The Legend of Zelda

Publisher: Nintendo

Designer: Takashi Tezuka

Type: Arcade Adventure

Platform: NES

Release Date: 1986

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I’m not quite sure whether I could go as far as suggesting that this game is a proper roleplaying game, though I should point out that you do have quests, and you can not only pick up things, but you can also increase your character’s power through collecting, and buying, items. The other thing about this game is that fortunately when you die (you really don’t have that much in the way of health) is that while you go back to the start, you retain all of the stuff that you had when you were killed, which certainly does make this game a little easier.

Still, in many ways, this game does feel like it is just another arcade-style game, but I shouldn’t be too harsh on it because we are dealing with one of the original Nintendo consoles, which means that you only had two buttons on your controller. Also, the nasties that you have to battle aren’t all that fancy, but once again, I should point out that we are dealing with a rather old retro-game here.

It is fun though, despite it being pretty basic, and it certainly does look as if it is a pretty big game, which means that it is going to give you hours upon hours of gameplay. However, the instructions do point out that the nasties do get harder the further into the game you get, which sort of worried me because I found that the nasties around the start were pretty bad nonetheless. Yet, despite that, I did find out once you play it for a while you do eventually get the hang of the engine, which does make dealing with them somewhat easier.

Yeah, this game isn’t too bad, and of course, when we look at the later consoles that came about, there is certainly something to look forward too.

Anyway, you can find more information of this game (as well as the series as a whole) on Wikipedia, though I should mention that this game has a whole wikipage to itself as well, which you can also enjoy.