The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is a video game, originally created for the Game Boy. A colour version, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX was created for the Game Boy Color. The latter is compatible with the Game Boy Printer and features a new dungeon.
Link, after defeating Ganon, journeys out to sea in search of adventure. He is shipwrecked during a violent storm, and he wakes in the house of a kind man named Tarin and his daughter Marin, who bears a strong resemblance to Princess Zelda. A mysterious owl tells him that in order to leave Koholint Island, he needs to find the eight Instruments of the Sirens and play them to awaken the Wind Fish. The instruments are: the Thunder Drum, the Full Moon Cello, the Conch Horn, the Sea Lily Bell, the Surf Harp, the Wind Marimba, the Coral Triangle, and the Organ of Evening Calm.
It is the first of the series to take place outside Hyrule and the main "Triforce" storyline, and can be considered one of a number of Zelda sidestories. These sidestories are those games in which Ganon is not the principal antagonist, such as The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask for the Nintendo 64 (which was in fact developed under the working title Gaiden, Japanese for sidestory). Presumably the GameCube sequel to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker will follow this pattern, although plot details are unknown at this time (Dec. 2003).
