Happy 30th Anniversary to The Legend of Zelda!

Today's the day! Exactly 30 years ago on February 21, 1986, the first Legend of Zelda game went on sale in Japan. So join us in celebrating Link's 30th birthday, won't you?

As you all know, we've been giving away 30 copies of that original NES adventure to celebrate the series' major milestone moment, and I've got six new winners to announce right this second. They are:

- Wilson, a.k.a. "wilflare"

- Josh Caudle

- Jeremy Benoit

- Justin Do

- Alejandro Valere

- Kyle Emch

Congratulations to you new winners! The random number generator selected your names from the list this time around, so you've scored yourselves a free Wii U or 3DS download of Zelda 1 just for being an NF patron. I'll be in touch with you soon to help you claim your prize!

And everyone else, fear not! The generosity continues with a further 10 copies to give away between now and the end of February, so you've still got double-digit chances of winning as of this moment. Stay tuned to see if your name pops up in our next Patreon update!

We've been continuing to make great progress here on Patreon, by the way, as we've risen further in the all-time rankings all the way up to #35 overall, and we're just a few more subscribers away from claiming the #34 spot as of this writing. 

Also, we've only got two more weeks left before we'll be publishing our next issue: Issue #20 that celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda with a massive year-by-year retrospective on the series' entire history and new reviews of Twilight Princess HD and Hyrule Warriors Legends, along with various other Zelda-ish goodies packed inside too. If you've got friends who have been dragging their feet getting signed up here, kick them in the pants and tell them to get on it now! 

I'll likely send out one or two more emailed reminders to our past subscribers to let them know the cutoff date is fast approaching, so thank you for your patience and understanding when those emails show up in your inboxes. You've already done what you need to do! I'm just trying to make sure everyone else has plenty of reminders, because I just know that we're going to get to April or May or June and I'm going to be getting confused emails from some 2015 subscribers asking why they haven't been getting issues mailed to them any more. :p

Until next time, everyone! 

~ Lucas M. Thomas

P.S. One parting question: What Zelda game are you playing today to celebrate the series' 30th anniversary? Post in the comments below to let me know!