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Life & fun · April 4, 2016

Zelda 30 Year Tribute

The Legend of Zelda made with voxels

Zelda 30 Year Tribute launched on April 4, 2016 with 69 votes, #814 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

A fan tribute to the greatest console game of all time, the NES Legend of Zelda. This open source project uses WebGL and voxels rendering to create a pixel-perfect replica of the original, all in Javascript.

Nintendo asked us to remove this site for copyright infringement. I guess Zelda30Tribute was a little too pixel perfect :-) We're sad about that, but we get it. We started this project because we love Nintendo and the joy they have given us throughout the years. From the start of development, we knew this result could potentially happen. Nintendo has every right to protect their IP. No complaints from us, we had a blast working on this tribute and made some friends along the way. Big thanks to the half million folks who played our game! We learned a bunch and wrote some code that others might learn from, too. We plan to post the project to Github soon, once we've had a chance to remove…from zelda30tribute.com

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