I was 10, and at the time I had absolutely no idea what the Legend of Zelda was.
I got the game for Christmas, 1998. I remember opening my last present, and in the box was this game with the name "Zelda" in big letters across the front. I immediately thought, "What the hell? Isn't Zelda a girls name?"
I was pretty disappointed at the thought of getting a game that catered to girls, but I opened it up and popped it in my N64 anyway. I watched the intro video, climbed out of my tree house in the Kokiri forest, and was immediately hooked.
That has to have been one of the greatest days of my life.







