Games of the 8-, 16- & 32-bit era

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Title	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
First release	1993
Developer	Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms	Game Boy, Game Boy Color
Genre	action-adventure game
Also known as	Zelda no Densetsu: Yume wo Miru Shima · ゼルダの伝説～夢をみる島～
Players	1 player
Co-op	No
ESRB rating	E Everyone
Releases	Game Boy: 1993-06-06 (NTSC-J), 1993-08-06 (NTSC-U), 1993-12-01 (PAL)
Wikidata ID	Q1060323

Link explores Koholint Island to recover musical instruments required to awaken the Wind Fish. While the primary gameplay uses a top-down perspective for exploration, certain dungeon sections shift to a side-scrolling view to introduce platforming challenges. Players navigate various environments to collect the Instruments of the Sirens and progress through the adventure.

Description: REG-Vault, CC BY-SA 4.0

View on Wikidata Read on Wikipedia

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from REG-Vault and TheGamesDB. Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.

Sources

Wikidata (Q1060323) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0

REG-Vault (gb/the-legend-of-zelda-link-s-awakening) · last updated 2026-10-29 · descriptions CC BY-SA 4.0

TheGamesDB (3193,74846,89499,123899,129740) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening – box art (front)

Source: REG-Vault (upstream not stated) · © Nintendo · internal use only

1 / 13 Box art Box art (front) 1

Image credits

Box art, Screenshots, Logos (5): Source: REG-Vault (upstream not stated) · © Nintendo · internal use only. REG-Vault page

Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Nintendo · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (6): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Nintendo · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

Logo: Kigsz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening.png”)

Sprites

No sprite sheets yet. Find sprites on The Spriters Resource ↗ /

Videos

Game Boy Longplay [164] The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993) (US/EU)

World-of-Longplays · Game Boy version · longplay · 4:42:13auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:41 UTC

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

NintendoComplete · Game Boy version · longplay · 5:00:48auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:43 UTC

"Auto-matched" videos were found automatically (title + platform match via the YouTube Data API) and may occasionally be wrong. Videos are hosted by YouTube (embedded via youtube-nocookie.com; nothing loads from YouTube until you press play) and belong to their channels.