Btw, interesting quote from Computer Gaming World #76 (November 1990), by Roe R. Adams III, author of Wizardry IV: “When The Legend of Zelda burst upon the scene in fall of 1988, it hit like a nova. Although it still had many action-adventure features, it was definitely a CRPG.”
To me it’s interesting because even though by post-mid90s terms the status of Zeldas as rpgs is debatable, the Wizardry guy, who is obviously old-school (check a playthrough of Wizardry some time, it was insane), seems to consider Zelda an rpg, which is logical is the first games to compare it to are Akalabeth and the like.