* 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 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.

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

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.

* A version of the sleeping hero legend is included in several entries in the Nintendo game franchise ' The Legend of Zelda ', most explicitly in the Gamecube game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and the most iconic of the series The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.

Rei Izumi describes. hack // Legend of the Twilight as " the story of the future " and " the first to usher in the. hack franchise and the last to end.

* BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn, a 2009 film based on the Lego Bionicle franchise

The song " Through the Fire and Flames " is one of their most famous songs and is featured on the games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Brutal Legend and as downloadable content for the Rock Band franchise.

Kneubuhl and Mann, previously members of the a cappella band Spiralmouth who also composed musical pieces for Crash Twinsanity and Crash Tag Team Racing from Spyros companion franchise Crash Bandicoot, composed many of the musical pieces for each game of The Legend of Spyro trilogy.

Brown voiced the corrupt leader of the Dai Li, Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender in 2006 and returned to the Avatar franchise in 2012 with his role as the top gangster, Yakone, in The Legend of Korra.

Other notable Dark Lords include the Sith Lords from Star Wars, which include Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine ; Darkseid from DC Comics ; Lord Dracula of the Castlevania series ; Skeletor from Masters of the Universe ; Brona the Warlock Lord from The Sword of Shannara ; Morgoth from The Silmarillion ; Arawn Death-Lord from The Chronicles of Prydain ; Torak from The Belgariad ; Nightmare from Soulcalibur ; the Lich King from the Warcraft franchise ; Ganon from The Legend of Zelda ; Exdeath from Final Fantasy V, Zamorak from RuneScape and Galbatorix from The Inheritance Cycle.

He is also well known for his voice-work on Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Codename: Kids Next Door, Cow and Chicken, Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, Batman: Arkham City, the Ben 10 franchise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Halo, Gears of War, Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead 2.

After Galleon, Gard was hired by Eidos ( publisher and copyright holder of the Tomb Raider series ) to work with Crystal Dynamics on a reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, beginning with Tomb Raider: Legend.

Legend of the Mystical Ninja ( known as Anime Ganbare Goemon in Japan ) is an anime television series, based on Konami's best-selling-in-Japan video game franchise Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

The TV animation unit was also responsible for even adapting some of the films from the Disney animated features canon and other film sources as well ( The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Timon & Pumbaa, The Mighty Ducks, itself loosely based on Disney's The Mighty Ducks film series, Jungle Cubs, the second spin-off of Disney's The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Hercules, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, based on Disney / Pixar's Toy Story franchise, The Legend of Tarzan, etc.

The game itself is based not only on The Legend of Zelda, but on Balloon Fight as well, making this the third entry in the latter franchise ( following the first title and Balloon Kid ).

She is the subject of a poem ( Peregrine White and Virginia Dare ) by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, and the North Carolina Legend of the White Doe.

His sacral masterpiece and one of the most famous religious works of art of the later Middle Ages is The Legend of St. Sebastian and The Passion of Christ of the so called Sebastian Altar in St. Florian's Priory ( Stift Sankt Florian ) near Linz, Upper Austria.

The " Legend of the Octopus " is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings playoff games, in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck.

In the later Legend of Atrahasis, Enlil, the king of the gods, sets out to eliminate humanity, whose noise is disturbing his rest.

* Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn-U. S. marketing title.

* Gene therapy is the basis for the plot line of the film I Am Legend.

Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

The short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is cited as " the first great comedy-horror story ".

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

Legend has it that if she wishes to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood.

He is also often depicted with a lion, " a figment " found in the thirteenth-century Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, and less often with an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor.

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.

Chief among the legendary sources about the saint is the Golden Legend, which remains the most familiar version in English owing to William Caxton's 15th-century translation.

Another title is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Ura, intended to be an upgraded remake of Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64DD.

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.

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.

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

The cover of Nicholas Andrews's humorous fantasy novel " The Adventure Tournament " is a parody of the Legend of Zelda title screen.