Adventure & RPG Games · 32

Adventure design often works by planting a locked answer early and letting the player carry the question around for hours before the right item or clue appears. Put that beside this bit of history: The Legend of Zelda launched in 1986 and mixed action, exploration, items and secrets into a structure that encouraged players to remember places they could not yet reach. Inventory management is the ancient art of carrying twenty swords while being unable to pick up one flower.