When we look at top Zelda games from the past three decades there are many titles that comes to mind. Games such as Zelda: Link to the Past, Majora’s Mask, Ocarina of Time along with Twilight Princess were all great. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening was one that was also legendary considering the fact that it was the first handheld game within its series. Zelda: Link’s Awakening was released the same year as Link to Past and the series began to skyrocket in popularity going into 1998 the same year Ocarina of Time was released. Seeing how popular Link’s Awakening was for Game Boy some question whether or not the game could have been as popular for the NES during that time period.

During the early 90’s the NES was starting to become old news and more people began purchasing the Super NES or the Sega Genesis during the 16-bit console war that took place at the time. However, if Link’s Awakening was released sometime in the late 80’s and took the place of Zelda II: Adventure of Link in 1987 it definitely could have been more successful than it was early 90’s on the NES. The only downside is that if Zelda: Link’s Awakening was on the NES we could have possibly ended up with more inferior graphics. Either way, Zelda: Link’s Awakening deserved to be released for either NES or the SNES during the early 90’s opposed to Game Boy despite its level of popularity.