Gaming stories from Noozify's own reporting.
Sony's PlayStation outsold it three to one and took Final Fantasy VII with it. Thirty years after the North American launch, every controller has the N64's analog stick, every action game has Ocarina of Time's lock-on, and Nintendo is about to sell the same 1998 game again.
Nintendo gave one franchise a full 30 minutes and spent it on restraint. A movie announced with no trailer, an Ocarina of Time remake that leaves Hyrule Field as empty as it was in 1998, a concert tour, and a console that ships without the game.
They were bound for a smelter, to have the gold stripped from their circuit-board contacts. Instead 97 copies of a Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt variant nobody had ever documented sat in a Wisconsin storage room for years — until a collector asked what was in the box.
Nintendo is remaking Ocarina of Time, the most revered video game ever scored. The question of whether that amounts to devotion or vandalism has a stranger answer than fans suspect.