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The Legend of Zelda NES

The Legend of Zelda NES

The Legend of Zelda came out for the Famicom Disk System in Japan in 1986 and for the NES in North America and Europe in 1987. Link crosses the land of Hyrule and its nine underground labyrinths to gather the eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom, defeat Ganon, and save Princess Zelda.

101Leafy researched the game for this wiki. Names and text on every page are the game's own, in English from the NES cartridge and in Japanese from the 1994 Famicom cartridge. Where the game and its manual give no name, the Japanese is 101Leafy's translation.

Game

Japanese titleゼルダの伝説
SystemNES Famicom Disk System (Japan) Famicom (Japan, 1994)
ReleasedJapan: February 21, 1986 North America: August 22, 1987 Europe: November 15, 1987
PublisherNintendo
Players1

The old man in the first cave

IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.

Every line of text in the game

All nine songs and where they play

The instruction booklet, section by section

Characters

Items

Enemies

Damage calculator for every enemy

Overworld

Zoomable map with every cave, item, and enemy

Labyrinths

First Quest

Second Quest

How the Second Quest starts and what moves

Heart Containers and Triforce