The Legend of Zelda (NES)

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The Legend of Zelda
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Platform: NES
Year: 1988
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Buy: Amazon
For other games in the series, see The Legend of Zelda.

What was it about this game? The unique story, the gold chrome cart, the strange monsters and items? Whatever it was, it started a franchise that continues on almost two decades after the first game. You control Link who must collect the eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom in order to finally confront the evil wizard Gannon in order to save the princess Zelda.


Screenshots

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Title screen.

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The in-game story.

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An iconic line of game dialog.

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Link fighting some molblins and octoroks on the overworld.

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Battling the aquamentus—boss of the first underworld.

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A fully decked out inventory in the subscreen.


Music

The Legend of Zelda was early in the NES market, so the music isn't expected to be awesome, but there are a few nice tunes. The introduction music is especially iconic, and the other tunes are quite memorable to anyone one who played the game. Titles come from the Famicom 20th Anniversary - Original Sound Tracks, Vol.1 album, but some jingles were never officially released.


Recording

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This recording is incomplete.

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Title

Composer

Arranger

Length

Size

Listen

01 Title Koji Kondo Unknown 2:49 2.7 MB
02 Overworld Koji Kondo Unknown 1:20 1.2 MB
03 Underworld BGM Koji Kondo Unknown 0:48 796 KB
04 Catch Treasure Fanfare Koji Kondo Unknown 0:01 30 KB
05 Catch Triforce Fanfare Koji Kondo Unknown 0:07 126 KB
06 Finally, Ganon Appears and Is Defeated Fanfare Koji Kondo Unknown 0:03 58 KB
07 Death Mountain Koji Kondo Unknown 0:54 861 KB
08 Ending Koji Kondo Unknown 1:45 1.5 MB
09 Zelda Is Rescued Fanfare Koji Kondo Unknown
10 Game Over Koji Kondo Unknown


Credits

(Sources: USA (NES), Japan (FDS), alias verified by composer)


Albums


Game Rip

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This rip is missing songs.

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Format

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Size

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Ripping NES music is a very arduous process that is beyond the scope of this site.

Some tracks, like the game over music and the Zelda is rescued fanfare, are missing from the rip and, as such, also from the Vorbis soundtrack. When the rip is updated to include the missing tracks we will update as well.


Releases

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Title: THE HYRULE FANTASY ゼルダの伝説 (FDS)
Platform: Famicom Disk System
Released: 1986-02-21
Publisher: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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Title: The Legend of Zelda
Platform: NES
Released: 1987-07-??
Publisher: Nintendo of America, Inc.
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Title: The Legend of Zelda
Platform: NES
Released: 1987-??-??
Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH
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Title: The Legend of Zelda
Platform: NES
Released: 1987-??-??
Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH
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Title: The Legend of Zelda
Platform: NES
Released: 1987-??-??
Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH
  Italy.svg   Italy
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Title: The Legend of Zelda
Platform: NES
Released: 1987-??-??
Publisher: Nintendo of Europe GmbH
  Japan.svg   Japan
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Title: THE HYRULE FANTASY ゼルダの伝説 (Famicom)
Platform: Famicom
Released: 1994-02-19
Publisher: Nintendo Co., Ltd.


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