As the elder of the game industry, Nintendo's culture is definitely a legend, and while creating countless popular IP, Nintendo characters also have a variety of unknown anecdotes and various cold knowledge. This time, I will share the following cold knowledge with you.
Link is left-handed in most of the games, only "Twilight Princess", "Sword of the Sky" and "Breath of the Wilderness" are right-handed, the main reason for the change is to allow players to better control, to attack with their left hand, most people have no way to get used to it. As for why Link is left-handed and not the common right-hander, it is said that because Miyamoto himself is also left-handed, he hopes to have a left-handed protagonist, so he designed Link to be left-handed.
Link was not Nintendo's appearance at the beginning, and the overall appearance was not handsome, at best it could only be said to be a little cute. After the character designer's wife saw Link's appearance, she began to complain about why Nintendo didn't have a handsome guy, and he made a big transformation into what he is now.
As for why this game is called The Legend of Zelda and not Link Legend, there are also esoteric implications. Although Link is the protagonist of the game, the plot has always revolved around Princess Zelda, she is the center of the game, Link is just a brave warrior, and in some works, the player can help Link change his name, so that the game is also called Link Legend will lose the sense of substitution.
Princess Zelda, like Link, is a different person every time she appears, and the princess of the Kingdom of Hellaru is called Zelda. The reason Why Miyamoto was so fascinated by the name Zelda was derived from the American writer Zelda Fitzgerald. Although she only wrote one work in her life, her married life was written into books and remade into movies by later generations, and the world made her an icon of feminism, and Shigeru Miyamoto also hoped that Princess Zelda would become a model.
The success of the home console led Nintendo to decide to exit the large arcade market and concentrate on the home console. Super Nintendo, released a few years later, pushed the home console business to a new peak, not only Mario Bros. New Game hits, but also the blessing of "Street Fighter" and "Final Fantasy", Nintendo is not only eating the old Book, they brought out a new IP "Star Kirby".
Kirby was not originally designed to be the protagonist of the game, but his pleasing appearance made him popular with many employees and successfully promoted to the protagonist of the game. Kirby's original name was Popopo, which was in honor of a great man who specially helped him change his name. As mentioned earlier, Nintendo relied on "Donkey Kong" to open its own popularity, commercial success attracted a lot of attention, from which some people will want to come to a piece of the pie, Universal Pictures will look at its own movie "King Kong", in the name and "Donkey Kong" some similarities, so want to go to court with Nintendo to court, in order to get a little royalties.
Originally, Nintendo planned to pay $7 million to settle the matter, but Universal did not accept this amount. After carefully studying King Kong's copyright, Nintendo's lawyers finally found a loophole, in fact, King Kong has long belonged to the public copyright, there is no infringement problem at all, and because of this discovery, the whole case can be overturned. Nintendo not only saved $7 million, but also made 1.8 million yuan from universal, and the whole event ended safely, which also opened the legend of Nintendo's strongest legal department. The lawyer who leads the team is called Kirby, and In order to thank him for his efforts, Miyamoto uses his name to name the character.
Seeing this, have you ever got a Nintendo cold knowledge again?