I’m actually too embarrassed to make this post, but anyway, since Kotaku brought this up few days ago. Here are the two most horrible opening FMVs ever created in the video game history. Taken from you know what? two Zelda games, namely - Zelda: The Wand of Gameleon and Link: The Faces of Evil. You can ignore this post if you don’t want to have nightmares tonight.

Here’s a little bit of info about the games :

In the early 90s, three Legend of Zelda games were produced for Philips’s CD-i multimedia system under a special license agreement. These were made with no involvement of Nintendo, and deviated significantly from the other games in terms of style and gameplay.

To understand the nature of these games, one must understand their origin. In 1989, Nintendo signed a deal with Sony to begin development of a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Famicom (”The SNES Play Station”). However, Nintendo suddenly broke the contract and signed with Philips in the early 1990s (This later led to the development of the Sony PlayStation). The CD-ROM add-on was later dropped, but Nintendo had licensed the rights to Philips to use some of its characters, including Link, Zelda, and Ganon. This was done in hopes of gaining Philips as a partner on the way to making a compact disc-based console. Philips used the characters to create three CD-i games.

Like the system they were created for, these were never very popular and today are obscure, none of the stories considered canon. Zelda’s Adventure was never officially released outside of Europe, hence its rarity and extremely high value. Note that Philips did not actually make these games; independent development studios handled these titles. - Wikipedia.org

Faces of Evil Opening

Wand of Gameleon Ending