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 is the founder of Stevivor, which itself is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’ -- that made more sense back in 2001 when Steve first arrived in the country and 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.

Steve has recently gathered a career's worth of writing on swright.au, his personal portfolio.