Game · The Legend of Zelda II
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Overworld map feeding side-scrolling combat with experience levels; a formula later series revived repeatedly.
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Ideas Zelda II: The Adventure of Link inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
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1987
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