System: Gameboy
Genre: Adventure
Despite it's small overworld and simplistic graphics, Links Awakenings puzzles and dungeons as complex and clever as those in any other Zelda game. It's got some fun cameos like a Yoshi doll and Wart from Super Mario Bros 2, and is the first appearance of Kaebora Gaebora (or at least it's the first time Link is helped out by an owl). I've always really liked the idea of having to collect musical instruments to wake the Wind Fish with a ballad in order escape from it's dream of Koholint Island (it makes for a nice ending and is a nice precursor to the musical theme in Ocarina of Time).
