I like that Elite Beat Agents took advantage of the DS screen gap but man does it look weird in screenshots

Asked Kev if I should make this a thing

He said Maybe

Maybe = Yes right?

So one of the cooler parts of Camp Hyrule was that Nintendo had these interactive maps to kinda give off the sense that even though it was all just chatrooms, everything was all connected. I always thought it helped set the atmosphere that you were at a real Nintendo-themed camp. 

Camp Hyrule started in ‘95 but as far as the records will show, ‘95 & ‘96 were exclusively chatrooms hosted through AOL’s website. No pretty map tragically. On top of that, I can’t find any accounts of what happened those first two years! I never could! What went down when Camp Hyrule started will forever be a mystery to me…

I didn’t show up on the CH scene until 2001, so keep in mind that these first few won’t be firsthand accounts.

Fast forward to 1997 and we have our first map. 

Well ok, there’s nothing particularly Nintendo-y about these early ones. Bear with me here, they were just getting started. This is pretty small-scale compared to later maps. It has the basic CH chat hangouts. The Cabins, the Bonfire, and I believe that big one next to the cabins is the Mess Hall.

The other two buildings (no idea which is which) are the First Aid Hut, where you’d go for tech support, and the Craft Hall, which was a hub for all the daily contests and activities and news. In later years, the Craft Hall would be called the Trading Post.

Even the lake is a thing! Known as Lake Webaconda, this body of water served as a hub to visit fellow campers’ websites. Later on, it would lose this purpose but we’ll talk about that when we come to it.

And that pretty much sums up CH 97 map! As we travel down this rickety bridge of forgotten history, we’ll see the campground expand in glorious and wonderful ways that are bound to delight and entertain all that gaze upon their majesty. And gazing there will be, friends! 

Gazing there will be…

By the way, some of these early CH maps are incredibly hard to find on the internet these days. It was thanks to the obsessive efforts of a friend of a friend that I can present this one and a few of the years that follow it!

Interested in a new Camp Hyrule? Check out this post!

If you don’t know what Camp Hyrule was, it used to be this virtual summer camp that Nintendo hosted for one week every August from 1995-2006. It was mostly a bunch of chatrooms but there was like daily contests and little Flash mini-games and everyone was set up in different cabins (exclusive chatrooms) and most of the time there was a fun, hokey plot going on, like the moon falling or the Gamecube blueprints getting stolen, and sometimes bigwigs from NoA like Treehouse members or even Reggie would come down for an interview.

It was a fantastic experience and it was always fun getting together every year and participating in all the events and making new friends!

2007 was the last time Nintendo had a Camp Hyrule but all the community parts were kaput. No chatrooms, no cabins, no hokey plot. It was just a contest to win a Link statue, a couple of the classic Flash games, and posting fond memories.

Lately I’ve been wondering if I could try bringing back Camp Hyrule. Right here on Tumblr. At the very least, I can get cabins and daily camp activities set up using Tumblr. I’m still trying to figure out a solution for the chatrooms. Because hey, why sign up for a camp if you can’t interact with fellow campers?

I’d really love to do this but I need to know the interest is there.  That’s step 1 in this whole deal. Can’t have a camp without campers right? If I see enough people willing to participate, then we have ourselves a new fake virtual camp! Plus, I’ll start ironing out more details. It’s not just campers I need though, I’m looking to get some counselors (mods) too to keep cabins in check and whatnot. 

I don’t need money and neither will you, since Camp Hyrule will be free just like the official one. The only thing I really need is to know if people are on board with getting a new CH going. 

Thanks for reading (assuming you read it)! Like, Reply, Answer, Reblog do whatever you want to let me know if youre into it. 

Kirby’s Block Ball has a bonus game where you have to push clouds towards a goal to score some extra lives.

When you try pushing a cloud up towards the goal they look sad

When your ball hits a cloud from above they get angry

What are they feeling??? Are they sad because they don’t want to win? Are they angry because they don’t want to lose? 

MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU DAMN CLOUDS!!

ruinswithstrings replied to your post: Wait why does this dog even have a baby turtle…

you’ve exposed a ring of cross species baby slavery.

Wait why does this dog even have a baby turtle

What the hell’s going on here

Golden Sun 2’s Animal Trade Quest is now an Animal Slave Trade Quest

I’m not comfortable with this

I haven’t played Golden Sun 2 in a few years

And yet I subconsciously remember which chest are Mimics

It’s like I remembered after all this time

My brain shoved out everything I learned in high school

And kept the locations of fake treasure chests in a video game

Much like I always spam Mind Read every time I play the Golden Suns

I always spam Tattle every time I play the Paper Marios

I don’t know how I would get anything done if I didn’t constantly bother Goombario all the time about all the things ever