Game & Watch: Zelda (serial number ZL-65) is a handheld LCD game developed by Gunpei Yokoi and Nintendo R&D1 and released in August 1989 in North America, as part of Nintendo's Game & Watch Multi Screen series. It is the first handheld Zelda title, coming out four years before The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Similar to other Multi Screen games, it has two screens with a hinge in the center and the buttons on the bottom half, making it look strikingly similar to the Nintendo DS. It is a side-scrolling action game, and the gameplay and items are inspired by Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.