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If you feel that way about OoT then maybe you and I both were just in a weird place for each respective game. I knew a kid who got his parents to call him sick so he could play OoT. Everyone was talking about it, people would show each other when they got to adult Link because it seemed so huge, stuff like that.

I know everything came from the game originally, but at a certain point it became so ubiquitous that there was no avoiding some form of Pokemon. I don't even know what got me into it but I'm 99% sure it wasn't the game. Some of that stuff probably reciprocated interest back into the game. I'm sure the game did a lot of that on its own, but it was certainly helped by being more marketable for toys and TV than other video games were.