A huge portion of the original "Legend of Zelda" was inaccessible to players for over 30 years — until now. The original "Legend of Zelda" for the Nintendo Entertainment System is a massive, open-world game — and it could've been even bigger. That's because the game's voluminous open world was actually cut in half before the game's release; the lower half is known as the game's "minus world," where elements of the game could be tested by its developers at Nintendo.

Have you ever played a game for hours or days, only to find a technique, weapon or option tucked away in a labyrinthine menu that radically changes how you play the game, or makes it instantly easier? It can be a welcome feeling, realizing that a difficult task is now made trivial. But it can be equally infuriating, knowing that the hours behind you have been ground out doing unnecessary work.

We’ve been waiting a while to see what kind of announcement producer Adi Shankar had up his sleeve -- and in just a few more hours, he’ll have it for us. Shankar, who previously worked on the animated Castlevania series for Netflix, teased on Twitter that he will be making an announcement at 1 PM PDT -- and fans of The Legend of Zelda will want to pay close attention.

Its long and rich history has been much debated, but The Legend of Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma has stated that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will never be placed in the chronological timeline. His reason? Nintendo has enjoyed seeing everyone have their own interpretation of the adventure, and that if they restricted that by placing it in the overarching story, “it would eliminate the room for imagination.”

Over the last few days, the Nintendo community has been bubbling with excitement (or in some cases, mild indifference) over the idea of an HD re-release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately for those who wanted to see it happen, however, it would appear that no such project is in the works.

Super excited! Too bad we had no new info at E3 2015

If you have only been alive for 15 years, there is a good chance that you will not remember the first ever Zelda video game. The game title has been around for many years, but in recent ones it seemed

Tri Force Heroes has certainly been the talk of the town since its surprise unveiling at this year’s E3. But don’t just take our word for it — it’s our job to talk about Zelda anyway, right? — the game has left many other gaming publications impressed.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Nintendo 3DS Deal!

I've always wanted my own arcade cabinet. One of my dreams is to own an arcade at some point. After diving into the realm of Raspberry Pi-based emulation for a previous project, I decided I would take it up a notch and build a bartop arcade cabinet. I'm glad I did, because the final build exceeded my expectations by far!

Here's another piece of my marker collection, this time featuring everyone's favourite little imp. I'll be damned if the mask wasn't the hardest part. I really need more darker colours, I literally only had black to work with :/...some really dark grey would have been nice, or dark dark blue.

We spoke with Tri-Force Heroes director, Hiromasa Shikata, all about co-op Zelda: GameInformer

Here's a video from YouTube that sums up what we know about Zelda for the Wii U (possibly NX?) Great vid! Quick and easy, check it out.

NINTENDO JUST RELEASED a fairly run-of-the-mill earnings report for its first fiscal quarter, about which I found absolutely nothing at all to be surprising or alarming. The Internet at large does not seem to agree, for if you do a Google News search you will find many, many recent stories about Nintendo’s upcoming The Legend of Zelda for Wii U. Insofar as the earnings report has absolutely nothing new to add about the new Zelda, you may wonder what exactly everyone is on about.

This is what we get for not listening to Navi...

My other accounts.--> FaceBook | Tumblr | Twitter Photoshop CS5 + Wacom tablet. _________ Fierce Deity/Oni Link from Majora's Mask battling Majora. Dat bamf~ Less than a week now for its release...

An original a-cappella arrangement of the Prologue theme from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

An original a-cappella arrangement of the Outset Island theme from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

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Despite releasing to critical acclaim, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword got a lot of things wrong.

Check out the official game trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild from E3 2016. Step into a world of discovery, exploration and adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a boundary-breaking new game in the acclaimed series. Travel across fields, through forests and to mountain peaks as you discover what has become of the ruined kingdom of Hyrule in this stunning open-air adventure.

We recently saw The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Link being a bully by hitting Bokoblins with their own arms, and now Nintendo has released new footage of the supposed Hero of Time terrorizing unsuspecting creatures that were just minding their own business.

The Legend of Zelda on NES had a sprawling world by the standards of 1980s console games. While decades ago people used to draw their own maps to try and keep track of where each dungeon and secret, alternative methods now exist. Like, for instance, 3D printing a replica of the game’s entire overworld.

Forget everything you know about The Legend of Zelda games. Step into a world of discovery, exploration and adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a boundary-breaking new game in the acclaimed series. Travel across fields, through forests and to mountain peaks as you discover what has become of the ruined kingdom of Hyrule in this stunning open-air adventure.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the best reviewed games of all time, heck it is one of the best games of all time. But the only way to play it is if you got a Switch or a Wii U. Which is why there’s a team of fans working on bringing the game to the PC via an emulator. And because of the size of Breath of the Wild, it’s quite an undertaking. However, the team at CEMU, who are working on the emulator, have been getting lots of support from fans. Not just nice messages from fans, but actual monetary support.

Nintendo might have rewritten the book on open-ended design, but recent discoveries show that this almost wasn’t the game. The Hyrule Encylopedia has uploaded a long-lost screenshot from before the game was released, and the early build shows a much different game. For one, it was a first-person exploration game, more similar to Might and Magic or Etrian Odyssey for today’s audiences. The genre was very popular back then in Japan, and Nintendo very well might have been trying to capitalize on that popularity.

For most Zelda games, the progression is pretty linear. As Link moves forward in the story, he gains more tools, his lifebar grows and maybe picks up a bottle or two here or there. But since Breath of the Wild is such a huge departure for the series, things look and feel much different when you begin your adventure and especially when you head into the endgame. This is the sort of thing we're talking about...

Earlier this year, Nintendo showed off a 2D version of Zelda that it used to conceptualize some of the mechanics in Breath of the Wild. It was cool! No surprise, then, that a fan decided to recreate that prototype so that anyone could play it.

The Pokémon Company’s phenomenal success with Pokémon Go certainly seems like the trigger that made Nintendo take the mobile market seriously. It launched Super Mario Run late last year, debuted Fire Emblem: Heroes in January, and has announced plans to bring other flagship franchises to iPhone later this year. Today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nintendo is developing a Legend of Zelda game for iPhone, jumping off the Nintendo Switch’s success with Breath of the Wild.

Hello. I'm Fujibayashi, Director of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. From now until June 30, we plan to update this site daily with information related to DLC Pack 1, which can only be purchased as part of the Expansion Pass. The Master Trials pack includes new armor you can acquire by finding the right chests. In this first post, I’ll be discussing the Korok Mask.

In March, Nintendo released quite possibly the best entry yet in its revered Legend of Zelda series. This week, the iconic Metroid returns with an excellent new title on the 3DS, while an inventive new Super Mario is coming in October. That’s three of the company’s biggest franchises, all in the same year. (Oh, and Nintendo also released a brilliant new piece of hardware with the Switch console / tablet as well.)