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Below you can look through the history and famous recordings of the very first Zelda for Eternity marathon.
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The history of the very first marathon as told by SpaghettiWeegee:
"Lemme tell ya what happened.
THE YEAR
WAS 2010
THE DAY
WAS AUGUST
uh
THURSDAY.
THE FIRST THURSDAY IN AUGUST.
Anyway, we started the marathon at noon and the audience largely showed up because Zelda Dungeon posted about it.
We finished LoZ in about 4 hours and AoL in about 5, bringing us into the night with ALttP, which Richard ended up staying up all night playing, and we didn't finish it until like 9 the next morning.
Then Richard started LA and ALMOST ended the marathon right there out of sheer exhaustion and raw unbridled fury.
But he didn't, so we were cool.
And after that happened, our legendary run of OoT began.
It started out okay, but what took us so long was getting HOPELESSLY LOST in the Forest Temple and taking about 5 hours in the Water Temple.
We finished that 24 hours after LA, at which point Mike took over and played MM for 8 hours through the night and was bestowed with the prestigious title of Majora's Mask Master.
We reconvened the next day with Oracle of Ages, which we didn't finish on account of save data corruption, and Oracle of Seasons, which took us until 10 that night. There I did something heroic and trollish and finished the game for Richard when he was once again too exhausted to go on. I'd never played OoS before.
Then we began The Wind Waker, by far our BEST game.
As it took a mere 15 hours.
We raced Shank and he was 7 minutes ahead.
By about
halfway through.
Anyway, we finished TWW around noon the following day and had to end it there, without TMC or TP.
But we did play SSBB.
Starting another tradition.
And that's the story.
Following the marathon..
After Ganon was defeated for the 4th time that week, Zelda for Eternity's maiden voyage came to an end, and with it, an aftermath that many would remember as Zelda Eternity's first Golden Age. The day following the finale, at approximately 1:00 in the morning (EST), Mike and the rest of the ZE gang launched ZE's main social hub and discussion center, the Zelda Eternity Forums. For the first few months of their existence, the forums were exploding with activity, with dozens of members signing up and posting all over the place. After the initial hubub of the original marathon died down, the forums settled into a casual, if sometimes quiet place for the Zelda Eternity community to communicate, compete, show off, or just chill out. Many from the original marathon, viewers and streamers included, have since become mainstays in the Zelda Eternity community, and some have even become (and subsequently quit from the) Zelda Eternity staff. You could say the original marathon gave ZE a foundation, and made it and its community into what it is today. However, the original ZE marathon was not without significant technical issues-- as anyone who was there will tell you, the stream suffered from frequent off-airs, and the small, local team that hosted it suffered from exhaustion and copious amounts of teen angst by the time it was over."
-SpaghettiWeegee
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Garrett & Richard (SpaghettiWeegee & Doublet) doing the Zelda Rap and the Kamaro Dance |
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Falcool Kick!
REAGAN SMASH
Pink Liquid
Taco Cookies
Majora's Mask Master Mike
SheikahWarrior
HorseShoe cookies
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