Zelda Dungeon:History

Stretching across over 12 years of time, the Site History of Zelda is filled with its share of ups and downs, as well as a wide range of characters that have played a pivotal role in the websites growth and expansion.

Overview

Mases Hagopian first played the original The Legend of Zelda back in 1990, but it wasn't the mind-blowing experience that many others had. At the age of just 4 years old, The Legend of Zelda was simply just known as the game with the shiny gold cartridge and nothing else. Flash forward to 1994 when Mases got his hands on the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and quickly fell in love with it. The expansive Overworlds, fun gameplay, great difficulty, amazing music, and the dozens of memorable moments along the journey made the game a one-of-a-kind experience that marveled for years to come. For Christmas 1998, Mases got a copy of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and his love for the series continued, where he even went back and completed all the prior Zelda titles that he originally missed out on.

Leading up to the release of Majora's Mask in 2000, Mases started to become involved in the online Zelda community. He frequently visited Zelda Power, as well as now debunked websites, Zelda Gaming Online and Ganon's Tower. Looking for Zelda related news, reading Zelda fan fiction, and checking out secrets in the games all became part of Mases' daily routine.

It was during the summer of 2001 that he thought of the idea of creating his own Legend of Zelda website where he could provide written strategy guides for all of the Zelda games. This idea finally came to fruition near the end of the summer of 2001. Mases was just starting high school and being a bit of an undersized and underdeveloped 14 year old boy, he became somewhat of a social outcast, not having any friends at all of his age. The internet had became one of his escapes from his everyday high school life. Without having much to do during the school year, he turned to his Zelda website and the Zelda Community as a place to spend a large portion of his time. This would become the start of an over 11 year journey through the online Zelda community.