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Classic NES Series: Legend of Zelda | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $14.40
as of 9/9/2010 00:11 CDT details
New (10) Used (18) Collectible (6) from $14.40
Seller: EarthWoman
Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 4837
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Game Boy Advance
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 1.3
MPN: agb p fzle
Model: GANIN 045496734022
UPC: 045496734022
EAN: 0045496734022
ASIN: B0001ZZNME
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Link's legendary first adventure, now portable | | • | explore dungeons, solving baffling puzzles and defeating scores of menacing enemies | | • | a quest bristling with secrets: unlock dozens of hidden passages and caves | | • | weapons include swords, boomerangs, bombs and arrows | | • | collect collect rupees to buy swords, shields and other special items. |
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Product Description
The Legend Of Zelda - Classic NES Series brings back the best-selling adventure that made Nintendo a household name. You'll become Link, the daring young man who goes on a quest to save Princess Zelda from the wizard Gannon. Free the fairies, collect pieces of the Triforce and save the land of Hyrule, in this classic Nintendo game!
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 52
 Excellent game July 31, 2010
I can't believe that people are rating this game based on today's standards. What are you thinking?
The game says 'classic NES series' on the top.... doesn't that kind of give you the idea that the purpose is nostalgia rather than to compete with games that were brand new when this remake was created?
Oh well, sorry but that gets me mad.
This game is very close to the NES version that older gamers would remember.
Its very fun & back in the day, this is all we had for this genre (not even Dragon Warrior was out yet in the US when this one was made, neither was Ultima. From what I remember this was the NES's first role playing adventure game). Very fun & this series was & is a favoite b/c it lets you actually fight & not have to use the boring menu fight/magic/item choice system.
The game was hard to gamers back in the day & may even be hard today for gamers that have never played it before. Its also the first game that I can remember that gives you permanent weapons/items (i.e. sword, candle, boomerang, raft, etc). The other games at the time just gave power ups & point giving items.
This game gets 5 stars based on the translation attempt from NES to Gameboy & 5 stars for fun factor, graphics and story just as it did when it was new.
The Legend of Zelda is even better on the Game Boy Advance February 20, 2009
William Matson (Maine)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Legend of Zelda is the first game in Nintendo's successful Zelda series. It was initially released in the United States on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) back in 1987. This game included two separate quests with a large overworld, eighteen dungeons in total (nine in each quest), clever puzzles, creative enemies and a large number of items to locate. Not to mention a great soundtrack and a battery back-up feature allowing you to save your progress and pick up later. The success of this title led to numerous sequels and spin-offs that appeared on the NES and other systems from Nintendo that followed it.
In 2004, The Legend of Zelda was reissued on Nintendo's portable Game Boy Advance system as part of the "Classic NES Series" line. This review will be focusing solely on that particular conversion and how it compares to its NES counterpart.
The truth is that this Game Boy Advance version is at least as good, if not better, than the original NES cartridge. This port of The Legend of Zelda is picture perfect when compared to the NES version. The original graphics, music and gameplay are 100% intact. Everything you remember is there, including the second quest which you can either earn by finishing the game or you can access it from the outset by naming your character "Zelda." What are the drawbacks? Well there is nothing new added to this port. No extras, no bells-and-whistles, no graphical or musical enhancements. However this is the way it should be. There is no reason to mess with a good thing.
What makes this Game Boy Advance rendition better than the original NES release? To start, it is the simple fact that you can now play The Legend of Zelda on the go using a portable. The top-down view and screen-to-screen travel translates very well to the Game Boy Advance, since you can clearly see everything going on around you. Another benefit of this particular port is that the saving system is a little more convenient if you need to quickly abandon your game. On the NES, you could only save when Link died or by plugging in a second controller. On the Game Boy Advance, you can simply access the subscreen and input a brief button sequence to save your game at any point.
Something else about The Legend of Zelda that allows it to translate well to a portable is the amount of hours needed to finish the game. The later games in the Zelda series became more complicated and required a lot more time to finish than this first installment. The Legend of Zelda can easily be beaten by a seasoned gamer within a single day, assuming they know where everything is. As a result, this is a great pick-up-and-play title for your Game Boy Advance if you need to kill 15-20 minutes during a lunch break, at a doctor's office or anywhere else where a Game Boy Advance might come in handy. Plus the Game Boy Advance is a great format to introduce a younger or more casual gamer to The Legend of Zelda if they have never played the original game before. It is certainly more convenient to use this portable version on your Game Boy Advance than hooking up the NES.
The Game Boy Advance port of The Legend of Zelda is highly recommended to anybody with interest in the Zelda series. This purchase is a no-brainer.
 This game is Ok April 26, 2008
William J. Lewers (Northern Virginia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is OK, like if I did live back in the 80s I might of given this game a better review since when I play games I like them to be realy special. There were some flaws in this game like you can only buy one potion at once and to save you have to kill yourself like when I have to do something else I have to like get some enimies to kill me. But there were some good things about this game, like for its time and now the world map was big with alot to explore and dungens to explore. I think Ganon was way to easy though but hey this was an 80s game so it was about what you could expect. I would recomend renting this game.
 Great game, but too expensive (Stick with you NES games)! April 20, 2008
Soulchild'sA'Comin' (Queens, NY USA)
Before anyone suspects that I am picking on Zelda, note that I am not! After looking at Evil Lincoln's review, I do agree that charging over 20 bucks for a retro game with same graphics and gameplay is wrong. Unlike Mario Allstars for SNES, Zelda never remade any games from the NES/SNES vaults until about a few years ago, and what pissed me off is that they did it, one at a time with sky-high prices. I also heard that this and Zelda II remakes did'nt do any improvments with the graphics or effects like Link To The Past did (Four Swords) or the re-retroed NES/SNES Mario Games (e.g. All Stars, Mario Advance Series)!
I grew up on this game and its one of the best NES games ever and I can write a three page review on why. Nintendo decided to re-retro this game to give a younger target market a history lesson on how it was started (back to the old school), because they know little to nothing about the NES, meaning that they don't know how they were getting ripped off. Gamers aged 21 to about 40 who actually owned the NES in the past refused to get suckered in. Many of us still have our NES (if we don't anymore, then we can get the complete system off eBay or amazon for as low as $25). Nintendo was'nt thinking when they released this for GBA with the same graphics and gameplay as NES version. If you still have your NES, do not waste $23 on this game when you can get the original NES version for 1/3 of that on eBay and here. I know this is a Gameboy game that you can take anywhere, but wait for the price to go down to less than $10, if you want it for the GBA that bad.
Classic game... but get it on your smartphone instead October 13, 2007
Impetigo (Baltimore, MD)
First of all, I truly love this game! Obssessed about this game since the previews came out on the Nintendo Entertainment Club magazine (pre-nintendo power). Loved this game so much, and still rank it as one of my top games of all time. Having said all that, there is no reason to spend $30 on this game for the DS when you can download a NES emulator (smart nes is the one I use) and play it on your windows mobile 5 or 6 smartphone. Those old NES games are such tiny programs, that you can fit every NES game every released on your phone's storage card and it only takes some 50Mb maybe, if that. Works perfectly on my Samsung Blackjack, and if every bored, I can whip it out and play any of the 1,000+ NES games on my phone (and I can play for hours without significantly draining the battery life)!
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