The Legend of Zelda

An iconic series of role-playing games for Nintendo consoles, The Legend of Zelda follows the saga of Link and Princess Zelda as they fight to save the world of Hyrule from the evil overlord Ganon. Tears of the Kingdom is the latest entry in the long-running series, released in May 2023. The first Legend of Zelda game was released on the Famicom Disk System in Japan on February 21, 1986.

Nintendo is dressing up the plain old 2DS in The Legend of Zelda for Black Friday. The $70 green and yellow handheld comes pre-installed with Ocarina of Time 3D. There’s also a special “Explorer’s Edition” of Breath of the Wild for the Switch, bundled with a 100-page guide and a map for $60.

Last year, curated art project Back to Bits made its 8-bit debut, capturing the games of the NES era in a series of 43 outstanding animated GIFs. Today the second wave of Back to Bits, Super 16, takes on the Super Nintendo era in 40 moving images. Check it out.

You can’t get Overwatch on the Switch, but if you could, I bet it’d be full of cameos like this.

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