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Best Zelda Commercials & Trailers (1986 - 2021)

In celebration of Zelda's 35th anniversary we thought now would be a good time to look back at some of the best trailers and commercials from Zelda's history.

Zelda is officially 35 years old, dating back to the original Legend of Zelda’s launch on February 21, 1986. When a series has been around for that long there’s bound to be different advertising styles. From rap commercials in the 80’s to found footage ripoffs in the 2000’s there are a lot of approaches the Zelda series took when advertising over the decades.

In this video we’ve selected the best of them all, and at least 1 from each mainline game. This includes trailers and commercials, and those aren’t limited to just US or Japan. Some are comedic, some are epic, and some are just downright memorable.

In terms of what Nintendo is doing for the 35th anniversary of Zelda, it recently revealed that Skyward Sword HD will be making its way to the Switch 10 years after its original Wii release. It also revealed that more information about Breath of the Wild’s sequel will be revealed later this year.

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i say from the n64 to the end of the wii, it has the best trailers for the legend of zelda series.

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Nice scroll down memory lane, I remember watching these commercials growing up, but they seem so cheesy now XD. But man that Breath of the Wild trailer, is still IMO the best game trailer ever.

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I kind of like the earlier commercials more lololol. They are some how soooo bad that they are good some how... It's hard to explain.

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@goldenageplayer: life was so bad it was good

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@goldenageplayer: Most game commercials in the 90's, you could barely tell they were for games lol.

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@Sepewrath: Right? There's like next to no ingame footage in many of them lololol.

(Looks at the breath 2 trailer)

Yeah... I think they got better at selling these to gamers lololol.

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This is the kinda goofy fun stuff I wanna see you guys doing on this site haha. Good job!

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The commercial with Robin Williams is just very sad now.
Really miss him.

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@freedom01: I never saw it until just now. Makes me feel the same way you are freefom01.

We recently lost Christopher Plumber. Another one of the greats smh... But these greats don't want you to be sad 24 7 and want you to move on and live a great life and stuff : )

Gotta love the greats lol. They will always be with us in our hearts no matter what.

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Easily the best X-men, Glad they got Frasier to play him.

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