Ocarina of Time was censored for its explicit violence

Currently, the video game that does not stop receiving patches and updates to modify its content in order to improve it and to correct errors or the necessary details is rare. However, when there was no internet and the titles came in cartridges it was impossible to resort to these methods to fix or change whatever.

Nintendo itself verified it directly with the launch of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, because it turns out that for many it is the best installment of the saga. was censored. It is certainly striking to talk about something like this in a Nintendo game, but this time it was due to the violence that the adventure presented.

To do this, you have to advance to the final battle against Ganondorf, since when you defeat him and he is dying there is an instant in which he spits blood from the damage he has suffered from Link’s blows. The thing is originally the franchise’s biggest villain spit red bloodbut Nintendo decided to change it to become green blood.

This same It also happened in the last fight of all against Ganon, when you defeat him and Link starts slashing at him incessantly. There it begins to rain drops of blood everywhere in red or green, depending on the version in which it is played.

All this situation happened only and exclusively in the versions published in cartridge of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

. Specifically, three different ones were distributed, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, although the last of these is the most common and the one that practically anyone who has a copy of the game has.

The way to check it is very simple, since you only need to take your cartridge and turn it over to look at the part of the labelwhere the following will be highlighted:

Version 1.0: two numbers appear
Version 1.1: two numbers and the letter A appear
Version 1.2: two numbers and the letter B appear

Another way to know without resorting to this method is by looking at the color of the cartridge, because all those that were distributed in gold color are from version 1.0. For this very reason, because of their rarity and because of details like this one about censorship, they are so coveted.

Nintendo has always been characterized by developing video games for the whole family, so it is likely that they chose to modify Ganondorf’s blood in order to get the lowest age rating. Of course, what he overlooked is changing the Temple of Shadows, because it seems that there was no way to clean the red blood from the floor…