Legend Of Zelda - Evolution Of A Franchise

Thanks to Nintendo Power for its transcript of "Zelda guru" Eiji Aonuma's speech at last month's GDC conference. Aonuma, who's "been doing work related to a game known as Zelda... for roughly eight years", from the N64 through the current GameCube iterations, discusses his pre-Zelda influences ("What kinds of games did suit me? Those would be Text-Based Adventures"), the "three-day system" in N64 title Majora's Mask ("[done] to make the game data more compact while still providing deep gameplay"), and the essence of the series ("Zelda is a game that values REALITY over realism.")

Comments

What about the Cd-i

[pnice]

Even though Nintendo wasn't involved in the production of these games, you can't forget the craptastic Zelda games for the CD-i. parnasas.com

Re:Collector's Disc

[Colazar]

I got a brand-new shrink-wrapped one for $25 (including shipping) on half.com just a couple of weeks ago.

You can get them for less if you're willing to go used.