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# New PBS Game/Show asks if Zelda exploits our nostalgia for profit
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/new-pbs-gameshow-asks-if-zelda-exploits-our-nostalgia-profit/
- Published: 2014-02-07T15:33:47.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:25:51.000Z
- Description: When you pick up a new Zelda game, such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, there are certain things you automatically expect. A little elven lad in a green tunic? Check. Fractured shard of a magical triangle? Check. Wacking chickens with your sword until they gang-tackle you? Check. The
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, legend of zelda, pbs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

When you pick up a new *Zelda* game, such as *The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds*, there are certain things you automatically expect. A little elven lad in a green tunic? Check. Fractured shard of a magical triangle? Check. Wacking chickens with your sword until they gang-tackle you? Check. The *Zelda* series is bursting at the seams with quaint little callbacks and shout-outs to previous *Zelda* games—oftentimes ones we played in our childhood, ergo creating [a perfect storm of nostalgia](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/real-reason-were-still-playing-mario/?ref=killscreen.com). But is Nintendo exploiting our fond early memories to hook us into a Zelda machine that churns out an endless cycle of whimsy? And if so, is that a necessarily a bad thing?

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