If someone asked you to name the CD-i Zelda games, you might remember Wand of Gamelon and Faces of Evil, but you probably wouldn’t recall Zelda’s Adventure, the game that former ONM editor Matthew Castle described thusly: “What it lacked in hideous toons it made up for with live-action FMV – visits from a beardy wizard (not a professional actor, but the game’s music composer) whose shambolic preamble makes Knightmare look like Lord Of The Rings.”
Now, Zelda’s Adventure is a game so bad that it has mostly been forgotten, even in the annals of “bad games”. The run is one hour and 15 minutes long, and you can watch it here: Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube
However, AGDQ also always features something affectionately known as the “Awful Block” - a chunk of time, usually in the wee hours, which features only the crappiest games possible.ĭouggernaught and AGDQ’s Awful Block are a match made in hell, and this year, they finally got together, with Doug’s run of Zelda’s Adventure at 3am ET, Thursday 13th January. With world records in Ripened: Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love (the Japan-only sequel to Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland) and legendarily awful CD-i game, Zelda’s Adventure, Doug’s self-described hobby is “Bad Games Fast”.Īwesome Games Done Quick is an annual week-long speedrunning charity fundraising stream, which mostly focuses on big hitter games like Super Mario Galaxy, Ocarina of Time, and, er, Geoguessr (which is really popular, actually).
Speedrunner Douggernaught almost exclusively plays bad games.