influences

[rasnaragath]

I  have found several influences from different sources in the Zelda games, the most important as most of us know was the movie "Legend" as told by Miyamoto himslef some other influences I've found are as follow:
Epona is the name of a goddess in Indian culture
Rupees are the local currency in India
Peter Pan?....I don't wanna think about it
King Arthur's Excalibur

[Cyclos]

what about Mario? Mario things are in some of the games.

[rasnaragath]

Yeah I remenber the portraits in the royal castle, but I meant about the direct infuences, those, fairy tales, cultures or anything that Miyamoto based upon to make the games.

[zeldafreak1997]

some one told me the movie labrinth.....

i had no clue how...

[Jack]

I read somewhere that Miyamoto got a good part of the Legend of Zelda from his early childhood experiences playing in the woods near his house and in various caves thereabouts. Zelda was based on an imaginary game he played in said wilderness.

[rasnaragath]

Yeah, in his childhood house there was a great garden, he said he used to play there, and I think this was the place where the legend of Zelda and other games where born, I think he played hide and seek and this particular game can be observed in the stealth mini-game at the castle garden in OoT

[Evilslayer]

20. Claiming The Legend of Zelda is based on the movie "Legend": I am not sure who started this great myth, but it is ending now. I e-mailed IMDB.com to remove that stupid trivia that says Miyamoto was influenced by the Ridley Scott film "Legend". Let's get the facts straight. Zeruda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy came out in Japan on the Famicom Disk System on February 21st, 1986. Legend came out in limited release in Europe in late 1985 due to an issue with the cut for the North American audience, which Ridley Scott discusses in the Ultimate Edition commentary and special features. Production of both masterpieces began at nearly the same time in 1983 at opposite ends of the globe. Quite frankly, there is a window of maybe two to three months in which Shigeru Miyamoto and company could have flown to Europe, seen Legend, and then flown back to make Zelda. In all honesty folks, Legend has very little in common with the original Legend of Zelda. Sure, Tom Cruise's character of "Jack" wears green clothes and he likes a princess and has to save her from an evil dude, but come on. Jack lives in a forest, has to save unicorns, drinks tea with forest folk, wears gold armor for most of the film, and fights some bull-demon form of Tim Curry. The film is more like Ocarina of Time, which came out in 1998, 12 years after The Legend of Zelda was released anywhere.

In other words, LoZ wasn't inspired by the movie Legend. ::)