The A Link to the Past Player’s Guide not only affirmed that Link’s a lefty, it had a clever excuse for the sprite mirroring. Then with a magical sword in his left hand and a magical shield in his right, he set off alone on his long travels” (p.12). And bring back peace to Hyrule.’ Link nodded silently in approval, and left the room after taking a long glance at the altar. Unite the Triforce and save the princess.
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In its instruction manual not only is Link drawn as a lefty, it’s even highlighted in the story: “Impa implored Link… ‘Please, Link. Nintendo seems to have taken extra steps to affirm Link’s handedness in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. The artist was probably told something like, “Our hero has a green tunic, brown hair, pointed ears, and carries a sword and shield.” Maybe they were shown a little game footage too, but a lot of people don’t notice that Link is left-handed unless they look carefully. The Legend of Zelda was a brand new property with no precedents. Why then was the original Legend of Zelda instruction manual full of artwork of a right-handed Link? It was almost certainly an oversight. It wasn’t something that was unique to Zelda either it was common game design practice for 2D games and was done in all of the traditional 2D Zeldas. It wasn’t just Link’s sprite that was mirrored it was most of the enemy sprites as well. This was done so that Nintendo didn’t need to make a separate sprite, which would have taken up precious memory as, back then, memory was a highly limited resource of which sprites took up the bulk of. Interestingly enough though, the first game’s official artwork depicts him as a righty, while the in-game sprites are left-handed - with the exception of the right-facing sprite, which is a mirror of the left-facing sprite.
As far back as Zelda’s early days on the NES, it quickly became clear that Link was intended to be left-handed.
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