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Link is the fictional protagonist from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda video game series. Link was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and first appeared in the 1987 game The Legend of Zelda, as a generic sword-fighting hero, typical of fantasy adventure games though later games revealed significantly more details about him. The game's success &mdash; over 6.5 million copies sold worldwide &mdash; and that of its numerous sequels made Link one of Nintendo's most well-known characters. An important peculiarity of the character is that there are several different incarnations of Link throughout the whole Legend of Zelda series, although they share a number of distinctive characteristics. The existence of multiple Links is made obvious on many occasions in the games, where games explicitly mention an ancient, legendary champion, identical in appearance to Link.

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