Talk:The Legend of Zelda (video game)

NA release date

Nintendo's NES release chart states that the North American release was July 1987, but the Super Smash Bros. Brawl Chronicle instead has the date August 1987. There are some non-Nintendo online sources that claim a date of August 22, 1987, but in my experience, no one seriously catalogued street dates (not even stores) until around the year 2000, and a lot of websites cite each other's dates and can be traced to a fan-submission that doesn't match what contemporary magazines and the like stated at the time. I've even seen companies resort to using fan-submitted dates: for example, Sega Retro lists the dates for Castlevania: Bloodlines with proper references, but on the Konami website recently, they used unsourced dates from elsewhere (GameFAQs, Wikipedia, etc.). So between Nintendo's page and Nintendo's game, which is more reliable? I'm leaning towards the former, but should we list both dates? LTL (talk) 13:26, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Yeah list either dates and perhaps a footnote that its release date is ambiguous Results May Vary (talk) 19:34, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

For the record, it looks like Nintendo does use August 22, 1987, as the North American date via Masterpieces in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, though this still contradicts their earlier release chart. LTL (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2020 (MDT)

Enemies

Nearly every boss other than Ganon appears later as a generic enemy, making listing them in a section after the enemies one awkward. As such, it may be better to list them in the distinction the manual gives them, ie "overworld" vs "underworld" in this case. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 02:02, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Sure, do you want to go ahead and do that then? Results May Vary (talk) 04:15, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

We should probably keep a bosses section, maybe use the table to show what bosses are in what dungeons instead. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 05:43, 8 June 2019 (UTC)