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A Mission-Pack Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past made on the Satellaview. As with all Satellaview games, it is no longer playable on its original platform due to the broadcasting service being long inactive.


This game contains examples of:

  • Ascended Extra: In A Link to the Past, Aginah just appeared in a desert cave and just had info on the Book of Mudora. Here, he functions as the Big Good who aids the Player Character in gathering the eponymous Tablets and searching Link's house for the Book so that the Tablets could be translated.
  • Big Good: Aginah aids the avatar in the collection of the eponymous tablets, escorts them to to a new portion of the map that was not accessible in the current week, and searched out the Book of Mudora so the tablets can be translated. In the end, this results in the avatar attaining the silver arrows needed to kill Ganon again.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Ganon was destroyed once again, but the Player Character parts ways with Zelda as they return to their homeworld, never to see her again.
  • Canon Discontinuity: Doesn't appear to be regarded as canon by Nintendo, as Hyrule Historia mentions it briefly but doesn't put it on the official timeline, even though there's no real reason it can't be canon.
  • Canon Foreigner: The people from the rental shops, as well as the Mole, were not in the original A Link to the Past.
  • Continuity Nod: Several call backs to A Link to the Past are made now and then such as Zelda travelling with Link through a hidden passageway to escape Agahnim and realizing the "three-headed monster" the fortune teller talked about was Trinexx, the boss of the seventh dark world dungeon who reprises its role as the last dungeon boss before the hero reaches Ganon's Tower.
  • Final Boss: Ganon reprises his role from A Link to the Past and is confronted in his tower in the only accessible area of the Dark World.
  • Mission-Pack Sequel: A four-part episodic followup to A Link to the Past, taking place six years later (and concurrently with Link's Awakening, hence why he's not around).
  • No Name Given: In addition to the king who is still unnamed, we get new nameless characters such as the mole, Zelda's maid (who may or may not be Impa), and the rental shop owners.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The female and male Satellaview avatars wear green clothes like with Link. However, the boy wears a baseball cap while the girl wears a ponytail instead of a cap.

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