Screw Presidents’ day, today you should be celebrating something that actually matters. It’s The Legend of Zelda‘s 25th anniversary, and 1up has collected a staggering amount of analysis, commercials, trivia, and merch from series history. Just remember: it’s dangerous to go alone, take this.

Nintendo brought the E3 demo for Zelda: Spirit Tracks to PAX, and it feels awfully familiar. Players of Phantom Hourglass will recognize the cel-shaded art and the draw-to-interact mechanics (and perhaps the faintest whiff of reheated ideas), but old is boring. The demo notably offered vignettes of a dungeon crawl and a train run.

Four Swords was a grand ambition that created a uniquely fun social environment and foreshadowed DS wireless connectivity. Sadly, the charmingly retro graphics, bitterly competitive gameplay, and clever use of hardware peripherals were completely overshadowed by technical kludge and ridiculous expense.

Phantom Hourglass is the direct successor to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, picking up the narrative where Wind Waker left off with the same characters, art style, music, and many gameplay elements. While it sometimes feels like the apple falls so near the tree as to be overshadowed, the game provides a classic Zelda experience with the occasional novel twist.