Remember the Egg that opens at the end of Link’s Awakening and sort of signifies the end of a world that doesn’t actually exist? Turns out, the actual concept of the giant egg looming over the land and being cracked to end the world was a concept intended for A Link to the Past, before the idea itself was scrapped. In an interviewed centered on the just released Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Kensuke Tanabe talked about various things he did for that game, but he also specifically brought up an instance during A Link to the Past development. Head inside for the quote.