Game title
The Legend of Zelda
Japan 1986-02-21 / action-adventure game /Nintendo
- #102Japanese release order (of 1239 titles)
- #7Copies sold (of 87 titles)
- #5How much it is read now (of 942 titles)
- #1134Launch price (of 1172 titles)
- 1986Release year
About this game title
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- Japanese title
- The Legend of Zelda
- Japan release date
- 1986-02-21
- North America release date
- 1987-08-22
- Europe release date
- 1987-11-15
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo(Nintendo EAD)
- Genre
- action-adventure game
- Formats
- FC / FDS / NES
Copies sold
6,510,000 copies
Officially playable today
Officially available
Products sold (2)
Even for the same game title, packs, bundles and budget re-releases count as separate products. Only those listed in the public record (Media Arts Database) are shown.
- The Legend of Zelda
- Model no. FMC-ZEL / 2,600 yen / 1986-02-21
- The Legend of Zelda
- Model no. HVC-ZL / 4,900 yen / 1994-02-19
More details
Only the details we could confirm are shown.
- Series
- The Legend of Zelda
- Music
- Koji Kondo
- Art
- Shigeru Miyamoto / Takashi Tezuka
- design
- Shigeru Miyamoto / Takashi Tezuka
- programming
- Toshihiko Nakago / Yasunari Soejima / I.MARUI
- production
- Hiroshi Yamauchi (executive producer) / Shigeru Miyamoto
- Scenario
- Keiji Terui
- Direction
- Shigeru Miyamoto / Takashi Tezuka
- Medium
- Floppy disk / ROM cartridge
- North America age rating
- E
Where it stands today
How much this title is read and edited today. Wikipedia page views and edit history, counted on 2026-8-30.
Readers of the overseas article
about 26,611 views per month
Edits in the past 1 year
13 times
Still officially playable
Officially available
Current records (23 of 34)
The fastest completions of this title, as of 2026-8-30, and still being updated (the newest record is from 2026-02-13). These records are the work of the runners and authors. Their names and sources are given.
3 min 06 sec
2nd quest, game end glitch / TASeditor、Masterjun、sockfolder / 2015-06-13
View on TASVideosStories left about this title
There are 46.Press a card to read the story.
What we still don't know
These details have not been traced.
Famitsu score
Titles released the same day (1)
Other titles released in Japan on 1986-02-21.
Explore from here
Links to pages related to this title.
Source: created by adapting the "Media Arts Database" (https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/) of the National Center for Art Research, National Museum of Art
Sources: Japanese and English Wikipedia, Wikidata
Sources: TASVideos (https://tasvideos.org/), speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/)