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The Legend of Zelda

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Henry E. Lowood
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections at Stanford University.
Henry E. Lowood
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When Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda for the Japanese market in 1986, it marked a new era in the culture, technology, and business of video games. The gameā€™s designer, Miyamoto Shigeru, was already a star, having produced Donkey Kong and the Mario Brothers series. Now he wanted to push further the concept of open-ended game play by giving players a large but unified world in which they could discover their own path for the...

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