Great, thanks for the recommendations! I'll have to see about possibly getting the first of those two Zelda games sometime and trying it out.

I've got some N64 games that I play via emulator, so I may try the first Smash game and see what I think of it!

I agree with you on the chess concepts, I noticed during that time period that I was thinking farther ahead in conversations as well as planning daily life out a bit more. Some of that has still stuck with me.