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The Legend of Zelda
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1986 action-adventure video game
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The Legend of Zelda is the first title in the Zelda series, it has marked the history of video games particularly for it's game mechanics and universe. The player controls Link and must make his way through the forests, graveyards, plains and deserts of the Otherworld to find the secret entrances to the eight dungeons and try to restore the broken Triforce. Among the game's mechanics, it was the first time we saw a continuous world that could be freely explored, power-ups that permanently enhanced the main character's abilities and a battery save feature that allowed players to keep their p…
- Released
- 1986
- Genres
- Adventure
- Platforms
- Family Computer Disk System, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
- Game modes
- Single player
- Franchise
- The Legend of Zelda
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D4
- Publisher
- Nintendo, Playtronic
Key facts
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D4
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Directors
- Shigeru Miyamoto Takashi Tezuka
- Producer
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Designers
- Shigeru Miyamoto Takashi Tezuka
- Programmers
- Toshihiko Nakago Yasunari Soejima I. Marui
- Writers
- Takashi Tezuka Keiji Terui
- Composer
- Koji Kondo
- Series
- The Legend of Zelda
- Platforms
- Famicom Disk System , NES , GameCube , Game Boy Advance
- Release
- February 21, 1986 Famicom Disk System JP : February 21, 1986 NES NA : August 22, 1987 PAL : November 15, 1987 JP : February 19, 1994 Game Boy Advance JP : February 14, 2004 NA : June 2, 2004 PAL : July 9, 2004
- Genre
- Action-adventure
- Mode
- Single-player
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Series
- The Legend of Zelda
- Director
- Takashi Tezuka
- Screenwriter
- Takashi Tezuka
- Composer
- Koji Kondo
- Producer
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Developer
- Nintendo
- Platform
- Wii U
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- ROM cartridge
- Designed by
- Takashi Tezuka
- Official website
- www.zelda.com/universe/game/zelda
- Image
- The Legend of Zelda - Golden Catridge.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Legend of Zelda (video game)
- publication date
- 1987-08-22
- distributed by
- Nintendo eShop
- user manual URL
- archive.org/details/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Manual-NES-US-1987
- title
- The Legend of Zelda
- social media followers
- 33100
- takes place in fictional universe
- universe of The Legend of Zelda
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Encyclopedic overview
The Legend of Zelda is a 1986 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System. It is the first game in the Legend of Zelda series. It is set in the fantasy land of Hyrule and centers on an elf-like boy named Link, who aims to collect the eight fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom to rescue Princess Zelda from Ganon. The player controls Link from a top-down perspective and navigates the overworld and dungeons, collecting weapons, defeating enemies and uncovering secrets. It was designed and directed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, being in development alongside Super Mario Bros. that released the previous year.
The Legend of Zelda was released in Japan as a launch game for the Family Computer Disk System in February 1986. More than a year later, it was released in North America and Europe on the Nintendo Entertainment System in cartridge format; the US version was one of the first games to include an internal battery for saving data. This version was released in Japan in 1994 as Zelda no Densetsu 1.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Legend of Zelda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.