"Pokémon GBA's Switch eShop release is a special occasion". You mean a $pecial occasion?

I went round my mates as a kid and he had a NES and I saw that shiny gold cart but wasn't allowed to play it as all the saves were taken for. Didn't play it properly until the Wii U Virtual Console version 25 years later.

@Cyrax77 my opinion is my own and you are entitled to yous. I repeat: I don't think It's a good business practice to be obliged to buy something to play games that you are renting from Nintendo. So,.how many times did I say "I"?

@anoyonmus They are GBA games and Nintendo has a GBA service on Switch

Zelda 2 is the game I got for the NES but I did borrow the first one from a friend in primary school. I didn’t get too far into it as I was only borrowing it and it was quite difficult. Had I have owned it, I would have kept going, wanting to make the most of it.

When I got the Nintendo Wii, the first games I bought were Zelda 1 and 2 from the Virtual Console service. That was the first time I played the first Zelda game to the end credits.

...Oh yeah. I sometimes forget there are people who think Resident Evil has a plot.

Oh, I was there. A friend of mine had it - and we played and played and played. We would take turns on the same file - one playing while the other made maps. I remember in the final dungeon having a hunch and telling my buddy to bomb a wall, even though the map showed no room there. Sure enough we found a secret. Fun stuff!

How did I first play the OG LOZ? Super Smash Bros Brawl Masterpiece Trials

Nearly 35 years ago, I was a budding tween, and my first Zelda love was A Link to the Past. After so many playthroughs, a magazine obsession, and needing to know more, I was able to go back to the NES and gave TLoZ a playthrough as well. It was a fantastic time to grow and see classics and legends come into the World

Can’t say I’m a fan of this decision, and it only encourages people to find ways around it.

This is why i'm trying to stay away from socials until the game comes out, don't wanna risk it.

The first Zelda I ever played was Ocarina of Time, in that Standard Quest + Master Quest double pack for the GameCube, back in 2019. My dad helped me with a lot of the more difficult puzzles and bosses for me though 😅 (but I did beat Ganon myself, I swear!). Give me a break, I was only 10 years old.

I've played several more Zelda games, and the Zelda franchise is one of my favorite media series of all time. The rest is history.

Got the Nes game at a boot sale at a school fete in 2000 for £5!

My first Zelda game was ocarina of time 3D but it was not until BOTW that I really feel in love with the series

@The_Nintendo_Expat Why do people take an instant dislike to The Nintendo Expat?
It saves time.

world of tanks console
fallout 4
Lego star wars the skywalker saga

Certainly a release of the first pieces of concept art of Pokemon lands coming to Universal Studios Japan. If they’re brave, they’ll release that the lands coming to Japan, Hollywood, and Orlando will be set in different regions, or will be the same with notable variations (in the style of red/green).

Majority of my life I played video games on pc. My first gaming console was a Nintendo Classic mini. The first game I played on it was The legend of Zelda.
Since then I've bought a Super Nintendo Classic mini, a 2DS, a Switch Lite and a Switch 2, and played almost every Zelda game.
The only Zelda game I miss from my collection is Twilight Princess, so I would be very very happy if Nintendo would finaly give us the Windwaker HD / Twilight Pricess HD bundle on Switch.

I decided to play the original Monster Hunter Stories in preparation for the 3rd game. I played the 2nd game back in 2021 near when it launched but the Switch port of the 1st game released at a busy time so I didn’t get around to it.

Hello again, y'all! This weekend I'm playing:

Switch:
Dragon Quest XI S Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition: since last weekend, I have obtained a few more party members and orbs. My next objective is to craft another Sword of Light.
Animal Crossing New Horizons: I am officially done with hotel stuff now. Also, I should be able to afford the final house storage upgrade sometime very soon.
Switch and mobile:
Hello, Mario!: I've messed around with this a bit on both my Switch and my smartphone. It's incredibly fun to just mess around with. Probably not something I will touch or mention often, but for a free app, it's definitely worth keeping around.

I’ve been very haphazard with the Zelda series, but I’ve always wanted to get into it in only the way I can. Twilight Princess was my first Zelda game, but I never beat it, only watched others play and beat it. I missed out on Ocarina of Time back in the day, but years later, I played and beat the 3D version when it came out and finally understood how special that game truly is, so it sparked my interest in Zelda ever since.

It’s not been easy though. I didn’t beat Breath of the Wild until three years later in 2020, and now I hope to be the same way with Tears of the Kingdom three years later. These two games are absolutely great, but I most likely prefer old-school 3D Zelda even though it won’t return. I just don’t have the time and energy to play massive games like Breath and Tears anymore and struggle to make it. But I know there’s always the classics like the first one that I should get around to, and the next big game could still hookshot me even if it’s still the same massively-open style.

Corporate speak translation: we're going to do with every game whatever we can to squeeze the most money out of our customers.

Full stop. 🤑

I'm not a fan of Zelda games, but I only have two Zelda games, the Toon Link version since I like the Chibi looking
I have Wind Waker Wii U and Tri Force 3DS, but I almost never touched them since 2 years ago.
I just tried the games for curiosity and still I didn't have that much interest to continue them even I chose the Toon Link version.

@Regulus6891

You sure?
At the end of the piece he says:
"Disagree with this ranking? Feel free to search for your favourite Mario Tennis game below, give them the score they deserve, and potentially influence the order above."
And the ranking order does seem to correspond exactly with the user scores given to each game.

@JimNorman your team always puts such a great effort in these posts, much appreciated!

Push Square can learn a thing or two from you

I played Zelda 2 first, so that will always be my favorite NES Zelda. The first time I played LoZ was on a friend's cart. He already had a file named Link, so I called my file Zelda. Needless to say, I couldn't find anything and thought the game was way too hard, so I quit. Years later discovered my error and went back to enjoy it as intended.

Rowlet! It's...just..so...round😍😂

Sooo excited for this

Super excited to play this again on my new switch, just to have the available makes me so happy. Keep em coming lol ill buy all the retro Pokémon games.

Aww man I love Zelda. The best thing in gaming, for me.

Funny, I hadn’t even read that today is the anniversary, but this morning our three year olds asked to hear the Zelda music (they know “The Great Sea” from Wind Waker), and I ended up showing them the game for the first time ever We played the opening sequence of WW, they were glued to the screen, and threw a tantrum when I switched it off because enough screen time.

(Hesitant to show them more because imo they’re too young for the concept of “fighting”)

So, happy anniversary, Zelda!

I’ll be playing on some Overwatch here and there, still learning the new heroes and still trying to avoid the falling wall climber-like jet pack cat that can swoop down and carry you off to a pit. I’m also thinking of pulling out my nes and playing some festers quest or maybe blaster master with the joystick controller.

Six years old, though mostly vicariously because my babysitter's 11 year old son would always be playing it and he'd occasionally let me have a go. Most families in the block didn't have a Nintendo let alone the newly released Zelda, so kids would be gathering there every day after school. The first attempt at Ganon was an exiting disappointment as the silver arrows weren't found yet, vindicating the kid who said from the start that he heard you need the 'magic arrow'. It was pretty glorious when we all felt like we beat it together.

Years later I finally got my own copy, a $5 closeout from Kaybee toys. Grey cart (wish I kept the box), but still all the glory just as I remembered it. I've gotten just about every port and rerelease because I can never get enough. I still muscle memory through the game in a couple hours on the AVS once a year or so. And I've read the Legends of Localization book probably a dozen times. Fair to say it's my favorite game of all time.

While I intend to get Fire Red, I’m gonna wait for first impressions in case there’s issues. For example if we can’t choose scaling of the image I might have to skip.

Born in 87’. Some of my youngest memories maybe age 3/4 years old are laying in front of the tv watching my Dad play LoZ on the NES. I grew up on the original Zelda and Super Mario, and have played every Zelda game since, other than the infamous ROM games on PC lol.

How is there not even a tweet celebrating this..? Nintendo is weird sometimes.

Zelda on NES was the first video game I ever laid eyes on. My cousins were playing it at my grandmother's house and it was the first time I ever saw a game. They let me control it for a few seconds before taking the controller back. It left an impression on me because after that I thought "Nintendo" meant the game with the hearts in the corner of the TV. I found out later that there were other games you can play on the Nintendo.

I think it was Feb of ‘87 when I took a chance (based on the weird TV commercials I’d recently seen) and used some spending money during a family trip to buy this unknown NES game with the gold cartridge. After getting home and slotting into my Nintendo, the game was amazing! It imprinted hard on my early teen brain and really opened my eyes to the potential of home video games. I was burning bushes and dropping bombs on every flat surface, looking for secrets - the original Zelda must be my most-played NES game.

Happy 40th to a true masterpiece and progenitor of one of gaming’s greatest legacies! 💕🎂🎉

Guys you've missed N64 from the poll list!

Crazy that this isn’t on NSO+E, which is a good reminder to cancel my subscription - the drip-feed is beyond comprehension…

First time i played it was on the NES back in the late 1980s. I did not own this game at all back then so I probably borrowed it from a friend. I remember i wasn't that impressed by the game back then. It was much later, specifically when I bought and played A Link to the Past on the SNES that I really fell in love with a Zelda game. Nowadays I can see what an amazing game Zelda for the NES is. I guess i wasn't receptive for it the first time around. 😅

I still playing Fantasian NEO Dimension. If anyone loves classic Final Fantasy and wants another one, this has been a really fantastic game.

My kids are playing Sonic Advance (Game Boy Advance), Pokemon Blue (Game Boy), Pokemon Silver (Game Boy Color), and Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection (Switch).

We're super excited about Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green coming to Switch, and it's awesome that we can buy them instead of them being stuck on the subscription. I had wanted to get the real cartridges for a long time, but they're so expensive. I'm planning on Fire Red for my kids and Leaf Green for me so we can trade the exclusive Pokemon in each