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The Legend of Zelda

Global Total as of 12th May 2012 (units): 6.51m
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment SystemAlso on: Wii
Developer: Nintendo EAD Genre: Adventure

Total Units

North America: 3.74m 57.5%
+ Europe: 0.93m 14.4%
+ Japan: 1.69m 26.0%
+ Rest of the World: 0.14m 2.2%
= Global 6.51m

Release History

BoxartTitlePublisherRegionDateDistribution
Zelda no Densetsu 1: The Hyrule Fantasy NintendoJapan21st February 1986Retail
The Legend of Zelda NintendoNorth America22nd August 1987Retail
The Legend of Zelda NintendoEurope15th November 1987Retail

Characters

Character
Ganon
Gohma
Link
Zelda

People

PersonRole
Eiji AnoumaProducer
Hiroshi YamauchiExecutive Producer
Kazuaki MoritaMain Programmer
Koji KondoSound Composer
Satoru IwataDirector
Shigeru MiyamotoProducer
Shigeru MiyamotoGraphic Designer
Shigeru MiyamotoDirector
Takashi TezukaDirector
Takashi TezukaGraphic Designer
Ten TenDirector
Ten TenDesigner
Toshihiko NakagoMain Programmer
Yasunari NishidaMain Programmer

Comments

DanneSandin (on 24 January 2012)
Awesomeness in a box!
oliist (on 21 February 2011)
Happy 25th Anniversary!
quigontcb (on 31 October 2010)
Such fond memories of tis game. I wish I could know the number of times I played through this game when I was younger.
Imphamis (on 08 February 2010)
First game...............and it started my personal greatest franchise of all time.
Sky Render (on 21 August 2009)
Jeremy Parish made an interesting point about this game on his site recently: it's essentially the equivalent of one of the original text adventure titles (like Zork), but with a graphical interface instead of a text parser.

And he's right, too: in those games, your progress was more determined by how much you could explore and how much you had gathered, with new acquisitions opening up new possibilities all the time. To distill the essence of the original adventure game model so perfectly into a graphical adventure is both rare and remarkable.
r4in (on 20 July 2009)
This is still my most favorite game of all time. I bought the very last copy ever sold at a Toys R Us (first game I ever bought myself). To this day I hope that they make another Zelda game that had the "figure it out yourself" feel that this one had. There weren't people telling you where to go next. You had a world to explore and the rest what up to you. See what you find and see where it takes you. I miss that and hope they do it again. 999/10. =)
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