Zelda II: The Adventure of Link/Intro

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the second installment of The Legend of Zelda series and a direct follow-up to the first The Legend of Zelda title. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link was originally released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System on January 14, 1987, seven months before the first The Legend of Zelda title was released in America and just under a year before the first The Legend of Zelda released in Japan, also for the Famicom Disk System. It was the second best selling Famicom game released in 1987, selling approximately 1,610,000 copies in its lifetime (roughly two thirds as many sales as Dragon Warrior II). In 1988, Nintendo released Zelda II: The Adventure of Link in North America in 1988, converting the game from its initial Famicom Disk System format to the NES cartridge like they did with the first The Legend of Zelda.