Have you ever finished Zelda II: tAoL?

I did and I felt so accomplished in doing so. I wanted to put it down and replay OoT so badly.

I never did, but I did write a walkthrough for it.

The early 2000s were a weird time for the Internet.

I actually do have access to the console and game. I own 3 NES, all of which I replaced the 42 pin connectors on. I've also got a copy of AoL, although I don't recall how well it works.

I'd be fine giving the game a serious chance, though I don't really give myself a lot of time for video games these days, and I've never really thought AoL was very fun to play. So I'd need a reason to set aside time to play it.

As for writing a walkthrough, it's kind of a long story. Basically, I was a huge fan of all the numerous Zelda fan sites that were all over the place in the early 2000s. I very much wanted to participate. So at one point I saw a website called "Zelda Cubed" that was hiring a walkthrough writer. I took the job, and was tasked with writing walkthroughs for all the zelda games. I decided to do AoL first, because I thought it was an underrepresented game in the Zelda community. But since I'd never played it, I went to GameFAQs and found someone else's walkthrough to serve as a guide for my own.

After doing some actual professional writing work, I've learned that this kind of thing is pretty normal and expected of working writers. But at the time, I thought what I was doing was pretty shady. The document I ended up writing was 100% my own work, filled with a lot of dumb jokes, unnecessary parenthetical statements, and poor phrasing. I just had no way of ensuring that my walkthrough was correct, since I was relying on the work of someone else who had actually played the game. (At least I assume they did). Truth be told, I really don't like doing that sort of thing. I've so far avoided it in my writing career, but I also don't make a living wage as a writer, so maybe I've got too much pride. =P

As an addendum to the story, I was actually the only active staff member of Zelda Cubed, aside from the webmaster himself. Eventually, he set up a forum for his website. I wasn't allowed on forums, but I decided to join anyway, and he made me a moderator of the forum.

That forum was actually a sub-forum of another forum, called "The Sacred Realm." And that's how I ended up on TSR in the first place.

You know one of my Webmaster on ZC is named Phantom Link which I wouldnt be surprised is a play on Dark Link....

No need to be apologetic, but since Dark Link is my evil doppelgänger you can just let me judge him ok

Get it....my name is Link.