NES Teeth!
May, 1985.
At this important moment of GAMENOVA's first anniversary, a game cartridge that had never been seen before appeared on the shelves of the game store.
It is a floppy disk size unique to NovaBox, and the outer casing is painted in a Robin Hood-like green.
The cover clearly displays its name in bold red lettering: "The Legend of Zelda".
The background depicts a magnificent fantasy world, with distant mountains and at their foot jungles, meadows, lakes, and streams...
A young boy holds a sword and a shield, staring straight ahead.
His costume was exactly like Robin Hood from the legends, or Peter Pan.
……
on the street.
"Mommy, my classmates all say NovaBox is more fun, please buy me one!"
Eleven-year-old Vincent pitifully clung to his mother's arm and shook it back and forth, as if he wanted to squeeze out a few tears to whine.
"That's because they've never used an NES before. I've already ordered one from the store manager in advance."
Vincent's mother, Emma, ignored his attempts to charm him and pulled him toward the game store.
"Listen to me, or NES will be gone too."
Emma's decision to buy the game console wasn't impulsive; Vincent's recent performance had been truly impressive.
Since she had some extra money at the time, she decided to buy a game console for her son.
She had planned to buy Vincent an Atari 2600, since it only cost $140 and she'd heard it had a ton of games.
But the appearance of NES changed her mind.
Although it was more expensive, the bundled Super Mario game made her know it must be good just by looking at it.
It's practically a family-friendly entertainment product made for the whole family.
Not to mention Vincent, even she herself was tempted to play after seeing it.
To my surprise, when I told Vincent about it, he seemed rather unhappy.
Even now, Vincent is still yelling nonsense like "NovaBox is cooler, NES is for little kids."
My God!
Emma recalled the scene she witnessed when she went to the game store to inquire about information.
A rascal is holding a plastic pistol and firing it repeatedly at the screen, occasionally uttering a few swear words.
That thing is the NovaBox that Vincent has been longing for.
The games on NovaBox are either two-player street brawls where one fights to the death, or games where players go around shooting each other with guns.
terrible!
She would never let her son play with that kind of thing!
While pondering, the two walked into the game store.
Although it's called a game store, it's actually almost the size of a supermarket.
The shelves were filled with a dazzling array of electronic entertainment digital products, including videotape rental services, videotapes, and game cartridges.
Emma didn't even need to look closely to guess where the NovaBox section was.
A huge crowd of unaccompanied children and young adults had gathered there, making it completely blocked.
There were two demo units on the booth for buyers to try out, and that group of people were queuing up to play with them.
As for NES, it's much warmer and more disciplined.
Housewives strolled around the shelves with their children, letting the kids choose their favorite cassette tapes.
You can often see people discussing the price of NES with the store staff.
"Go ahead, Vincent. Besides the NES, you're allowed to choose two games today."
Emma called out to Vincent, telling him to go and explore and find a game he liked.
She believed that once Vincent had truly experienced the amazing games on the NES, he would quickly forget about the NovaBox.
Vincent glanced hesitantly in the direction of the NovaBox section before reluctantly walking into the NES section.
Emma nodded in satisfaction, glancing towards NovaBox. Her gaze lingered on the group of arguing kids for a moment, and her brow furrowed slightly.
Those little brats are about the same age as Vincent. What were their parents thinking, letting them fool around in a place like this!
As a mother, I couldn't bear to watch them walk down the path of self-destruction.
Emma decided to go over and teach them a lesson herself.
Emma stepped closer, cleared her throat, and was about to organize her thoughts to reprimand them when she overheard several children whispering and arguing heatedly.
"Don't rely on brute force, use your wisdom! This level definitely requires us to solve a puzzle."
"Yes, the Triangle Force is just 'wisdom,' 'courage,' and 'strength,' so it must be implying that we should also use our wisdom to solve problems."
"Oh dear, let's hurry up and solve the mystery, Princess Zelda is waiting for us to rescue her!"
Hearing what they were saying, Emma, who was about to scold them, suddenly paused.
What's going on?
Is Wolfenstein 3D really telling such a glorious and righteous story?
With a question in mind, Emma walked around the crowd and turned towards the direction where she could see the screen.
It was completely different from the extremely realistic 3D graphics I had seen before. The whole picture was fresh and cute, without any of the style that GAMENOVA used to have.
The protagonist seems to be inside an underground castle, searching for a way out while facing a maze-like map.
Several cartoon-style monsters are wandering around the map, which seems to be bothering the children.
Aside from the sword given to them in the cave at the start, the only item they collected was a bomb.
"I think we should go out and try to earn some Lu coins first, get our hands on that powerful sword, and then come back. The temple is too difficult."
"Hey, Hunter. There's a weird auntie watching us..."
Several children looked up at Emma, who had a strange look in her eyes.
"Uh..." Emma laughed awkwardly, turning her gaze back to the screen, and asked curiously, "What are you guys playing? Is it the new Atari console?"
Emma was absolutely certain that this could not possibly be a product from GAMENOVA, the company that specializes in violence.
It must be because they don't know anything about gaming and mistakenly thought someone else's good game console was a Gamenova.
Yes, that must be it!
The children looked at each other, and after a while, they all burst out laughing at the same time.
The one named Hunter was clearly the leader of the kids, and he was also the one laughing the most.
He spoke with an air of superiority that seemed to come from nowhere, his head held high and chest puffed out.
"No way! Who would play with such outdated stuff? Auntie, are you from the last century?"
"...Then what is this?"
"NovaBox? You don't even know that?"
"NovaBox? They even have games like this?" Emma was a little confused.
"Yeah, it just came out last week, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Fantasy. It's so much fun, but unfortunately I can't afford to buy it, so I can only come here to try it out."
"It's okay, Hunter. Didn't your dad promise you he'd buy it for you once you got enough GPA? Like Link, use the power of your intelligence!"