The Copyright Incident, which gave rise to the well-known Zelda theme -
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Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and Koji Kondo all spoke about how the game's title music was created in an interview for The Legend of Zelda's 30th
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Original Title: TIL The iconic theme from The Legend of Zelda for the NES was arranged in one night because Nintendo composer Koji Kondo initially planned to use Ravel’s Boléro as the title theme for The Legend of Zelda, but had to change it because the song’s copyright had not yet expired.

  • CeruleanRuinEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And thank Christ for that, because Bolero on repeat for the length of that game would be pure hell.