Hello! How nice of you to read this.
I've been playing games for 25 years now, starting at age 5 with the wonderfully non-portable portable C-64, the SX-64: 


  
Is that a 5-INCH COLOUR SCREEN, you ask? Yes, I tell you. 
Is that a BUILT IN DISK-DRIVE? you follow up with. And I slyly answer: "oh yeah". 
I played some Commando, some Cobra, some He-Man, a lot of Boulder Dash and a bit of Monty Mole. And about a million other games.
I also attempted to write my own games on it, copying the code from a library book, and failed miserably - probably because of a misplaced semicolon. I sometimes wonder if, had I placed that semicolon correctly, I would have been part of the teams creating some of the great games I play today.
The SX-64 is long gone, sadly. My dad sold it long after it became irrelevant, presumably to buy cigarettes or something. 
I didn't care at that time of course, I had my Amiga 500, my Sega Master System II and my original Gameboy. 
I think Link's Awakening was the first game I really finished, at least the first game with a proper story. It was so amazing to me, a 13-year-old kid on an epic journey while sitting in my mom's couch staring at a little green screen. I had to call the Danish Nintendo Hotline to get past a room where I had to kill 3 enemies in a particular order. That one stumped me.
And then I never finished another Zelda game. 
I never had a NES or a SNES, they were too expensive. There were too many other distractions for me. 
But as I got older I looked back on 13-year-old me playing that first Zelda game, and the sense of discovery and wonder hadn't been surpassed since then. 
A couple of years ago I got a Nintendo DS, but it broke before I could finish both Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks and I never bought a new one.
I desperately needed to scratch that Zelda itch again, so I bought a really cheap used Wii, and am currently playing through all that I can get my hands on: I'm in the middle of both A Link To The Past and Twilight Princess, and Wind Waker is only an internet order of a GC memory card away. 
I haven't felt younger in 17 years.

Hello! How nice of you to read this.
I've been playing games for 25 years now, starting at age 5 with the wonderfully non-portable portable C-64, the SX-64: 


  
Is that a 5-INCH COLOUR SCREEN, you ask? Yes, I tell you. 
Is that a BUILT IN DISK-DRIVE? you follow up with. And I slyly answer: "oh yeah". 
I played some Commando, some Cobra, some He-Man, a lot of Boulder Dash and a bit of Monty Mole. And about a million other games.
I also attempted to write my own games on it, copying the code from a library book, and failed miserably - probably because of a misplaced semicolon. I sometimes wonder if, had I placed that semicolon correctly, I would have been part of the teams creating some of the great games I play today.
The SX-64 is long gone, sadly. My dad sold it long after it became irrelevant, presumably to buy cigarettes or something. 
I didn't care at that time of course, I had my Amiga 500, my Sega Master System II and my original Gameboy. 
I think Link's Awakening was the first game I really finished, at least the first game with a proper story. It was so amazing to me, a 13-year-old kid on an epic journey while sitting in my mom's couch staring at a little green screen. I had to call the Danish Nintendo Hotline to get past a room where I had to kill 3 enemies in a particular order. That one stumped me.
And then I never finished another Zelda game. 
I never had a NES or a SNES, they were too expensive. There were too many other distractions for me. 
But as I got older I looked back on 13-year-old me playing that first Zelda game, and the sense of discovery and wonder hadn't been surpassed since then. 
A couple of years ago I got a Nintendo DS, but it broke before I could finish both Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks and I never bought a new one.
I desperately needed to scratch that Zelda itch again, so I bought a really cheap used Wii, and am currently playing through all that I can get my hands on: I'm in the middle of both A Link To The Past and Twilight Princess, and Wind Waker is only an internet order of a GC memory card away. 
I haven't felt younger in 17 years.

Yo dawg, I heard Wind Waker is the shit.

It sure feels like the shit. I played for about an hour (without saving, I don't have a memory card yet) and I really love the vibe and the colours.

You seem to have a tragically romantic relationship with the Zelda series, I really hope you get to finish another one of them one of these days.

Also if you, for some reason, after you've finished those games are left wanting even more, there's always this.

If you can find it.