Your take on the Zelda timeline

Hi all...

I was wondering if if anyone has figured out the official Zelda timeline or if it's still a matter of interpretation.

I know there are those who believe in the linear timeline and those that beleive in the split timeline. Has anything been comfirmed by those at Nintendo???

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This isn't the official timeline (not that I know of), but the way I'd do it is:

Ocarina of Time

Majora's Mask

Both of the Oracle games (whichever one you play first doesn't matter, but I typically do Seasons then Ages)

Link's Awakening

A Link to the Past

and then later in the future of the Zelda universe, the events of Wind waker occur, then Phantom Hourglass, then Minish cap, then Four Swords Adventure, then Link gets older and we move on to Twilight Princess!

(I didn't add the NES ones, because I didn't really feel like it, but i suppose I could add it before Ocarina of Time, and make both of them happen long before the events of OoT :|.......meh....)

That's the way i do it, anyway.

There actually is an official Zelda timeline that the Nintendo development teams consult when make new games, but it has never been publically released. But the accepted timeline starts with Four Swords and then at some point breaks off into two separate timelines caused by the events of Ocarina of Time. One timeline continues with the Windwaker and later Phantom Hourglass while the other split leads to the Twilight Princess.

I'm not real sure where chronologically the other Zeldas would fall though the original Legend of Zelda, Adventure of Link, and Link's Awakening are linked together (no pun intended).

I do think the Zelda Chronology is one of the greatest debates in gaming as there is no official declaration for it, and there are compelling arguements for many different theories including the "retelling of the legend" concept.

http://www.zeldawiki.org/Split_Timeline_Disciplines 

there you go, but there is nothing official.  

There actually is an official Zelda timeline that the Nintendo development teams consult when make new games, but it has never been publically released.

Robio_basic

There actually is an official Zelda timeline that the Nintendo development teams consult when make new games, but it has never been publically released.