The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Producer	Shigeru Miyamoto
Director(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka
Release date	Famicom(JP): February 21st, 1986 NES(US): July, 1987 NES(EUR): November 15th, 1987 Collector's Edition GC(JP): March 18th, 2004 GC(EUR): November 17th, 2003 Classic NES series GBA (JP): February 14th, 2004 GBA(EUR): June 7th, 2004
Genre	Action Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: E (GBA Version)
Platform(s)	Famicom, NES, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube

The Legend of Zelda was one of the flagship titles for the NES in the late 1980s. It established the Zelda series that continues today and created the Action/Adventure subgenre of games.

Gameplay

Zelda is played from a top-down perspective. The player controls Link, the protagonist, and has command of an array of weapons obtained throughout the game. These weapons include a sword, boomerang, bow, candle, bombs, magic rod, and spellbook. After traversing the nine dungeons, Link must defeat the evil Ganon and save Princess Zelda.

Trivia

Although it was the first game released, most timeline theories place LoZ toward the end of the Zelda history, as ALttP and OoT were meant to be its prequels.