History Trivia / TheLegendOfZeldaI

** There were plans for a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor port by Creator/{{Capcom}} before they decided to develop the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle]]'' duology.

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** DeathMountain
** HeartContainer
** TheLostWoods

* ThrowItIn: The game was originally designed with a single quest in mind. However, when programmer Toshihiko Nakago coded designer Takashi Tezuka's dungeon maps into the game, he realized that Tezuka unwittingly only used half of the available dungeon data. Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, seeing no reason for the unused data to go to waste, proposed creating a second set of dungeons, and thus the [[NewGamePlus Second Quest]] was born.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: The game being one of, if not the, first to have a NewGamePlus in the form of a second quest gave rise to rumors that one could access a third quest, usually after a ridiculous number of playthroughs, such as nine or eleven. A close examination of the ROM data reveals that there are only two quests in the game. A rather obvious clue to the falsity of the rumor is the line given at the closing credits of the second quest: "End of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''".

** The North American manual states that Pols Voice "hates loud noise", referring to the fact that, in the Famicom version of the game, they can be killed by blowing into the microphone on the second controller, which isn't present on North American controllers. They're weak to arrows instead. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' reconciled the difference by also making them weak to the Ocarina.

** The North American manual states that Pols Voice "hates loud noise", referring to the fact that, in the Famicom version of the game, they can be killed by blowing into the microphone on the second controller, which isn't present on North American controllers. [[spoiler:They're weak to arrows instead]].

* NamesTheSame: Dodongo shares its name with a monster from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''.

** There were plans for a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor port by Creator/{{Capcom}} before they decided to develop the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle]]'' duology.

** There were plans for a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor port by Creator/{{Capcom}} before they decided to develop the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracle Oracle]]'' duology.

* PortingDisaster: A fortunate example of it being caught ''before'' it came to fruition and was released. A port of the first ''Zelda'' game was originally going to be developed for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, but the dev team quickly realized this was not going to work as envisioned, and Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto wisely decided to drop the project and focus on [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames the Oracle series]] instead. A proper port would later be done for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance along with ''[[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureofLink Zelda II]]''.
* ThrowItIn: The game was originally designed with a single quest in mind. However, when programmer Toshihiko Nakago coded designer Takashi Tezuka’s dungeon maps into the game, he realized that Tezuka unwittingly only used half of the available dungeon data. Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, seeing no reason for the unused data to go to waste, proposed creating a second set of dungeons, and thus the [[NewGamePlus Second Quest]] was born.

** Ganon was originally designed with a vampire motif before being changed to the [[PigMan boar/pig]] wizard design he has in the final version. Silver Arrows being his weakness also played into the vampire motif since they are typically depicted as being vulnerable to silver based weaponry. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' where Ganon's weakness was changed to the Light Arrows and Master Sword.

* ManualMisprint: The North American manual states that Pols Voice "hates loud noise", referring to the fact that, in the Famicom version of the game, they can be killed by blowing into the microphone on the second controller, which isn't present on North American controllers. [[spoiler:They're weak to arrows instead]].

* ThrowItIn: The game was originally designed with a single quest in mind. However, when programmer Toshihiko Nakago coded designer Takashi Tezuka’s dungeon maps into the game, he realized that Tezuka unwittingly only used half of the available dungeon data. Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, seeing no reason for the unused data to go to waste, proposed creating a second set of dungeons, and the rest is history.

** Ganon was originally designed with a vampire motif before being changed to the boar/pig wizard design he has in the final version. Silver Arrows being his weakness also played into the vampire motif since they are typically depicted as being vulnerable to silver based weaponry. It wasn't until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' where Ganon's weakness was changed to the Light Arrows and Master Sword.

* DuelingWorks: In Japan, it dueled with Namco's ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfValkyrie Valkyrie no Bōken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu]]'', which has a similar style of open-ended gameplay and released only five months afterward. As one can imagine, ''Zelda'' came out on top as the international phenomenon while '''Valkyrie no Bōken'' was [[NoExportForYou never released internationally]], but the later game still held its own due to having its own distinct identity and being a budget release for the Famicom, so it's still a beloved classic in Japan.