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Link's Awakening

by Mike McDonald

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Stormy Night 01:55
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Link Is Woke 02:00
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Mabe Village 01:23
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Shop 02:04
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Dream House 01:20
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Boss Battle 00:41
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about

In 1994, I was 11 years old. I begged my parents for a Game Boy for Christmas that year. A new Zelda game had recently come out and I was very excited to play it. Imagine my amazement when it actually appeared under the tree.

My GameBoy and I were inseparable. I was addicted. I even spent an entire vacation on a gorgeous, snowy mountain, not making snowmen and sipping cocoa, but crawling through dungeons and looking for mushrooms. My folks were very concerned about what "those awful video games" were doing to my young mind and they were right. Link's Awakening was imprinting on me a lifelong love of music and sound, even if I wasn't aware of it at the time.

Now in 2019, Nintendo is about to re-release Link's Awakening on the Switch with updated graphics and music. I decided to create this album as a tribute to a game that I have loved since I was a kid and to a soundtrack full of songs that still pop into my head from time to time.

Please enjoy.

credits

released April 22, 2019

All instruments and programming: Mike McDonald
Mixed and mastered by: Mike McDonald
Original music written for Nintendo by Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, and Kazumi "K.K. Slider" Totaka.

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