Twin Peaks has long been touted as an influence on The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and now the show’s co-creator has spoken about how direct that is.
Back when it was airing, Twin Peaks was incredibly popular in Japan – so much so there was a whole series of trailers advertising Georgia coffee that featured several members of the original cast, including Special Agent Dale Cooper, i.e. Kyle MacLachlan, himself. In 2010, Link’s Awakening director Takashi Tezuka even noted the influence of the show on the Game Boy classic in an Iwata Asks. And then, last year, to the surprise of everyone, Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost quoted a tweet about Link’s Awakening, writing, “Anybody ever play this? I met with them about it and gave them some ideas, never tried it myself.”
Obviously this excited fans, given that it was never confirmed that anyone who worked on Twin Peaks had any kind of involvement in the game itself. Now, in an interview with The Verge, Frost has shed a bit more light on just how involved he got. “I don’t want to overstate it. It was a single conversation,” Frost explained. “But it was fun.” Apparently this single conversation took place between the first and second seasons, so before Twin Peaks’ ratings started to decline due to a messy latter half.
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