Zelda Gaiden headed to the US

[11.05.99] » American gamers should see it by Christmas 2000.

   During a recent conference in New York, Nintendo's Peter Main confirmed that Zelda Gaiden, the follow-up to last year's Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, will definitely be coming stateside. That should come as no big surprise to anyone, but Main's statement comes as the first official confirmation on the subject. What's more, Main gave the first indication as to the game's release date.

   "I can already predict that next year at this time I'll be standup up here announcing huge sales projections for the odds-on best-seller of Christmas 2000, the Nintendo 64 sequel to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time," said Main. Certainly it would not be unusual for Nintendo to release a surefire hit just in time for the holiday season.

   An exact Japanese release date has not yet been announced, though reports have it as sometime during spring quarter 2000.