 Zelda II : The Adventure of Link ( Japanese : リンクの冒険 , Hepburn : Rinku no Bōken , " Adventure of Link " ) is an action role @-@ playing video game with platforming elements . The second installment in the The Legend of Zelda series , it was developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System on January 14 , 1987 , less than a year after the original The Legend of Zelda was released and seven months before North America saw the release of the first Zelda title . The game was released in North America and the PAL region for the Nintendo Entertainment System in late 1988 , almost two years after its initial release in Japan . 
