My first Zelda game was actually the original NES game. I found a copy of gold cart in a secondhand store when I was little. I started playing Oracle of Ages shortly after.
Man, my first Zelda game was The Minish Cap on the Gameboy Advance. I didn’t even know much about Zelda back then — just picked it up cuz the cover looked super cool . Ended up getting completly hooked. I still remember being stuck for days 'cause I had no idea you could shrink and go into tiny places lol.
A few weeks ago I got nostalgic and downloaded a bunch of old Zelda games from a website (Romsretro.com) rom which was a new website but the thing is I see it was add free and also safe with no virous. Honestly, everything worked great, no weird files or viruses or anything. Runs fine on my emulator too, so no stress there. If you wanna jump back into the old classics, I totally recomend checking it out.