I've been just watching the superb video podcast Diggnation, for all those without a link you can find it here or via the iTunes Podcast directory.

Firstly, another great show guys.

But just to point something out, Zelda on the NES wasn't the first version of Zelda. Sorry to sound like a complete spanner, but Nintendo knocked out a pocket LCD game in the 80's under their 'Game and Watch'

Here is the Zelda Game and Watch in its box.
The Closed system and finally.
Open system.

And yes, before anybody else says 'There's nothing new under the sun' I've also noticed how much it resembles the Nintendo DS Lite.

Zelda links for Game and Watch can be found here.

While on the subject of Diggnation from the 1st February here is some of the actual video of the 'moving' mech. Its pretty lame. But hey.