First Zelda Released in Your Lifetime?

[13foxes]

I wasn't a long time Zelda fan, because I was only about 2 years old when OoT was released. Of course I was too young back then, and I had no idea what Zelda is. But when I was 8 or 9, I played Alttp and it sucked me into the franchise. I got the SNES version of the game. So, OoT was the first game in my lifetime, but it's not the first game I played.

 

[Austin]

Link's Awakening. I was born four months before the Japanese release and six months before the North American. I didn't start playing Zelda until the N64 was out and OoT was released.

 

[yann]

Same as PJDEP, Link's Awakening was the first Zelda to be released in my lifetime.
And, same again I didn't start playing them until the N64 versions were made. The earlier games just didn't really appeal to me back then, how wrong I was!

 

[Ventus]

Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game released in my time, and the first Zelda game (or possibly the first game) I ever played. It was just great, running around Hyrule Field.

 

[blubb]

The first Zelda to be released in Japan in my lifetime was aLttP (AoL came out in Japan half a year before I was born), for US release dates it was the original LoZ (I wasn't even a month old back then), the same goes for the EU release (almost 4 months after I was born). But the first one I played was aLttP, and that wasn't before 1994 when I was already 6 or 7.

 

[Zeruda]

In my lifetime? The Adventure of Link. I was born in '87, a year after The Hyrule Fantasy. Still, I played the first Zelda before TAoL. Oh how I love my old NES. I was so young... I started playing as a toddler, so of course everything pretty much had to be done for me. By the time A Link to the Past came out, I was able to play games on my own.

 

[Valexi]

Well, I was born in 1990, so by then I suppose it was LttP.
Though, the first Zelda game I played was the NES LoZ.
I never owned a SNES...

 

[February Eve]

It was the first one. And I am old enough to remember playing/beating it. Which would be a cooler story if I were a lifelong gamer, but there has been a twenty-year gap between the NES (my last childhood console) and the Wii (current). I've managed to play eight of the games since becoming hooked again, though.

 

[Majora16]

I was born in 1994 so it'd be OoT. Idk why but I thought it would have been an earlier game.

 

[Zelda64]

MM. I was born about two months after OoT in 1998. I remember playing a beta demo of MM.

Edit: I meant about one month, not two.

 

[Atheistbigred]

A link to The past for me though I didn't actually get it until i was 14 and I didn't beat it until recently.

 

[insanity76]

It was the first one. And I am old enough to remember playing/beating it. Which would be a cooler story if I were a lifelong gamer, but there has been a twenty-year gap between the NES (my last childhood console) and the Wii (current). I've managed to play eight of the games since becoming hooked again, though.

Do you remember the Super Mario Bros cartoon from the late 80's? It aired weekdays, but on Friday it was Legend of Zelda instead.

 

[Beeker]

Let's see. I was born in '95, so OoT was the first game in my lifetime, when I was three years old. Sadly, I didn't play it(or any other Zelda) until I was at least ten.

 

[Icetomeetyou]

Ocarina of Time. I was only two. :3

 

[Ralis]

Uh, dunno. Maybe Links Awakening XD, or earlier.