Oof, that would've been after at least one of those awful Zelda legend games (I think they actually made it about like some kind of musical instrument I think? A flute or a triangle or something?); heck, ff7 would've been pretty highly talked about at that point too. The gaming scene was atrocious in the 90's. Thankfully World of Warcraft came out only a short number of years after and the gaming scene has gotten a lot better, but a lot of the really bad game design from those days unfortunately still linger on. I think they're still making those crappy Zelda games, but thankfully they're not stealing the limelight from WoW Shadowlands (wouldn't that be laughable!). Also call of duty has been really hitting it out of the park lately.