* 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.

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.

The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II were released in gold-coloured game cartridges instead of the console's regular gray cartridges.

* Ryu Suzaku, the protagonist of the anime series F-Zero: Legend of the Falcon ( F-Zero GP Legend ), also known to the Western audiences as Rick Wheeler

Legend and folklore suggest that golems could be activated by writing a specific series of letters on parchment and placing the paper in a golem's mouth.

Such a tack was taken by psychologists Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, who used analytical psychology to interpret the Grail as a series of symbols in their book The Grail Legend.

His popular series Xanth inspired a video game, Companions of Xanth, by Legend Entertainment for DOS.

Pellucidar also appears in an episode of the Disney cartoon series The Legend of Tarzan, loosely inspired by Tarzan at the Earth's Core.

The red panda Futa inspired the character of Pabu, an animal companion in the animated U. S. TV series The Legend of Korra.

He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

In 2008, it was announced at Comic-Con in San Diego that Raimi would be executive producing a new syndicated TV series called Legend of the Seeker, based on Terry Goodkind's best-selling The Sword of Truth fantasy series.

The Japanese version includes an exclusive third segment, " Navi Trackers " ( originally designed as the stand-alone game " Tetra's Trackers "), which contains spoken dialog for most of the characters, unlike other games in The Legend of Zelda series.

There have been several titles in The Legend of Zelda series that have never been released for various reasons.

As the franchise has grown in popularity, several titles have been released that are set within or star a minor character from the universe of The Legend of Zelda but are not directly connected to the main The Legend of Zelda series.

Characters from and references to The Legend of Zelda series have appeared in a variety of other video games that go beyond what is considered a typical cameo appearance.

" Ōkami director Hideki Kamiya states that he has been influenced by The Legend of Zelda series in developing the title.

The developers of the game Dark Sector have stated they have been heavily influenced by The Legend of Zelda series, and that the structure of the game is much like a Zelda game.

Legend has it that the idea came to him " like a ray of light ".

Stephen King said, " Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me ".

* The The Legend of Zelda series features several creatures similar to the Yeti, like the eponymous Yetis from Snowpeak in Hyrule ( The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ) or the Anouki and Yooks from the Ice Realm ( The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass ).

Wart's appearance is sightly different elsewhere, looking more like a Koopa-like crocodile in the Nintendo Comics or a toad in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

The original concept involved the game having fixed path much like an isometric type game ( similar to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars ), before the choice was made to settle on a free-roaming 3D design.

Air often works together, both in the studio and live on stage, with artists like Beth Hirsch ( Moon Safari ), Françoise Hardy (" Jeanne "), Jean-Jacques Perrey (" Cosmic Bird "), Gordon Tracks (" Playground Love " and " Easy Going Woman "-Gordon Tracks is a pseudonym of the French singer Thomas Mars from Phoenix ), Beck ( 10 000 Hz Legend ), on the 2004 tour with Dave Palmer and on the 2007 tour with drummer Earl Harvin, Vincent Taurelle and Steve Jones.

Programmes on the channel throughout more recent times have included UK premieres of big-name US shows like Heroes, Flash Gordon, Eureka, and more recently Knight Rider, Legend of the Seeker and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

The ZC engine was also shared with the Honda Concerto, which was sold at newly established Japanese dealership sales channel called Honda Clio, which sold luxury oriented products like the Honda Legend.

Rather than using the traditional turn-based battle system of games like Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana utilizes real-time battles akin to the Legend of Zelda series, while also employing typical role-playing elements and a unique " Ring Command " menu system, which pauses the action, and allows a variety of actions to be performed without needing to switch screens.

Several years after the events of The Legend of Zelda, the now-sixteen-year-old Link notices a strange mark on the back of his left hand, exactly like the crest of Hyrule.

Many top-selling Nintendo games are critical franchises that are well recognized in the video game industry at large, like The Legend of Zelda, Mario and Metroid.

Goombas from Super Mario Bros also appear in underground side-scrolling sections which as well as being able to be defeated by some of Link's items, he can also land on top of them much as with Super Mario Bros. Director Takashi Tezuka said that the game's " freewheeling " development made Link's Awakening seem like a parody of the Legend of Zelda series.

Legend among Notts County supporters it has been said he had ' hands like the claws of a JCB and was a seven foot tall monster '

In 2006, Isaki Lacuesta directed La Leyenda del Tiempo ( The Legend of Time ), in which a Japanese woman visits the place of Camarón's birth to learn to sing exactly like him.

In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which takes place sometime after A Link to the Past, Link decides to travel the world so he might be prepared if a threat like Ganon ever comes to Hyrule again.

Frequent random encounters are common in games like Dragon Quest, Legend of Legaia, Pokémon and the Final Fantasy series.

For example, many of the martial arts novels written by Jinyong ( also known as Louis Cha ) from the 1950s like " Sword Stained With Royal Blood "《 碧血劍 》 in 1956, The Legend of the Condor Heroes "《 射鵰英雄傳 》 in 1957 etc, were published as installments in the Hong Kong Commercial Daily.

" Legend Tom Finney was also mesmerised by Barnes ' talents: " Players like John Barnes come along just once in a lifetime.

Legend says it was created by sage Parashurama just like all the other places of coastal Karnataka.

In the early 1990s, following the début of Lexus, automotive press reports indicated a forthcoming mid-size Lexus coupé to compete with the luxury coupés of other marques like Mercedes-Benz SL, Acura Legend coupe and Infiniti M30 coupe.

Cummings has made some vocal performances using his voice at normal pitch for some younger looking characters like Witterquick from Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light and Glatorian Ackar in Bionicle: The Legend Reborn.