A reader honours the 30th anniversary of Zelda, and looks at both the past and future of gaming’s most celebrated franchise.
On February 21, 1986 The Legend Of Zelda was released for Nintendo’s Family Computer Disk System. It would take until November 15, 1987 for it to make it to the UK, on a standard NES cartridge, but Zelda itself is 30 years old today (assuming GC put this feature up on Sunday). Fans and journalists probably ran out of hyperbole to describe the game and its sequels decades ago, but as far as I’m concerned it’s still the best… Read the full story