The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is a critically acclaimed 1991 action-adventure game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that helped define the Zelda series with its expansive overworld, parallel Dark World, and puzzle-filled dungeons.

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instanceOf action-adventure game
single-player video game
video game
artist Yasuhisa Yamamura NERFINISHED
cameraPerspective top-down
composer Koji Kondo NERFINISHED
controlScheme SNES controller
criticalReception critically acclaimed
designer Shigeru Miyamoto NERFINISHED
Takashi Tezuka NERFINISHED
developer Nintendo EAD NERFINISHED
director Takashi Tezuka NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Ganon NERFINISHED
Link NERFINISHED
Princess Zelda NERFINISHED
featuresLocation Dark World NERFINISHED
Light World NERFINISHED
featuresMechanic parallel worlds
followedBy The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening NERFINISHED
genre action-adventure
hasFeature nonlinear exploration
puzzle-filled dungeons
real-time combat
hasOverworld expansive overworld
influenced later The Legend of Zelda games
initialReleaseRegion Japan NERFINISHED
mode single-player
notableFor defining core Zelda series conventions
notableItem Flute
Hookshot NERFINISHED
Master Sword NERFINISHED
Moon Pearl NERFINISHED
Pegasus Boots NERFINISHED
partOfSeries The Legend of Zelda NERFINISHED
perspective 2D
platform Game Boy Advance NERFINISHED
New Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console NERFINISHED
Nintendo Switch Online NERFINISHED
Super Famicom NERFINISHED
Super Nintendo Entertainment System NERFINISHED
Wii U Virtual Console NERFINISHED
Wii Virtual Console NERFINISHED
precededBy Zelda II: The Adventure of Link NERFINISHED
producer Shigeru Miyamoto NERFINISHED
programmer Yasunari Nishida NERFINISHED
publisher Nintendo
rating ESRB E for Everyone (re-releases)
releaseYear 1991
saveSystem battery-backed save
seriesEntryNumber 3
setting Hyrule NERFINISHED

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The Legend of Zelda notableGame The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Link appearsInGame The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Nintendo Entertainment System notableGame The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Koji Kondo notableWork The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
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Koji Kondo workedOn The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Princess Zelda appearsInGame The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past