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The Legend of Zelda
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Famicon disk for The Legend of Zelda.
Developer(s) Nintendo Research & Development 4
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s)
Producer(s) Shigeru Miyamoto
Designer(s) Takashi Tezuka
Programmer(s)
  • Toshihiko Nakago
  • Yasunari Soejima
  • I. Marui
Writer(s)
  • Takashi Tezuka
  • Keiji Terui (manual backstory)
Composer(s) Koji Kondo
Series The Legend of Zelda
Platform(s) Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console (Wii, 3DS, Wii U), Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online
Release date(s) Family Computer Disk System:
  • JP February 21, 1986
Nintendo Entertainment System: Game Boy Advance:
  • February 14, 2004 NA
Virtual Console (Wii): Virtual Console (3DS):
  • September 1, 2011 KOR
Virtual Console (Wii U):
  • August 28, 2013 WW
Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online:
  • HK April 23, 2019
  • KOR April 23, 2019
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説, Zeruda no Densetsu) is the first video game in The Legend of Zelda series of games. The game was made by a Japanese man named Shigeru Miyamoto. It was sold to stores by Nintendo in 1986. The game was sold to be played on the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the game the player plays as a hero named Link. Link must save Princess Zelda from a powerful person named Ganon. It was the first game to let the player continue where they last played the game after they had turned the game off. The game also let the player go wherever they wanted to go at any time in the game's world. The game was very popular. Many more Zelda games were made because of it.

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