The Legend of Zelda is a franchise filled with characters that fans love and adore, and this is how they stack up.

Heavily inspired by Nintendo’s own Zelda 2: The Adventure of ... dreary and somewhat lifeless colours and sprites that other consoles had to offer, the NES in comparison feels like a rainbow ...

From its humble beginnings on the NES to the latest 3D adventure, The Legend of Zelda games are undeniably some of the best games of all time. What began as a little adventure game about a boy in ...

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for the ... There are hundreds of different sprites to use as your online profile icon, with almost 60 from Legend of Zelda alone. A few icons are ...

"The NES allows for a maximum of 64 hardware sprites to be on the screen at any ... notably Super Mario and Zelda. Super Mario Bros 3 was a huge step forward, and an absolute pinnacle at that ...

Unless you have a cash-burning hole in your pocket, there are far better (and cheaper) ways to acquire the original Zelda game at ... play strip poker with some NES sprites. So unless you ...

The first Zelda’s sprite-work is certainly bare ... It’s a lot of standard NES colour theory. What’s most important here is because the game is fully on a lateral 2D plane rather than ...

His first job was designing character icons, known as sprites, for 1991’s “NES Open Tournament Golf.” He grew a strong admiration for the Zelda series, particularly “A Link to the Past.” ...

In a modern media landscape dominated by the “creators,” people communicating their ideas and desires in unique, singular methods, “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” fuses that ...

"But for the first time since the original The Legend Of Zelda, dungeons in A Link Between Worlds can be completed in any order you wish." Unlike the NES title, which nonetheless had a hidden ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. In 2023, Polygon is embarking on a Zeldathon. Join us on ...

Recap: The Legend of Zelda launched on the Famicom Disk System ... It ranks as the sixth best-selling NES game of all time with sales of 6.51 million units and is often considered among the ...