Home Games The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)

Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy Advance, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Switch

All-time

#28 of 1,295

Ranking by scope

1990s: #9 of 258
1991: #2 of 20
Super Nintendo Entertainment System: #4 of 79

Ballots (36)

All-time lists

#1 Game Informer — Game Informer - ?all-time? (2018)
#1 GamesTM — The 200 Greatest Games of All Time (2018)
#1 Entertainment Weekly — We rank the 100 greatest videogames (2003)
#1 Gameswelt — Gameswelt Top 100 (2016)
#1 Popular Mechanics — The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time (2019)
#2 G4TV — Top 100 Video Games Of All Time (2012)
#3 EP Daily — Reviews on the Run - Top 100 Games & Movies Of All Time! (2013)
#3 The Phoenix — Top 50 Games of All Time (2010)
#4 IGN — The Top 100 Video Games of All Time (2022)
#5 Super GamePower — Os melhores games de todos os tempos" [The best games of all time (2001)
#6 Gamereactor — Top 100 bedste spil nogensinde (2017)
#11 Yahoo Games — best-games-list (2005)
#13 Power Unlimited — Top 100 beste video games aller tijden". (2018)
#20 Polygon — The 500 best games of all time (2017)
#24 Slant — The 100 Best Video Games of All Time (2020)
#25 Museum of Pop Culture — TOP 100 VIDEO GAMES OF ALL TIME (2019)
#26 GQ — The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts (2023)
#27 Magazine.HD — TOP 100: Os Melhores Jogos de Sempre (2023)
#27 Empire — Empire - ?all-time? (2009)
#28 GameSpy — GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time (2001)
#29 USA Today — A definitive ranking of the top 30 video games of all time (2024)
#30 1UP — The Essential 100 (2012)
#35 GamesRadar — The 50 best games of all time (2021)
#37 Stuff — Stuff's Best Games Ever: The 50 greatest games of all time" (2017)
#47 Rolling Stone — untitled-2025-list (2025)
#49 FHM — untitled-2010-list (2010)
#50 Electronic Gaming Monthly — The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time (2006)
#61 GamesMaster — 100 Games That Shook the World (2016)
#75 An Illustrated History of 151 Video Games — best-games-list (2013)
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (2013)
Hyper — The 200 Games You Must Play (2018)

Decade lists

#2 Insider — What was the best video game from 1990s? (2017)
#6 Game Rant — Best '90s Video Games (2024)
#12 Overloadr — Os 100 melhores jogos dos anos 90 (2015)
USA Today's For The Win — The best video games of the 90s according to a 2000s kid (2023)
Goomba Stomp — The Best Games of the 1990s (2019)