When you were talking about the games, did you also include the 3 zelda games that were so crappy, they never came out (one of them was called "The faces of Evil").
I know that there are 6 OoT versions (3 normal cartages, master quest cartrige for japan, MQ for gc, and OoT for gc). I think that there are 4 versions of MM (all cartrage) 2 releases for LoZ (three if you count appearance in an animal crossing game) AoL there was 2, links awakening 2, OOA and OOS each had 1, 2 LttP, 1 ww (so far). If you count 4 swords, the three games to crappy to release, and all cameo appearances where you play as link (SSB, SSBM, Soul Caliber 2 at least) thats 30+ releases. If you count japanese cartriges too (famicom, super fc) there is just a hell of a lot of games (55+?).
you made some great questions man.