Rare Art Repair: Ikeda Bookstore Hyrule Fantasy Map

This is a strategy guide map for the original Legend of Zelda. Olga @That_black_lynx has repaired it by patching numerous pieces together and she and I have cleaned it up. If you would like the full sized images, from 300-1200 dpi, please visit the download page for the scans on: archive.org/details/zelda_guide_loz_ikeda

Each zip has 7 versions of the map. The original cleaned image, ones with items removed, lines removed, text removed, cropped and uncropped.

池田書店 チャレンジマップ ゼルダの伝説

Ikeda Bookstore The Hyrule Fantasy The Legend of Zelda

ISBN 4-262-15501-3/C8276

April 22, 1986


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Rare Art Repair: Adventure of Link, Link and Zelda fighting Gleeok Poster

An incredible restoration on this now-rare Zelda art from the 80's. Nearly extinct from the internet.


@JTaylorPro had to combine a poster & folder for the image. It's probably the best its looked since the poster was printed. The art may be from DiC prior to production of the 1989 Super Mario Bros. Show that featured the Legend of Zelda cartoon.


Big thanks to @IkhanaKingdom who sent me scans of a poster that has more image on the sides &
@MrTalida and @RupaKoopaTroopa who got the folder online/to me. All 3 of them, along with Jefferson, made this possible.


Here's a high-res version of just the folder from MrTalida: archive.org

Thanks to Super Zelda Bro for posting this officially licensed art that matches these designs from a Nintendo poster set:

High Res Scans: 1200-2400dpi Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha Legend of Zelda Strategy Guide

 
Read the book here. I scanned this at 1200dpi and the pages with art were scanned at 2400dpi.

The Legend of Zelda (z1) Strategy Guide

• May 28th,1986
• ISBN 63912-70
• Planning & Editing: Studio Hard
• Hideaki Oide
• Shuichi Matsumoto
• Takeshi Yoshikawa
• Super Game Player
• Hiroaki Nagata
• Koichi Watanabe
• Cover and Text Illustration
• MARUDA®
• Makoto Hidaka
• Cover and Text Design: Hideaki Kinjo
• To Issue: Yoshikazu Masuda
• Issuer: Yoshikazu Ichitsuda
• Publisher: Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
• Head officeL 1-7-9 Ginza, Chou-ku, Tokyo 104
• Printing and Binding: Dainippon Printing

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2 Years of me being back!

It's officially been 2 years now since I have been back to working on Zelda content! If you were around in the community in the early 2000's, or even 2011ish, you may have caught my other big bursts of work, but disability and website issues built up and took me away from it all. Thank you to everyone that checked in over the years though, one day it finally clicked that I really do want to be back here working on all this with everyone else. It's been really fun being back. I can not believe how wonderful the gaming and preservation community and enthusiasts are. We have found so many cool things together, we have gotten so many more works translated, we have discovered so much lost material. All of you are so amazing and I hope even some of this has brought people even a drop of the joy it has brought me. 

I'm going to try to post more on other social media, not just twitter, and I want to try to start fixing up my actual site at some point, but for now I am just going to keep scanning to try to make sure these things aren't lost forever. We need a library for old Zelda works, there's too much left to be discovered from them, and I can't wait to see what working towards that future holds.

~Melora

Rare Art Scan: Pyramid of Power (also: WANTED!)

This may not look like much but this is a piece of (very likely) official Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past art that only seems to be found in the 1992, number 3, issue of Famimaga (Family Computer Magazine) Thanks to @Kobun20 for id'ing the issue for me and to the collector brycecorp where I originally saw the photo.

 
I scanned it at 2400dpi


I believe it is part of the set of official art from the game manual: Such as Link being awoken from his sleep by Princess Zelda's telepathic plea, them fleeing through the sewers, Link on the cliff looking at the Tower of Hera, etc. Each issue of this magazine contains part of a walkthrough for the game. Each section starts with one of those pieces of official art. This is the only one that hasn't been seen before. So I do think it came from the same studio that did that official art and that was just never used until they needed an extra piece for this magazine spread. Cutting room floor causality, if you will. This has happened a few times, for example there was enemy art for Link to the Past that we never saw before until the Art and Artifacts artbook (the blue Daria.) The Ocarina of Time manual also has an image of Link not seen in any other publication. (In the very beginning, his face is overlaid on Ganon's boot.)


Anyway, if you see this image anywhere else, please write me right away! melorasworld@gmail.com

Official Zelda Artists: A Work in Progress

I'm trying to ID all of the official Zelda artists but I'm still working on this. Most of this is working speculation. If you have anything you can contribute, to help sort out who is who, please let me know on any of my socials or email: linktr.ee/historyofhyrule

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Yoshiaki Koizumi : 小泉 歓晃

• Game Credits
• LttP Booklet Art: Illustrator (Story Art)

Honestly, right now, I don't know if Koizumi did these all himself or what but I know he was kind of put in charge of the manual.

  

Yoichi Kotabe : 小田部 羊一 : Youichi Kotabe, Yaichi Kotabe, Yohichi Kotabe

• Game Credits: LttP, LA, LA DX, Booklet Illustrator. BS Zelda Scene Artist.
• LttP Booklet Art: Illustrator
• LA Booklet Art: Illustrator
• LA DX Booklet (Watercolor of Koholint)
• BZ Zelda: In Game Scenes (Watercolors)

I'm betting he did a lot of other stuff too but, honestly,  the way they talk about the art in interviews... it's a little confusing to know who did what. The watercolors are absolutely his though

 

Yasuhiro Sakai : 酒井 康裕

• Game Credits

Tomoaki Kuroume : 黒梅 知明

• Game Credits

Hideki Fujii : 藤井 英樹

• LttP Game Credits: Illustrator
• Game Credits 2
• LttP Booklet Art: Illustrator 

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Matsunori Iwamoto : 岩本松徳

• Manga & Illustrations
• Zelda Handbook (LttP) (Specifically listed as for the Manga, the only option)
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP) Item Illustrations
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP) 
• US Nintendo Guide (LA) Item, Character, Scene Illustrations

I'm confident saying these are his. The Manga is absolutely his:

   

Kenji Murata : 村田健司 , けんじ むらた

1. Ultima Exodus Guide: Maps? (3 artists. Technical Maps | Cute Characters, Items, Map | More Serious Characters | Pastel Chalks) Technical Maps? or Pastels (can't be pastels, he is not in LA US Guide. Might be thicker looking illustrations in LA guide or those may also be by Matsunori Iwamoto)
2. Zelda Handbook (LttP) 2 Overworld Maps? (it's either them or Yuji Honma)
3. US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
4. German Nintendo Guide (LttP) -There are world maps! or are those by Toshisada Nobuhara? These do look a little different though
5. US Nintendo Guide (LA)
6. Not in the German LA Guide
7. Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (it has technical maps, horrible airbrush of link, that AoL Map, items)
8. Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy 

Possibility: LA US Guide (Only 4 Artists) . Ultima Guide (only 3 artists)

 

Yuji Honma : 本間雑二

• Zelda Handbook (LttP) 2 Overworld Maps? (it's either them or Kenji Murata)
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• German Nintendo Guide (LA)
• Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)
• CREDITED as an illustrator in the APE guides with the gold covers, as well as the US LttP guide and the DE Lttp & LA guide. Not in the LA US guide. 

Makikazu Ohmori : まきかず おもり

Macki Ohmori

• Ultima Exodus Guide: (3 artists. Technical Maps | Cute Characters, Items, Map | More Serious Characters & Pastel Chalks) Pastels? or Technical Maps
• US Nintendo Guide (LttP) Pastels?
• Not in the US Nintendo Guide
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP) Pastels?
• German Nintendo Guide (LA) Pastels?
• Nintendo Power Art Credits (Confirmed example) TONS OF ART, Nearly every issue
• Nintendo Player's Guide - Super NES (3 illustrators)
• Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (it has technical maps, horrible airbrush of link, that AoL Map, items)
• Nintendo Player's Guide - Super Game Boy (only 2 artists, Ken-show)
• Nintendo Player's Guide - Super Mario All-Stars
• Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy 

Confirmed: Nintendo Power

 

Katsuya Terada :

• US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• US Nintendo Guide (LA)
• Not in the German LttP Nintendo Guide
• German Nintendo Guide (LA)

Hiroshi Aizawa : 愛沢ひろし

Hiroshi Auzawa

• US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• Not in the US LA Guide
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• German Nintendo Guide (LA)
• Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (source)
• Nintendo Player's Guide - Super NES (3 illustrators)
• This Guide (Guide info)
• His art 
• He did a lot of comics, including Wanpakku revival comics

I think he may have done the item art for A Link to the Past
 

Shuji Imai :今井修司 

Syuji Imai

• US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)

Howard and Nester Artist

Ah, could he have done the items too? Imai does darker corners. The palette is similar but also not as spot-on as the other guy's. Honestly I can't figure out what Imai would have done in the 2 LttP Player's Guides if not this either. The line work on that one concept piece of Link reaching for the sword... maybe he drew it and someone else colored it? https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_lttp_nintendo_power_us/zelda_guide_lttp_nintendo_power_us/page/n110/mode/1up

Toshisada Nobuhara :

Tosashi Nobehara

• US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
• US Nintendo Guide (LA)
• German Nintendo Guide (LA)
• Futabasha Guide (LttP) Maps (only illustrator & labeled as maps) This does not have either overworld map
• Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy 
• Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)

Are the maps in the player's guides actually the same as this guide's maps? I need to check on that

Confirmed Art: 

 

Satoshi Yuzuriha :

• Is this them?
• Is this them?
• and this
• https://yuzuriha.com/ yuzu@yuzuriha.com
• US Nintendo Guide (LttP)

Kazunori Aihara : 相原和典

1. German Nintendo Guide (LA) New Simple Items? Simpler Maps? Really Cool Giant Map?
2. Pokemon Book Artist Watercolor, so he probably did the big LA map
3. Game Boy Player's Guide

Oddly I think he may have done some maps in the early Nintendo powers... but he would have been a MUCH less developed artist if I'm right. Because they are pretty rough in comparison.

Pretty confident on this one:

  

Kazuhiro Amachi :

• German Nintendo Guide (LA) New Simple Items? Simpler Maps? Really Cool Giant Map?
• Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy 

Could be the simple maps, maybe the items as well? Kinda the same colors and styles. Maybe they did the items as well. They're in a very clean, graphic, style as well.

See if the LA items are credited in the LA guide. I do not believe they were. I think only Kotabe is mentioned as an illustrator in that.

Ken-show :

• German Nintendo Guide (LttP) New Simple Items? Simpler Maps? Really Cool Giant Map?
• Nintendo Player's Guide - Super Game Boy (only 2 artists, Makikazu Ohmori) check out metroid items

I can not figure out why this guy is in here unless he did the official items for Metroid II: Return of Samus. Which are in the Super Game Boy guide. Because then he could have done the new Zelda items in the German LttP guide: they only appear in that one guide. Like the 4 swords and 2 shields. The coloring on the tunics also look the same, though this tunic art is seen elsewhere with flatter colors. These bows and boomerangs have also been redone.

Check the golden bee. I believe that also appeared in a Nintendo Power, see if he is credited.

Probably not the simple items and maps from German LA because nothing like that is in the Metroid art in the Super Game Boy guide. But it's weird because the items for the German LA guide ARE in the Super Game Boy guide... argh..

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Not A Zelda artist but to help narrow it down:

Tetuo Hiroi :

Tetsuo Hiroi?

• Ultima Exodus Guide:  (3 artists. Technical Maps | Cute Characters, Items, Map | More Serious Characters & Pastel Chalks) Cute Characters? These are the only ones that don't seem to match any Zelda Art
• More Game Credits: 
• Small World 1975
• W1 Lullaby 1982 Author, Illustrator
• Cheers to the Cannonball! 1983
• Unico in the Island of Magic 1983 Inbetween animation
• Saitoji Buru Utsu 1984 Author, Illustrator
• Getty All 1986 Author, Illustrator
• Riders Rhapsody 1988 Author, Illustrator
• Ultima: Exodus - Hint Book 1989 Illustrator

Doesn't really match the Ultima guide, but idk it says Tetsuo Hiroi, maybe he really upped his game! This is absolutely great art:

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Check these artists:

Yoshiki Oshima, Akio Nakamura, Makikazu Omori

• Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (source) Check the NP with the AoL map, one of these people may have done it. (it has technical maps, horrible airbrush of link, that AoL Map, items)

Jackie Yoshida

• Nintendo Player's Guide - Super NES (3 illustrators)

Benimaru Itoh | Benimaru "Ashura" Itoh

• Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)
• Bio
• His Metroid Image Search

Yu Minazuki - check the Japanese spelling- Yuu Mishouzaki, who did the stranger LoZ and AoL Zelda comics. So did they do comics for Wanpakku, which would mean they worked for Tokuma Shoten like some other Wanpakku comic artists, which makes me wonder if they were at Work House too? idk, style looks pretty different

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Super Game Boy Player's Guide Artists:

• Makikazu Ohmori
• KEN-SHOW

Has Metroid: Return of Samus Items

Zelda: 3 item artists from Zelda: has a detailed items from LA. Has a simple items from LttP for LA. Has newly added item from LA German guide: Mirror Shield, Bracelet x2, feather, for LA

Game Boy Player's Guide Artists:

• Hideaki Ito
• Kenji Murata
• Kazunori Aihara
• Makikazu Ohmori
• Toshisada Nobuhara
• Kazuhiro Amachi

Scans: Famimaga 1991-11-15 (Special Issue Vol. 8)

The Zelda feature is really short but someone was looking for this and asked me if I could make scans. Find it here

 

New 1200dpi scans of The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening German Strategy Guide

Just finished 1200dpi scanning one of the most incredible guides ever made for Zelda. There's so much mind-blowing art in it, including Terada's, that was never anywhere else that I can't even pick for this post & had to do features on Twitter all week. Find it here: https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_la_de

Der Offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater. Published 1994. Nintendo of Europe. Work House Co.

If anyone wants to sell me a better copy of this guide, I'd be happy to re-scan this. Contact me at melorasworld@gmail.com


Pages 109-110 are missing from some of the versions of the guide, mine included, so TheSmaxx on Twitter was kind enough to get me 1200dpi scans of those pages. That is why the color is slightly different. Thank you to Daniela and FenrisFang: without both of you, over 20 years ago now, who knows how long we would have gone without knowing about this incredible book and the utterly amazing art it contains.

If anyone wants a full image of the map, it's in the gallery. Thank you for liking it! The guide is actually missing the art from the middle section, since it's a fold out, so I re-drew & repaired it as best I could: https://www.flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/51085263811/in/album-72157629221332745/

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1200dpi scans of the Link's Awakening Player's Guide

I just made & uploaded new 1200dpi scans of one of the best Zelda publications of all time: Nintendo Player's Guide for Link's Awakening. All the art is incredible & the writing is great too, just like the LttP one. Find it here: https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_la_npg


My top 4 Western strategy guides, in order, are:

1. The US Link to the Past Player's Guide
2. The German Link's Awakening Player's Guide (I'm re-scanning this next)
3. The US Link's Awakening Player's Guide
4. The German Link to the Past Player's Guide

The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening Nintendo Player's Guide. Publisher & ISBN Info: Nintendo of America. Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. 1993

Apologies that the cover is so beat-up and that there is some writing on the RAWS, this is my literal childhood copy and I wrote down some milestones (like when I beat the game.) The pages themselves are all in pretty good shape though.

File Information:

• Being Uploaded: One zip has 1200dpi RAW tif files
• One zip has 1200dpi RAW jpg files
• One zip has lightly edited 1200dpi jpg files
• The largest pdf is the exact same 600dpi files and was saved as uncompressed
• There is a zip and a pdf with compressed 300dpi files: if you need to save on space or bandwidth
• The other files were made by archive.org's software and will have compression

I only archive works that have been out-of-print for decades. I will not post anything that is in print or that gets reprinted.

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High Res Scans of Zelda II and Mario Art

This is a really fun piece that has a lot of Mario art and some really great illustrations for Link from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It's from a postcard and was scanned and sent to me by Ikhana, who was a Guinness Record holder for the largest Zelda collection at one point. Find it, and the cropped induvial pieces, in the gallery

 

High Res Art from the PAAS Zelda Easter Egg Kit

The ever incredible collector, Ikhana, generously scanned the fun little pieces from the PAAS Easter Egg Decorating Kit, Glitter Mario Paint. 1993. The Zelda Egg-Quest Adventure. You can find them scattered throughout the woefully incomplete Link to the Past section of the gallery.

There's 7 total: Link, Zelda, a talking tree, a fortune teller, a fairy, one of the blacksmiths, and Agahnim.

 

High Res Scans of Scratch-Off Cards

Thanks to @IkhanaKingdom and JPrusik we finally have amazing scans of 36 of the Zelda scratch-off cards, some of which have cool variants of the enemy artwork. Find LoZ 1 here: https://flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/52681872584

And Adventure of Link here: https://flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/52686168849

2400dpi Scans of Ikeda Bookstore Hyrule Fantasy Guide and Map

 

Mases of Zelda Dungeon sent this to me and I am so thankful to him because it has one of the best map I have ever seen and Olga, who does amazing work, is going to repair it.

This is a strategy guide for the original Legend of Zelda. It has an amazing fold out map which I have included in its rough form.

Find it here: https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_loz_ikeda

池田書店 チャレンジマップ ゼルダの伝説

Ikeda Bookstore The Hyrule Fantasy The Legend of Zelda

ISBN 4-262-15501-3/C8276

April 22, 1986



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New BSZelda Art Added

There was art created for the Nintendo Satellaview that was broadcast, it wasn't part of the download package, so the only way we have them is because someone recorded it on VHS, saved it, and got it online. The source for these is Makuchan on YouTube. You can find out more about the games from the BS Zelda Homepage.

I had some of them uploaded but recently went back and searched for any I missed. I believe I found 3 more. I have them next to their watercolor images that are (mislabeled and) in the Zelda 1 section of Hyrule Historia. The watercolors were likely done by Yōichi Kotabe.

Screen Capture by Melora of History of Hyrule

2400dpi Zelda II: The Adventure of Link map from Nintendo Power Issue 4

A good version of this has never been online before. I scanned and cleaned it so there is one version with the text and one version without. You can also find the RAW scans as well. 

Find it here: https://archive.org/details/zelda_np_aol_map_hyrule


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1200dpi scans of Club Nintendo Classic No. 1

I uploaded 2400dpi scans of the art as well. This is a Nintendo UK publication for Club Nintendo published by Nintendo of Europe. Other people have scanned this but I wanted really good images for the gallery.

Find it here: https://archive.org/details/zelda_zine_loz_cnc/mode/2up

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The Final Volume of the Twilight Princess Manga Pre-Orders

 

You can now pre-order the English release of the final volume, number 11, of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess by Akira Himekawa. Its set release date appears to be April 11, 2023.

1200dpi Scans of The Legend of Zelda Sticker Fun

This is a sticker activity book by Golden Book published in 1989. There are already other scans of this online but I wanted to make really good ones so I'd have the art for the gallery.

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1200dpi scans of Zelda: Perfect Fan Book

The scans are here: https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_lttp_pfb/page/n1/mode/2up

This is an additional publication that came with the December 20, 1991 issue of Marukatsu Super Famicom (マル勝スーパーファミコン) volume 20. It was published by Kadokawashoten.

It's a guide for first part of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Triforce of the Gods) and the back of the book contains a small manga for each of the first 3 Zelda games. Hyrule Fantasy (Author: Tsukasa Nishino,) The Adventure of Link (Author: Ayumu Takanaga,) and A Link to the Past (Author: Show Honda.) The manga is read in the opposite direction than the front of the book.

They seem to have interview quotes with Miyamoto in it that do confirm a simple little timeline. Like obviously there was one but it's a small fun fact about it: https://twitter.com/makgameadv/status/1620227664715055107

This is also a cool little book because it has even more manga examples of Link with a fairy companion years before the introduction of Navi. The novels, gamebooks, and manga are interesting for reasons like this.

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2400dpi Scans of the German Link to the Past Guide

I just made 2400dpi scans of the German language The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Official Player's Guide. This is one of my favorite guides, be sure to check it out. It has different art than the US guide. 

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