History Trivia / TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames

* NoExportForYou: Despite what people thought for many years, ''Zelda's Adventure'' actually ''didn't'' get an American release; It only reached store shelves in Europe. It may have been [[CommonKnowledge thought otherwise]] due to CD-i units being region free and the game having such a late release in the consoles life.

* UncreditedRole: "Zelda's Adventure" has no actors credited. Composer Mark Andrade stated that he was Gaspra, but his voice over was Creator/HalSmith, in his final voice acting role.

* UnspecifiedRoleCredit: Both "Link: The Faces of Evil" and "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon" have voice actors credited, but it's never stated who voiced whom. Only Link and Zelda are credited in their respective games.

** Link is voiced by Thierry Wermuth, who is known for being the French voice of several ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' main characters and the voice of lots of other characters from other media.
** King Harkinian is voiced by Benoît Allemane, who is known for voicing most of Creator/MorganFreeman's characters.

* ExecutiveMeddling: [[https://web.archive.org/web/20101122092829/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/zeldacdi/zeldacdi.htm This article]] suggests that Philips required CD-i games to contain [=FMVs=] in order to show off the capabilities of the system.

* ContractualObligationProject: These games, along with ''VideoGame/HotelMario'', exist as part of a contract Nintendo and Philips made after the cancellation of the Platform/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on-model in the packaging and manual artwork.

* CreatorsApathy: These games, along with ''VideoGame/HotelMario'', exist as part of a contract Nintendo and Philips made after the cancellation of the Platform/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on-model in the packaging and manual artwork.

* CreatorsApathy: These games, along with ''VideoGame/HotelMario'', exist as part of a contract Nintendo and Philips made after the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on-model in the packaging and manual artwork.

** Like ''Hotel Mario'', no re-releases have been made of these games, not even on the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole; understandable, since Nintendo and the ''Zelda'' fanbase regard the series as an embarrassment and want nothing to do with it. The CD-i is also notoriously difficult to emulate, so curious players are all but forced to shell out lots of money on the secondhand market to play the games for themselves, which doesn't help their reputation at all.

** The phrase "MAH BOI!" is commonly associated with the screenshot of King Harkinian [[DeclarativeFinger holding up a finger.]] While this is part of the same line of dialogue, he actually makes the pose at the end, during the "for" in "this peace is what all true warriors strive for." When he says "Mah boi," it's an upper-body shot in which he holds a chalice of wine. It is also often misquoted as "LINK MAH BOI".

* UncreditedRole: "Zelda's Adventure" has no actors credited. Composer Mark Andrade stated that he was Gaspra, but his voice over was Hal Smith.

** Like ''Hotel Mario'', no re-releases have been made of these games, not even on the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole; understandable, since Nintendo and the ''Zelda'' fanbase regard the series as an OldShame and want nothing to do with it. The CD-i is also notoriously difficult to emulate, so curious players are all but forced to shell out lots of money on the secondhand market to play the games for themselves, which doesn't help their reputation at all.

* MemeAcknowledgement: Astoundingly, Nintendo has referenced one of the many memes from this game on their official Twitter account (quite surprising considering they consider this an OldShame through and through) on at least one occasion, where in a series of polls celebrating the 35th anniversary of the series, one question asked [[https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1461420095452762112 "Can you wait to bomb some Dodongos?"]]

* UnderageCasting: In ''Zelda's Adventure'', the old Gaspra was played by the 23 year old music composer Mark Andrade who wore prosthetics.

* ContractualObligationProject: These games, along with ''VideoGame/HotelMario'', exist as part of a contract Nintendo and Philips made after the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on-model in the packaging and manual artwork.

* FanRemake: On November 27th, 2020, Twitter user Dopply [[https://twitter.com/thedopster/status/1332345549429886979 released free remakes]] of ''Faces of Evil'' and ''Wand of Gamelon'' that, whilst not a 1:1 remake, was intended to keep true to the spirit of the games, and adds unlockables such as Hero Mode and the ability to play as Link, Zelda, [[spoiler:and the King himself]] in both games.

* {{Corpsing}}: Even Link's voice-actor couldn't take the line about the "Smart Sword" seriously. He snickers when he gets to "In fact, it makes them talk!"

** The phrase "MAH BOI!" is commonly associated with the screenshot of King Harkinian holding up a finger, that is actually during the word "for". When he actually says the phrase, it is an upper-body shot in which he holds a chalice of wine. It is also often misquoted as "LINK MAH BOI".

** the phrase "MAH BOI!" is commonly associated with the screenshot of King Harkinian holding up a finger, that is actually during the word "for". When he actually says the phrase, it is an upper-body shot in which he holds a chalice of wine. It is also often misquoted as "LINK MAH BOI".

* {{Corpsing}}: Even Link's voice-actor couldn't take the line about the "Smart Sword" seriously. He snickers when he gets to "In fact, it makes them talk!"
** You can also hear King Harkinian's voice actor try to hold in his laughter when he says, "I wonder what's for dinner?"

* BeamMeUpScotty: Link from the CD-i games is sometime associated with the phrase "Excuuuse me, Princess!", despite him never saying that. "Excuuuse me, Princess!" is Link's catchphrase from the ''Zelda'' [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989 cartoon]].

* NamesTheSame: ''Link: The Faces of Evil'' is not to be confused with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]''.