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.

After the team experimented with porting the original The Legend of Zelda to the Game Boy Color, they decided to make an original trilogy to be called the " Triforce Series ".

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.

This game was an actual digital watch with primitive gameplay based on the original Legend of Zelda.

Additionally, The Legend of Neil is a web-video series that aired on Comedy Central, spoofing the original Legend of Zelda game.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series in 2011, Nintendo commissioned an original symphony, The Legend of Zelda, Symphony of the Goddesses.

In the original Legend of Zelda and The Adventure of Link, Moblins resembled bulldogs, but are pig-like in more recent games.

On the 1998 John Lennon anthology, Lennon Legend, the composer credit of " Give Peace a Chance " was changed to " John Lennon " from its original composing credit of Lennon – McCartney.

Its insights into what it is to be human go far beyond genre, and is all the more surprising because, having read his short stories-which range from competent but simplistic, to having classic Twilight Zone twists ( he was a major contributor to the original TV series ) there is nothing within those short stories that suggests the supreme majesty of the existential masterpiece I Am Legend was aborning.

Its gameplay is roughly similar to that of the original The Legend of Zelda game, but with the addition of role-playing video game statistical elements.

The gameplay is similar to the original Legend of Zelda for the NES: the world is viewed from a top-down camera angle, it is divided up into many different squares that can fit on the screen, and the main character can move up, down, left, and right across the screen.

The DVD Lionel Hampton: Jazz Legend King of the Vibes chronicles the 73-year career of Lionel Hampton, the original jazz vibraphonist.

This policy is not consistently followed ; for example, in the first season's " The Legend ," Briggs ' original plan is to personally shoot Nazi rallying-figure Martin Bormann, which is foiled by the discovery of a dummy and a tape recorder in the " man's " sick room.

Legend may be transmitted orally, passed on person-to-person, or, in the original sense, through written text.

** Dido, Queen of Carthage, original text, modernization, and discussion of Chaucer's Legend of Dido

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.

The 2007 Region 1 DVD release from Legend Films features a colorized, English-dubbed version of the film, in addition to the original, black and white Italian-language version ( the English-dubbed version is significantly shorter than the original, with a running time of 91 minutes-roughly 40 minutes shorter than the standard version ).

The original release was dedicated to the memory of Pat Brown, a friend of the band during their formative years and subject of their 1982 song " The Legend of Pat Brown.

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 ).

Unlike Link, Zelda, and most other recurring characters, he is actually the same person in every game, with the exception of Four Swords Adventures, where he is a reincarnation of the original.

Nintendo has confirmed an original Zelda title for the Nintendo 3DS and are also considering a Majora's Mask remake.

The series loosely followed the NES Zelda games, mixing settings and characters from those games with original creations.

This celebration included a free mailout Club Nintendo offer of the Ocarina of Time soundtrack to owners of the 3DS version of that particular game, special posters that are mailed out as rewards through Club Nintendo, and a special stage inspired by the original Legend of Zelda in the video game Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS.

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.

Instead of continuing to use the side-scrolling perspective introduced to the series by Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, A Link to the Past reverts to an overhead perspective similar to that of the original.

A Link to the Past is a prequel to the original The Legend of Zelda and The Adventure of Link.

Disc two is 54 minutes of the original arrangements for the game and those of the original NES game, The Legend of Zelda.

This expansion would take Ocarina of Time and alter the level designs, similar to how the " master quest " expanded upon the original Legend of Zelda.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.

Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.