Nerd Tutorial Podcast

Topic: Legend of Zelda     What is it? Nintendo’s Big Three, as of NES days, consisted of Super Mario, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda.  Taking place in a fantasy world of goblins, monsters, castles, and princesses, this series had transformed some of the landscape of videogames and being a bench mark for many later games and series, with some hallmarks that continue to this day.     Development During initial development of the Famicom(Family Computer, also known to the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System(NES)) addon, known as the Famicom Disk System, two major games were being developed.  The First was Super Mario, while the second was Legend of Zelda, however their creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, didn’t know how either game would shape up.  During the planning process, the two games were created in tandem, with Super Mario coming out first due it’s more linear nature, and Zelda coming out afterwards.  Ideas when developing the games were split between the two games, with some ideas being more fav