Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda
Philip Summers hand-draws game guides for old school video games. He’s done guides for games like Mega Man, Castlevania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), and Metroid.
But my favorite one is The Legend of Zelda game guide because Zelda was (and still is, tbh) my absolute favorite NES game — and you can get it for free at the Internet Archive. Somewhere in my personal archive is the map I drew for the second quest of Zelda; I also still have my original game cartridge.
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Yes! I love this.
In the early 80s (I am 53), I somehow inherited a copy of ZORK on floppy disc and ran it on a Commodore 64. That game was text based and as such, I had to draw a map as I went.
Having done that, I realized that these cartographic "side quests" to the actual video game was one of the things I loved most about this type of gaming. What other games inspired you guys to draw maps?
Here is a link to Zork (which I think has appeared on Kottke before):
https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/game/infocom/zork1/
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