I'm not being anti-zelda or anything, but Super Mario Bros. for the NES reintroduced video games after the Video Game Crash of 1983. The graphics are suckish by today's standards, but it is the most popular game of all time with over 40.3 million copies sold on every format it has ever appeared on (I might have virtual consoled it). Same for first Zelda. It dropped you in a massive overworld, and people were clueless as what to do with the wide open space. It is still a cool game to millions today, and a lot of video games were made up with TLOZ, only with wireframe and polygons, not sprites, unless certain occasions.