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Nintendo to Release Compilation of Legend of Zelda's Best Music

One of the most consistently acclaimed aspects of the Legend of Zelda video game series is its music, which spans everything from simple 8-bit-era catchy tunes to tense, bombastic battle fanfares to quiet, beautiful melodies. With the series welcoming its 30th anniversary this year, Nintendo will release The Legend of Zelda Game Music Collection, a compilation of 93 of the series' best tunes, spread across two CDs. With 15 tracks each, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds are most represented, although there are also many selections from The Wind Waker and Four Swords Adventure.

The collection will have a limited first edition including a deluxe box and 16 different jackets, each showing different games' cover art. Furthermore, if you buy the collection on Amazon, you can get a free IC card sticker, and if you buy the collection at certain stores (not yet revealed), you can get a clear file.

Here is the track list:

1. Title (The Legend of Zelda)
2. Overworld
3. Underworld
4. Death Mountain
5. Ending
6. Title (Zelda II: The Adventure of Link)
7. Overworld Map
8. Town
9. Palace
10. Great Palace
11. Battle (Foreign Version)
12. Ending
13. Title (A Link to the Past)
14. Opening Demo
15. Overworld
16. Hyrule Castle
17. Boss
18. Tal Tal Mountains (Link's Awakening)
19. Color Dungeon (Link's Awakening DX)
20. Ending
21. Title (Ocarina of Time)
22. Navi the Fairy
23. House
24. Store
25. Boss Battle
26. Zelda's Lullaby
27. Lon Lon Ranch
28. Great Fairy Fountain
29. Sheik's Theme
30. Horse Race
31. Horse Race Finish
32. Song of Storms
33. Gerudo Valley
34. Ganondorf's Theme
35. Ending Credits 2 (Orchestra)
36. Majora's Theme (Majora's Mask)
37. Stone Tower Temple (Front)
38. Ending Credits
39. Ending Credits 2
40. Overworld (Oracle games)
41. Moonlit Grotto (Oracle of Ages)
42. Dancing Dragon Dungeon (Oracle of Seasons)
43. Title (Wind Waker)
44. Outset Island (Aryll's Theme)
45. Granny
46. Great Sea
47. Dragon Roost Island
48. Helmaroc King
49. Molgera
50. Puppet Ganon (Insect Mode)
51. Ganondorf Battle
52. Epilogue
53. The Field (Four Swords Adventure)
54. Dungeon
55. Village of the Blue Maiden (Before Mystery is Solved)
56. Village of the Blue Maiden (After Mystery is Solved)
57. Realm of the Heavens
58. Temple
59. Palace of Winds
60. Shadow Link Battle
61. Beach Vacation (Navi Trackers)
62. Cross-Shaped Floating Island (Navi Trackers)
63. Title (Twilight Princess)
64. Teaser Music #1
65. Hyrule Field
66. King Bulblin Battle
67. Oshus's Theme (Phantom Hourglass)
68. Linebeck's Theme
69. Great Sea
70. Spirit Train 2 (Spirit Tracks)
71. Byrne's Theme
72. Final Session: Malladus Battle, Second Half
73. Ballad of the Goddess (Skyward Sword)
74. Great Sky
75. Ending Credits
76. Title (A Link Between Worlds)
77. Peaceful Hyrule
78. Kakariko Village
79. Meeting Princess Zelda
80. Hyrule's Bosses
81. Mother Maiamai's Theme
82. Lost Woods
83. Hyrule Main Theme 2
84. Yuga Battle
85. Princess Hilda Appears
86. Passing Battle
87. Ravio's Theme
88. Lorule Main Theme
89. Death Mountain
90. Ending
91. Main Theme (Tri Force Heroes)
92. Woodlands
93. Boss Battle

For Jacob Chapman's picks of the top 10 Zelda tunes (all but two of which are in the set), see The Set List. Two Zelda fans also developed a 3-D version of the original Zelda game to honor its 30th anniversary before it was taken down.

Sources: Kai-You and Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.