Play The Legend of Zelda – Link’s Awakening Online

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a 1993 action-adventure game for the Game Boy, developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. Shipwrecked on Koholint Island, Link must collect the eight Instruments of the Sirens from eight dungeons to wake the Wind Fish. Any item can be assigned to the A or B button, and the game introduced jumping, fishing, and a trading sequence to the series.

How To Play The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Control Action
D-Pad Move Link; push against blocks and objects
A Use the item assigned to A (sword, shield, Roc’s Feather, etc.); talk and read signs
B Use the item assigned to B
A or B (hold with sword) Charge and release a spin attack
A or B (with Power Bracelet) Lift and throw pots, rocks, and bushes
START Open the inventory to assign items to A and B
SELECT View the island map
A + B + START + SELECT Open the save menu

About The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Release date NA: August 6, 1993
EU: December 1, 1993
JP: June 6, 1993
Developer Nintendo EAD
Publisher Nintendo
Platform Game Boy
Genre Action-adventure
Series The Legend of Zelda
Modes Single-player
Also known as Zelda no Densetsu: Yume o Miru Shima (Japan); Link’s Awakening DX (1998 Game Boy Color version)

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