I'm the 21st vote for ALTTP. It just had... more. That and the fact It has a better story. 

I think Zelda 2 was awesome, but the actual cartridge (no emulator save states) was a flop because you had to traverse through the whole game to get back to where you were after you died. It was still a good game because of this challenge (when I felt like picking it up and playing it again after the frustration subsided).

ALTTP was and is better IMO because of the graphics and game-play (minus the frustration of Z2 lol).

link to the past....Its better than legend of zelda II. yeah.

I personally prefer Link to the Past. I find it more fun and challenging.

I'm gonna say Zelda 2 because I never got to play A Link To The Past

Me I personally liked a link to the past better then zelda 2

Zelda II or the Link to the Past? That's a hard one. On one hand, Zelda II had its charm with a different layout and gaming style, which still played like a Zelda game, with intense difficulty and addictive game play. But on the other hand, Link to the Past is a masterpiece of a RPG with great graphics, in-depth story, challenging game play and fluid controls. I can't possibly say which I prefer. So I'm saying neither, not because they are so bad they don't get considered a choice on which is better (because that clearly isn't the case here, your gaming preference would have to be pretty shallow to think that), but because they are two great games that seem to have the same impact on me, but in different ways. In reality, I think Link to the Past would win, but Zelda II blows me away on how it's so different, but still feels like a Zelda game, which is why I have chosen a tie.

A link to the Past cause of the gameplay and story.

Zelda A Link To The Past is what I prefer. Game play is similar to the original, compared to Zelda II. On top of that, there's more items, challenges, more stuff to do, which makes it a better game. Zelda II always seem similar to Dragon Warrior, in my opinion. The way you travel in the over world makes it feel like Dragon Warrior.

I think The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is better even though I didn't beat it yet. I didn't really like Zelda II because of the different approach the series tired to take. It was still cool but it was like you were getting too much added features to it like how the battle system was almost like a rpg ( when you were in the grass lands ) .

I like Zelda link to the past way more than i like Zelda 2, because i actually got somewhere in link to the past, in Zelda 2 i was like confused you know.

I like Zelda II because it's gameplay style and the sheer difficulty of the game.

I preferred A Link to the Past because I felt like that game had a much more developed story to it than Zelda 2 and I've always hated the format that Zelda 2 was in.

I'll also be honest and say that I didn't like how difficult Zelda 2 was. Not that A Link to the Past was super easy because it wasn't but it was more difficult in a puzzle solving sort of way than in the actual battles. There are a few battles that are tough for different reasons but it's not the same.

I still think that without A Link to the Past that the Zelda franchise wouldn't be where it is now.

I've yet to play A link to the past, but Zelda 2 just didn't impress me at all. It didn't feel like a Zelda game. I can respect that Nintendo was trying to branch out with the franchise, but I'm glad that they didn't go that way with it after all.