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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

2006 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is a 2006 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and Wii. Originally planned for release exclusively on the GameCube in November 2005, Nintendo delayed the release to refine the game, add more content and port it to the Wii. The Wii version was a launch game in North America in November 2006 and in Japan, Europe and Australia the following month. The GameCube version was released in December 2006 as the final first-party game for the console.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” is 2006 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Legend, Zelda and Twilight, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Legend, Zelda and Twilight is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2006 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2006 and 2005.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.