The Secret of "Link's Awakening" Finally Revealed!  Posted on
February 17, 2013 - 3:03pm by beyondthestars   It turns out that
the 1993 Game Boy classic, "Link's Awakening" was intended to be
the first multiplayer Zelda game. This predates Four Swords (the
first Zelda game to actually include multiplayer) by almost an
entire decade!  Editor’s Note: Link’s Awakening would have been
pretty cool with two-four players…even if the using three link
cables could have made things a bit tangled. Although I think
Nintendo may have been planning to make this a two-player (as
opposed to 2+ player) game before ultimately deciding to make it
single player only. But it's still a neat piece of trivia
regardless.    While watching Screwattack's latest 24 hour live-
stream, I decided to start casually reading through the Hyrule
Historia, which had just come in the mail. Now, Link's Awakening
was the very first Zelda game that I had ever seen, let alone
played. So since it has such strong nostalgic value to me, I
excitedly flipp