Patient Gamers

Number 1. The original. I was so happy when BOTW gave the the open exploration based feel from that very first game again. The other 3d games we just so linear and hand holding in comparison.

Very much a #1. Gold cartridge and all.

I loved #10. With a full crew of four with GBA SP's and cables that game was a rocking time for you and your buddies. The ability for that game to cause swearing, shoulder punching, and evil strategic voting at the end of each level was absolutely wonderful.

Unrelated, but what Zelda should i play, I've retired on link to the past, and minish cap

#1. Had to go to a distant friend's house to play it because no one else had a Nintendo yet.

God I'm old...

12 on the wii with my cousin Later owned botw for wii u

#10 and actually with the GBA cables and friends to do multiplayer. (#11) Minish Cap as well, but my first owned Zelda was Four Swords Adventure.

I'm OG; I can still remember coming home and tearing it out of the box and throwing it on without having read the pamphlet (which they actually included then) and wandering around for hours having no clue what I was supposed to be doing. It was great!

Link to the Past, which is also my favorite besides the Oracle games.

#3. A class mate of my sister lent it to us and we didn't put it down for at least 1-2 months.

Although I can say my favorite game is Oracle of Seasons.

#1, which I rented from my local video rental store back when video rental was all small, locally owned businesses - until I was eventually gifted a cart of my own for my birthday. I tried to find it not that long ago when I stopped to visit my parents. I found my original 8-bit NES and all of my games except Zelda. I suspect my niece, who had been living in my old room for a number of years, may have found it on the top shelf of the closet and realizing its value either sold it or gave it to her boyfriend.

Wind Waker will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first game to open a whole world of exploration for me.

Link to the Past, for GB Advanced. I could never finish it.

None, link between worlds Havent finished it 7 years later

#1! I used to play it with my mom, way back before I was old enough to actually make any progress. Mom made giant, beautiful hand-drawn maps of the overworld and all of the dungeons for both quests on large sheets of graph paper, and one of my biggest regrets from childhood is not keeping those maps safe.

The original LoZ is still one of my favorite games of all time, and I still spend a few hours every year or so playing through it again.

#7 for me. Kind of surprised that answer isn't more common here. Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages occupied so much of me and my friends time back when they came out.

Cut my teeth on 1, spent so many hours playing it and trying to find new secrets. Then absolutely feel in love with 3. I've played almost all of the others, but 3 will forever be my pick, especially with randomizer.

ocarina of time

I played some of the original game as a kid and then much later played some of Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, but the first game I actually finished was Breath of the Wild. To be fair though, I never had any of the Nintendo consoles between the SNES and the Wii U.

I can't give an exact number because I had the gamecube collector's edition disc, but it was either 5 or 6, just roaming around both as an itty bitty without ever beating the games until I was like 12. Played the wind waker demo many times too. Was terrible at Zelda 1 and 2.

I'm an old head. OG gold cart. I remember being so disappointed with Zelda 2. Now I kinda wanna go back to it. It had a really cool score.

I played Legend of Zelda on the 8-bit Nintendo (#1) with some roommates in college. I tried playing Ocarina of Time on the 3DS (don't see a number for it), but I didn't like the platform enough to continue using it and I wasn't used to the type of game Zelda is. I haven't tried any since, but not because of a lack of respect for the franchise. I just missed the party and don't know where to jump in. Plus, there are so many games out there to choose from.

Mine was ocarina of time on 3DS, which gave me motion sickness and that's how I learned 3D (as in movie 3D not CGI) and gaming simply don't mix.

Number 1, but it was really Ocarina of Time that defined my childhood

number 1. I'm an 80s baby ^^

Number 3 is my all time favourite though.

If we're counting 3DS remakes, I'm a number 6. Otherwise, I guess I'd be a number 9 through the WiiU iirc.

5, and it was one of my older sibling's friends that just let us have a bunch of their games that they were done with. It quickly became my favourite game on the N64, along with Smash Bros later on.

#1 I’m almost 40

The 3DS port of Ocarina of Time. Was pretty magical at the time having a handheld that could do 3D graphics as well as it could. Paired with being an excellent game with lots of charm and atmosphere already made it a great experience. Pretty cool with the 3D screen too, made it feel that much more immersive.

4, since Gameboy was the first system we were allowed to play in our home. Stole my sister's copy to play it and got in to a fight when I stole from the store under her save file.

I also remember burning through an insane number of AA batteries when I was attempting a less-than-smart solution to one of the room puzzles in Eagle's Tower.

Either 7 or it's twin, ages. Honestly not sure which I played first but I spent SOOOOOOO much time on them as a kid

Link's Awakening DX was the first game I picked up on my Gameboy color. Didn't know anything about it, it just looked cool. Didn't learn it was part of a series until I saw advertisements for OoT.

First ever was #1, first one I beat was #11 though

5 for me. I remember being a young kid and not really understanding much about the game worked, and spending hours just wandering around Kokiri Forest and Hyrule.

#1 for me. That gold cartridge really stood out amidst my collection of other NES games, for more reasons than one. Naturally, I needed a guide to get through my first playthrough, but I kept coming back to it and eventually had the whole game damn near memorized.

No phantom hourglass then?

I was around for 1, didn't play any until 5, and have only played 5 and 6.

#2 for me