>>11964927
It truly was a revelation. I first experienced the game at a friend's house with him, and his dad, who was a Boeing engineer, was just as floored as we were. I remember him telling us that the game got even larger past the Kokiri Forest and the adjoining Hyrule Field, and I could hardly believe him. You have to understand that before OoT, there really wasn't anything that felt so expansive.
It was magical, like another anon mentioned. All of it, every bit of it felt special because it was and still is. Anyway, before any of us fully opened up the map in OoT we were amazed at how large the game was and it didn't seem possible to us in a way. Anon, in less than 30 years, we went from graphics that are literally the same as the + symbol you just read, to OoT. It was a HUGE jump.
It was the first game that felt alive in a way to us and in some ways still is. There's something about the game and to me, it feels alive.
So to answer your question in a sentence, it was the video game time of my life.