GoldenDoodle Member Aug 26, 2023 368   Last edited: Yesterday at 2:50 PM OP OP GoldenDoodle Member Aug 26, 2023 368 Probably my favorite Zelda game of all time, from the graphics, exploration, combat system, and world building. I can still remember playing this game as a kid, and probably remember all if not most locations. Just a brilliant game, 10/10 Easily, it was just a treat to play  PlanetSmasher The Abominable Showman Member Oct 25, 2017 130,999 I didn't get to it until AFTER playing Link's Awakening religiously about 500 times (my grandma owned a copy, my family originally didn't) but it's a special game. Amazing how bits of iconography and music from this game still persist in the series to this day.   N64Controller Member Nov 2, 2017 11,699 This game is so important to me for a variety of reasons, one of which being that it was one of the very, very few games we had available in French in Québec on consoles in that Era. Just being able to play a game like Zelda and understand what was going on was so cool and fun! Still have my old Map of Hyrule and the first 3 dungeons (THAT WAS IN FRENCH TOO IT WAS SO COOL). The cartridge I have right now is not the same I had when I was a kid but at least I kept my map haha  JLP101 Member Oct 25, 2017 3,126 Easily one of my favorite games of my childhood. Loved everything about it. Set the foundation of all future Zelda games released after.   Ambient Member Dec 23, 2017 9,136 I've grown to appreciate it but at the time I remember thinking it was a downgrade from the original and Zelda II.   N64Controller Member Nov 2, 2017 11,699 Just this short opening has been imprinted in my mind ever since I first heard it. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkwQR3yznFM   Reflecting Sky Member Mar 17, 2024 2,398 The game aged like fine wine, that's for sure. It was very special playing it for the first time, a game packed with things to discover. It may sound strange to those who were not into games during that era, but the world felt exceptionally huge.   joffocakes Member Nov 15, 2017 1,899 Still my favourite in the series, probably my favourite game overall. First time I played it was at a friend's house, he'd rented a copy and there was already a save file so it started us atop the Dark World pyramid, ready to drop in and fight Ganon. As far as we knew that was how the game started. Was a while before I got to play through it properly, but I loved it so much I finished it several times, writing out my own guides for each dungeon in a notebook. My cousins and their parents were all playing through it pass-the-pad every-other evening too. Even the lapsed gamers amongst them still bring it up, all these decades later. Will probably play it again soon.  Fuzzy Completely non-threatening The Fallen Oct 25, 2017 19,335 Toronto How do you make this thread but use that boxart? 🤢   sir_crocodile Member Oct 25, 2017 24,532 I remember first playing Zelda 3 at my cousins house, I blitzed through pretty much the whole light world in a few hours. Would be a few years before I could afford to have a SNES at home, but as soon as I did this was one of my first games and I devoured it. One of the best zelda games, perhaps only Z4 is better.  Naar Member Oct 29, 2017 3,279 I have a much longer story to tell about how I got to play this game but I will just say that the intro with the 3D tri force just wowed me at the time and the classic opening scene with the rainfall and it was raining outside my house at the same time. My love with the franchise started with this game and will continue until I die  skeezx Member Oct 27, 2017 23,346 back then there were no firm release dates so i had my dad calling into Babbage's every day asking when they'd get "Zelda 3" then one day i get off the bus and he's parked adjacent and he rolls down the window saying "it is time... get in" lol it was so fucking awesome  Rustyspider13 Shinra Employee Member Nov 16, 2023 3,449 One of the greatest games ever made, still looks good to this day. I really thought Hyrule castle was the end. I was so, so wrong.   Red Liquorice Member Oct 27, 2017 10,142 UK One of my all time favourite games still, I got it for Xmas that year (Wikipedia says the PAL release was September which tracks.) That opening with the lightning and rain is burned in to my brain from that Xmas day first playthrough, really special.   Joei Member Feb 3, 2018 363 I was like 10, 11 years old and remember going to Toys R Us and buying this with money I saved up. I still love this game and play it every once in a blue moon.   Derbel McDillet ▲ Legend ▲ Member Nov 23, 2022 22,902 Oh cool, I wasn't sure if this game was older than me. I get to look at all of you like.   Alric Member Oct 27, 2017 2,153 Damn, was I really only 8. It feels like I was so much older when it came out. Time to get my prostate examined.  Budi Member Oct 25, 2017 14,055 Finland The best Zelda game.   Redis Member Mar 1, 2025 126 Brilliant game, my 2nd fav top down Zelda right after ALBW.   PHOENIXZERO Member Oct 29, 2017 14,041 Still my favorite Zelda game, played through it many times and none of the 3D-era games come close. Top-down Zelda games just feel right to me.   Menchi Member Oct 28, 2017 3,460 UK One of the best games ever made. It holds up to this day, and is easily one of my favourite Zelda games too   Daddy JeanPi Prophet of Truth that's Corrupted by Vengeance Member Oct 27, 2017 3,526 One of a kind. GOAT material. A special game.   ghostemoji Member Oct 27, 2017 5,113 I just played all of the NES through GBA 2D Zelda games again, and I appreciate how much people love of this one, but I am one of those fringe who think that Link's Awakening is the better refinement of the 2D Zelda formula post-Zelda 1. I sometimes think they tried to do a little too much with LttP, and the restrictions of the GB led to a bit of a tighter experience. I also didn't play LttP until much later. My family skipped the SNES generation, so that might have something to do with it.  ClearMetal Hey, it's that sheep! Member Oct 25, 2017 18,599 the Netherlands Never played it. But I never played Super Mario Bros. either.   SnoopyK Member Jan 27, 2018 379 This one and BOTW are my favorites, I play a couple Zelda games every year, Ocarina of Time I have played so many times I am a bit burnt out on that one.   Pai Pai Master Member Oct 25, 2017 36,661 Atlanta GA I had played videogames before this for sure, but this is the game that turned me into a gamer ass gamer   Doggg ▲ Legend ▲ Member Nov 17, 2017 15,350 Truly one of the greats, an absolute classic.   L Thammy Spacenoid Member Oct 25, 2017 54,391 hey it's that game that has only three dungeons   Anth0ny Member Oct 25, 2017 51,677 Still one of the GOATs Amazing how hard that title screen still hits. No one does it like that any more, not even the modern Zelda games!  Foolhardy Member May 4, 2024 3,054 The entire beginning sequence from the prologue to waking up to the sound of rain to the castle to the escape through the passage to the church is forever burned into my head. I had never been more immersed in a game before that point. Bring back the blue mail + banana yellow cap combo.  Cyanity Member Oct 25, 2017 9,930 Many fond memories of playing through this game on my GBA when I was a kid. Played through it countless times on the bus to school. That map is seared into my skull, with all its secrets to be found, dungeons to be explored and items to find for some very satisfying progression. It's a special game that will hopefully go down in history as one of the best of all time. And a stupid fact: This game was so formative to me that I thought "ALTTP" in thread titles meant "A Link To the Past" until only a few years ago.  Mabase Member Oct 29, 2017 1,390 ArchStanton Member Oct 29, 2017 1,359 Great game. My personal favorite Zelda. Got it for Spring Break and played the entire game during break. Magical.  JuicyPlayer Member Feb 8, 2018 8,243 It's my perfect Zelda game. Also represents a very happy time in my life.   panic Member Oct 26, 2024 43 My first Zelda game. I was 7 years old and didn't know how to read english so I got stuck. Only beat it many years later as an adult.   Vommy Chicken Chaser Member Oct 27, 2017 5,209 My first an favorite Zelda game. Also, damn I feel old   HVivi Member Nov 29, 2020 644 My favorite Zelda and one of my favorite games ever. Feels endlessly replayable vanilla. And thanks to the community adding more to it in randomizer and being able to play in conjunction with Super Metroid randomizer I doubt I will ever replay a game as much as I play this one. 10/10 I have been chasing my love for this game ever since and nothing has ever hit the same.   OP OP GoldenDoodle Member Aug 26, 2023 368 HVivi said: My favorite Zelda and one of my favorite games ever. Feels endlessly replayable vanilla. And thanks to the community adding more to it in randomizer and being able to play in conjunction with Super Metroid randomizer I doubt I will ever replay a game as much as I play this one. 10/10 I have been chasing my love for this game ever since and nothing has ever hit the same. Click to expand... Click to shrink... This is a great point, It does feel like a game you can just play forever and never feel bored   Applepieman Member Nov 5, 2017 173 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was my first video game I ever played, I recall being 4 years old and seeing my dad playing it and I was in aww. Have lot of precious memories surrounding this game and I still play it from time to time. It's such a fantastic game that stood the test of time and definted the Zelda series for years before they broke away from the formula with Breath of the Wild.   Silent Avenger Oct 27, 2017 2,712 One of the best games of all time. Growing up, I was a generation late; my cousin had a Nintendo 64 while I had a SNES. I'd go over to his place and watch him play Ocarina of Time. One day, I came home from school to a bunch of new SNES games. I still don't know where my mom got them all those years ago. Maybe it was a garage sale. I saw Zelda and was so excited. But then I remember being initially disappointed because the graphics weren't 3-D like Ocarina of Time. At that age, I didn't understand the difference between my SNES and my cousin's N64. But that disappointment quickly faded because A Link to the Past was such a special game.  carlsojo Shinra Employee Member Oct 28, 2017 36,822 San Francisco i am so fucking old agreed that this is one of the goats  saintjules Member Dec 20, 2019 2,998 ClearMetal said: Never played it. But I never played Super Mario Bros. either. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Really? Such crimes being committed here lol.  MischeifMaestro Member Aug 3, 2022 2,634 United States Comfy Zelda times love this one   Gusy Member Oct 27, 2017 1,332 You could argue that this is a perfect game.. as in "It doesn't have a single flaw" perfect,   ClearMetal Hey, it's that sheep! Member Oct 25, 2017 18,599 the Netherlands saintjules said: Really? Such crimes being committed here lol. Click to expand... Click to shrink... There are a bunch of classics I have never even touched. Admitting to them all would probably get me permbanned. Basically they're from before my time and as a child and toung teen I never had the means of playing them. Then when I finally did I had already lost interest.  MasterYoshi Member Oct 27, 2017 12,096 I can't put into words the sense of wonder this game gave me as a five, maybe six year old child...   Jakenbakin "This guy are sick" and Corrupted by Vengeance Member Jun 17, 2018 14,223 Hey that was my birthday! I didn't play it until I was in my 30s though lol. Great game for sure even if I don't have much in the way it nostalgia for it.   Rhaknar Member Oct 26, 2017 50,840 still one of the few games that always springs to mind when people ask me what my favorite games ever are.   ChitonIV Member Nov 14, 2021 4,032 Cadence of Hyrule was announced 33 years ago!