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December 26, 2016 9:37 AM

Original design documents and sketches for the first Legend of Zelda game
posted by The Whelk (3 comments total)

It would be so fun to make a hacked rom or something so you could play the game with the original hand-drawn sketches as graphics.
posted by oulipian at 11:18 AM on December 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

These are all so cool. I love seeing all the different visual styles they used to plan the screens — from the quick sketches to the careful pen and coloured pencil work.

In other Zelda Day news, here's some recent Kotaku articles:

• Original The Legend of Zelda map gets printed in 3d
• 1992 Miyamoto interview about Zelda is great

posted by Banknote of the year at 1:32 PM on December 26, 2016

BTW, sorry not to comment in this thread, but I spent quite a bit of time yesterday looking for my own links. Was kinda drained when I was finished.
posted by JHarris at 9:16 PM on December 27, 2016