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2016 is the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda franchise. To celebrate the anniversary, Nintendo released the drawings of how the levels in the series are made.

Nintendo is on a nostalgia trip this year. With the release of the NES Classic, as well as porting the Super Mario franchise for mobile, Nintendo is bringing back the classic and iconic video games back into the limelight of the modern world. This time, they are bringing back fans thirty years ago, where The Legend of Zelda first met the public for the first time. The Legend of Zelda's originally released for the Famicom System back in February 1986. As a treat for fans who have been supporting the franchise for thirty years, Nintendo released stills and drawings on how the levels in The Legend of Zelda were designed in their official blog.

Created on graph paper, people can see how the designers designed the maps and levels of the game. Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and other designers who helped designed the game thirty years ago put in a lot of effort into creating the game's maps as well as planning out which map contains which item. The graph paper proved to be useful during the time where pixel games are in boom since it helps the developers to pinpoint the exact position of items, objects, and pathways for the players to investigate and navigate. All of the maps shown were hand-drawn by none other than Shigeru Miyamoto himself!

This is an exciting feat since people can see how technology drastically improved in the span of thirty years. If fans compare how the original The Legend of Zelda with one of the latest titles of the franchise, they could see that Nintendo made sure to use all the available technology during the creation of the games. It also brings a nostalgic feel for those who grew up playing the original The Legend of Zelda games back in their Famicom consoles.

Nintendo will be releasing the latest installment of the series, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sometime next year. The game will be one of the first few games to be ported to Nintendo's upcoming console, the Nintendo Switch.