Action role-playing game
An important influence on the action RPG genre was the 1986 action-adventure, "The Legend of Zelda", which served as the template for many future action RPGs. In contrast to previous action RPGs, such as "Dragon Slayer" and "Hydlide," which required the player to bump into enemies in order to attack them, "The Legend of Zelda" featured an attack button that animates a sword swing or projectile attack on the screen. It was also an early example of open-world, nonlinear gameplay, and introduced new features such as battery backup saving. These elements have been used in many action RPGs since.
Satellaview games from The Legend of Zelda series
BS Zelda no Densetsu is an action-adventure game first broadcast to Satellaview owners in August 1995. It is the fifth game developed by Nintendo belonging to "The Legend of Zelda" series, but it does not feature Link, the protagonist of the prior four games. Instead it features the same main character that the player selects in the Satellaview game, "BS-X", and indeed the games are linked functionally and roughly through plot. As such "BS Zelda no Densetsu", together with "BS Zelda no Densetsu: MAP2" and "BS Zelda no Densetsu: Inishie no Sekiban", is generally considered to be a spin-off title from the main "Zelda" series. Stylistically similar to the original top-down "The Legend of Zelda" for the NES, but utilizing the 16-bit graphical capabilities of the SNES, "BS Zelda no Densetsu" is also occasionally regarded as an enhanced remake of the original game. This conception most likely arises from the superficial stylistic similarities of the games and the fact that the game is no longer playable in its original form and thus the differing plot of the game is more or less unknown to the general gaming public.