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Today is the 40th anniversary of Zelda 1!

Of all the Zelda titles, this is the one we know the MOST about; they've discussed it in interviews for years. Let's go down memory lane with some fun quotes

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#TheLegendOfZeldaQuote
#MiyamotoQuote, #TezukaQuote, #NakagoQuote, #KondoQuote
The Japanese logo for the first Zelda game, The Hyrule Fantasy
February 21, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Link's Awakening turns 33 today! This is especially poignant with Takashi Tezuka's upcoming retirement
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Miyamoto on his favorite Zelda game, 2003.

Source: Nintendo Prime

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#LinksAwakeningQuote
#MiyamotoQuote, #TezukaQuote

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 50. Producer & Co-Director of the first Zelda. Producer of Link’s Awakening. - Takashi Tezuka, age 42. Co-Director of the first Zelda. Director of Link’s Awakening. QUOTE: Q: [What is your favorite Zelda?] Miyamoto: It has to be Link’s Awakening. I wasn’t very involved in the development of that game. I played that game a lot after it was finished, and I thought it was very fun. [laughs] That one was directed by Mr. Tezuka, actually. There are many elements portraying the pure Tezuka style, so I spent my time looking for the classic Zelda elements. … The one I most enjoyed relaxing with was Link’s Awakening.
June 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Tezuka on the basic premise of Mario games, 2020.

Source: The Guardian

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#TezukaQuote

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 59. Co-creator of the Zelda series. Director or Producer of over 20 Mario games. QUOTE: Tezuka: It is the basic premise of Super Mario games that we can naturally enjoy Mario’s actions. The technical aspects may be different between 2D and 3D games, but this remains the same. If we as players mess up a move because of the controls rather than something we did wrong, then we end up not wanting to play any more. On the other hand, if we feel like things would have worked out if we’d just jumped a little earlier, then that makes us want to try again.
July 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Tezuka on weapon combos in A Link to the Past, 2017.

Source: Retro Gamer Magazine

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#TezukaQuote, #MiyamotoQuote

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 56. Director of The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, and Link’s Awakening. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 64. Producer of The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, and Link’s Awakening. QUOTE: Tezuka: At the start of development [of A Link to the Past], we wanted players to be able to freely choose which weapons to hold, not just the sword and shield. We also thought about having these weapons combine, say for example, having the Bow & Arrows set to the A button and a Bomb to the B button so that when you use them together, Link would shoot an arrow with a bomb attached. In the end we didn’t use this in A Link to the Past, as Shigeru Miyamoto requested that Link always have the sword equipped.
May 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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It's the 39th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda!

Nakago on the first draft of Zelda 1's map, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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#NakagoQuote, #TezukaQuote, #MiyamotoQuote

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PEOPLE: - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. The Legend of Zelda (1986) Programmer. - Takashi Tezuka, age 49. Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda (1986). - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 57. Producer & Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda (1986). QUOTE: "Nakago: And this is the first land map for Zelda. Back then we had some long paper, and Tezuka-san and Miyamoto-san would sit side by side and draw together. You drew the stuff on the left, Tezuka-san, and the right side is Miyamoto-san’s. If you look closely, you can tell how marker was used to make small dots. These are rocks, and these are trees. And you can see Miyamoto-san’s personality. At first he’s making individual dots, but as he gets tired of it, toward the top, he just fills in a bunch of space! Aonuma: Yeah, the left and right sides do look different. Tezuka: They really are different somehow." A small image of a black and white pencil drawing of the Zelda 1 map. It is remarkably close to how the final map ended up. You can tell that it was drawn in slightly different styles on the right vs the left side of the map.
February 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Miyamoto, Iwata, & Itoi on lunch hangouts, 2011.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 58. Producer and co-director of the first Zelda and Super Mario games. - Satoru Iwata, age 51. President of Nintendo. - Shigesato Itoi, age 62. Creator of Earthbound. - Takashi Tezuka, age 50. Co-director of the first Zelda and Super Mario games. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 54. Programmer for the first Zelda and Super Mario games. QUOTE: Miyamoto: You stock up a lot of topics for "Iwata Asks" at lunchtime, right? Iwata: Yeah. Miyamoto-san has lunch with the same people almost every day—Takashi Tezuka-san and Toshihiko Nakago-san. It's been that way for quite a while. Itoi: Longer than our wives. Iwata: Yes, that's how long we've been eating together! [laughs] Miyamoto: It's true! [laughs] Iwata: About once a week, I join them and listen in. If I think something sounds interesting, I remember it and use it in "Iwata Asks.”
May 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Hino & Tezuka on the clay figures for Pikmin 2 character art, 2004.

Source: IGN

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PEOPLE: - Shigefumi Hino, age 41. Link’s Awakening character designer. Director of Pikmin 2. - Takashi Tezuka, age 43. Co-creator of the Zelda series. Producer of Pikmin 2. - Wataru Yamaguchi. Ocarina of Time and Pikmin 2 illustrator. QUOTE: Q: Much of the character art for [Pikmin 2] is clay sculptures. Did you actually work in clay to create the characters? Hino: Actually, all of those clay-looking models you see in the artwork were in fact sculpted in clay. We took those clay sculptures, took photos and scanned them to make digital versions of them and then combined the different individual clay sculptures into essentially collages, which became the final pieces of art. Tezuka: One of the members of our illustration team, a fellow by the name of Yamaguchi, he actually was very passionate about doing this and worked very hard on creating the clay models and putting together the illustrations.
May 25, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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Nakago & Miyamoto on collaborating as director and programmer in the 80s, 2025.

Source: Nintendo Museum

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#MiyamotoQuote, #NakagoQuote, #TezukaQuote

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 72. Producer and Director of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 68. Lead Programmer of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Takashi Tezuka, age 64. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros., Director of The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: Miyamoto: Though Nakago-san is a programmer, I invited him to planning meetings [for Super Mario Bros.] with us. Aside from the music, it was the three of us for the most part. We did anything and everything we could. Nakago: When working on the programming, I even brought in Miyamoto-san and the others to devise how to structure the game data. We've always been involved in all sorts of things. Miyamoto: … It was my job to present game ideas that can be conveyed to programmers, and even before Super Marlo Bros., Nakago-san would get mad at me. It felt like he was my editor or something, saying, “If you continue doing this, it’s never gonna get done!” [Laughs]
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Tezuka & Miyamoto on re-using minor characters for a sequel, 2000.

Source: Nintendo Power

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#MajorasMaskQuote
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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 39. Supervisor for Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 47. Producer of Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask. QUOTE: Tezuka: There were a number of characters in Ocarina of Time that we wanted to describe more fully. We didn’t have the means to do it in Ocarina, but in Majora’s Mask we do because players have the opportunity to meet every character in the game and learn more about them. Miyamoto: After seeing Toy Story 2, I realized that Majora’s Mask used a similar technique as the sequel. We focused on some of the minor characters from the original in order to expand the world.
June 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Tezuka & Nakago on the happy accident that led to the 2nd Quest in Zelda 1, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 49. Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda (1986). - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer for The Legend of Zelda (1986). - Satoru Iwata, age 49. 4th President of Nintendo. QUOTE: Tezuka: Basically, we were going to make lots of dungeons using one square per room, and lay them out like a jigsaw puzzle. Nakago: Right. Tezuka-san said, “I did it!” and brought this to me. I created the data exactly in line with it, but then Tezuka-san made a mistake and only used half of the data. I said, “Tezuka-san, there’s only half here. Where did the other half go?” and he was like, “What?! Oops, I messed up…” But Miyamoto-san said it was fine just like that. So, using the half of the memory that was left over, we decided to create the Second Quest. Iwata: Huh? Just wait a second. If Tezuka-san hadn’t messed up, there’d have been no Second Quest? Nakago: Yes, that’s right.
May 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Miyamoto & Tezuka on who should play Link in a theoretical Zelda movie, 2015.

Source: MTV

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Co-creator of the Zelda series. - Takashi Tezuka, age 54. Co-creator of the Zelda series. Original character designer for Link. QUOTE: Q: If you were making a live-action Zelda movie, who would you want to play Link? Miyamoto: With Japanese TV drama and film they always use the same actors, so I actually think we should have someone completely new. [Turns to Tezuka] You know more about pop culture than me. Tezuka: I can’t think of any! [laughs] … This is just personally, it would be very fun and awesome if Link was played by a female actress, a boyish female actress. Miyamoto: This is something I never imagined because Link is very different from how a Japanese person looks. At the Japanese Expo I attended, there were so many people in cosplay who looked very good. They would be good!
May 23, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Iwata on Nakago & Tezuka's relationship with Miyamoto , 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 48. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros., co-director of The Legend of Zelda. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director & Producer of of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Iwata: Now the two of you have lunch with Miyamoto-san on a more or less daily basis. I sometimes join you, which means that we've spent a lot of time together. But this is the first time we've ever spoken in this kind of formal setting. … You know, I always got the sense that you were suspicious that there was some kind of ulterior motive behind these interviews. [laughs] Tezuka: Well, I always thought it would be better to stay out of them. [laughs] Iwata: [laughs] Well, I asked you to join me for this interview because I felt that it was impossible to discuss the history of Mario without reference to the triangle formed by Miyamoto-san, Tezuka-san and Nakago-san."
February 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Tezuka on how to make levels feel special when there so many, 2015.

Source: Polygon

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 54. Co-Creator of the Zelda series. Producer or director of 17+ Super Mario Bros. games. QUOTE: Tezuka: In Mario games, each one has 60 to 80 courses, and each course needs to have its own unique defining element. If you build too many elements into every course, they start to feel the same. That's something you need to be careful of. To me, the real trick is limiting [the number of] course objects. That's what makes it really special.
June 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Sato on writing down some of what Tezuka said during development of Mario Wonder, 2023.

Source: Ask the Developer

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PEOPLE: - Masanobu Sato. Art Director of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. - Takashi Tezuka, age 62. Director of the first four Zelda games, Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. QUOTE: Sato: That reminds me, I wrote down some of the things that Tezuka-san said during development [of Super Mario Bros. Wonder] on sticky notes and kept them on my desk. I brought them with me today. Tezuka: Really? [Laughs] Notes: - ”Use the concept of multiplication to expand ideas and create.” - ”Don’t try to do it all alone.” - ”Different people find different things fun.” - ”Don’t simply replace things. Change the entire approach—new inspirations!”
July 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Tezuka and the rise of the hero in A Link to the Past, 2017.

Source: Retro Gamer Magazine

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 56. Director of A Link to the Past. QUOTE: Tezuka: In the midst of a forest … the sword stood waiting for someone worthy of wielding it to arrive. Link draws the sword out as the light trickles through the leaves. ... Our main aim was to show the birth of a hero in a scene fitting of The Legend Of Zelda, and overlap this with a sense of achievement for the player that they have been recognized as a hero after having overcome many challenges. What we had decided on from the start was that Link would first become a hero in the Light World and defeat the first boss. From that point is when his battle to defeat the real enemy, Ganon, in the Dark World begins.
May 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Nakago & Miyamoto on the core team for Super Mario Bros., 2025.

Source: Nintendo Museum

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PEOPLE: - Toshihiko Nakago, age 68. Lead Programmer for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 72. Producer and director of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Takashi Tezuka, age 64. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros., co-director of The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: Nakago: Going back to the first Super Mario Bros., it started with one person, and eventually there were about seven of us. That was huge in terms of the scale of programmers back then, but I can’t even imagine that now. Miyamoto: There were other people who supported us, but the main members drew the maps and the sprite images too. Tezuka-san was a newcomer, in his first or second year at the company at the time. I asked him to come up with all kinds of ideas and handle different tasks, and though Nakago-san is a programmer, I invited him to planning meetings with us. Aside from the music, it was the three of us for the most part. We did anything and everything we could.
August 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Link's Awakening turns 33 today!
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Tezuka on the team's frame of mind while developing Link's Awakening, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

#Zelda
#LinksAwakeningQuote
#TezukaQuote

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 49. Director of Link’s Awakening. QUOTE: Tezuka: I remember that we made Link's Awakening in a real peculiar frame of mind. We began in the free spirit of an afterschool club, so the contents are quite unrestrained. If you look at it, you can tell. Characters similar to Mario and Luigi appear, and Yoshi dolls appear, too. It was for the Game Boy system, so we thought, “Oh, it'll be fine.” [laughs] … We moved along at quite a good clip in a relatively freewheeling manner. Maybe that's why we had so much fun making it. It was like we were making a parody of The Legend of Zelda.
June 6, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Mouri on the origin of the stage-transforming idea for Super Mario Bros. Wonder, 2023.

Source: Ask the Developer

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PEOPLE: - Shiro Mouri. Sub-Director of A Link Between Worlds, Director of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. - Takashi Tezuka, age 62. Director of The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, & Link’s Awakening. Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. QUOTE: Mouri: When I was playing Super Mario Bros. on the NES, I was amazed that you could warp to different places. You could go underground by entering a pipe or go up to the sky by climbing up vines that appear when you hit a block. So I wanted to utilize this idea to create a game with new wonders. Q: What was Tezuka-san's reaction to that idea? Mouri: Tezuka-san said, “Warping somewhere else would be no different from previous games. Can't we make it so that the course itself transforms without players having to warp?” I was like, “No, no, how is that even possible?” [Laughs]
May 12, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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Tezuka on when they created the Goomba for Super Mario Bros., 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 48. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros., Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda. - Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo. QUOTE: "Tezuka: We came up with all kinds of objects [for Super Mario Bros.], all the time trying to limit the bytes we were using. Then right at the very end, we made the Goomba. Iwata: You're kidding! You made the Goomba last? [laughs] Tezuka: We did. Even though it's now such a major part of the game, at the beginning we actually only had Koopa Troopas. Then when we got people to play the game, they would say that it was quite tricky to encounter Koopa Troopas at the very start. … So we decided that that we should make an enemy that you could easily squash with a single blow. "
November 20, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Miyamoto on his favorite Zelda game, 2003.

Source: Nintendo Prime

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 50. Producer & Co-Director of the first Zelda. Producer of Link’s Awakening. - Takashi Tezuka, age 42. Co-Director of the first Zelda. Director of Link’s Awakening. QUOTE: "Q: [What is your favorite Zelda?] Miyamoto: It has to be Link’s Awakening. I wasn’t very involved in the development of that game. I played that game a lot after it was finished, and I thought it was very fun. [laughs] That one was directed by Mr. Tezuka, actually. There are many elements portraying the pure Tezuka style, so I spent my time looking for the classic Zelda elements. … The one I most enjoyed relaxing with was Link’s Awakening."
November 3, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Miyamoto & Tezuka on using leftover memory for Super Mario Bros., 2025.

Source: Nintendo Museum

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PEOPLE: - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 72. Creator of Zelda & Mario. Producer & Director of Super Mario Bros.. - Takashi Tezuka, age 64. Co-creator of Zelda. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros.. QUOTE: Miyamoto: At the end of making a game, we have a debug process, and we left 10 bytes of memory for that [for Super Mario Bros.] Once we confirmed there were no bugs, we wondered what we could do to maximize what little we had left. Fun things, like, "Well, we can put in five more coins, so where should they go?” Tezuka: We couldn't just freely decide where to put pipes on each screen, and each course is made of multiple screens. Distinguishing between pipes you can enter and pipes you can’t uses memory, so we made if so that pipes placed in specific locations can always be entered. So we crafted the courses well, so players couldn't tell we had these restrictions.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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In honor of Link's Awakening's 31st anniversary today:

Tezuka on the team's frame of mind while developing Link's Awakening, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

#Zelda
#LinksAwakeningQuote
#TezukaQuote

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 49. Director of Link’s Awakening. QUOTE: "Tezuka: I remember that we made Link's Awakening in a real peculiar frame of mind. We began in the free spirit of an afterschool club, so the contents are quite unrestrained. If you look at it, you can tell. Characters similar to Mario and Luigi appear, and Yoshi dolls appear, too. It was for the Game Boy system, so we thought, ‘Oh, it'll be fine.’ [laughs] … We moved along at quite a good clip in a relatively freewheeling manner. Maybe that's why we had so much fun making it. It was like we were making a parody of The Legend of Zelda."
August 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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A shocking truth about Tezuka when he first joined Nintendo, 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Satoru Iwata, age 49. President of Nintendo. - Takashi Tezuka, age 48. Designer on Devil World. Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Director of Devil World. Producer & Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Iwata: So after joining Nintendo, what was the first job you worked on alongside Miyamoto-san? It was a game along the lines of Pac-Man [Devil World]? Tezuka: Right. But at that time, I hadn't heard of Pac-Man… Iwata: Wait! Hang on just a second! Are you telling me that someone who joined Nintendo in order to make video games and who is currently the head of the Software Development Department entered the company in 1984 without knowing Pac-Man? Tezuka: I'd never heard of it! [laughs] Iwata: That's unbelievable! [laughs] Tezuka: Then when I played Pac-Man for the first time, I just thought: ‘Well, this is a fun game!’"
June 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Tezuka & Nakago on the level authorship process for Super Mario Bros., 2009.

Source: Iwata Asks

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 48. Assistant Director of Super Mario Bros., Co-Director of The Legend of Zelda. - Toshihiko Nakago, age 52. Programmer for Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 56. Producer & Director of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. QUOTE: "Q: How did you create the levels [for Super Mario Bros.]? Tezuka: … We'd sketch a design for the level on a piece of paper then pass it on to SDR, saying: ‘Please make it look like this.’ Nakago: Tezuka-san or Miyamoto-san would draw the level on a huge sheet of graph paper and we would have to painstakingly enter the data by hand. … Every morning when I got to work, I'd be handed about twenty sheets of paper and be told to get on with it. … We'd spend the entire day poring over these notes and adjusting the map. Then at around ten at night when we'd finally finished, we'd burn the data to the ROM, at which point the two of them would play the level."
September 22, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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Linktober #15: Sword

Tezuka and the rise of the hero in A Link to the Past, 2017.
Source: Retro Gamer Magazine

#Zelda
#ALinktothePastQuote
#TezukaQuote
#Linktober

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PEOPLE: - Takashi Tezuka, age 56. A Link to the Past Game Director. QUOTE: "Tezuka: In the midst of a forest … the sword stood waiting for someone worthy of wielding it to arrive. Link draws the sword out as the light trickles through the leaves. ... Our main aim was to show the birth of a hero in a scene fitting of The Legend Of Zelda, and overlap this with a sense of achievement for the player that they have been recognized as a hero after having overcome many challenges. What we had decided on from the start was that Link would first become a hero in the Light World and defeat the first boss. From that point is when his battle to defeat the real enemy, Ganon, in the Dark World begins."
October 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM