Proud to say I beat Zelda II on NES today. I've actually never beaten this game - I was always a big fan of the original, but the second game just never did it for me. When the game was released, I only ever completed 2 Palaces and always got my ass kicked on the way to the Hammer (through the maze of caves). Anyway, today I felt like sitting down and playing it from start to finish, and I managed to beat it in about 4 hours. I did cheap kill Dark Link though - I was out of lives and really didn't feel like doing that final Palace again - that place was a bitch.

Oh, and I liked the game btw - it's always been the one Zelda game I just never cared about, but now I can actually say that I think it's pretty good.