Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past Super Nintendo game cartridge. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the third game in the The Legend of Zelda series, and the first and only one for the Super Nintendo. After the side-scrolling and more RPG-like gameplay of Zelda 2 The Adventure of Link, A Link to the Past was a return to the overhead view and gameplay style of the original. It introduced the concept of two different worlds (one dark, one light), which was revisited to an extent in the Nintendo 64 classic Ocarina of Time which featured two time periods rather than dark and light worlds.