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Zelda's Near-Space Fantasies: 40 Years of Sci-Fi What-Ifs
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Zelda's Near-Space Fantasies: 40 Years of Sci-Fi What-Ifs

On Zelda's 40th anniversary, Kotaku revisits near-miss sci-fi pitches for the series—from a GDC slide show of an outer-space invasion to Miyamoto's earliest time-travel concept and cyberpunk art for A Link to the Past—arguing Nintendo's iconic fantasy roots have always flirted with sci-fi, even as the company keeps a tighter leash on its IPs, leaving space adventures as distant dreams rather than reality.

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