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Zelda II: The Adventure of Link [a] is an action role-playing game developed and published by Nintendo.It is the second installment in the Legend of Zelda series and was released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System on January 14, 1987—less than one year after the Japanese release and seven months before the North American release of the original The Legend of Zelda.
[6] [7] Although he is mainly silent in the video games, he does speak in the Legend of Zelda cartoon series and the CD-i games from The Legend of Zelda series produced by Philips. [8] Link was recognised as the second greatest video game character of all time behind Mario in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2011. [ 9 ]
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, released for the GameCube in 2003, [105] included the original The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and a demo of The Wind Waker. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was released for Wii U in 2013.
Games in The Legend of Zelda series with two-dimensional (2D) graphics feature side-scrolling or overhead view gameplay, while games with three-dimensional (3D) graphics give the player a third-person perspective. [2]
With the growth in popularity of video gaming in the early 1980s, a new genre of video game guide book emerged that anticipated walkthroughs. Written by and for gamers, books such as The Winners' Book of Video Games (1982) [1] and How To Beat the Video Games (1982) [2] focused on revealing underlying gameplay patterns and translating that knowledge into mastering games. [3]
The original usage of the phrase in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link "I am Error" is a quote from the 1987 video game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. The quote is spoken by a villager, apparently named Error, in the town of Ruto. In the original Japanese version of the game, the line is Ore no na wa Erā da… (オレノナハ エラー ダ…
Echoes of Wisdom, the first mainline Zelda game to feature Zelda rather than Link as the player character, [55] begins with a sequence in which Link saves Zelda from Ganon but is sucked through a rift into the still world, and Ganon vanishes. [56] An Echo of Ganon also appears as the boss of Hyrule Castle dungeon halfway through the game. [57]
The Zelda [3] Game & Watch (model number ZL-65) [4] is a multi-screen Game & Watch system developed by Nintendo and released in North America in 1989. [1] Its gameplay was heavily inspired by Nintendo Entertainment System game Zelda II: Adventure of Link, and it featured an original story described in the manual.