@georgia@spinster.xyz My father was always big on the 'technology' toys. We got our Nintendo with the Rob the Robot pack in.

My brother and I used to torture each other playing Gyromite. We also got the original LoZ and Adventure of Link. It was sort of a big Christmas thing for my father.

I attached to the Zelda games though in a big way. I played the first one for possibly hundreds of hours, making up my own story as I went along. My sister would help me with the second one quite a lot- the difficulty spiked a bit too much for me to handle at that age.

When the SNES came out, I got LttP. That game helped me through a very, very dark time- and I remember it more fondly than perhaps any other game from the series. My parents were in the middle of a very bad divorce- Link's world going completely to hell really resonated with me and gave me the feeling that I had just a little bit of control. That maybe I could fight the darkness in my own life. It gave me hope in a time when I just was not equipped to understand the "adult matters" happening around me.