John Grusd (Director, The Legend of Zelda): > Nintendo wanted us to base the show on the new game [Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link], because, you know, it’s gre

John Grusd (Director, The Legend of Zelda): > Nintendo wanted us to base the show on the new game [Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link], because, you know, it’s great marketing. What they did was give me the Japanese version of the game, because it wasn’t out here yet. I didn’t know anything about the game when I started. I’d never played them. I wasn’t a gamer or anything. That’s how I learned how the characters move, the sound effects, the music. I got to be able to do the games all the way through pretty quickly, as a matter of fact, because I knew all the shortcuts. I could get through both of them in less than two minutes, probably. It’s pretty fast. This should probably be two hours? Which is still pretty impressive. Speed running records for the two combined would be just over 1h.