what’s the best video game ever I’m Joshua some taxes let’s talk about that good mythical morning this happens brought to you by the rhettandlink community that’s where are you the mythical beasts can converse and create with other fans of this show and other things that we converse and create about last week we asked you what’s the best video game ever and you voted by commenting we make it easy here on good mythical morning used to give and take I was trying to go on and on about earlier you give us votes and then we take them and compile them and then we give you back what you voted yeah we got lots of opinions space invaders minecraft Halo Skyrim pong I think that’s one of the first video games ever if not the first ever I’ve never seen it or played it oh I’m a big fan it’s not the one with just the ball and the two things football in the two things is a perfect way to describe it portal they should have called it that the one ball and the two things portal I saw that in the comments a lot I never played that but apparently it’s a very popular game many people have played it well as you’ll soon learn never playing that actually means nothing nothing the overwhelming cry from the comments is that the best video game ever is Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time I mean no one was even close I don’t know the exact numbers were but more than twice as many as the second place which I think was Super Mario Brothers was Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time this is like a 1998 release in the Legend of Zelda series comments about all these comments the hobo leader of chaos said it made me a better person and made me hate fairies forever whoa so I mean if it’s enough sad almost but I’ll read two more pumbaa motion said Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time is the best video game ever because it is the perfect mix of a mix of items except stuff I could read these I mean I’m open to it I also read English tell me alia it is the best mix four of mindless violence and semi tricky puzzles that really give a player a sense of accomplishment when you get by it and finally shake pool I’m gonna try to read this one – legend of zelda ocarina of time it laid the groundwork for all adventure games today and it’s still more fun than some of the games that come out nowadays what did you choose I’ll tell you what I chose I believe I kind of agree with what the people said and kind of what that lands me now you’ve never played it no I’m kind of agreeing with them I’m also disagreeing with them because I think the best video game ever is the first Legend of Zelda okay the original Legend of Zelda I think the best video game ever is Super Mario Brothers so you know let’s just have a little friendly discussion here but I’ll start out with you know one of my first experiences with the Nintendo I remember when that thing came home we plugged it all in it comes with Super Mario Brothers you in awesome duck hunt duck hunt and it also came with that pad that you’re supposed to run on but I was like through that no it’s like what is that a tarp mine didn’t come with that it’s hard to protect the Nintendo you got a special one and it was just exhilarating playing that 2d scroller this is no longer pac-man eating ghosts on the Atari you know or pitfall this is a whole new world of WoW when I go to the right it just keeps going you’re going and going and look there’s a castle and there’s a there’s a flag and you can go in if I and I bet you if I’m skilled enough I can jump over that flagpole I never was no and but there was plenty of school mates who said that they had figured that chant landrum said he figured out how to jump over it’s impossible now jump over it it can be done no I can’t is it it’d be proven no it’s impossible to tell him in the cumbia maybe yeah I’d do it with a game genie did you have a game genie were you a cheater you had a game genie what a loser that’s what they call me in middle school a game genie I agree with you to a certain extent also because I love Super Mario Brothers and I remember that first night that I got it and I remember our parents let us play it to like 9:30 p.m. and then we had to go to bed that Christmas night and I remember sitting there and I did not go to sleep until like 3:00 a.m. and I was just thinking about the game in I remember I specifically remember you immediately get it no sir I specifically remember thinking that I have found why I was created I remember thinking about that game and how fun it was and just not being able to get past the fact that the greatest discovery in the history of mankind had just entered my home and Ike in the morning I was gonna be able to go back out there and play it again and it was mind-blowing now I think it changed it changed my life because my stepdad at the time it was one of the first first things that we did together and bonded on was playing Mario Brothers he would play I play Mario and he would play loogie I called him loogie that’s how you say it my stepdad did not correct me so I don’t know what that says about him maybe he was just with me you did not know that it was Luigi I thought it was loogie which you were friends with me there and I knew that you didn’t know that well you didn’t tell me and you know I’m sure then we moved on to play this game called jackal which was an overhead game where you would throw grenades out of a jeep there’s a tanker I played that with my stepdad Jimmy and we were we bonded so now that’s my favorite game now Nintendo jackal I you know I have some arguments about the original Zelda but David Littleford on our Facebook page made some great arguments that I’m gonna just take he said props to David Littleford the originally fired up about this I’m he’s passionate the original Zelda here’s why first game to allow the user to actually save the game on the cartridge you could have a game loaded on the Colts on the cartridge and it would pick up and keep your progress from that didn’t happen in any other game it started with Zelda and let me pause you on that one second he’s telling me this because listen I will admit my name is Linc I was not named after Zelda I meet I’ll meet people and they will say link like Zelda I was like yeah they named the game after me never played the game never press the buttons at least even once while the game was on a screen I’m so offended by I I do feel like I should apologize I feel like you know it’s my namesake I’ve I’m sorry but I’m just weird in that way I always never it was I couldn’t get it I was intimidated you don’t you don’t you don’t break bricks you don’t eat mushrooms you don’t get larger or eat flowers and spit fire I don’t get it you were intimidated by the challenge it will it was overhead into boring it was not boring it was phenomenal it was life-changing in fact it was the first game according to David Littleford to have documented cases of game addiction Legend of Zelda is the first game that people were documented to be addicted to and would actually lose their jobs and I specifically remember getting involved in this quest and just the fact that there were so many places you could go so many things you could do and you could keep your progress and you were and you would like the fact that you could save your progress is the reason that you would become addicted to it because you would get to a point and you really I gotta get back to that I got it I got it I gotta say I’m sick I got a stay home from how long does it take the beat live in his oh I don’t know what the total hours of gameplay are I’m not familiar with those statistics but I mean it took me as a like a eight year old at least a year playing it off and on and I haven’t going to school and asking Chad Landrum it’s quite an investment I thought Chad Landrum just was able to figure everything out and then like a year into that process of me always getting these tips from him I realized that he just subscribed a Nintendo Power magazine mmm-hmm and you which he still subscribes to today probably you know you can beat Super Mario Brothers in about five minutes if you’re a professional oh yeah I not easy no that’s the record I beat Super Mario Brothers in less than twenty minutes the last time I played it on the week I’ll be honest I’ve never beat the Super Mario I’ve never beaten it how do you not I I just can’t I can’t walk around no listen oh they’re gonna blank there’s a maze at the end at level 5 1 or 5 2 whatever it is there’s a maze no no no no get the unlimited menu know when you jump on the turtle I couldn’t do that either you don’t have to get the unknown how was it how was it I was an only child and I didn’t have close enough friends I showed me how to do it I could come over tonight and show you how to do it well it’s too late now I don’t really care for it but yeah there was the other thing last night my kids were playing it my wife can beat it Christy she’s really into it she loves it the kids played with her that’s another testimony dude being better than legend that it spans ages it spans decades I mean look at all the spin-offs of Mario Brothers Mario has appeared in over 200 video games I read that somewhere on the Internet it has to be true yep well Legend of Zelda was the first open-world game ever thus giving later groundwork for games like Grand Theft Auto and a Skyrim series in other words David is saying that every game that is popular today meaning that we 2d scholars are not that popular anymore I mean some people still play them and there are some good ones but Sonic is pretty the games that people are addicted to today or open-world games in which they can go around they make decisions they determine where they’re gonna go they there’s not just one direction and one dimension that they’re going in a literal line that you’re going in and Super Mario Brothers but it was an open-world game and so I I’m with David on this it’s like the innovations of that being able to save your gameplay being able to have this open world and let us not forget as David points out it came in a gold case do you remember this it was a shiny gold case I did look at that yeah Legend of Zelda when you take everything into account you take into account its influence in the experience and the fact that you can still play it today and enjoy yourself best video game ever but I think we can’t agree at least amongst amongst rhettandlink like me and you between the two of us the best video game ever as far as our friendship goes is what you know two syllables contra oh we played a lot of contract our friendship was built on contract and I’ll never beat that either even with a cheat no it only gave me 30 men you just bad at video games I was at your house playing it and we never beat it I beat it by myself I didn’t want you to be there when I beat it you don’t want to show you out get me in the dark yeah shout out to the Principality of Sealand is how we’re ending this F is the Principality of Sealand is an island nation that is on a formal naval base of the British Army all right without boring them with more details just get ready and I will say leave a comment below next week we’re gonna talk about what is the best television theme song ever not limited by time not limited by space television theme song best one ever comments below Principality of Sealand you’re not an actual landmass you’re man-made and it’s questionable whether or not you should be categorized as a nation and in fact you’re not categorized as a nation there was an old crazy man who occupied you at some plane declared you to be a principality of sealand and for that even though it’s illegitimate on every level possible is one of the coolest things ever because you my friend and the people who still live there to this day I don’t know if anybody still lives there have declared a nation just out of a platform in the middle of the ocean and that’s something that all of us could strive to do jackal I think I’m gonna go back to jackal we have separate wives and separate showers I’m glad you asked