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In this episode I explore the history and technology that allowed the Legend of Zelda to be one of the first games to have saves.

Credits:
Technical Editing - Kirby0Louise
Japanese Language Research Support - Masayo Okamoto

Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_game)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_game
https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2010/11/feature_slipped_disk_the_history_of_the_famicom_disk_system
https://www.nintendotimes.com/1986/05/26/computer-entertainer-nes-reviews-news/
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-4-11/page/n11/mode/2up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
https://archive.org/details/New_Zork_Times_The_Vol._IV_No._1_1985-03_Infocom_US/page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/New_Zork_Times_The_Vol._4_No._2_1985-06_Infocom_US/page/n3/mode/2up
https://kotaku.com/why-you-cant-rent-games-in-japan-5914749
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/html/others/detail/1318549.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_random-access_memory
https://superuser.com/questions/1344466/why-does-bios-use-battery-backed-memory-instead-of-storing-settings-in-eeprom
https://en-support.renesas.com/knowledgeBase/20840872

Music:
Still Need Syndrome by Yarin Primak
Fragments by Palm Blue
Terminal by Stanley Gurvich
Particles by Nobou
The Labyrinth by DaniHaDani
1986 by Angel Salazar