Twin Peaks Creator (Not That One) Claims They Consulted On The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

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As a strange turn of events, one of the creators of Twin Peaks claims they worked on The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.

Now, I know you’re already thinking it, so let’s clear this up right away; No, David Lynch didn’t work on a Nintendo game. Warren Spector once said that “‘There’s a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person”, and the same is often true of other media like movies and TV shows.

While David Lynch is closely associated with the bizarre small town America – murder mystery, Twin Peaks was really a co-creation of Lynch and Mark Frost. Mark is a notable and successful writer in his own right, with credits on movies and shows like The Hill Street Blues, The Equalizer, Nightbreed, and the 2000s Fantastic Four movies under his belt. He may not be as critically acclaimed or as famous as David, but Mark is likely the reason we have some level of understanding of Twin Peaks at all.

As reported by ComicBook, earlier today Mark made a surprising tweet in relation to Game Boy classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. He stated:

“Anybody ever play this? I met with them about it and gave them some ideas, never tried it myself.”

Mark was replying to a Collider article about The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, explaining how it derived inspiration from the TV show.

That article, in turn, quoted Nintendo veteran staffer Takashi Tezuka, about his inspirations in making the game:

“At the time, Twin Peaks was rather popular. The drama was all about a small number of characters in a small town… So when it came to The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, I wanted to make something that, while it would be small enough in scope to easily understand, it would have deep and distinctive