The original Zelda in VR would have exploded my 6 year-old brain

A Japanese modder has managed to create something that will look simply remarkable to those of a certain age: The NES Legend of Zelda working beautifully in VR from a first-person perspective. “I feel like I’m in a dream of those days when I only knew the 8-bit graphics of the NES,” writes creator Sugary Noe.

Looking at this thing, you know how they feel. Hard to credit now of course but Zelda looked amazing for the time, and the strength of its visual design is arguably best-shown by the fact that much of what this game introduced remains core to the series—including Breath of the Wild, which returned to the original’s more open style.