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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Item-gated overworld plus mirrored dark world fixed the Zelda dungeon-item structure for decades.

Released 1991 Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Platform SNES Genre Action-Adventure Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Hit Points 1980Flip-Screen Room Graph 1980Battery-Backed Save File 1986Ability-Gated Interlocked Map 1986

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