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Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Japan on November 21, 1998. A targeting system that locked the camera onto an enemy made close combat in three dimensions readable for the first time.
One control mechanism solved a problem that had made three-dimensional melee combat unworkable, and it was adopted so completely that its origin is now easy to forget. The game also established a structure for large-scale adventure design that shaped the genre well into the following century.
