Zelda's Adventure © 1995 Philips Interactive Media, Incorporated.
As the brave warrior, princess Zelda, it's your mission to thwart the enemy, Gannon, who has captured Link and taken over Tolemac. On the way to freeing Link, you'll journey deep into the Seven Shrines of the Underworld. You will acquire powerful weapons as you fight evil characters in your attempt to restore the Age of Lightness to this magical land.
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The reason Nintendo licensed their Zelda characters to Philips Interactive was because Phillips and Nintendo were co-creating a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES. The contract between them allowed Philips to create games with the Mario and Zelda characters. Although Nintendo never released a CD-ROM add-on for SNES, they did have the legal contract with Philips, so Philips was able to create three Zelda-based games and one Mario-based game.
Many of the characters in the game were employees of Viridis in costume. They would walk on a treadmill while being video captured. The data would then be hand-edited down to a limited number of animations per character. The receptionist played the main role of Zelda. Randy Casey, the lead programmer, was the zombie found in a few of the dungeons (he was wrapped in toilet paper). Other creatures were small figures created by hand and animated one frame at a time.
The name of the land Zelda must venture to, Tolemac, is Camelot spelled backwards.