The Legend of Zelda (video game)
"The Legend of Zelda" is considered a spiritual forerunner of the modern role-playing video game (RPG) genre. Though it is often not considered part of the genre since it lacked key RPG mechanics such as experience points, it had many features in common with RPGs and served as the template for the action role-playing game genre. The game's fantasy setting, musical style and action-adventure gameplay were adopted by many RPGs. Its commercial success helped lay the groundwork for involved, non-linear games in fantasy settings, such as those found in successful RPGs, including "Crystalis", "Soul Blazer", Square's "Seiken Densetsu" series, "Alundra", and "Brave Fencer Musashi". The popularity of the game also spawned several clones trying to emulate the game.
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.