Sometimes one forgets what happened, and sometimes one wades into the abyss of time to be able to remember it. One such example was Philips' CD-i, a commercially unsuccessful attempt to get a CD-driven gaming console into everyone's hands before the fifth generation of PS1-led consoles was in full swing. Through a complex arrangement, Philips gave third-party developer Animation Magic the rights to create games using Nintendo's IP on the new system. Thus were born two classics of The Legend of Zelda series: Faces of Evil and Link: Link: The Face of Evil and Link: The Staff of Gamron, classics in the age-old sense, but not in any other sense.

Anyway, a beautiful person with the pseudonym Dopply has rebuilt and remade these two lost Zelda games for Windows and Linux." He said, "It's a remake using the original assets, and it's free to download. Remaking the games was Dopply's decision to learn how to make games." I spent four years developing it at Game Maker as an exercise in self-taught game development and as a joke between friends." "As an amateur effort, the programming got a little rough, but, well, it works." He said.

There are a few links to download the game yourself. Otherwise, you can read the whole thing on Twitter at @thedopster.

If you're interested, I'd suggest downloading it as soon as possible, as Nintendo is notoriously litigious and litigious. On the other hand, I am not even sure if Nintendo has the rights to these games. Nintendo probably does not know if they own the rights to these games. No one probably knows who owns the rights to these games. They should.