The Legend of Zelda’s protagonist is called Link Link

10 Feb 2017

Steve Wright

Like Mario Mario before him, Nintendo has confirmed that the full name of The Legend of Zelda‘s protagonist is Link Link. No, really.

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma made the confirmation in a recent GameInformer video.

The pair also confirmed that the franchise was first named “Adventure Mario” in initial design documents.

Say what you will about the Super Mario Bros. live-action movie, but this is definitely one of its best bits.

https://youtu.be/8ydBkyCXfao

Link Link’s next adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, heads to Wii U and Nintendo Switch on 3 March.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.