And yet when you walk up and down, it's always in his left hand? Give me a break buddy.

And you just can't make a left hand when he is facing right (without his sprite looking really weird) and it's a lot easier to just mirror the image of the sprite instead of having it attempt to stay true to being left handed.

MARIOGIRL1999  wrote:

 

From what iv'e seen on walkthroughs (I do not own the original zelda game) Link is always using his left hand, even when he faces the side. Can you find a video or picture that proves other wise?

Well, here's a pic from Zelda 2 that had him being ambidextrous (though that had more to do with the fact that since it was a side scroller, they couldn't have him be left handed and still have the shield in front of him at all times without flipping him around) http://www.shamoozal.com/nerdlog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sh_zelda_2.jpg

This is from original zelda: http://daftbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Zelda-NES.jpg

You can see him holding the shield in his left hand instead (again, because it would look really weird in his other hand for this sprite)

Exactly

Aw... I'm not the first person to notice this (for the quiz).

At any rate, this trend actually continues through most of the 2d Zelda games, including Link's Awakening, the Oracles, A link to the past, and Four Swords

(It probably still happens in Minish Cap, but I don't remember).

At any rate, as long as link looks to the right, the shield is in his left hand, and sword in his right, therefore, he's ambidextrous in the original NES game, and the quiz was done incorrectly.

It's right and it's wrong.  It is meaningless in terms of the sweepstakes, however, since the five winners were chosen at random, regardless of if all their answers were correct or not.

"Look at all the artwork of Link in the games"

Okay.

::goes and gets his boxed copy of the ORIGINAL Legend of Zelda out of his closet and looks in the manual:

Yup.  Sword in his right hand.