Game & Watch: Zelda

Game & Watch: Zelda — Game & Watch Multi Screen, United States, Nintendo, 1989. US August 26, 1989. From Famicom & NES years in the Zelda Games Gallery.

Model ZL-65, the last / penultimate Multi Screen release depending on counting (MobyGames: "fifteenth and last game in the Multi Screen series"; Zelda Wiki: final Multi Screen game; Wikipedia LCD article calls the unit Nintendo's penultimate Game & Watch before *Mario the Juggler* — the disagreement is about series vs. whole line, see Corrections Log).

Vertical clamshell two-screen unit — the direct conceptual ancestor of the Nintendo DS. Gameplay is inspired by Zelda II's side view, with an original story in the manual. Sales listed as <250,000 in the Wikipedia Game & Watch list.

Shown here at its verified native size, 1200×691, the largest honest copy the Library holds for this box.

This page carries the verified front-and-back pair: use the flip control on the cover to turn the box over.

The US back pictures the ZL-65 unit itself and prints the US patent numbers and MADE IN JAPAN - manufactured in Japan, sold in America; UPC 0 35051 01001 2. No Japanese retail box exists.