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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

Platforms: Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U

All-time

#3 of 1,295

Ranking by scope

1990s: #1 of 258
1998: #1 of 32
Nintendo 64: #1 of 37

Ballots (54)

All-time lists

#1 Magazine.HD — TOP 100: Os Melhores Jogos de Sempre (2023)
#1 FHM — untitled-2010-list (2010)
#1 Esquire — The 15 Best Video Games of All Time, Ranked (2020)
#1 indy100 — best-games-list (2025)
#1 The Independent — untitled-2025-list (2025)
#2 Super GamePower — Os melhores games de todos os tempos" [The best games of all time (2001)
#2 The Age — The 50 best games (2005)
#2 Power Unlimited — Top 100 beste video games aller tijden". (2018)
#2 USA Today — A definitive ranking of the top 30 video games of all time (2024)
#2 Screen Rant — The 40 Best Games Of All Time (2024)
#3 Time — The 50 Best Video Games of All Time (2016)
#4 GamesMaster — 100 Games That Shook the World (2016)
#4 Edge — The 100 Greatest Games of Edge's Lifetime (2023)
#5 BBC — Top 20 Games of All Time (2009)
#5 Yahoo Games — best-games-list (2005)
#6 Famitsu — Famitsu Readers' Best Games of the Heisei Era (2019)
#7 Digital Trends — The 50 best video games of all time (2023)
#8 Electronic Gaming Monthly — The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time (2006)
#8 Empire — Empire - ?all-time? (2009)
#11 G4TV — Top 100 Video Games Of All Time (2012)
#11 Slant — The 100 Best Video Games of All Time (2020)
#11 The Phoenix — Top 50 Games of All Time (2010)
#11 GQ Spain — Los 100 mejores videojuegos de la historia (2020)
#12 Popular Mechanics — The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time (2019)
#13 GQ — The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts (2023)
#21 1UP — The Essential 100 (2012)
#22 FZ (FragZone) — FZ utser de 100 bästa spelen genom tiderna! (2025)
#24 Power Up Gaming — The 100 Greatest Games Ever (2016)
#26 Dexerto — Best games of all time (2026)
#27 GamesTM — The 200 Greatest Games of All Time (2018)
#34 IGN — The Top 100 Video Games of All Time (2022)
#34 Sports Illustrated — Best Games (2023)
#37 USA Today's For The Win — The 100 best video games of all time, ranked (2022)
#39 Game Informer — Game Informer - ?all-time? (2018)
#39 Polygon — The 500 best games of all time (2017)
#40 Stuff — Stuff's Best Games Ever: The 50 greatest games of all time" (2017)
#43 The Sydney Morning Herald — Top 50 video games of all time (2002)
#43 GameSpy — GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time (2001)
#55 Jeuxvideo — Top 100 des meilleurs jeux de tous les temps (2017)
#76 An Illustrated History of 151 Video Games — best-games-list (2013)
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (2013)
Benchmark PL — The Top 100 Best Games of the Twentieth Century (2010)
Collider — The Greatest and Most Influential Video Games of All Time (2020)
GameSpot — The Greatest Games of All Time (2007)
Game On! From Pong to Oblivion – The 50 Greatest Video Games of All Time — Game On! From Pong to Oblivion: The 50 Greatest Video Games of All Time : Simon Byron : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (2006)

Decade lists

#1 Overloadr — Os 100 melhores jogos dos anos 90 (2015)
#1 Game Rant — Best '90s Video Games (2024)
#1 Uproxx — The Top 10 Video Games Of The 90s (2021)
#2 Guardian — The 15 greatest video games of the 1990s – ranked! (2021)
#8 Insider — What was the best video game from 1990s? (2017)
#13 Uproxx — The Top 20 Video Games Of The 2010s (2019)
Goomba Stomp — The Best Games of the 1990s (2019)
Yahoo Games — The best video games of the 90s (2025)

Year lists

#1 D.I.C.E. Awards — Game of the Year 1999 (2000)