Wow this sounds so much like me right now. Lately I too have become so bored with current gen. Too many open world games, fps, and remasters. 

I really haven't touched my ps4 since Christmas. I've been going back to gen 6, ps2 in particular buying up around 60 games so far replaying a lot of my favorite games. Next up I'll probably be buying a GameCube and og Xbox. Also been craving a gba sp and some Pokemon ruby and sapphire. 

It really says something about the current state of AAA gaming when people like us have more fun playing 10,20 and 30 year old games than new ones, doesn't it? lol 

Very. I'm sure the 10 year olds of today are fine but they'll never know just how good it used to be. Me and my brother just had this talk tonight about ps4 not doing it for us and wanting to go back to older consoles full time. 

There's just something so comforting by putting a cartridge or dvd game in the console and start playing without a long install or patch or whatever. 

I've put it a few places here but I'm currently playing through all the GC library, I know it isn't super retro being just 2 gens back but still the only worry of playing a game is do I have space on my pair of GC 1019 block memory cards and I'm good to go with new titles, doing it alphabetically though and Blood Omen 2 has turned out to be a bigger game than I first thought, fun though.

I would definitely recommend Phantom Hourglass and Twilight Princess from the ones you skipped, they have their own magic!!

I've stopped visiting this site on a regular basis, but I'm so glad that I stopped by today so that I didn't miss this important announcement... ;)

I also stopped playing Wind Waker halfway through a couple of years ago. I've just picked it up again last week and I'm determined to finish it this time (embarrassingly, I've never actually played a Zelda game through to the end).

The ones I have played are:

Zelda 1 - Only briefly played on a friends NES in around 1991 - also played bits in NES remix :)
Zelda 2 - Only played briefly in an emulator
Ocarina of time - Played briefly on a friends N64, then played through quite a bit in an emulator around 99/00. Finally bought the remake for the 3DS, got quite far but didn't finish and then sold because I needed the cash!
Phantom Hourglass - Played through most of it I think, but then got distracted by something else (probably Phoenix Wright!) and never finished, now sold.
Skyward Sword - Bought for the Wii, and only ever played for about 2 hours - I think I've sold this now...
Wind Waker - as mentioned above. I WILL FINISH THIS ONE!

Zelda forever!since what it is old it is old - start with the new...

TP HD
WW HD
SS Wii
and way down!!!

So starting with Twilight Princess, the first thing I noticed were how stiff the controls felt....at first. As I continued to the first Wolf form part, I hadn't even noticed anymore. After a little bit it all feels second nature and smooths out the more I play.

Man is it drawing me in. Now this is gonna be over the course of several months, because I don't plan on rushing any of them, but I think I am going to do a mini retro review for each game as I finish them. It will be interesting for me to analyze the formula revisiting the games I beat so long ago (later down the road) and how the ones I missed out on stand up to what I expect from a Zelda game.

So far I am feeling that magic again and I am so glad I made this choice. I have a feeling that this is going to be the most fun I have had in gaming in a long time. Can't wait to see what lies in store for me next in my adventures across Hyrul! =D