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34 unusual facts about The Legend of Zelda


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The game displays 2D graphics much like that of the Nintendo Entertainment System's Zelda series and is fairly limited in terms of animations and effects.

Four Swords

A Multi-player addition to the Game Boy Advance port The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords in 2002 and later released as a standalone title for the DSiware service in 2011 as The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition

GameShark

The Nintendo 64 GameShark was the most popular cheating device available for the system, becoming popular after well-known titles such as GoldenEye 007 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were released.

Great Bay

Great Bay, a videogame location from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Loz

The Legend of Zelda, an animated TV series loosely based on the video games

Majora

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask a video game from the Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series

Monkey Hero

Monkey Hero is a game similar to the likes of The Legend of Zelda and Secret of Mana and borrows many ideas from these games.

At the end of dungeons, similar to the Zelda series, there is what is known as a boss, the "leader" of the dungeon or the one you must defeat to complete it.

Sandeep Parikh

Parikh created, co-wrote, and directed The Legend of Neil about a real-world slacker who gets sucked into The Legend of Zelda and has to fight his way out with a wooden sword and no discernible skills.

Straw Millionaire

In many The Legend of Zelda games, the player follows a long trading quest which ultimately results in a unique weapon or item.

The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia

Outside of those three sections, the book includes a foreword by series creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and an afterward from Eiji Aonuma, who produced recent games in the series.

Preorders took the book to the top spot on Amazon.com's U.S. sales charts, moving Fifty Shades of Grey out of the top position.

Eiji Aonuma, who produced many of the recent games in the series, said staff members pored through "stacks of ancient documents" to produce the timeline in the book.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Later on, Yoshiaki Koizumi, who had previously helped with the plot of A Link to the Past, was brought into the team.

It grew into an original project under the direction of Takashi Tezuka, with a story and script created by Yoshiaki Koizumi and Kensuke Tanabe.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

In June 2011, actor and comedian Robin Williams starred in a commercial to promote the game along with his daughter Zelda Williams, whom he named after the character from the series.

In Australia, anyone who pre-ordered the game from EB Games could receive the Ocarina Edition, which included a playable ocarina that sports the Triforce symbol and two music sheets featuring songs from the game, and also a poster.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Actor/comedian and series fan Robin Williams, and his daughter Zelda, have starred in TV commercials promoting the game.

The player flies upon Link's giant bird, called a Loftwing, to travel and skydive into the portals or travel between the multiple islands of Skyloft.

According to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, Skyward Sword is the fastest selling title in the Legend of Zelda series.

Skyward Sword was available as a demo at the Australian Nintendo Connection Tour 2011 at selected Westfield stores and was the central theme of the event, attracting vast amounts of attention and praise.

The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

The concerts were produced by Jeron Moore, and executive produced by Jason Michael Paul.

The Legend of Zelda: The Hero of Time

After defeating a dragon, Link travels to Lake Hylia, and defeats a monster resembling a giant Octorok, then to Kakariko Graveyard where he destroys a giant Bubble, then to the Lost Woods, where he destroys a Moblin, freeing the final Sage.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

A legend, passed down among the islands, tells of an ancient kingdom that was attacked by a great evil called Ganon.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Satoru Iwata felt that having both versions would satisfy users in the end, even though they would have to wait for the finished product.

TheSpeedGamers

Thanks to a renewed push by the group, the marathon reached its $15,000 goal before the end of the initial 72 hours and was extended an additional 24 hours, the extra time highlighted by 2011 Zelda release The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Tingle

PALGN editor Matt Keller stated that Tingle was widely considered the weakest part of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

He also appears as a trophy in both games, the former based on Majora's Mask and the latter based on The Wind Waker.

Tingle's first appearance in The Wind Waker is in a small, dingy prison cell on Windfall Island.

The editors at IGN did not like Tingle, in part because his role in The Wind Waker was an integral part of "tedious fetch quests".

In Skyward Sword, a Tingle doll can be seen in Zelda's room at the Knight Academy.

Welcome to the Breakdown

The track is a full studio recording of their popular recreation of the theme to the video game series, The Legend of Zelda.

Zelda 3DS

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, a 2013 sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, a 2011 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time


Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!

According to online retailer Amazon.com, the game is the best selling pre-order game in Japan, and is more popular than The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

Takashi Nagasako, who previously did the voice of Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda series, does the voice of Donkey Kong and has continued the role in the years that followed.

Drawn to Life

The game was very well received in Australia making its debut on the Top 10 Australian sales chart (GfK) for all platforms at #3, behind Halo 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Four Swords

Four Swords can refer to one of a number of video games in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series.

I Wanna Be the Guy

IWBTG is made up of several stages split into many screens, which are mostly pastiches of Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Tetris, Ghosts'n Goblins, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Kirby, Mega Man and Metroid.

Joanna Wang

Among her major influences are Danny Elfman, Yoeko Kurahashi (倉橋ヨエコ), Paul McCartney, and video game soundtracks, most notably those from the Castlevania, Zelda, and Mario series.

Metreon

The Metreon was also home to the Walk of Game, which is loosely based on the Walk of Fame — honorees include Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell, StarCraft, Sid Meier, John D. Carmack, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Link from The Legend of Zelda series.

Nintendo Cereal System

The name of the cereal is based on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and represents two of the most popular games for the NES at the time: Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo Comics System

The comics are based upon Nintendo video game and television intellectual property from Super Mario Bros., Game Boy, The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, Metroid, and Punch-Out!!.

Raster interrupt

Although early games like Super Mario Bros., Castlevania, and The Legend of Zelda managed to produce effective split-screen scrolling with this method, it is quite CPU-intensive, and some later cartridges incorporated MMC circuitry (most prominently Nintendo's MMC3 chip) that kept track of the PPU's address and data lines and generated raster interrupts.

Soulcalibur II

The home versions of the game feature Necrid, a new character created by Todd McFarlane, and one of three platform-exclusive characters: Heihachi Mishima from Tekken on the PlayStation 2, Link from The Legend of Zelda on the GameCube and Spawn from the comic book series by McFarlane on the Xbox.

Sprite comic

Sprite comics frequently use characters from well-known games such as Sonic, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Mega Man, and Dragon Ball.

Tingle

The game itself is based not only on The Legend of Zelda, but on Balloon Fight as well, making this the third entry in the latter franchise (following the first title and Balloon Kid).