Zelda
Zelda is a multiscreen Game & Watch game that was only released in English as a stand-alone system pre-loaded with the single game. It has dual screens which fold in a clamshell design, similar to the Nintendo…
Zelda is an adventure developed by Nintendo R&D1, released 26 August 1989 on Game & Watch.
What Zelda is
Zelda is an adventure game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released in 1989. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game & Watch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As the eight dragons cannot live in peace with humans, they decide to take over the world. Eventually, they kidnap Princess Zelda and lock her in a dungeon which can only be opened with the Triforce. Each of the dragons is located in their own labyrinth, and each guards a different fragment of the Triforce. Link sets out to destroy all eight dragons and reassemble the Triforce to free Zelda from the dragons' dungeon. Once Link defeats the last dragon, he reassembles the Triforce and frees Zelda from her prison.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
Zelda is the third of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. It arrived 3 years after Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda Game Watch in 1989.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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