15 Weirdest The Legend Of Zelda Spin-Offs

15. Zelda

Zelda is a part of the Vertical Multi Screen series of Game & Watch systems, a series that would later inspire the Nintendo DS. Interestingly it's the first portable Zelda game, predating Link's Awakening by around four years.

The game is pretty advanced for Game & Watch standards and involves you climbing a tower to rescue Zelda. On each floor, you are confronted by a goblin who you must defeat to progress. When trying to slay the goblin you will have to avoid stalfos and ghosts.

Every few floors you will have to fight a dragon which serves as a boss, beat the dragon and you get a piece of the Triforce. Once you have eight pieces of the Triforce you rescue Zelda and win.

Zelda is one of the better Game & Watch games out there and it's a shame that this isn't a part of the upcoming The Legend of Zelda Game & Watch.

The game was later re-released on Game & Watch Gallery 4, a collection of Game & Watch games for the Game Boy Advanced so at least 2002 Nintendo remembered that this game existed.