Las Vegas Philharmonic to perform ‘Legend of Zelda’ songs

Attention game dorks: “The Legend of Zelda” is coming to Las Vegas for real this summer, when a symphony performs “Zelda” music with sweeping video game visuals for a TV special.

That’s pretty great.

And here’s your shocker of the day: “Zelda” turned 29 years old Saturday, the anniversary of the first game in the universe-changing “Zelda” series.

Oh, how did “Zelda” alter the known universe now ruled by science overlord Neil Degrasse Tyson?

“Zelda” and a few other titles were so good in the 1990s, it persuaded millions of people to buy Nintendo home game systems, which boosted the home game market, which persuaded Microsoft and Sony to enter the home game market.

Anyway, the Las Vegas Philharmonic will play a four-movement symphony of key songs while visuals from the series flash on screens.

This is a national tour, but the Vegas show will be taped for broadcast on public TV and AXS TV.

Tickets went on sale Monday on Ticketmaster for a hefty $73 to $186.

Man. You could buy a lot of games and action figures for that price. I hope the promoters are ready to deliver our money’s worth because no one complains about not-perfect artistry more than us hard-core video gamers. We are a complain-y people.

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