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Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Evolution of the Zelda Theme
The Zelda series is full of classic themes and melodies, some of which go all the way back to that original game I played as a kid. As we explored in our last episode, these tunes were born in the age of 8 bits and 5 low-fi channels of audio. Those limitations forced composer Koji Kondo to make them as distilled and powerful as possible. Each version is a reflection of the hardware it was made for, and where Nintendo was as a company.
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