Zelda is one of Nintendo's best sold sagas, after Mario and Pokemon (of which sales have exceeded 200 millions of specimens each).
The Legend Of Zelda was created in Japan by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1986 on the NES games console. The story of Zelda is at first sight much like any other children story or fairy tale: the main hero, Link, lives in the fantasy kingdom Hyrul.
His mission is to save princess Zelda who was captured and imprisoned by Ganon: to save her, Link has to go across dungeons full of traps and enemies of all kinds to finally reach vile Ganon's stash and defeat him.
The various adventures of Link are quite similar in The Legend Of Zelda, but the main difference relies in the fact that the main characters are old characters' descendants. However, according to another story, when Ganon will be brought back to life, Link and Zelda will upraise to go over the whole story again...
Shigeru Miyamoto drew his inspiration from an 80s movie directed by Ridley Scott with Tom Cruise, entitled Legend, to create the very first Zelda game.
Miyamoto also explained that he decided to pitch on “Zelda” because he loved the name of Zelda Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Fitzgerald's wife). According to Miyamoto, she was a famous and extremely beautiful woman “from all accounts”.