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The Legend of Zelda

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PLATFORM:
NES

PUBLISHER:
Nintendo

DEVELOPER:
Nintendo

GENRE: Action

PLAYERS: 1

RELEASE DATE:
February 21, 1986

ESRB RATING:
Not Rated

IN THE SERIES

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time 3D

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

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Written by John Scalzo on September 09, 2007

Trivia: The Legend of Zelda (NES)

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Part of the first wave of Nintendo's Player's Choice line on the NES.

Released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System add-on, a floppy disk attachment that featured rewriteable disks.

According to Shigeru Miyamoto, Zelda's name was inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of the famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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