I’ve ran Puppy Linux off a 8gb flash drive on a system w/ 2 gigs of ram. It was by no means good, but it worked good enough.

In no particular order:

Chrono Trigger

The Binding of Isaac

Quake

Super Metroid

Diablo 2

Fair warning: to get the full story out of Golden Sun, you have to play the sequel as well.

If you want something completely different, try the Megaman Battle Network games. Using today’s descriptors they are “Tactical Action Deckbuilders”, and although a few games have tried, I haven’t found anything that quite scratches the same itch.

I’m a Certified Old Fart™, I go back to Kirby’s Adventure, & on my last playthrough I can still 100% it.

Not quite as good at the quick draw mini game, though.

Some Guy…

I think his name was Montag.

I can’t believe I forgot about Sonic Advance! Playing through the same levels as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose (& her big-ass Looney Tunes hammer, lol) feels so different!

…aaaaand added to the replay list, lol!

Ooh! GBA platformer suggestions!!!

• Metroid Fusion & the 3 Castlevania titles are all fantastic.

• The Mega Man Zero games are hard AF, but rewarding when you do well.

• Lady Sia has some of my favorite pixel animation.

That’s a solid couple months of gaming right there… No I have to go replay some things, lol

Have you tried Tunic? It’s probably the closest non-Zelda game to scratch the Zelda itch for me.