Tag: Zelda Gaiden

Our friends over at GlitterBerri have recently put together an article discussing how Ura Zelda became Majora’s Mask. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, Ura Zelda was a game being designed for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive expansion disk of the Nintendo 64. Put simply, it was a second quest of sorts for Ocarina of Time. Things got quite blurry in its development cycle as the planned Nintendo 64 Disk Drive never made its way outside…

Majora’s Mask was first announced in May of 1999 and at the time many believed that it was going to be the long expected Ura Zelda, an expansion of Ocarina of Time. However, in August of 1999, we got what was the first trailer for Majora’s Mask and it was at the Nintendo Space World event in August 1999. Granted, at the time the game was referred to simply as Zelda Gaiden. In early 2000, the game was officially titled…