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The Nagasakiya cards are a 1998 Japanese candy toy card set for Ocarina of Time, printed by Amada for a confectionery company. No checklist was ever published.

Two Japanese Ocarina card sets, two makers, two systems: candy toy Amada cards for Nagasakiya in 1998, Bandai vending cards in 1999. Here is the split.

Every Nagasakiya back carries a Zelda Item Guide panel, a three digit points value in a green rupee, and heart icons. What the points were for is undocumented.

Only four Nagasakiya cards are confirmed holographic from photographs: No. 5 Sheik, No. 11 Ganondorf, No. 25 Link and No. 48. The rest are claims.

No. 48 is the Nagasakiya set's full bleed holographic battle painting: Link and Sheik against a Moblin horde, with Stalfos below and a red sky.

No. 25 is the confirmed holographic young Link card: lunging at the viewer over a pink and purple marbled field, Deku Shield on his arm, 086 points.

No. 45 is the Nagasakiya ensemble card: both Links, Zelda, Sheik, Epona and Hyrule Castle under Ganondorf's looming face, with the Master Sword on its back.

No. 22, the Spin Attack card, shows young Link mid spin slash in an orange arc among Biri and Bari, and its art returned a year later in Bandai's set.

Yes: Carddass No. 42 and Nagasakiya No. 48 print the identical battle illustration, one as a framed prism card, one as a full bleed candy card painting.

Bandai's 1999 Carddass set is a closed checklist of 42 Ocarina of Time cards from vending machines and banded boxes, opening and closing with prism cards.

Enterplay's 2007 Twilight Princess set: 86 cards with silver and gold foil tiers, sold in packs with a foil, a tattoo and a sweepstakes card in every one.

Enterplay's 2016 set covers five Zelda games in 117 cards plus stickers and tattoos, with nine gold foils and two foil poster cards that photograph flat.

The Japanese Zelda II is a harder, stranger game: equal levelling costs, a save system that drags stats down, grey dungeons and an extra sound chip.

In Japan it is Triforce of the Gods: Nintendo of America's rules on religious references renamed the game, its priest, its church, and even its box art.

Nintendo 64 Ocarina of Time exists in three cartridge versions, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2, told apart by a punch code and by blood, chant and glitches.

Ura Zelda was the 64DD expansion Ocarina of Time never got: finished, shelved with the hardware, and reborn on GameCube as Master Quest in 2002.

Japanese Majora's Mask gives you three save files and no quicksave: the owl statues only warp, and the Song of Time is the sole way to save.

The Satellaview Zeldas were broadcast, not sold: four weekly hours of BS Zelda in 1995 and Ancient Stone Tablets in 1997, with live voice acting streamed in.

Navi Trackers is the third game hidden in Japan's Four Swords Adventures: a fully voiced stamp rally with Tetra that the West never received.

The CD-i Zeldas exist because a collapsed Nintendo Philips CD deal left Philips holding a character license, with almost no supervision attached.

Japan kept Zelda on CD for decades: an 82 track Ocarina album in 1998, five disc Breath of the Wild and Skyward Sword sets, and a live concert album.

First 4 Figures has made limited, numbered Zelda statues since 2006, from a seven inch Adult Link to a twenty five inch Link on his Loftwing.

Good Smile put Zelda into its two signature Japanese figure lines: articulated figma Links and chibi Nendoroids, starting with Skyward Sword and Wind Waker.

Twenty six figures in the dedicated Zelda amiibo collection, plus six Zelda fighters in the Smash Bros line: thirty two Zelda amiibo in total.

Japan's Breath of the Wild Collector's Edition bundled the Rider Link amiibo and an alternate cover the West never got, and skipped the case and coin.