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Fact: Zelda fuhking rules.
1. A Link To The Past
Has to be the record for most time I've spent with a game in my life. Basically Zelda III was my freshman and sophomore years of high school. I'd rock it every Friday night religously while rockin' a cassette boombox full of my homemade hip hop mixes. (y'all remember cassingles??) This game is still amazing to me now. It's a 2D masterpiece. Epic. Brilliant.
2. The Legend Of Zelda
Less story than above. Less graphical jawdrop inducements. But still a vast and incredible game that came out EARLY in the 8bit NES lifespan and created a very high bar in which games struggled to compete with. Plus, that ish is hard.
3. The Wind Waker
Unbelievably huge map. Great story. Lush graphics. Beautiful sound and score. And characters that actually feel human. Perhaps my favorite game of whatever console generation GameCube is considered.
4. Link's Awakening
I think there's a colorized version now, but I had the original GB cart back in the day. Hard to believe that the style and complexity of a game created for SNES (see my #1 above) could be applied to an 8bit pea-green and black handheld and be so great.
5. The Adventure Of Link
Oft-considered the worst in the series for being a side-scroller. But it's actually a terrific game, especially if you got sucked in back when it was originally released. A huge game... and a super-hard game! Plus, there was that jumping downward stab move.
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