If you were stumped playing the March 6 New York Times Mini Crossword, perhaps it was the 5 Across clue: "Nintendo Princess" ...

And back in 1987, the franchise started off with a bang with one of the most ambitious replica-gold-plated cartridges to ever grace the NES ... save the famed princess named Zelda.

Several classic NES series seem to follow identical paths ... I was too ADD / illiterate as a kid to ever get that Zelda was the princess in the first game. Something about Adventures of Link ...

The NES classic is able to be truly non-linear ... an elf-like Hylian, and Princess Zelda as they protect the land of Hyrule from the evil warlord-turned-demon king Ganon. The series is known ...

The Wii launched with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess which also came out on ... their past via console downloads like ...

Published by Viz Media last September, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Complete Box Set is available for $91.37 (was $130) for a limited time.

Even if my feelings about Twilight Princess are unusual, I don’t think anyone would argue that Midna isn’t one of the best things about the game… so why hasn’t she been seen again?