I really don't care what the press says, I make up my own mind about the games, because I've played them :) so i'll ask you as a Zelda fan which you seem to be. Do you prefer Ocarina of Time or A Link To The Past?

Loved them both...but Ocarina for me was the far better game as nothing in my gaming life compares to the wonders of playing Ocarina on the day it was released...it was a revolutionary experience for the time...a moment of gaming magic. I really enjoyed Link to the Past on my Snes but it did not give me that feeling of "I've never played/seen anything like this before" when I put that Gold cartridge into my N64 all those years ago. A lot of younger gamers who did not play Ocarina at the time of its release do not understand what a revolution in gaming it was at the time.

Sorry to enter thisd thread but you should bettr compare Crash Team Racing with Diddy Kong Racing, which is better than Mario Kart 64

Yeah, I think overall the PS1 was the better console due to MGS and FFVII. I think the N64 was probably the best "losing" console (along with PS3).

Revolutionary... Yes. That's basicly why it seems to win everything. Nostalgia factor.

The best Zelda game... No.

Majoras improves on Ocarina in a LOT of aspects. Majoras Mask > Ocarina of Time

Having owned both consoles - Crash Team Racing was terrible compared to Diddy Kong Racing (which was better than Mario Kart 64)

The only real standouts for me on PS was Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, Sympothy Of The Night and Resident Evil. FF7 was laughably bad compared to Ocarina as was every other PS1 RPG. PS1 jap rpgs simply did not appeal to me (I found them slow and tedious), especially FF7 which was more like an interactive boring story.

Thankfully I was 14 by the time I played Ocarina, the same age I played Parasite Eve, and trust me, I could grasp their concept and their differential contribution to the gaming industry. I'm not saying that OoT never revolutionized the gaming industry, quite the contrary. But since i'm a Zelda fan since I was a kid, OoT didn't gave me the exact same feelings that when I played ALTTP, maybe except when I was on the Water temple or battling Shadow Ganondorf, on the contrary, that feeling of "I've never played/Seen anything like this before" was given to me by Parasite Eve, because that's exactly what it did. It had a revolutionary battle system for a JRPG, it had an unique setting and atmosphere that no other JRPG had, with a mixture of horror and science that took it to another level, plus it had so much replayability for an JRPG in that age, especially given the EX Mode. So that's why to me, the PS1 was superior to the N64, even though I played as much on both of them and on my Saturn ;).

I'm going to have to disagree with Majora's Mask being better than Ocarina of TIme.  Ocarina of Time had the cooler items.  Hover boots FTW!!!

I enjoyed Majora's Mask a lot but the entire game ,for the most part, consisted of you trading masks and playing the Song of Time to go back in time at the end of every 72 hour period.  It was creepy and had a cool feel to it, but Ocarina of Time had the better dungeons and the greatest ending in Zelda history. 

It's not nostalgia...I am simply stating which game I enjoyed more at the time...and Ocarina wins because it had that revoltionary feeling. If I had to play both Majoras Mask and Ocarina Of Time side by side now, I would probably think Majora was the better game....but gaming doesn't work like that....you compare which game gave you the more fun at the time. For example, if I played Goldeneye now I would think this is a bit rubbish, but that is daft as at the time it gave me immense pleasure and I loved it. So when I played the games when they were released, I got more pleasure from Ocarina than I did from Majora hence Ocarina for me was the better game.

I'm going to have to disagree with you carl.

I didn't like MM as much as I did OoT, basically because it tried to do too much, plus the time frame constrained much on what to do. I like to play a zelda game just for the fun of it, if I want to go kill some Octorocks or some Evil zoras just to collect some rupees, in MM you felt that you couldn't do those small sidesteps from the main objective. Yeah, you could backtrack time and start all once again, but it didn't gave me the same feeling.