I played the original game back in 2013 and mentioned how I felt it held up in my review. Shameless plug is shameless, but if you don't feel like going through all that (God, I came a long way since 2013) here's a blurb.

Even by today's standards the game still looks and sound great, maybe not as polished as today's generation of games are, but it certainly doesn't feel dated. Everything from the visuals, to the character design and straight down to the soundtrack does an excellent job of pulling you into this fantasy world you would expect from a fairytale book. If Zelda was a movie it would have been made by Walt Disney, it really does feel that magical.
I haven't played the 3DS version, though. I actually want to get that since I plan to review all the Zelda games in order starting with the original. If I can't get my hands on that I'd probably just look at the Master Quest version.