The original is the best. The 2D graphics are delightfully cute (I will always love how a cheerful a cow becomes when you milk her, or how she rolls around on her belly when she's pregnant, or how your character stumbles about when he takes a drink at the bar); the world is riddled with secret caverns to uncover and time-, date-, and location-based encounters with an eclectic cast of bit players; and the game is just refreshingly focused in its tasks and objectives, without getting mired in extraneous side-quests. Fix up this ranch, turn a profit on crops, build a family, you have three years. Go.