25 years of Zelda official play through day 1

I've had a goal ever since I played the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the N64 back in the 90's, to play and beat every Zelda game ever made on their original consoles. Today I have started 'The Legend of Zelda' for the NES.

First thing's first, you gotta have a sword if you're going to save the Princess. In the first cave you see there is an old man with a wise warning, "It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This" as he just up and hands you your first sword (well that was easy). There are a lot of neat little side secrets in the over  world before starting on the true quest too. I found 3 heart containers (no pieces of heart in the original) and the blue ring which upgrades my tunic and enables me to only take half damage. I also found the white sword, which is the first sword upgrade making ones sword more powerful (naturally).

As I stumbled into the first dungeon I discovered a strange little glitch, Easter egg, or whatever you want to call it, I call it the first of many Zelda Secrets.

1. Zelda secret number one!! - - - The rumor is that in many of the original Zelda games you can walk into a dungeon and see a locked door, if you leave the dungeon and then reenter, the door is unlocked!
1. I did actually try this to see if it would work and I can confirm that it does. :)

As I was going through the dungeon the old man appeared again in a black room with strange thing to say. "Eastmost Penninsula is the Secret" (yes peninsula is spelled incorrectly in the game) The reason I bring this up is that it is extremely vague and many have come to believe it to be a loss of translation. I took the liberty of looking it up and according to  the folks at Zelda Pedia http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Eastmost_Penninsula it is referring to the location of the first piece of triforce which is in the dungeon. On one of the video walk through I found the man said he thought it refereed to a secret in the over world containing 100 rupees.

So at this point I've played for about 45 minutes but most of that time was exploring the over world. The dungeon itself was very easy and the boss battle was against the dragon-unicorn hybrid Aquamentus. Basically just swing your sword at him, and if you're at full health you can do a ranged attack with your sword. In the dungeon I found the boomerang, and the bow, however I can't use the bow because it doesn't come with arrows (Lame!!) I will have to buy them from a cave outside. 

Biggest problem with this game is that I can't save!! The only way to save is to die and have the option of Save, Quit Retry. I tried a lot of the little 'outsmart the machine' maneuvers such as unplugging the control to get the machine to say 'hey! why did you do that?' but no instead I froze the console and had to re due the first dungeon as well as collect my super awesome extras from before. ugh... New goal! Die on Purpose.