* The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, an action-adventure video game for the Nintendo 64

Specifically, a Mario game ( titled Hotel Mario ), and three Legend of Zelda games were released: Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure.

Some well-known examples of this include the back scabbard depicted in the movie Braveheart and the back scabbard seen in the video game series The Legend of Zelda.

As of December 2011, The Legend of Zelda franchise has sold 67. 93 million copies since the release of the first game, with the original Legend of Zelda being the fourth best selling NES game of all time.

The Legend of Zelda franchise is the inaugural recipient of Spike TV's first ever Video Game Hall of Fame award.

The Legend Of Zelda games feature a mixture of action, puzzles, adventure / battle gameplay, exploration, and questing.

The original Legend of Zelda was the first console game with a save function that enabled players to stop playing and then resume later.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time introduced a targeting system that simplified 3D combat.

The Legend of Zelda series, like many Nintendo games, has been noted for its use of music.

Koji Kondo, who has been described as the " greatest legend in the video game audio industry " because of his work for Nintendo, has composed much of the music for the series, although the last game for which he was solely responsible for the composition of the soundtrack was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Games in The Legend of Zelda series frequently feature in-game musical instruments, particularly in musical puzzles, which are widespread.

Often, instruments trigger game events: for example, the recorder in The Legend of Zelda can reveal " secret " areas, as well as ' warp ' Link to the Dungeon entrances.

" The Legend of Zelda Theme " is a recurring piece of music that was created for the first game of the franchise.

To date, the Legend of Zelda series has avoided using voice actors, relying instead on written dialogue.

The Legend of Zelda was principally inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's explorations as a young boy in the hillsides surrounding his childhood home in Sonobe, Japan where he ventured into forests with secluded lakes, caves, and rural villages.

Paying tribute, he chose to name the princess after her, and titled his creation The Legend of Zelda.

The Legend of Zelda series takes place in a fantasy land called Hyrule.

The Legend of Zelda, the first game of the series, was first released in Japan on February 21, 1986, on the Famicom Disk System.

The game exchanged the top-down perspective for side-scrolling ( though the top-down point of view was retained for overworld areas ), and introduced RPG elements ( such as experience points ) not used in The Legend of Zelda.

Legend has it that in 802 CE, Jayavarman II, king of the Khmers, first came to the Kuhlen hills, the future site of Angkor Wat.

Legend has it that α CVn was brighter than usual during the Restoration, as Charles II returned to England to take the throne.

*" Marijuana ", a 2010 song by recording artist Kid Cudi off his second album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

Following the release of The Wind Waker came The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, which included the original The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and a demo of The Wind Waker.

Well-known Westwood titles from the early 1990s include Dune II, the game that set the template for subsequent real-time strategy games, as well as The Legend of Kyrandia and Lands of Lore.

Legend has it that when King Sigismund II Augustus visited Gdańsk in 1549 after his coronation, part of the city's homage to the monarch was a gift of Goldwasser, and he is said to have sung the praises of the golden drink often along the rest of his tour.

For the second and fifth games in the series, Final Fantasy Legend II ( 1990 ) and Romancing SaGa 2 ( 1993 ), he was assisted by Kenji Ito.

Legend has it that when Theodosius II was 20 years old, he wanted to get married.

Star Control 3 was developed by Legend Entertainment, hired by Accolade to create a sequel when the original creators expressed disinterest in creating a sequel for the same amount of money they were paid for Star Control II ( which left them working for several months without pay ).

The Legend of Zelda had been available a year and a half and Zelda II for six months before Nintendo brought the game to North America.

A Link to the Past uses a 3 / 4 top-down perspective similar to that of the original The Legend of Zelda, dropping the side scrolling elements of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep was the best-selling game of the week when it was released in Japan in December 1993.

Silver coin of Chandragupta II, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ". Rev: Legend in Brahmi, " Chandragupta Vikramaditya, King of Kings, and a devotee of Vishnu ", around a peacock.

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The game had two sequels, Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon, released in, and Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor, released in.

Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon used a modified version of the first game's engine, added outdoor areas and greatly increased the amount of interaction the player had with their environment, along with substantially more ' roleplaying ' aspects to the game.

The Lessers reviewed Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon in 1992 in Dragon # 179, giving the game 5 out of 5 stars.

Legend has it that his mother was English, and that he was the uncle of King Harold II of England's wife Edith ( the claim being that he had a sister Aelgifu who married Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia, who was the father of Edith ).

The First Complete Documentation of the Facts behind the Legend, are assuming that a more plausible time-frame would be 1086 – 1108, when there were a lot of antipopes, and the reign of the legitimate popes Victor III, Urban II and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since this city was occupied by Emperor Henry IV, and later sacked by the Normans.

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Following the release of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Bethesda Softworks ceased development of the numbered title of the series until 2002 to develop in the interim An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire and The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, which were released in 1997 and 1998, respectively.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the original The Legend of Zelda, intended to make Zelda II: The Adventure of Link fundamentally different from its predecessor.