History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist
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Melora Hart. Zelda archivist & publication campaigner for 23+ years. Art, books, manga, the retro & rare. Into Zelda? I've quietly been the source for a lot of what you know. https://linktr.ee/historyofhyrule disabled/artist/animal nerd/gardener/hiker
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Hi, I'm Melora, the main source of scanned #Zelda art & out-of-print publications since The Internet. I was also the lead campaigner for Zelda manga & art/info books to exist outside of Japan. Join me as I try to create a gallery of every piece of licensed Zelda art via collecting & with your help!
This took a really long time but I was finally able to stitch together all the scans for this 1987 #Nintendo Famicom calendar with rare art for #Mario, #Zelda, #Metroid, Murasame Castle, and the Mario Anime. The cleaned 2400dpi files are uploaded with RAWS incoming: archive.org/details/1987...
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This took a really long time but I was finally able to stitch together all the scans for this 1987 #Nintendo Famicom calendar with rare art for #Mario, #Zelda, #Metroid, Murasame Castle, and the Mario Anime. The cleaned 2400dpi files are uploaded with RAWS incoming: archive.org/details/1987...
I just made this a more standalone image by taking out the logo, the statue on the side, and the lanmola at the bottom. From a 1987 wall calendar I scanned this is likely the first official art actually showing Ganon's face. I think it was maybe done by Minoru Maeda: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I just made this a more standalone image by taking out the logo, the statue on the side, and the lanmola at the bottom. From a 1987 wall calendar I scanned this is likely the first official art actually showing Ganon's face. I think it was maybe done by Minoru Maeda: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
A few days ago I re-uploaded 2400dpi cleaned versions of this incredible #zelda 1986 guide art by Soft Bank/Beep: archive.org/details/zeld...
This style is mostly just for the enemies so you can find them in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
This style is mostly just for the enemies so you can find them in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A few days ago I re-uploaded 2400dpi cleaned versions of this incredible #zelda 1986 guide art by Soft Bank/Beep: archive.org/details/zeld...
This style is mostly just for the enemies so you can find them in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
This style is mostly just for the enemies so you can find them in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
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New* article!
A history of Ocarina of Time's development, with a specific focus on the new game design problems presented by 3D, and how they solved them.
*I wrote this a few years ago for a magazine. I figure it's been long enough, so on my blog now!
Edited by @paigeedits.bsky.social!
#Zelda
A history of Ocarina of Time's development, with a specific focus on the new game design problems presented by 3D, and how they solved them.
*I wrote this a few years ago for a magazine. I figure it's been long enough, so on my blog now!
Edited by @paigeedits.bsky.social!
#Zelda
The Seminal Third-Person Adventure - The Nameless Quality
“The masterpiece that people will still be talking about ten years down the road.”– Gamespot review for Ocarina of Time, 1998 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a towering achievement, a game th...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
New* article!
A history of Ocarina of Time's development, with a specific focus on the new game design problems presented by 3D, and how they solved them.
*I wrote this a few years ago for a magazine. I figure it's been long enough, so on my blog now!
Edited by @paigeedits.bsky.social!
#Zelda
A history of Ocarina of Time's development, with a specific focus on the new game design problems presented by 3D, and how they solved them.
*I wrote this a few years ago for a magazine. I figure it's been long enough, so on my blog now!
Edited by @paigeedits.bsky.social!
#Zelda
I did some light cleaning and got the 10 #Zelda art pieces from the miniature playing card set from Wanpakku Comics' Feb 1987 issue uploaded to the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
& the original sheet, RAWs, & edited uploaded to IA: archive.org/details/zine...
Have a cute chibi Ganon!
& the original sheet, RAWs, & edited uploaded to IA: archive.org/details/zine...
Have a cute chibi Ganon!
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I did some light cleaning and got the 10 #Zelda art pieces from the miniature playing card set from Wanpakku Comics' Feb 1987 issue uploaded to the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
& the original sheet, RAWs, & edited uploaded to IA: archive.org/details/zine...
Have a cute chibi Ganon!
& the original sheet, RAWs, & edited uploaded to IA: archive.org/details/zine...
Have a cute chibi Ganon!
Cleaning the text, folds, & damage off of this boardgame map is... going to be... a bit of work.
The giant horizontal crease across the whole thing, right on the map line, is special kind of art-patching nightmare.
It's a gorgeous #zelda map though so totally worth it: archive.org/details/merc...
The giant horizontal crease across the whole thing, right on the map line, is special kind of art-patching nightmare.
It's a gorgeous #zelda map though so totally worth it: archive.org/details/merc...
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Cleaning the text, folds, & damage off of this boardgame map is... going to be... a bit of work.
The giant horizontal crease across the whole thing, right on the map line, is special kind of art-patching nightmare.
It's a gorgeous #zelda map though so totally worth it: archive.org/details/merc...
The giant horizontal crease across the whole thing, right on the map line, is special kind of art-patching nightmare.
It's a gorgeous #zelda map though so totally worth it: archive.org/details/merc...
He took a bad turn & we had to put him down this morning. A vet came to our home & he felt good enough to enjoy some cheese cake & prime rib as he was falling asleep. I'll forever see & hear him walking beside me no matter where I go. I just wish he could have had a thousand more mountain adventures
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
He took a bad turn & we had to put him down this morning. A vet came to our home & he felt good enough to enjoy some cheese cake & prime rib as he was falling asleep. I'll forever see & hear him walking beside me no matter where I go. I just wish he could have had a thousand more mountain adventures
Question: While cleaning this I couldn't really tell what was happening below the monster's chin. I guessed, based on the traces of lines sticking out from the text, was a scroll with RPG written on it and a sword sticking through it. & I guess those are chin spikes too? Does this seem ok enough?
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Question: While cleaning this I couldn't really tell what was happening below the monster's chin. I guessed, based on the traces of lines sticking out from the text, was a scroll with RPG written on it and a sword sticking through it. & I guess those are chin spikes too? Does this seem ok enough?
There are much more exciting #Zelda 1 maps to come BUT at least these are cleaned & done. If you want the RAWS, or 2400dpi files that were often too large for Flickr to handle, there should be links with each file to the Internet Archive pages with the download zips: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
There are much more exciting #Zelda 1 maps to come BUT at least these are cleaned & done. If you want the RAWS, or 2400dpi files that were often too large for Flickr to handle, there should be links with each file to the Internet Archive pages with the download zips: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
The early moblin art for #zelda 1 is really fun. So grumpy!
I'm still slowly chipping away at updating all the art in the gallery for the first game from the new 2400dpi scans I made of everything. www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
I'm still slowly chipping away at updating all the art in the gallery for the first game from the new 2400dpi scans I made of everything. www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The early moblin art for #zelda 1 is really fun. So grumpy!
I'm still slowly chipping away at updating all the art in the gallery for the first game from the new 2400dpi scans I made of everything. www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
I'm still slowly chipping away at updating all the art in the gallery for the first game from the new 2400dpi scans I made of everything. www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
I will neither confirm nor deny altering this #zelda strategy guide art. archive.org/details/guid...
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I will neither confirm nor deny altering this #zelda strategy guide art. archive.org/details/guid...
I've been slowly re-cleaning and re-uploading the best Zelda 1 art versions available. There's still a long way to go but I got a couple of guides redone there in the past few weeks. This time I'm grouping them into albums for maps/characters/items/enemies: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I've been slowly re-cleaning and re-uploading the best Zelda 1 art versions available. There's still a long way to go but I got a couple of guides redone there in the past few weeks. This time I'm grouping them into albums for maps/characters/items/enemies: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
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I finally uploaded the 2400dpi scans I just made a little while ago of a mini playing card set that was an insert in Wanpakku Comic's 1987 February issue. It features art from most of their series, including #Mario #Zelda #MursameCastle #Metroid #Layla and more: archive.org/details/zine...
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I finally uploaded the 2400dpi scans I just made a little while ago of a mini playing card set that was an insert in Wanpakku Comic's 1987 February issue. It features art from most of their series, including #Mario #Zelda #MursameCastle #Metroid #Layla and more: archive.org/details/zine...
To keep things organized I made another account where I'm going to post some of the non-Zelda scans I make. Because I collect for Zelda I end up with a lot of rarer stuff from the 80's and I'm finding out that people have been looking for it: bsky.app/profile/its-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
To keep things organized I made another account where I'm going to post some of the non-Zelda scans I make. Because I collect for Zelda I end up with a lot of rarer stuff from the 80's and I'm finding out that people have been looking for it: bsky.app/profile/its-...
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It turns out that the magic ring was actually neon pink!
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It turns out that the magic ring was actually neon pink!
I spent yesterday organizing my archives & didn't realize I had this super rare art scan! This limited handout is from the 2017 Japan Expo event in Paris & with art by Yusuke Nakano & Satoru Takizawa. www.ikhanakingdom.com is forever incredible & had scanned this for us from her collection! #zelda
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I spent yesterday organizing my archives & didn't realize I had this super rare art scan! This limited handout is from the 2017 Japan Expo event in Paris & with art by Yusuke Nakano & Satoru Takizawa. www.ikhanakingdom.com is forever incredible & had scanned this for us from her collection! #zelda
Here's a better scan I made, with much less bleed through, of the obvious Link and Impa sketch in Katsuya Terada's Rakuga King 寺田克也ラクガキング (2002) artbook.
It's a collection of 1000 pages of his sketches from over the years. #Zelda #Nintendo #KatsuyaTerada
It's a collection of 1000 pages of his sketches from over the years. #Zelda #Nintendo #KatsuyaTerada
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Here's a better scan I made, with much less bleed through, of the obvious Link and Impa sketch in Katsuya Terada's Rakuga King 寺田克也ラクガキング (2002) artbook.
It's a collection of 1000 pages of his sketches from over the years. #Zelda #Nintendo #KatsuyaTerada
It's a collection of 1000 pages of his sketches from over the years. #Zelda #Nintendo #KatsuyaTerada
You might recognize this art from the #Zelda 1 guide, Tips & Tactics, but a few years back the original artist, Sho Kobayashi / こばやし将, posted photos of the originals on twitter @show_kob & I love them because it shows the original art included neon pink: which doesn't usually scan or print well
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
You might recognize this art from the #Zelda 1 guide, Tips & Tactics, but a few years back the original artist, Sho Kobayashi / こばやし将, posted photos of the originals on twitter @show_kob & I love them because it shows the original art included neon pink: which doesn't usually scan or print well
It's rare to get a full set of dungeon map art for all 9 levels in the original Legend of #Zelda so this little guide is a gem for that reason. I just cleaned & added them here: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
600dpi full guide, & 2400dpi RAW/edited art uploading, here: archive.org/details/guid...
600dpi full guide, & 2400dpi RAW/edited art uploading, here: archive.org/details/guid...
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It's rare to get a full set of dungeon map art for all 9 levels in the original Legend of #Zelda so this little guide is a gem for that reason. I just cleaned & added them here: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...
600dpi full guide, & 2400dpi RAW/edited art uploading, here: archive.org/details/guid...
600dpi full guide, & 2400dpi RAW/edited art uploading, here: archive.org/details/guid...
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Hard to believe it's already been ten years that Gaming Alexandria has been around. Here's a (late) article about our history, as well as special thanks and small blurbs from others of what Gaming Alexandria has meant to them. Here's to another ten years! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/11/g...
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hard to believe it's already been ten years that Gaming Alexandria has been around. Here's a (late) article about our history, as well as special thanks and small blurbs from others of what Gaming Alexandria has meant to them. Here's to another ten years! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/11/g...
@ozidual.bsky.social, who is an amazing scanner and archivist, just finished scanning this rare Family Computer Special, vol 4, and let me know there was a little bit of Zelda content in it that I didn't know about, including a small 4 panel comic ❤️ archive.org/details/fami...
Family Computer Special Volume 4 (600dpi) : Tokuma Shoten : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Family Computer Special Volume 4 scanned in at 600DPI with a Fujitsu fi-7460 and cover scanned in at 800dpi on on an Epson V550.PDF in Adobe Acrobat. CBZ...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@ozidual.bsky.social, who is an amazing scanner and archivist, just finished scanning this rare Family Computer Special, vol 4, and let me know there was a little bit of Zelda content in it that I didn't know about, including a small 4 panel comic ❤️ archive.org/details/fami...
I've been stitching together the 2400dpi scans I made from the 1987 #Nintendo wall calendar. It's slow going BUT I did get the art for Super #Mario 2 repaired & cleaned!
When I'm done the RAWs & repairs will be on my Internet Archive page: archive.org/details/@his... (Links to more stuff in my bio)
When I'm done the RAWs & repairs will be on my Internet Archive page: archive.org/details/@his... (Links to more stuff in my bio)
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I've been stitching together the 2400dpi scans I made from the 1987 #Nintendo wall calendar. It's slow going BUT I did get the art for Super #Mario 2 repaired & cleaned!
When I'm done the RAWs & repairs will be on my Internet Archive page: archive.org/details/@his... (Links to more stuff in my bio)
When I'm done the RAWs & repairs will be on my Internet Archive page: archive.org/details/@his... (Links to more stuff in my bio)
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Translated first page... will work on the others tonight. But it seems to be a comedy based around starting the second quest and the characters being slight parodies of themselves. Link to google doc I'll be updating:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Selda and Ling's Second Quest
<top banner> A one-shot story of adventure! <Main headline> Princess Selda and Ling's Second Quest <Small Summary> The young man's name is Ling. The princess is Selda. Long long ago... as all tales...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Translated first page... will work on the others tonight. But it seems to be a comedy based around starting the second quest and the characters being slight parodies of themselves. Link to google doc I'll be updating:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...