I have played Alttp at a young age and it was one of my first Zelda games. Though I enjoy Link's awakening (very much) I have to say this is the 'worse' game. (by millimeters; if I had to say one of the Zelda games was my least favourite, I'd still love it )

Damn I hope Ocarina of Time doesn't face-off against Majora's Mask :/ This is gonna be tough!

The 2 DS games are the worst.

Well, did you play it when it came out. I can't attest to this as I wasn't even born then but most of the people who did keep raving about how fantastic it was. I personally like Link's Awakening more, but can greatly appreciate A Link to the Past for its open world, high production values and being a generally well-built game. I think the reason you might like Link's Awakening more might be similar to mine - due to characters and story (an incredible feat at the time for the original Gameboy). 

Even though A Link to the Past is an amazing game and my #5 favorite Zelda game, it's handheld counterpart Link's Awakening is obviously superior as it trounces it's 'big brother' in every possible way and even did more, besides maybe, graphics which is a given considering. Link's Awakening, a brilliant and extremely underrated game in my opinion, is my #2 Zelda game an my #5 'best game ever made'.

Sadly I reckon Link's Awakening will lose this solely due to it being overlooked, lesser well known and due to people assuming the SNES game is better just because of it's reputation. I feel Yoshi's Island suffers a similar fate all the time against it's inferior predecessor.

If I have to choose which is the lesser (I won't say 'worse') of the two, I'd choose, A Link to the Past.

Not when it first came out but when the SNES was current gen, yeah.  I tried it later on a PC emulator, and then the third and last time was when it was released for GBA. 

It could be that I grew out of the Zelda series, but I don't really think that's it.  I still like Zelda 1 and Link's Awakening.  I like games like Illusion of Gaia, Alundra, etc, which are Zelda games by different developers.  3D Dot Game Heroes is pretty much of a ripoff of Zelda and I finished that game on normal, then Spelunker mode afterwards.  It's just Link to the Past.  Something is with that game that I don't like.

What? Link's Awakening is not only the best Zelda game ever made, imo it's also the very best videogame ever conceived, period. I'm serious, too.

Alllmost .

But I like how you're seeing the light. Dutch too (according to profile), I knew there were others around here that knew what they were talking about !

Not almost, but completely! Well, imo anyway. Link's Awakening DX = perfection.

And yes, I am Dutch. We're an underrepresented bunch here on VGC, sadly. So what's your #1 Zelda, then?

I'm not original. Ocarina is my favorite. LA is easily #2, I think it's as perfect and flawless as Ocarina and basically only loses (well, "loses") because I usually like 3D games more than 2D games. It's in no peril of becoming #3 that's for sure !

For me it's just that the game seems like an expansion of the original Zelda - much better graphics, a fresh soundtrack and a new open world. The thing is that the story is very simplistic, and not in a good way like in Link's Awakening where it was sufficient to serve its purposes. I always assumed it had something to do with being an earlier SNES game, though I could be wrong.