It was like everyone celebrating Zelda’s 35th birthday except Nintendo.

Nintendo’s social feeds made no mention of The Legend of Zelda’s 35th anniversary on Sunday, February 21, although that wasn’t particularly unusual for the company. For context, while Nintendo also didn’t celebrate Metroid’s 30th anniversary on Twitter in 2016, he celebrated the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. on Twitter on the actual date.

However, that hasn’t stopped so many people, including those at IGN (and me!), From sharing wonderful memories of everything Link, Zelda, and Hyrule mean to them.

Happy 35th, The Legend of Zelda, my favorite game series of all time! This opening was made at E3 2011 for the 25th anniversary. It says a lot that the best game in the series wasn’t even imagined back then. I can’t wait to see the rest! https://t.co/7ndZ2xbqp3

– Peers Schneider (@PeerIGN) February 21, 2021

Happy # Zelda35e! Let’s remember how happy we were when this Breath of the Wild trailer dropped and we realized the game was coming out in 2 months pic.twitter.com/q724MkaZsm

– Gene Park (@GenePark) February 21, 2021

Now it is very important to remember that we are still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the plans have obviously been affected. Another important thing / date to consider is March 31, 2021. This seems to be the date on which the celebration of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. will end. It will also be the moment when Super Mario 3D All-Stars will apparently be removed from Nintendo eShop and when Super Mario Bros. 35 becomes unplayable.

Nintendo may well wait until Mario’s party is over before jumping into one for The Legend of Zelda. That being said, it’s also worth mentioning that 2021 is Metroid’s 35th anniversary and Pokemon’s already teased 25th anniversary, which falls on February 27, 2021. Will we have a themed Nintendo Direct to celebrate Pokemon this week? Will we hear more the highly anticipated Metroid Prime 4 this year? Only time will tell.

If we look at Nintendo’s past, it hasn’t always celebrated a franchise’s anniversary on the exact date. For example, The 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda wasn’t fully revealed until around September 2016, when it was revealed that special Zelda amiibo were on the way and Skyward Sword was available on the Wii U eShop.

While we may not know Nintendo’s full plans yet, or have seen them before, The Legend of Zelda is obviously very important to them and the rest, given the anticipation of the Breath of the sequel. Wild. But for now, everyone is celebrating the significant anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, and we hope to celebrate 35 more years and beyond.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news editor for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Tic.