LOL i was just on hulu awhile ago they have the cartoon series over ther to celebrate the 25th anniversary but god it sucked

Yes. Happ birthday Zelda. I remember the first one i ever played was the oracle of time on My Gameboy...Ahhh good times.

I remember the first time I ever played Zelda. I entered my name as "ZELDA" and couldn't figure out why none of the maps from my magazines and strategy guides were matching up. Zelda was also one of the few GBA games I had to play during the 3 1/2 weeks of no power following hurricane Katrina so... Happy birthday, old girl; I love you, but I'm never playing you again.

just got a rom on the phone.  am playing it again right now!

Advanced roll playing!

I remember reading about Zelda before it came out. I was excited and it was one of the first games I ever bought. I think I played it over a dozen times. I used to fiddle with names and I made my name Zelda one time, not knowing that it was a cheat code. That was an intense experience!

I've long been a Zelda fan, but the last couple entries have felt kind of flat. Here's hoping that the next installment is fulfilling.

Majora's Mask is far superior to Ocarina of Time.

I STRONGLY agree with you! Majoras Mask was AMAZING. Ocarina of Time was great. On that note....I thouroughly enjoyed Windwaker. The game introduced some fresh ideas and added some cool powers to links arsenal. Twilight Princess was good. The graphics and dungeons were done VERY well IMO. Skyward Sword......well, I guess we will ALL discover Link's newest adventure together......if we all own a Wii.....which unfortunately I don't own. Happy 25th Link!

Actually finding a dungeon. It took awhile but the reward was immense. That or constantly switching screens to build up a huge supply of rupees for the blue ring.

I hated Zelda the first time I saw it, here's why: I had basically only played Super Mario and Duck Hunt for the first several months I had MY NES, notice I said MY. I had an uncle that lived with us and we would play Mario together all the time, it was really cool and I loved it. One day he brought this game home on some stupid gold cartridge that he borrowed from a friend. He put it in, and I kept waiting for my turn(he always made me be Luigi), I waited, I waited, I waited, and waited some more. I soon realized this was not like Mario and Luigi, there would be no turn for me on this day. This went on for a while, remember this was MY NES, I paid for it and everything. I hated that Zelda game because not only did it take away my playing partner, it took away my ability to play period. The dude stayed up all night playing Zelda, when I got home from school, it was Zelda. He had kidnapped my Nintendo, and in my house, anybody that was older than you was the boss, and he was much older-and just mean in general-. In the end I resorted the lowest tactic possible. I told grandma. She bought my uncle his own NES(seriouslly though the guy was in his 30's, why couldn't he buy his own, and his own house now that I think of it). A while later that Uncle was, well he went away for a while and did not go to a place that allowed very many personal belongings. Apparently he never returned that copy of Zelda to his friend either. I plugged it in one day and started playing it, he did let me play a few minutes here and there, but it was not enjoyable because I was so mad at it. I fell in love with the game at that point, I didn't stop playing it for a long, long, time. I did not beat the thing for like ten years as I lived in a very small town, no internet, no guides, etc.

Ah yes Zelda memories... I remember about 6-7 years ago my friend and I decided to stay up all night and beat Majora's Mask. So at about 4 am in the morning me and him are extremely tired but we have almost beaten it and the time is almost up so we have to store our rupee's and items so we went to go play the song of half time because we barely had enough time but there was a problem... We played the song of double time by accident. So our night of NO SAVING ended with Link dying in a giant explosion. I was sad but at the same time one of my favorite moments in gaming just because of what happened. Oh and I still haven't beaten Majora's Mask...

When Legend of Zelda came out for the NES, I was 6. I don't recall much except I was too into my own little youthful world to care. I recall sitting in my cousins house watching him play the final dungeons of the game and just being fascinated by the gold cartridge. The first time I took control of Link came two years later with Zelda 2: I never made it past the first dungeon in that attempt. It was a rental and it went back to the store a day later. The first time I truly played a Zelda game and I mean actively played it and not just fussing with a controller was the clasic Link's Awakening and it was then that the stars aligned and I fell in love with the squat Hyrulian child and his eternally in distressed Zelda, even though Zelda wasn't in that adventure. I knew enough of the story thanks to the cartoon and basic osmosis from those who swore by the game that I recognized how this story deterred from the storyline and loved that. I always have a love for a franchise that takes risks and steps away from it's own story from time to time. That game made me go back and replay the first and second adventures. I never finished either but I loved them and wondered how I could not have recognized the greatness of this series. But that was the time of the Super Nintendo by then and I had to destroy my NES so I could get the newer console. A trend that continued when the N64 debuted. But a link to the past solidified my reverence to this franchise and I have played every title ever since with various degrees of finshing from time to time. The funny thing is, the handheld title that had me fall in love with the series is to this day the only handheld adventure of Zelda I have played. I just haven't found the time or funds to grab a DS. Ah, C'est La vie. Happy B-day Link. You are a legend even without Zelda.

zelda II was done so differently it was bad

Being too young (but not that young) to remember the good ol' NES and N64 days, my first REAL Zelda game that i really got into was Twilight Princess. I know it sounds lame that my first was not the best, and i didn't really count the GameBoy remake of 4 Swords (i believe it was). But still, after TP, i was hooked for good. Soon i got Phantom Hourglass, and i downloaded Ocarina of Time on the Virtual Console on the Wii, and i fell in love with Zelda. Now is the time i wish i was born 15 years earlier, so i could really appreciate the classics today.

I wonder if nintendo will release some sort of special 25th anniversary package for the legend of zelda?

This is one of my most embarrassing moments as a gamer but I was very young at the time. I was given the original Zelda as a gift but since I was very young, maybe like 3 or 4, the game was too complex for me and my parents (or whoever gave it to me) returned it. I had a brand new copy of the original Zelda and it was returned! It took me some years to realize what a huge mistake that was. A few years later I got Zelda II for my birthday and kept it. I eventually went back and bought a used copy of the original Zelda, but it came with no box or manual. I had played it elsewhere in the meanwhile and had decided to get my own copy. On to Super NES. I remember Link to the Past being one of my first games on that system and I also remember getting stuck in the Dark Palace for a long time (in kid time, it probably wasn't very long at all) because I didn't see a wall at the bottom of the screen in some room I could bomb. I then wanted to play Link's Awakening on Gameboy but I didn't own a Gameboy so I had to borrow the Gameboy along with Link's Awakening in order to play it. Then came the long wait for the next game in the series. When I first saw Ocarina of Time in 3D in magazines my jaw probably dropped to the floor. That was the Zelda game that I most anticipated. When the official release date was announced I started counting down the days. It came out the Wednesday before a Thanksgiving weekend so I skipped school on that Wednesday since it was only a half-day and I played it all weekend. Out of all the games I have ever played, Ocarina was the game that made me the happiest once I finally popped it in and began to play it. As I grew older there wasn't anything significant about the next few releases, but I did get them on release date. For Twilight Princess however, I waited all night at Best Buy to buy the Wii on release date just so I could play Twilight Princess right away. All in all, I love the Zelda games. Happy Birthday!

Hmm, my favorite is a tie between Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, and Wind Waker. My two favorite moments in the series was: 1. The end of Wind Waker. That finisher was epic. 2. The end of Twilight Princess. The first time I cried from a video game.

Ocarina of Time is my favorite game of all time. First Zelda I played as a kid. Ganondorf gave me nightmares. Still almost have that game memorized.

A Link to the Past. Those dungeons were insane. Especially when they would give you one less key then there were doors. *** that was hard.

Happy 25th Birthday LoZ! I'll never forget the first game of it I played: Link's Awakening, which got me interested in A Link to the Past and made me the fan I am today.

Oh, I completely agree that Majora's Mask is better than Ocarina of Time! It's actually my favorite Zelda game!

My favorite Zelda game is Majora's mask for one reason: The Fierce Diety mask. The first time I was about 6 or 7 and when I played it I collected all the masks without a guide or anything. When I went to the moon I did all the side-quests wondering what in the world I would do with no masks. I had contenplated just skipping it but decided to just finish them since I was almost done. I talked to the guy and was intrigued that I was given one last mask before the boss. I thought it would just make me slightly more powerful or something lame like that. I was wrong. I put it on and BAM! I was a ridiculously powerful giant that was able to almost 2 shot the boss. As a kid, that was the coolest moment in my life. That is why Majora's mask is my favorite Zelda.