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The Legend of Zelda, originally released in Japan as The Hyrule Fantasy: Zelda no Densetsu, is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System. The first entry in The Legend of Zelda series, the game is set in the fictional kingdom of Hyrule and stars Link, a young boy who aims to reassemble the Triforce of Wisdom and save Princess Zelda from Ganon. Link is controlled from a top-down perspective and navigates throughout the overworld and various Dungeons, defeating Enemies and uncovering secrets along his journey.

Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, the game was released in Japan in February 1986, as a launch title for the Famicom. North American and European copies were released more than a year later, making The Legend of Zelda the first home console game to include an internal battery in the US for saving data. This version was later released in Japan in 1994, under the title The Hyrule Fantasy: Zelda no Densetsu 1. The game received ports for the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, and was available via the Virtual Console on the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U. It was also one of 30 games included on the NES Classic Edition system, and is also playable on Nintendo Switch through the Nintendo Switch Online service.

The Legend of Zelda was a critical and commercial success, selling over 6.5 million copies, launching The Legend of Zelda franchise, and regularly being cited as one of the greatest games of all time. A sequel, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, was first released less than a year after the Famicom release, with numerous additional successors and spin-offs in the decades since its debut.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is an action role-playing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System. A direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda, the game was released in Japan on January 14, 1987—less than a year after the original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda and seven months before the North American release of the original. Zelda II received North American and PAL region ports in late 1988, almost two years after the initial Japanese release.

A direct sequel to the original game, Zelda II is set several years after the first game and once again features Link, now a teenager, as he embarks on another quest across Hyrule to save Princess Zelda, an ancestor of the original Zelda who has been placed under a sleeping spell. For much of the franchise's three-decade history, Zelda II would serve as the only technical sequel to the first game, since all other Zelda games were either prequels to the original or set in alternate timelines, according to the offical Zelda timeline. This status would remain unbroken until the release of Breath of the Wild in 2017 and Tears of the Kingdom in 2023.

Zelda II was a critical and financial success, introducing concepts such as the Magic Meter and Dark Link which would become commonplace in future instalments, although the role-playing elements, such as experience points and limited lives, have not been used since in canonical games. A prequel, A Link to the Past, was released for the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990.