{"id":3988,"date":"2017-03-04T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-was-the-perfect-excuse-to-revisit-links-awakening\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:14:52","slug":"the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-was-the-perfect-excuse-to-revisit-links-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-was-the-perfect-excuse-to-revisit-links-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was the perfect excuse to revisit Link\u2019s Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a kid, page<\/a> my parents had a no TV policy, and by proxy, no video games. Some of my friends had the big gaming consoles with which they introduced me to Mario and Sonic on the occasional sleepover. But when it came to the world of games, I felt mostly left out.<\/p>\n

My first exposure to gaming as a hobby \u2014 and to the fantasy genre in general \u2014 came from Link. My parents got me a Game Boy for Christmas in 1993, and it came with The Legend of Zelda: Link\u2019s Awakening<\/em>. When I asked them recently about it, they said I\u2019d pestered them so incessantly that they couldn\u2019t help but lift their parental restrictions. <\/p>\n

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