25 years of Zelda and Nintendo systems (photos)
Summary: Here's a look back at a quarter century's worth of innovations in game design and Nintendo gear brought to life by The Legend of Zelda franchise.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64, 1998
Revered by gamers and critics as one of the best video games ever made, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time showed what's possible with a 256-megabit (32MB) game cartridge -- Nintendo's highest capacity to date. Unsurprisingly, this title featured a number of firsts: 3D graphics from a third-person perspective, film-like art direction and a complex storyline expressed through time-traveling/shifting gameplay.
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