Are you joking me??

River City Ransom Is a Beat em up RPG.

Double Dragon is just a beat em up. There is a difference. River City Ransom you have stats, and you can gradually upgrade these stats, upgrade skills and give special abilities. Yes it is a beat em up, but it has rpg elements in it.

And yeah your right, zelda games are more adventure than RPG, but I would still consider them Adventure RPG. I say this because you generally are in 1 large map area, and can access most of the world very early on in the game and there is lots of running back and forth, questing, and unlocking things. Non RPG adventure games would be like games like Tomb Raider, where its level after level after level.

If you say Zelda is adventure and not RPG then what about Alundra?