Believe it or not, I had never played the original Zelda until about a year ago, when I first got back into retro games! As a kid, my intro to Zelda was the polarizing Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. (Which I loved, and still do!)
Now that I'm getting the Game Boy version (Link's Awakening) and my brother made me play Ocarina of Time, I've just about played every old-school Zelda, except Majora's Mask, which looks super weird to me. (Not really good weird, either)