![]() Thankfully, a fledgling developer by the name of Shigeru Miyamoto quickly made the replacement characters of Mario, Pauline, and Donkey Kong, and inadvertently created one of the most iconic characters of the modern day. Originally conscripted to create a Popeye video game, Nintendo was caught off guard when the license for the property fell through. Any given person likely holds the two media giants in completely different realms of their brain, but there was in fact a time when the two worked together quite directly.Īs their work in the trading card business slowed and Nintendo went to work on clay shooting mechanisms and arcade machines, a weird moment of happenstance occurred. Wouldn’t you know that, in 1958, Disney made a deal with a small, little trading card printing company called Nintendo. The likes of Disney and many others thrived off this idea for nearly a century. The story of the dashing hero or prince saving the princess is one of the oldest stories around. Instead, I want to talk about gender roles and sociology, specifically in regards to the Zelda series. No, today I’m not going to insinuate Link’s pronouns are they/them. Though, if you want a fun history lesson on why video games were marketed to boys for decades, I definitely recommend it. But don’t fret you don’t need to have read the prior editorial to understand what I’m saying here. Today’s piece is in some ways a sequel to that editorial. It was divisive to say the least, despite actually being relatively tame in terms of its ideas ultimately, I think people just really didn’t like seeing Link in front of a non-binary flag. ![]() Two years ago, I wrote an editorial on the non-binary nature of Link.
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